"It was stressful, but it was fun," Unrein said. "Once she actually had the bronze medal sealed up I could breathe a sigh of relief. She called me and we were just really ecstatic. I knew all the work she put in the last four years and for it to pay off for her, our prayers were answered."
Cogdell-Unrein also won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics in Bejing and competed without medaling in the 2012 games in London. She was determined to make amends for 2012 and did just that by defeating Spain's Fatima Galvez in a shoot-off for third place Sunday.