Junior fly-casting phenom, Maxine McCormick, 12, recently competed in the U.S. Casting Championships in Kentucky, where she became America’s No. 1 female fly caster for accuracy. Her score also bested world champion Steve Rajeff—aka the greatest caster in history. McCormick will now join three other members of the San Francisco/Oakland Casting Club to compete in the world championships in mid-August in Estonia. There she has a chance to become the youngest gold medal winner in the sport’s history.

“Maxine isn’t 1-in-a-million,” said her coach, Chris Korich, who is leading the U.S team to the world championships. “She is 1-in-7.4 billion,” the number of people on the planet.

Maxine, her father Glenn, Donna O’Sullivan and Korich will comprise the entire U.S. Casting Team in Estonia. They are all dual members of the Golden Gate Angling & Casting Club and The Oakland Casting Club.

If you’d like to donate to help defray the training and travel expenses of these four Bay Area casting representatives, you can do so directly through the GGACC Foundation, a non-profit 501(c) 3 set up specifically for that purpose. You can either visit the team’s gofundme campaign.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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