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2013 USA Shooting National Championships for Shotgun BRAVING WIND, RAIN, HAIL


AND LIGHTNING, a new crop of Shotgun National Champions proved their profi ciency not only with their precision, but also with nature at this year’s event on Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. This year’s National Cham- pionships followed the new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) fi nals with one slight modifi cation: The six fi nalists entered a semifi nal carrying over their qualifi cation score. A 15-shot semifi nal was then conducted with that score plus the qualifying score fi guring into an overall total to determine shooters for both the gold/silver medal and the bronze-medal matches.


On the fi nal day of the USA Shooting National Champion- ships for Shotgun, 23-year-old local skeet athlete Amber English (Colorado Springs, Colo.) proved that all the training she’s put in since her 2012 National Championships bronze medal has paid off when she defeated Spring Selection runner-up Haley


Dunn (Muenster, Texas) 4-3 in a shoot off.


On the men’s side, 2012


Olympian Frank Thompson (Al- liance, Neb.) had led over the two days entering the fi nal with 217, but was defeated in the gold-medal match by Dustin Perry (Crockett, Texas). Perry won the gold-medal match over Thompson, 14-13.


Olympian and 2010 Double


Trap World Champion Josh Rich- mond (Hillsgrove, Pa.) claimed the Double Trap title in a shoot off win over two-day leader and U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit teammate Jeff Holguin (Yorba Linda, Calif.). In Trap action, Brian Burrows


(Fallbrook, Calif.) and Rachael Heiden (Clinton, Mich.) once again found the pot of gold at the end of the championship rainbow, after fi ghting four gruel- ing days of wind, rain, heat and America’s top International Trap competitors to repeat as USA Shooting National Champions. Neither Heiden nor Bur-


rows had sniffed the top of the leaderboard before Sunday but by the time the fi nal shots had


been fi red, it was Heiden and Bur- rows taking familiar positions atop the National Champion- ship podium. Burrows used a 50-straight on the fi - nal day to climb into the semifi nals in third position. After hitting 14/15, he’d shoot off against John Mullins (Port Orchard, Wash.) and Jake Wallace (Castiac, Calif.) for a spot in the gold-medal match in a pairing with Collin Wietfeldt (Hemlock, Mich.), who had held or shared the lead the entire event. Bur- rows would win the shoot-off eventually after Wallace was eliminated after the fi rst shot and then out-dueled Mullins after nine succes- sive hits.


(Top 3 Places) Rachael Heiden (Clinton Mich.)


Corey Cogdell (Eagle River, Alaska) Ashley Carroll (Solvang, Calif.) Miranda Wilder (Diana, Texas)


Kimberley Bowers (Lafayette, Calif.)


Grace Hambuchen (Maumelle, Ark.)


Brian Burrows (Fallbrook, Calif.)


Collin Wietfeldt (Hemlock, Mich.) Jake Wallace (Castiac, Calf.) Austin Odom (Benton, Ark.)


Alex Rennert (Surfside, Fla.) Ryne Barfi eld (Poulan, Ga.) Josh Richmond (Hillsgrove, Pa.)


Jeff Holguin (Yorba Linda, Calif.) Ian Rupert (Muncy, Pa.)


Billy Crawford (Johnstown, Ohio)


T.J. Bayer (College Station, Texas) Myles Walker (Elkhorn, Wis.)


Amber English (Colorado Springs, Colo.)


Haley Dunn (Muenster, Texas) Morgan Craft (Muncy Valley, Pa.) Brandy Drozd (Bryan, Texas) Dania Vizzi (Odessa, Fla.)


Sydney Carson (North Liberty, Ind.) Dustin Perry (Crockett, Texas)


Frank Thompson (Alliance, Neb.) Robert Johnson (Phoenix, Ariz.) Phillip Jungman (Caldwell, Texas)


T.J. Bayer (College Station, Texas) Remington McBee (Brady, Texas)


Men’s Trap


Jr. Men’s Trap


Men’s Double Trap


Jr. Men’s Double Trap


Women’s Skeet


Jr. Women’s Skeet


Men’s Skeet


Jr. Men’s Skeet


Athlete Event


Women’s Trap


Jr. Women’s Trap


Top left: National Champion Amber English. Top center: Double Trap medalists. Top right: Phillip Jungman. Bottom center: Audience at the Junior Women’s Skeet fi nal.


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Year in Review 2013 | USA Shooting News 51


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