The granddaughter of a Villages couple is no stranger to winning gold medals.
Piper Kelly, the granddaughter of Villagers Terry and Rosie Renbarger, competes in speed climbing and has earned gold in the Pan Am Championships in Ecuador in November 2018 and in Canada a year earlier. She had the fastest time in the United States in the event and finished 11th in a World competition in Moscow.
Kelly, 19, plans to attend Xavier University in Ohio.
She is 19 and planning to go to Xavier in Ohio. She is taking a year off to train for the possibility of making the Olympics. And she’s currently taking a short hiatus to recover from a hand injury but plans on entering other competitions in the near future.
“Rosie and I get to watch most of her competitions on ESPN now,” Terry Renbarger said, adding that Kelly’s 17-year-old sister, Shae, recently won a climbing competition in Indianapolis and hopes to follow in her big sister’s
footsteps to the international stage.
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