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KEEP ON MOVING: SONGI WOO

"I am always thinking about what will make us better, even if they are small things and I also try to think of the big picture for the team and learn from the past so we can improve from previous mistakes."

Coach Woo has coached in Mexico, Great Britain and the USA – and she's not stopping anytime soon.

Like a lot of archery lifers around the world, her family were involved. It was the same in Korea. "My Dad and Granddad used to shoot Korean traditional archery even before I was born, so immediately grew up on the archery field. I remember playing with my brother from a young age - maybe

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