By Brittany Nelson, USAS Public Relations & Communications Supervisor
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 good 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 encompass athletes from North, South, and Central American nations.
On the CAT Video games, the skeet and entice 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 Crew 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 entice group’s efficiency bore simply as a lot fruit. Crew USA swept the rostrum in Junior Ladies’s Entice, exhibiting the true energy of the U.S. shotgun group. Carey Garrison, an eight-time worldwide medalist, shot her strategy to the highest turning into the Junior Ladies’s Entice champion. Competing in opposition to Garrison within the finals and finally 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 Blended Entice group occasion the place the duo labored their strategy to the highest of the rostrum with a gold medal. Crew USA doubled its podium presence within the Blended Entice Crew 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 Entice for the 2025 Junior Pan American Video games and Horinek and Lynn earned the U.S. quotas in Junior Males’s Entice.
The junior rifle and pistol athletes competed of their Junior CAT Video games earlier this month, incomes eight medals and eight quotas.
See beneath 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 Crew
Gracie Hensley: Bronze, Junior Ladies’s Skeet
Entice
Carey Garrison: Gold, Junior Ladies’s Entice
Ava Downs: Silver, Junior Ladies’s Entice
Sidney Coffin: Bronze, Junior Ladies’s Entice
Connor Lynn and Ava Downs: Gold, Junior Blended Entice Crew
Kaleb Horinek and Carey Garrison: Bronze, Junior Blended Entice Crew
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 Entice (2): Carey Garrison and Ava Downs
Junior Males’s Entice (2): Kalen Horinek and Connor Lynn
The 2025 Junior Pan American Video games group can 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.
USA Taking pictures is proud to have a handful of nice supporters, sponsor and companions. Amongst many others, we wish to thank The NRA Basis, Hillsdale Faculty, The Worldwide Order of T. Roosevelt, The Hal & Jean Glassen Basis, Safari Membership Worldwide, MidwayUSA Basis, White Flyer Targets, and Shoot the Moon.
