By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
COLO SPRGS, CO (March 10, 2025) – USA Taking pictures junior rifle and pistol athletes, a number of who had been competing of their first ever worldwide competitors, earned an unbelievable eight medals and quotas on the 2025 1st Junior Championship of the Americas (CAT Video games) in Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 27-March 4.
The quota slots athletes earned on the CAT Video games go in direction of U.S. for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games going down this August 9-23 in Asuncion, Paraguay. Every quota earned provides the U.S. a spot to compete within the respective occasion. The Junior Pan American Video games happen each 4 years and encompass athletes from North, South, and Central American nations.
On the CAT Video games, rifle and pistol athletes stood atop the rostrum in particular person, staff, and blended staff junior air occasions. Grayson Muller kicked off the medal assortment with a silver in Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle, the primary worldwide medal of his taking pictures profession.
Muller teamed up with Tyler Wee and Jack Ogoreuc to assert a gold medal within the Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle Group occasion. Wee went on to earn a 3rd medal with Gracie Dinh in Junior Combined Group Air Rifle. Dinh joined Regan Diamond and Makenzie Larson on the rostrum when the trio secured a silver medal within the Junior Girls’s 10m Air Rifle Group occasion.
Wee, Ogoreuc, Diamond, and Dinh all earned Junior 10m Air Rifle quotas for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games. The quota slots enable the U.S. to ship athletes to compete within the respective occasions on the competitors.
“The circumstances had been excessive,” mentioned Peter Durben, USA Taking pictures nationwide rifle coach. “It was over 100 levels within the facility day by day and no air-con. Our athletes toughed it out and achieved the primary aim of incomes our 4 quotas, for the Junior Pan Am Video games later this yr. Every athlete additionally got here house with a medal. I’m particularly pleased with those who represented the USA in a world occasion for the primary time. Every had excellent performances.”
The junior pistol athletes had a formidable run as effectively, incomes 4 medals and 4 quotas. Nathan Lim shot a exceptional ultimate the place he claimed the gold in Junor Males’s 10m Air Pistol. Lim trains on the Bridge Junior Taking pictures Membership in California, based by the late In Kim. Lim doubled his gold medal rely when he, Marcus Klemp, and Reese Metzler got here collectively to earn first place within the Junior Males’s 10m Air Pistol Group occasion.
Eva Allan, Suman Sanghera, and Danae Bell joined forces to earn a silver medal within the Junior Girls’s 10m Air Pistol Group occasion. The silver medal marks Allan and Bell’s first worldwide medal earned so far of their taking pictures careers.
Sanghera and Klemp paired as much as win the gold within the Junior Combined Group Air Pistol occasion, marking the eighth and ultimate medal for Group USA on the competitors.
Klemp, Lim, Sanghera, and Allan all earned quotas slots on the competitors that go in direction of the U.S. on the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games.
“I used to be more than happy with how all of the athletes did given the extraordinarily sizzling circumstances,” mentioned Jason Turner, USA Taking pictures nationwide pistol coach and Olympic medalist. “Their potential to remain targeted and execute was spectacular. It was an awesome studying expertise and one thing they are going to have the ability to use shifting ahead.”
The 2025 Junior CAT Video games additionally had an open age class the place Peter Fiori competed in Males’s Rifle occasions.
See all medals and quotas earned beneath:
Rifle
Grayson Muller: Silver, Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle
Tyler Wee, Grayson Muller, and Jack Ogoreuc: Gold, Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle Group
Regan Diamond, Makenzie Larson, Gracie Dinh: Silver, Junior Girls’s 10m Air Rifle Group
Gracie Dinh and Tyler Wee: Silver, Junior Combined Group Air Rifle
Pistol
Nathan Lim: Gold, Junior Males’s 10m Air Pistol
Marcus Klemp, Nathan Lim, and Reese Metzler: Gold, Junior Males’s 10m Air Pistol
Eva Allan, Suman Sanghera, and Danae Bell: Silver, Junior Girls’s 10m Air Pistol Group
Suman Sanghera and Marcus Klemp: Gold, Junior Combined Group Air Pistol
2025 Junior Pan American Video games Quotas Earned
Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle (2) Tyler Wee and Jack Ogoreuc
Junior Girls’s 10m Air Rifle (2) Regan Diamond, Gracie Dinh
Males’s 10m Air Pistol (2) Marcus Klemp and Nathan Lim
Girls’s 10m Air Pistol (2) Suman Sanghera and Eva Allan
The junior shotgun staff is at present competing within the 2025 Junior Shotgun CAT Video games in Bridgetown, Barbados.
About USA Taking pictures
USA Taking pictures, a 501(c)(3) non-profit company was chartered by america Olympic and Paralympic Committee because the Nationwide Governing Physique for the Olympic & Paralympic Taking pictures Sports activities in April 1995. The group develops and implements applications to advertise progress within the sport and serves as a sanctioning physique for native and nationwide competitions. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Coaching Middle, USA Taking pictures has a full-time employees devoted to our sport.
