by Paul D. Bowker Olympian Lucas Kozeniesky (Colorado Springs, Colo.) who won a gold medal and locked down an Olympic quota spot at the Pan American Games, and junior women’s shooting star Mary Tucker (Sarasota, Fla.) emerged as the leaders Sunday after Stage I of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in air rifle shooting. Kozeniesky had a two-day total of […]
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USA Shooting Promotes Sharee Waldron to Chief Operations Officer
USA Shooting is proud to announce the promotion of Sharee Waldron to the position of Chief Operations Officer. Waldron’s most recent role with USA Shooting has been as the shotgun team manager where she played a major role in the team’s record breaking 23 international medals in 2019 and the securing of all eight shotgun […]
Colorado Springs Hosts Winter Air Gun Championships and Olympic Trials
Over the next two weekends, the Colorado Springs Olympic & Paralympic Training Center plays host to the USA Shooting Winter Airgun Championships and Olympic Trials Part 1. Air rifle and para rifle competition days are Dec. 7-8, with air pistol and para pistol competition Dec. 15-16. Registration for the air pistol competition is still open […]
Dahl is Top American on Day Four of World Shooting Para Sport Championships
McKenna Dahl (Arlington, Wash.) missed Tuesday’s final in the R5 mixed 10-meter air rifle prone by 0.3 points, finishing as the top American shooter during the fourth day of competition at the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Sydney, Australia. Dahl ended the qualification round in ninth place with a score of 634.6. Teammates Stetson Bardfield (Colorado […]
Dahl Makes Second Straight Final in R9 Mixed 50m Prone
McKenna Dahl (Arlington, Wash.) battled the blustery conditions in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday to qualify for her second consecutive final in the R9 mixed 50-meter prone SH2 event during the sixth day of competition at the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships. Dahl had previously won the qualification in this event at the World Cup in […]
Dahl Earns Third Quota for U.S. at World Shooting Para Sport Championships
In its only match of the day on Sunday at the World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Sydney, Australia,, Team USA picked up another quota slot for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, marking the team’s third quota slot earned over the first two days of the event. McKenna Dahl (Arlington, Wash.) led the U.S. in the […]
Gong and Farmer Secure Quotas at World Shooting Para Sport Championships
Xiao Gong (Malibu, Calif.) and Taylor Farmer (Castalia, Ohio) both secured Paralympic Games quota slots for the United States during the opening day of the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Sydney, Australia. Xiao, who works with In Kim and is a product of the Bridge Junior Shooting Club, fired an impressive 564 in the mixed 25-meter […]
U.S. Shooters Finish Parapan American Games with Nine Medals
The shooting competition at the 2019 Parapan American Games wrapped up Tuesday in Lima, Peru, with American athletes adding two more medals to their hefty tally. Stetson Bardfield (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and McKenna Dahl (Arlington, Wash.) won the gold and silver medals, respectively, in the mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 event. For Dahl, it marked her second time […]
Nguyen Golden, Tagliapietra and Beach Win Bronze at Parapan Am Games
Kevin Nguyen (Westminster, Calif.) and Mike Tagliapietra (Fond du Lac, Wis.) medaled for the second consecutive day on Monday, swapping the color of their medals from the previous day as the shooting competition at the 2019 Parapan American Games reached the three-quarters mark in Lima, Peru. A day after claiming bronze in the mixed 10m air rifle prone […]
Dahl Golden in Shooting’s Parapan Am Games Debut LIMA, Peru
McKenna Dahl (Arlington, Wash.) just keeps making history. As shooting made it’s Parapan American Games debut on Saturday in Lima, and three years removed from becoming the first U.S. woman to win a medal in the sport at the Paralympic Games, Dahl etched her name in the Parapan Am Games record book as shooting’s first gold […]
