By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
COLO SPRGS, CO (March 7, 2025) – USA Taking pictures junior rifle and pistol athletes, a number of who have 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 the direction of 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 nations.
On the CAT Video games, rifle and pistol athletes stood atop the rostrum in particular person, group, and blended group 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 capturing profession.
Muller teamed up with Tyler Wee and Jack Ogoreuc to say a gold medal within the Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle Staff occasion. Wee went on to earn a 3rd medal with Gracie Dinh in Junior Blended Staff 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 Staff 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 have been excessive,” mentioned Peter Durben, USA Taking pictures nationwide rifle coach. “It was over 100 levels within the facility day-after-day and no air-con. Our athletes toughed it out and achieved the primary purpose of incomes our 4 quotas, for the Junior Pan Am Video games later this 12 months. Every athlete additionally got here house with a medal. I’m particularly happy with people who represented the USA in a global occasion for the primary time. Every had excellent performances.”
The junior pistol athletes had a powerful run as nicely, incomes 4 medals and 4 quotas. Nathan Lim shot a exceptional last 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 depend when he, Marcus Klemp, and Reese Metzler got here collectively to earn first place within the Junior Males’s 10m Air Pistol Staff occasion.
Eva Allan, Suman Sanghera, and Danae Bell joined forces to earn a silver medal within the Junior Girls’s 10m Air Pistol Staff occasion. The silver medal marks Allan and Bell’s first worldwide medal earned to this point of their capturing careers.
Sanghera and Klemp paired as much as win the gold within the Junior Blended Staff Air Pistol occasion, marking the eighth and last medal for Staff USA on the competitors.
Klemp, Lim, Sanghera, and Allan all earned quotas slots on the competitors that go in the direction of the U.S. on the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games.
“I used to be very 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 means to remain targeted and execute was spectacular. It was an important studying expertise and one thing they may be capable 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 under:
Rifle
Grayson Muller: Silver, Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle
Tyler Wee, Grayson Muller, and Jack Ogoreuc: Gold, Junior Males’s 10m Air Rifle Staff
Regan Diamond, Makenzie Larson, Gracie Dinh: Silver, Junior Girls’s 10m Air Rifle Staff
Gracie Dinh and Tyler Wee: Silver, Junior Blended Staff 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 Staff
Suman Sanghera and Marcus Klemp: Gold, Junior Blended Staff 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 group is at the moment 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 the USA 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 packages 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 Heart, USA Taking pictures has a full-time employees devoted to our sport.
