Update at 9:30 a.m.: Ilona Maher and Team USA women’s rugby defeated Japan 17-7 to advance to the Olympic quarterfinals.Vermont officially has another summer Olympian.Burlington’s Ilona Maher and Team USA women’s rugby took to the pitch defeating China, 28-14.The Olympic magic was in the air at the Elks Club in Burlington where the Maher family held their own watch party.”She walks out front and center and we were like ‘OK baby girl,'” Ilona’s mother, Mieneke Maher said.Olympian, Ilona Maher made mom proud. “As I was driving today, I was like, wow I have an Olympian,” Mieneke Maher saidFamily and friends gathered at the Elks Lodge in Burlington to share the moment Ilona Maher took the Olympic pitch. “Because it takes a village. And the village of Burlington where she was born and raised and it takes a community and it takes family and friends and the village of Burlington where she was born and raised. And it takes a community and it takes family and friends to achieve a well-rounded adult,” Mieneke Maher said.“It’s difficult to be here and not there, supporting her in person. This gives us a little bit of local closeness,” Annelein Beukenkamp, Ilona’s aunt said.And that local village, known as Burlington, came out and supported from the start. Through every tri. To Team USA defeating China 28-14. “A little bright light moment on top of all of the fireworks that have been happening,” Mieneke Maher said.
Update at 9:30 a.m.: Ilona Maher and Team USA women’s rugby defeated Japan 17-7 to advance to the Olympic quarterfinals.
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Vermont officially has another summer Olympian.
Burlington’s Ilona Maher and Team USA women’s rugby took to the pitch defeating China, 28-14.
The Olympic magic was in the air at the Elks Club in Burlington where the Maher family held their own watch party.
“She walks out front and center and we were like ‘OK baby girl,'” Ilona’s mother, Mieneke Maher said.
Olympian, Ilona Maher made mom proud.
“As I was driving today, I was like, wow I have an Olympian,” Mieneke Maher said
Family and friends gathered at the Elks Lodge in Burlington to share the moment Ilona Maher took the Olympic pitch.
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“Because it takes a village. And the village of Burlington where she was born and raised and it takes a community and it takes family and friends and the village of Burlington where she was born and raised. And it takes a community and it takes family and friends to achieve a well-rounded adult,” Mieneke Maher said.
“It’s difficult to be here and not there, supporting her in person. This gives us a little bit of local closeness,” Annelein Beukenkamp, Ilona’s aunt said.
And that local village, known as Burlington, came out and supported from the start. Through every tri. To Team USA defeating China 28-14.
“A little bright light moment on top of all of the fireworks that have been happening,” Mieneke Maher said.
