3P Air National Championship
Osborn & Kleinhans Earn Junior Team Spots in National Junior Olympic 3PAR Championship
Some very talented and
dedicated Three-Position Air Rifl e (3PAR) athletes converged on the newly remodeled and enlarged Gary Anderson CMP (Civil- ian Marksmanship Program) Competition Center at Camp Perry, Ohio to compete for two coveted USA Shooting National Junior Rifl e Team (NJT) slots as part of the National Junior Olympic 3-Position Air Rifl e National Championships. Athletes who competed at Camp Perry qualifi ed for Nationals during State Championship qualifying conducted earlier this spring. Driven by a personal goal
of qualifying for the USAS NJT at the Junior Olympic Nationals, 15-year-old Sarah Osborn (Hampton, Virginia, pictured below left) of the Patriot Shooting Club best- ed 220 other competitors to win the individual gold medal and a coveted slot on
the USAS NJT with room to spare. Her qualifying score of 593 and fi nal round score of 103.0 gave her a 3.4 point lead at the conclusion of the event. Osborn’s star is certainly
rising having shown she can compete previously at the 2014 National Junior Olym- pic Shooting Championships (NJOSC) fi nishing second in her age division for air rifl e and winning her age division in three-position smallbore (.22 caliber) rifl e. Taking the silver medal
was Kristyn Trump (DuBois, Pennsylvania) of the DuBois Jr Rifl e Team with a Finals score of 101.6 for an aggre- gate score of 692.6. The top male fi nisher was
14-year-old Justin Klein- hans (Oak Harbor, Ohio, pictured below right) of the Black Swamp Jr. Rifl e Team, who fi nished third overall with a 590/101.3. As the top male fi nisher, Kleinhans
also earned a position on USA Shooting’s National Ju- nior Team. According to USA Shoot-
ing’s Youth Development Director Michael Theimer, the fi nals were a showcase of top shooting talent with athletes going all-out for a chance to wear the USA Shooting Team jacket. “We will see and hear more from these young 3PAR athletes,” he acknowledged. “Their hard work and long hours of training paid off for them here at Camp Perry.” The remaining event fi -
nalists in fi nishing order in- cluded Alec Patajo (Puyal- lup, Washington) of the West Seattle Totems Rifl e Club, Madeline Godwin (Hamp- ton, Virginia) of the Patriot Shooting Club, Lillian Von- derau (Helena, Alabama) of Shelby County Shooting Sports Association, Justin Nissen (Live Oak, California) of CRPA/Sutter UnionGold and Amy Gentry (Fairbanks, Alaska) of the Midnight Sun Sharpshooters. Patajo was the J3 (14 years & younger) National Champion at the 2014 NJOSC back in April in both the air and three-posi- tion smallbore rifl e events. The National Junior Olym-
pic team title was earned by the sharpshooters of the Hardcore 4 Shooting Club based out of Winder, Geor- gia and led by Al Bowen.
They defeated the Virginia- based Patriot Shooting Club by one point despite not hav- ing one athlete in the fi nals compared to Patriot’s cham- pion shooter Osborn and fi fth-place shooter Godwin. They did so by being the only team to place three competi- tors inside the top-20 fi nish- ers with Brandon Thomas fi nishing 13th, Dana Bowen 18th and Mary Pratt 20th. The CRPA Sutter Union Gold Rifl e Team, led by Nissen’s seventh-place result, fi n- ished third. Three-Position Air Rifl e
Shooting is the most popular and fastest growing form of shooting sports competition for youth of high school age or younger with two different events available. Precision is modeled after Olympic- style shooting and allows the use of specialized target rifl es and equipment. Sport- er is designed for athletes and programs that desire to compete with a minimum of equipment and expense. The CMP, which hosted and conducted this Champi- onship, actively promotes Three-Position Air Rifl e shooting as a premier youth marksmanship competition by providing low-cost equip- ment and pellets as well as training curriculum materi- als and competition activi- ties.
July 2014 | USA Shooting News
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