By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
HILLSDALE, MI (Could 26, 2025) – The 2025 USA Taking pictures Skeet Nationwide Championship wrapped up with standout performances, as Hayden Stewart claimed the boys’s champion title, Sam Simonton earned the ladies’s title, and the skeet group for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games was nominated.
The competitors has held at John A. Halter Taking pictures Sports activities Heart at Hillsdale School in Hillsdale, Michigan, Could 21-25, the place nationwide, junior nationwide, and world championship groups had been named.
Stewart earned gold in males’s skeet after an thrilling remaining, ending forward of Vincent Hancock, who took silver, and Dustan Taylor, who claimed bronze. A employees sergeant within the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit (USAMU), Stewart holds three worldwide medals and was an alternate for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games group. His efficiency at nationals additionally secured him a spot on the USA Taking pictures Nationwide Skeet Workforce.
Simonton captured gold in girls’s skeet after an exciting remaining, with Dania Vizzi incomes silver and Amber English taking bronze. Simonton, the 2024 ISSF World Cup Ultimate champion, is a Sgt. within the USAMU and has earned over 10 medals internationally. Simonton additionally earned her spot on the USA Taking pictures Nationwide Skeet Workforce.
The competitors additionally served because the qualifier for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games. Gracie Hensley, Fayth Layne, Aidin Burns and Westley Kiter might be nominated to symbolize Workforce USA this August in Asunción, Paraguay. Held each 4 years, the Junior Pan American Video games options athletes from throughout North, Central and South America.
Hensley and Burns additionally added to their accomplishments by incomes titles because the 2025 USA Taking pictures Junior Skeet Champions. Hensley led a robust displaying in junior girls’s skeet, incomes gold forward of teammates Madeline Corbin, who took silver, and Karsyn Ross, who earned bronze. In junior males’s skeet, Burns captured the title with a standout efficiency, adopted by Kiter with silver and Oscar Foxworth with bronze.
Medals had been additionally awarded for the highest three finishers in Males’s and Ladies’s below 18, below 15, collegiate, worldwide, and senior classes. See all official outcomes right here. On the awards ceremony Conner Prince, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalist, was introduced the Civilian Marksmanship Program Distinguished Worldwide Shooters Badge. The badge is the best award for worldwide marksmanship excellence. Conner is amongst solely three USA Taking pictures athletes who earned the award in 2024.
The 2025 Worldwide Taking pictures Sports activities Federation (ISSF) World Championship group was additionally named. The next athletes might be competing this October in Greece:
Ladies’s Skeet: Dania Vizzi, Sam Simonton, Kimberly Rhode
Males’s Skeet: Vincent Hancock, Christian Elliott, Conner Prince
The next athletes had been named to the nationwide skeet groups:
Ladies’s Skeet
Males’s Skeet
Junior Ladies’s Skeet
Junior Males’s Skeet
Discover pictures from the competitors right here.
Lure nationals kick off Could 28 on the John A. Halter Taking pictures Sports activities Heart at Hillsdale School in Hillsdale, Michigan. USA Taking pictures is proud to have Hillsdale School as considered one of our nice sponsors.
USA Taking pictures want to thank a handful of sponsors and companions to incorporate The NRA Basis, Hillsdale School, The Worldwide Order of T. Roosevelt, The Hal & Jean Glassen Basis, Safari Membership Worldwide, MidwayUSA Basis, White Flyer Targets, and Shoot the Moon.
