TEAM GEORGIA BRINGS HOME THE BRONZE

 

 

The 2008 Junior Olympic Three Position Air Rifle National Championship was held in Anniston, Alabama July 10-12, 2008.  With sponsorship from Georgia Sport Shooting Association and Ga. Competitive Shooters Inc., seven of Georgia's premier Air Rifle shooters were able to compete.

 

Team members April Dunn of Newnan, Matthew Branyon of McDonough, Adam Thrasher of Locust Grove, and Jacob Brown of McDonough along with alternate Jake Neri of McDonough finished a close 15 points behind the Gold and a slim 5 points out of Silver to claim their bronze medals by combining a two day score of 4646 of the possible 4800.  Team members were joined by their Individually Qualifying Members of the Spalding County 4-H Team Morgan Kelly of Griffin and Kyle Whisenant of McDonough. Individuals Qualifiers had to post scores of 580 or better in the Qualification Round to receive Individual Invitations.

 

All members of the Spalding County 4-H Shooting Sports Program practice regularly at The Ole Mill Range Complex in Griffin, GA.   To qualify for the National Competition each member must compete and post a qualifying score in the Jr. Olympic State Championship match held in May. 

 

The match consisted of 40 record shots (20 each over two separate days of competition) in each of the prone, standing, and kneeling events each day with the aggregate score representing the total points of the 2-day competition.  In addition to these record shots, the top 8 Athletes participated in an Olympic style Finals Match in which our own April Dunn qualified to participate in.

 

With 162 individuals registered for the National event, the Georgia team placed 3rd over all and the individual accomplishments were as follows:

 

April Dunn                            1278.8     ~ 7th over all 

Adam Thrasher                    1164        ~ 28th over all        

Morgan Kelley                     1161        ~ 35th over all

Matthew Branyon                1160        ~ 39th over all

Jake Neri                                1151        ~ 60th over all                        

Jacob Brown                         1149        ~ 65th over all                        

Kyle Whisenant                   1132        ~103rd over all

All team members of the Georgia Rifle Team would like to thank the Georgia Sport Shooting Association, Ga. Competitive S hooters, Inc., Spalding County 4-H and their communities for all of the support in the have received.

 

 

Spalding Co 4H Shooting Sports Team Members                       Team Georgia L to R Neri, Thrasher, Dunn, Braynon, and Brown