It is really impressive, especially considering that they young woman winning the state championship is a freshman!
That means she is only 14-15 and most shooters do not reach their top performance until they are around 30!
It would be nice if some interested party with the proper funds gave her a good pep talk and offered to sponsor her through high school and into the college level through the Olympic youth stages and on to national representation at the top levels. There are only two or three relatively unknown colleges in the nation that have top level shooting programs complete with scholarship funding.
One of the reasons we get clobbered in the international shooting competitions is that we do not start training at the junior high level and have organized programs for young top level national shooters.
We can not front an Olympic biathlon team that can do better than 30 out of 31 in international competition, and we are supposed to be saturated with a "gun culture". Our only solace is that we can beat the Canadians.
Olympic level women shooters are rock stars in Europe. The have modeling contracts, own their own fashion lines and get sponsorship from all sorts of marketers. Watching a biathlon event is like watching runway models on skis clearing 20 out of 20= 4" targets from standing at 50 meters after skiing 12k!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peG3aw2nWQo
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