It didn't take long for Brady Ellison to see that Casey Kaufhold was heading toward greatness. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * It didn't take long for Brady Ellison to see that Casey Kaufhold was heading toward greatness. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? It didn’t take long for Brady Ellison to see that Casey Kaufhold was heading toward greatness.
Ellison is a former world No. 1 men’s archer who is heading to his fifth Olympics this year. He said when he first started teaming up with Kaufhold in 2019, the 15-year-old sometimes would beat him when they practiced.
They won gold for the United States in the mixed team category at the Pan-American Games that year. “The beauty of the archery is that you get these talented people, and it doesn’t really matter how old they are, they can hit,” Ellison said. “And I knew that she was good.
Like, as soon as she made the World Cup teams and she was (an under-18) shooter that was making our senior teams, she was one of the best in the country. And if she made the team, any team that we were on, we had a chance to win.” The fact that Ellison was a former world No.
1 resonated with Kaufhold, now 20 years old, and drove her to reach that status last year on the women’s side. She became the first American woman to reach the top of the Sanlida World Archery rankings since they were established in 2001. She tops the recurve category.
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