Spring Selection Preview
World Championships, CAT and World Cup Slots Up For Grabs in Kerrville
What better way to kick off
the longer days, the warmer weather than with Spring Selec- tion, March 13–23 in Kerrville, Texas.
More than 150 of the fi nest
shotgun shooters in not just the U.S., but the world, will descend on the Hill Country Shooting Sports Center to wrap the sec- ond half of the World Champion- ship selection process, as well as select teams for the remain- ing ISSF World Cups in Almaty, Kazakhstan (May 16–25), Mu- nich, Germany (June 4–14) and Beijing, China (July 1–10). The ISSF World Championships will take place in Grenada, Spain September 6–20. Medalists at Fall Selection in
Tucson, Ariz. have already earned trips to World Cup USA back in Tucson, April 8-15 and received points toward World Champion- ships qualifi cation. Headlining the Double Trap competition will be 2008 Olym-
pic gold medalist, current World Champion and World Cup Fi- nals silver medalist Glenn Eller (Houston, Texas, pictured below) who has been on a hot streak and also won the Fall Selection match in Tucson, Ariz. back in October.
Probably the toughest com-
petition Eller will face comes from USAMU teammates Jeff Hol- guin (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Josh Richmond (Hillsgrove, Pa.).The three have had a decade-long stranglehold on both the World and U.S. Double Trap competi- tion. Combined they’ve earned 15 World Championship medals, 27 World Cup medals and ap- peared in six Olympic Games. Junior World Champion and
fellow National Team member Ian Rupert (Muncy, Pa.) will be looking to challenge the Open Division as well and defend his Junior Fall Selection win. On the Trap side, Fall Selec- tion champion Alex Rennert (Surf-
side, Fla.) will look to duplicate the biggest win of his budding career in Texas. He’ll face strong competition from National Champion Brian Burrows (Fall- brook, Calif.) and fellow National Championship medalists Collin Wietfeldt (Hemlock, Mich.) and Jake Wallace (Castaic, Calif.) Trap Fall Selection and Na-
tional Champion Rachael Heiden (Clinton, Mich.) earned three of the last four U.S. National titles and was a fi nalist at the 2013 World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico, and the recent World Clay Target Championships. She will once again face tough competition on the women’s side from two- time Olympian Corey Cogdell (Eagle River, Alaska) and Ashley Carroll (Solvang, Calif.), who had earned victories at the two previ- ous Selection Matches. Skeet Fall Selection Champi-
on Luis “Taz” Gloria (Tucson, Ariz.) will look to prove himself once again when he faces two-time
Olympic gold medalist Vincent Hancock (Eatonton, Ga.), 2012 Olympian Frank Thompson (Alli- ance, Neb.), 2013 U.S. Champi- on Dustin Perry (Lovelady, Texas) and two-time Olympic Trials fi nal- ist Mark Weeks (Clinton Township, Mich.) again, this time away from the confi nes of his home range. The 19-year-old Gloria was
by far the most inexperienced of the fi nals fi eld in October, but he would enter the gold-medal fi nal to face Perry after defeat- ing Hayden Stewart (Columbia, Tenn.), 2-1, in a shoot-off after the two tied in the semifi nal hit- ting 15/16 shots. He’d again nail 15 targets in the fi nal to defeat Perry by one target. Five-time Olympic medal-
ist Kim Rhode (El Monte, Calif.) outshot all competitors, male or female, by three targets miss- ing just eight total following 280 shots over three days when she took the Women’s Skeet Fall Selection title back in October. She will have to defend her Fall Selection title from National and Qatar Open champion Am- ber English (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and fellow National Team member Morgan Craft (Muncy Val- ley, Pa.) who look to medal this time around. They could also see strong competition from Junior Fall Selection Champion and World Championship Junior sil- ver medalist Dania Vizzi (Odessa, Fla.).
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