COLO SPRGS, CO (March 24, 2025) –USA Taking pictures junior shotgun athletes blew the competitors out of the water with 10 medals and eight quotas earned on the 2025 Junior Championship of the Americas (CAT) Video games in Bridgetown, Barbados, March 7-17. A fair higher accomplishment to notice is that this was the primary worldwide competitors for a handful of the athletes.
The quota slots athletes earned on the CAT Video games are delegated to the U.S. for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games happening this August 9-23 in Asuncion, Paraguay. Every quota earned offers the U.S. a spot to compete within the respective occasion. The Junior Pan American Video games happen each 4 years and include athletes from North, South, and Central American international locations.
On the CAT Video games, the skeet and lure groups each earned 5 medals and 4 quotas. The skeet group kicked off the competitors sturdy. Benjamin Keller, a two-time Junior World Champion, clinched the gold in Junior Males’s Skeet with teammate Aidin Burns, a Junior World Championship medalist, bringing house the silver. Westley Kiter completed simply behind in fourth place. Keller, Burns, and Kiter teamed as much as earn gold within the Junior Males’s Skeet Group occasion. The accomplishment marks Kiter’s first worldwide medal.
Madeline Corbin, a three-time worldwide medalist, topped the rostrum in Junior Ladies’s Skeet incomes the coveted gold medal. Garcie Hensley, a 2024 Junior World Championship medalist, secured a bronze medal in Junior Ladies’s Skeet, becoming a member of Corbin on the rostrum. Hensley and Corbin each earned the U.S. quotas in Junior Ladies’s Skeet for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games and Keller and Burns earned the U.S. quotas in Junior Males’s Skeet.
The lure group’s efficiency bore simply as a lot fruit. Group USA swept the rostrum in Junior Ladies’s Lure, displaying the true energy of the U.S. shotgun group. Carey Garrison, an eight-time worldwide medalist, shot her approach to the highest turning into the Junior Ladies’s Lure champion. Competing in opposition to Garrison within the finals and in the end sharing the rostrum, Ava Downs attained the silver medal within the occasion. Sidney Coffin, 2024 Junior World Cup group member, completed out the star studded podium sweep with a bronze medal. The achievement marks Coffin’s first worldwide medal.
Downs, a two-time Junior World Championship group member, paired up with Connor Lynn within the Combined Lure group occasion the place the duo labored their approach to the highest of the rostrum with a gold medal. Group USA doubled its podium presence within the Combined Lure Group occasion with Kaleb Horinek and Garrison clinching the bronze. Lynn and Horinek each earned their first worldwide medals on the 2025 Junior CAT Video games.
Garrison and Downs each earned the U.S. quotas in Junior Ladies’s Lure for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games and Horinek and Lynn earned the U.S. quotas in Junior Males’s Lure.
The junior rifle and pistol athletes competed of their Junior CAT Video games earlier this month, incomes eight medals and eight quotas.
See under for all shotgun medals and quotas earned on the 2025 Junior CAT Video games:
Skeet
Benjamin Keller: Gold, Junior Males’s Skeet
Aidin Burns: Silver, Junior Males’s Skeet
Madeline Corbin: Gold, Junior Ladies’s Skeet
Benjamin Keller, Aidin Burns, and Westley Kiter: Gold, Junior Males’s Skeet Group
Gracie Hensley: Bronze, Junior Ladies’s Skeet
Lure
Carey Garrison: Gold, Junior Ladies’s Lure
Ava Downs: Silver, Junior Ladies’s Lure
Sidney Coffin: Bronze, Junior Ladies’s Lure
Connor Lynn and Ava Downs: Gold, Junior Combined Lure Group
Kaleb Horinek and Carey Garrison: Bronze, Junior Combined Lure Group
2025 Junior Pan American Video games U.S. Quotas Earned
Junior Ladies’s Skeet (2): Madeline Corbin and Gracie Hensley
Junior Males’s Skeet (2): Benjamin Keller and Aidin Burns
Junior Ladies’s Lure (2): Carey Garrison and Ava Downs
Junior Males’s Lure (2): Kalen Horinek and Connor Lynn
The 2025 Junior Pan American Video games group will likely be chosen primarily based on the 2025 spring choice match, that was held earlier this 12 months, and the 2025 Nationwide Championships, happening this Might.
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