Fall Selection
Tucson Tests Shotgun’s Best as Olympic Team Trials Get Underway
The best shotgun com-
petitors in the nation were in Tucson, Arizona, competing LQ WKH À UVW VWDJH RI WKH U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Shotgun, October 9-17. The Road to Rio and the 2016 2O\PSLF *DPHV RIÀ FLDOO\ EH gan in a familiar place for the USA Shooting Team.
Olympic Team spot, Beaman emerged as the front-runner following a four day gruel- ing test. Beaman shot three targets better in qualifying over two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic bronze med- alist Corey Cogdell-Unrein and then beat her in the sec- RQG À QDO DQG ZLOO WDNH D WZR
Richmond will hold a slight advantage over his two US- AMU teammates heading into the conclusive match in Tillar.
Richmond’s famil-
iar foes are none other than Derek Haldeman and Jeff Holguin. Haldeman held the advantage throughout quali- fying, outshooting Richmond
Women’s Skeet Five-time Olympic medal- ist Kim Rhode did enough to HQVXUH VKH·OO KDYH D À YH WDU get advantage going into Til- lar. Rhode built her lead by out-shooting her opponents by three targets during 250 qualifying targets over four days with a 237/250. She À QLVKHG À UVW LQ WKH À UVW )LQDO and then earned a bronze medal in the second Final. Amber English is within strik- LQJ GLVWDQFH after hi
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2012 Olympian Frank Thompson currently leads the Men’s Skeet competition.
After 250 targets and
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Women’s Trap At the halfway point it is
Janessa Beaman who will WDNH WKH OHDG LQWR WKH À QDO stage. In the battle for one
point lead into part two of the Olympic Team Trials that will be contested next May in Tillar, Arkansas featuring the exact same format. Ashley &DUUROO VLWV LQ WKLUG À YH WDU gets back of Beaman.
Men’s Double Trap As expected, the U.S.
Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) asserted their will as
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by three targets. But it was Richmond gaining the points he would need in each of the two event Finals, with ERWK À UVW DQG VHFRQG SODFH À QLVKHV +ROJXLQ WKH Olympian and fourth-place À QLVKHU LQ %HLMLQJ XVHG D À UVW SODFH À QLVK GXULQJ WKH VHFRQG À QDO WR HQVXUH KH stayed within striking dis- tance of his two challengers.
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Men’s Skeet Four days of competition
solved virtually nothing in the race to join two-time Olym- pic gold medalist Vincent Hancock in Rio. His 2012 Olympic teammate Frank Thompson is in the running as is USAMU’s Hayden Stew- art. The two are tied in total
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