My niece is going to Olympic trials

[Slipknot]

there are 3 of them from their team at the top 1,2 and 3
Sonya is behind second by a couple hundredths in the final.

She ranked second in the overall in Precision group, but after the final she dropped to 3rd

here is her last score in the final
too bad for the 8.3, she could have broke 100 like her 2 teammates

Their team set a new National record score! wow

[Notfishinenuf]

Awesome job. Great performance at the national level. She should be very proud of herself and the team.

Vic

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Notfishinenuf

Awesome job. Great performance at the national level. She should be very proud of herself and the team.

Vic

That's very cool!

Some people frown upon that air rifle but the target is much smaller and precision is much harder to achieve. We had Anschutz competition pellet rifles in HS ROTC which were as great as the targets were small.

[Slipknot]

yes John, and the bullseye is the size of a head of a pin maybe smaller.

she is doing well today, currently in 4th place with the other 80 juniors and adults still shooting now.

here are her scores from this morning

http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/invEv...ntactID=140194

here is the link to the rankings

CMP Results

[Slipknot]

She made the finals again Sunday and wound up 6th place junior precision rifle and qualified for the superfinal which is a last man standing competition where they all shoot one shot all at once while others are shouting, and trying to distract them. The lowest score drops out, and so that goes until it gets to one final shooter.

At the end the top 15 juniors and top 15 adults shoot off in the superfinal and this is part of the note my brother sent me

"Sonya and Mackenzie were in the super final. Sonya was the last jr left standing. She even beat some army marksmanship unit guys plus Olympic squad shooters. She finished in 8th place in the super final. She got a huge round of applause. Fantastic weekend for her."


pretty damn good if you ask me, that was her best performance to date.
needless to say we are proud of her and I hope she does that well in Feb.

thanks for your interest

[bart]

wow, that's great.

[MarshCappa]

AMAZING!!!!! WAY TO GO SONYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA USA USA USA!!!!