Rebekah Howe, a member of the Port Townsend Pétanque Alliance in Washington State, won the U.S. Women’s Pétanque Doubles Qualifier in Sonoma, California, …
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Rebekah Howe, a member of the Port Townsend Pétanque Alliance in Washington State, won the U.S. Women’s Pétanque Doubles Qualifier in Sonoma, California, held June 22-23.
Howe and her partner will represent the United States at this year’s Pétanque World Championships.
Howe, a Crow Creek Sioux, was inducted into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame in 2023, after medaling at regional, national and international pétanque competitions.
Howe began competing regionally in 2014, and played her first national competition in 2015, bringing home a silver medal in the National Women’s Doubles category.
In 2018, Howe won the gold medal in the National Women’s Singles event and the National Mixed Doubles event.
In 2022, Howe’s first international competition saw her representing the U.S. at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
Howe’s women’s triples team then qualified to represent the U.S. at the 2023 Pétanque World Championships in Thailand.
One of Howe’s favorite pétanque moments was winning the 2018 National Mixed Doubles with her husband, Silas Holm.
In addition to the women’s team competition, Howe participated in the precision shooting event, in which she took the silver medal, earning the United States’ first international medal in pétanque.
