Miranda leek biography

What can you say about a dual silver medalist in archery at the 2011 Pan American Games who also competed in the sport at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?

“You’re hired!”

Miranda Leek was 23 and just two months out of getting her B.S degree in Environmental Science from Iowa State University in June 2016 and had just moved to Oregon.

She saw an online job-recruitment posting for the state’s first-ever archery education coordinator with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

“The first week … was when I saw the position,” Leek said with a smile about her arrival in the Beaver State.

“So I was thinking, ‘Do I apply? Do I apply?’

“I thought that full-time archery was no longer going to be my primary life anymore, so I was kind of shocked to see that. And I said, ‘Yeah, I have to apply for that.’ ”

If timing is everything, the Des Moines, Iowa, native’s was impeccable.

She was riding the crest of a huge wave of popularity for t