2012 Highlight: The Ole Mill Range CTC conducted an Internet Match against a German Youth Shooting Sports Club . . . Ranks highest among all of USA Shooting’s CTCs for club activity. Top Emerging Olympic- Path Athletes: Mary Simonton — Shooting preci- sion and smallbore since 2010; honors student at North Gate High School in Georgia; accept- ed into the Air Force Academy. Mary Pratt — Began BB Gun 2007; top 10 ranking in GA BB Gun 2011, 2012. Began sporter air rifle in March 2012 at Ole Mill Range CTC Intro to Air Rifle Course. Transitioned to Precision air in May 2012. Participated in GA JOSC and invited to 2013 JO where she finished 58th as a J2 (15-17-year-old). Pratt also posted a new individual National Record of 590 in the USAF JROTC Championships along with her Team setting a new Team Record score and multiple National Re- cords. She will begin smallbore Ole Mill Range Complex Griffin, Ga. C E R T I F I E D
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Facts & Figures— Established in 1906; USA Shooting CTC since 2010— In 2013, four juniors compet-ed in the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships includ-ing Anna Weilbacher, Allison Villa, Kevin Sui, & Matthew Liao.— Top Alumni: Victor Auer, 1972 Olympic Silver Medalist; David Kimes, 1980 Olympic Team, two-time World Champion; Alan Knowles, 1984 Olympic Team; Billy Meek, Two-time Olympian (’92, ’96); Chris Abalo, 2002
World Cup Rifle Team — Recently equipped with 17 units of SIUS Electronic Target system (2012) partially spon-sored by California Rifle and Pis-tol Association (CRPA).
2012 Highlight: Hosted members of the USA Shooting National Team and the
U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit in April in preparation for the rifle team’s World Cup and Olympic season.
Top Emerging Olympic-Path Athletes: Anna Weilbacher – A 15-year-old sophomore, Weilbacher started shooting shotgun, pistol and rifle in the 4-H Shooting Project about three years ago. About a year and a half ago, she decided that she really enjoyed rifle and has decided to focus only on rifle and wants to pursue it through college. She one day hopes to be an Olympian. She competed at the recent 2013 National Junior Olympic Shooting Cham-pionships where she finished 30th overall in the Women’s 3P
Rifle event and ninth in the J2 (15-17-year-olds) category.
Allison Villa – A 15-year-old sophomore at El Camino High, Villa began shooting in January of 2011 and by October of that year became a member of the Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver Junior Rifle team. Last fall, Villa
participated in several NRA Na-tional team matches and was a part of setting 17 new national NRA records in prone matches. She finished 39th overall at the recent 2013 National Junior Olympic Shooting Champion-ships in the Women’s 3P Rifle event. Attending college has always been one of Villa’s goals and now she has added the goal of shooting for one of the top college rifle teams in the nation. Villa’s long term goals are to be-come a member of the Junior National Team and ultimately the National and Olympic Teams.
Matt Chezm – Trained at LAR&R for several years, now on a rifle scholarship at Ohio University. Qualified as a USA Shooting National Junior Team member in 2012 after his success at the National Junior Olympic Shoot-ing Championships.
Tony Chow - Chow has been shooting competitively since 2009. Goal is to shoot at the in-ternational level and earn a spot on Team USA at the 2014 World Shooting Championships.
David Higgins – Higgins recently placed sixth in the 2013 NCAA Rifle Championships as a fresh-man shooter for the U.S. Air Force Academy and finished ninth overall at the recent Na-
tional Junior Olympic Shooting Championships for Air Rifle while finishing second in the Prone Rifle event.
CTC Coaches :David Kimes — Level 3 Rifle Coach and head coach of the CTC, with 25+ years of experience in Inter-national Shooting.Bob McMullin — Level 3 Rifle Coach and head coach of the Los Angeles Rifle & Revolver Club who has been coaching junior and collegiate level shooters for over eight years. Jim Glass — Level 1 coach and President of LAR&R’s Junior Club Nelson Green – Level 1 coach and enjoys coaching entry level ju-niors for the last 6 years.Darrell Malstrom — Recently at-tended coach classes at the OTC; former shooter at Oregon State, competed in US National Tryouts in the 1990s.
Los Angeles Rifle & Revolver Club South El Monte, Calif.
CONTACT: Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, 1600 Loma, South El Monte, CA 91792Ph: 626-581-7340Coach: David Kimes ([email protected])Director: Hammer Sui ([email protected])
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2012 Highlight: The Ole Mill Range CTC conducted an Internet Match against a
German Youth Shooting Sports Club . . . Ranks highest among all of USA Shooting’s CTCs for club activity.
Top Emerging Olympic- Path Athletes: Mary Simonton — Shooting preci-sion and smallbore since 2010; honors student at North Gate
High School in Georgia; accept-ed into the Air Force Academy.
Mary Pratt — Began BB Gun 2007; top 10 ranking in GA BB Gun 2011, 2012. Began sporter air rifle in March 2012 at Ole Mill Range CTC Intro to Air Rifle Course. Transitioned to Precision air in May 2012. Participated in
GA JOSC and invited to 2013 JO where she finished 58th as a J2 (15-17-year-old). Pratt also posted a new individual National Record of 590 in the USAF JROTC Championships along with her Team setting a new Team Record score and multiple National Re-cords. She will begin smallbore
Ole Mill Range Complex Griffin, Ga.
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CONTACT: PO Box 277, Griffin, GA 30224Director: Roy McClain ([email protected])Contact Email:
training this spring/summer. Mary is a high school freshman attending Walton County High School in Georgia.
Melissa Quartarone — An OMRCTC alumnus, Quartarone has been a junior standout in both Air Rifle and Smallbore while at The Uni-versity of Mississippi where she is attending on scholarship.
JS Fielding — An OMRCTC alumni, Fielding has been a freshman standout in both Air Rifle and Smallbore while at Columbus State University. Jay Cross — An OMRCTC alumnus, Cross is another freshman shoot-er at Columbus State University.
He was also the Georgia State 3P Air Rifle State Champion his junior year in High School.
CTC Coaches:Roy McClain — Level 3 Rifle coach and a Chief Range Safety Officer with decades of experience.
Laura Lovell — Level 3 Rifle Coach, current sporter air rifle coach and intro to air rifle lead instructor. Lovell shot air rifle in high school and has been in-volved in coaching for 4+ years. Todd Day — Level 3 Rifle Coach, Chief Range Safety Officer
who also currently serves as the CTC’s webmaster for www.OleMil lRangeCTC.com. Lisa Kelley — Level 3 Rifle Coach, current precision air rifle coach and competitions coordinator. She has been involved in Olympic- style shooting sports for 11+ years.OMR currently has six additional Level 1 Coaches, and more than 20 NRA / USAS / CMP Range Safety Officers.
2012 Highlight: IMCI recognized by USA Shoot-ing as the first Certified Training Center for Pistol in the nation . . . Sent four qualifying athletes to the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships in Colorado Springs. . . IMCI also signed a lease pending approval of the Municipal Zoning Board of Old Bridge, N.J. for its own train-ing facility. Phase 1 will be for eight to 10 shooting ports with plans to install additional elec-tronic targets from SIUS; Phase 2 is for a 10,000 sq ft facility and will include all disciplines of air pistol and air rifle. . . Japa-nese shooter Sara Mikata found IMCI through an internet search. She came to New York City in De-cember 2012 and trained with IMCI coaches for three weeks for private and group lessons. A summer camp is being organized
for Japanese shooters to train with IMCI in June 2013. Mikata is a 2013 IMCI member..
Top Emerging Olympic- Path Athletes: Juan Pena Velazquez — 16, New Jersey, no prior shooting expe-rience when he joined IMCI in September 2011; silver medalist in the NJ 2012 NJ Junior Olym-pic Air Pistol Championship; received an invite to the 2012 National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs in April 2012 shooting his personal best with 536 points.Derek Lopez — 15, New Jersey, no prior shooting experience when he joined IMCI in December 2011; bronze medalist in the mixed-team competition event in the 2012 National Progressive Position Air-Pistol Junior Olym-pics Championship at Anniston, Ala. performed his personal best.Jeffrey Wang — 16, New York, Out- of-State winner in the N.J. 2012 N.J. Junior Olympic Air Pistol Championship. Received an in-vite to the 2012 National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs
in April 2012; bronze medal-ist in the mixed-team competi-tion event in the 2012 National Progressive Position Air-Pistol Junior Olympics Championship at Anniston, Ala. performed his personal best finishing ninth. A piano-concert enthusiast, Wang shot the State 2013 JO in Penn-sylvania due to conflict in match schedule. He had a piano con-cert the day of the JO in N.J.Will Marshall — 14, New Jersey, rifle shooter before joining IMCI in December 2011; bronze med-alist in the N.J. 2012 N.J. Junior Olympic Air Pistol Champion-ship; received an invite to the 2012 National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs in 2012.Thomas Dobrek — 9, New Jersey/Pennsylvania, no prior shooting experience when he joined IMCI in January 2012; bronze medal-ist in the mixed-team competi-tion event in the 2012 National Progressive Position Air-Pistol Junior Olympics Championship at Anniston, Ala. performing his personal best in Basic Sup-ported.
CTC Coaches: Isabelita Perez — Coach Certifica-tion level 3; Perez is President of Vizcaya Bank and concurrently Director of Financial Manage-ment at City University of New York. She was a Principal and Senior Vice President of Geneva Capital; President of her con-sulting company Perez Business Development Corporation with clients that include listed corpo-rations in the United States and Europe. Perez has a MBA in fi-nance and completed advanced studies in Strategic Financial Analysis from Harvard Busi-ness School; Wharton School and St. John’s University. She is a certified Level 3 Coach and competes as a sharpshooter in bullseye and international pistol competitions. She also shoots trap, sporting clays and rifle.Norm Glitz — Coach Certification Level 1; pilot, engineer, a master in conventional pistol, an expert in rifle and a certified coach, Glitz flew with the U.S.
International Marksmanship Center Monroe Township, N.J.
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Facts & Figures— Established in 1906; USA Shooting CTC since 2010— In 2013, four juniors compet-ed in the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships includ-ing Anna Weilbacher, Allison Villa, Kevin Sui, & Matthew Liao.— Top Alumni: Victor Auer, 1972 Olympic Silver Medalist; David Kimes, 1980 Olympic Team, two-time World Champion; Alan Knowles, 1984 Olympic Team; Billy Meek, Two-time Olympian (’92, ’96); Chris Abalo, 2002
World Cup Rifle Team — Recently equipped with 17 units of SIUS Electronic Target system (2012) partially spon-sored by California Rifle and Pis-tol Association (CRPA).
2012 Highlight: Hosted members of the USA Shooting National Team and the
U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit in April in preparation for the rifle team’s World Cup and Olympic season.
Top Emerging Olympic-Path Athletes: Anna Weilbacher – A 15-year-old sophomore, Weilbacher started shooting shotgun, pistol and rifle in the 4-H Shooting Project about three years ago. About a year and a half ago, she decided that she really enjoyed rifle and has decided to focus only on rifle and wants to pursue it through college. She one day hopes to be an Olympian. She competed at the recent 2013 National Junior Olympic Shooting Cham-pionships where she finished 30th overall in the Women’s 3P
Rifle event and ninth in the J2 (15-17-year-olds) category.
Allison Villa – A 15-year-old sophomore at El Camino High, Villa began shooting in January of 2011 and by October of that year became a member of the Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver Junior Rifle team. Last fall, Villa
participated in several NRA Na-tional team matches and was a part of setting 17 new national NRA records in prone matches. She finished 39th overall at the recent 2013 National Junior Olympic Shooting Champion-ships in the Women’s 3P Rifle event. Attending college has always been one of Villa’s goals and now she has added the goal of shooting for one of the top college rifle teams in the nation. Villa’s long term goals are to be-come a member of the Junior National Team and ultimately the National and Olympic Teams.
Matt Chezm – Trained at LAR&R for several years, now on a rifle scholarship at Ohio University. Qualified as a USA Shooting National Junior Team member in 2012 after his success at the National Junior Olympic Shoot-ing Championships.
Tony Chow - Chow has been shooting competitively since 2009. Goal is to shoot at the in-ternational level and earn a spot on Team USA at the 2014 World Shooting Championships.
David Higgins – Higgins recently placed sixth in the 2013 NCAA Rifle Championships as a fresh-man shooter for the U.S. Air Force Academy and finished ninth overall at the recent Na-
tional Junior Olympic Shooting Championships for Air Rifle while finishing second in the Prone Rifle event.
CTC Coaches :David Kimes — Level 3 Rifle Coach and head coach of the CTC, with 25+ years of experience in Inter-national Shooting.Bob McMullin — Level 3 Rifle Coach and head coach of the Los Angeles Rifle & Revolver Club who has been coaching junior and collegiate level shooters for over eight years. Jim Glass — Level 1 coach and President of LAR&R’s Junior Club Nelson Green – Level 1 coach and enjoys coaching entry level ju-niors for the last 6 years.Darrell Malstrom — Recently at-tended coach classes at the OTC; former shooter at Oregon State, competed in US National Tryouts in the 1990s.
Los Angeles Rifle & Revolver Club South El Monte, Calif.
CONTACT: Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, 1600 Loma, South El Monte, CA 91792Ph: 626-581-7340Coach: David Kimes ([email protected])Director: Hammer Sui ([email protected])
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2012 Highlight: The Ole Mill Range CTC conducted an Internet Match against a
German Youth Shooting Sports Club . . . Ranks highest among all of USA Shooting’s CTCs for club activity.
Top Emerging Olympic- Path Athletes: Mary Simonton — Shooting preci-sion and smallbore since 2010; honors student at North Gate
High School in Georgia; accept-ed into the Air Force Academy.
Mary Pratt — Began BB Gun 2007; top 10 ranking in GA BB Gun 2011, 2012. Began sporter air rifle in March 2012 at Ole Mill Range CTC Intro to Air Rifle Course. Transitioned to Precision air in May 2012. Participated in
GA JOSC and invited to 2013 JO where she finished 58th as a J2 (15-17-year-old). Pratt also posted a new individual National Record of 590 in the USAF JROTC Championships along with her Team setting a new Team Record score and multiple National Re-cords. She will begin smallbore
Ole Mill Range Complex Griffin, Ga.
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CONTACT: PO Box 277, Griffin, GA 30224Director: Roy McClain ([email protected])Contact Email:
training this spring/summer. Mary is a high school freshman attending Walton County High School in Georgia.
Melissa Quartarone — An OMRCTC alumnus, Quartarone has been a junior standout in both Air Rifle and Smallbore while at The Uni-versity of Mississippi where she is attending on scholarship.
JS Fielding — An OMRCTC alumni, Fielding has been a freshman standout in both Air Rifle and Smallbore while at Columbus State University. Jay Cross — An OMRCTC alumnus, Cross is another freshman shoot-er at Columbus State University.
He was also the Georgia State 3P Air Rifle State Champion his junior year in High School.
CTC Coaches:Roy McClain — Level 3 Rifle coach and a Chief Range Safety Officer with decades of experience.
Laura Lovell — Level 3 Rifle Coach, current sporter air rifle coach and intro to air rifle lead instructor. Lovell shot air rifle in high school and has been in-volved in coaching for 4+ years. Todd Day — Level 3 Rifle Coach, Chief Range Safety Officer
who also currently serves as the CTC’s webmaster for www.OleMil lRangeCTC.com. Lisa Kelley — Level 3 Rifle Coach, current precision air rifle coach and competitions coordinator. She has been involved in Olympic- style shooting sports for 11+ years.OMR currently has six additional Level 1 Coaches, and more than 20 NRA / USAS / CMP Range Safety Officers.
2012 Highlight: IMCI recognized by USA Shoot-ing as the first Certified Training Center for Pistol in the nation . . . Sent four qualifying athletes to the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships in Colorado Springs. . . IMCI also signed a lease pending approval of the Municipal Zoning Board of Old Bridge, N.J. for its own train-ing facility. Phase 1 will be for eight to 10 shooting ports with plans to install additional elec-tronic targets from SIUS; Phase 2 is for a 10,000 sq ft facility and will include all disciplines of air pistol and air rifle. . . Japa-nese shooter Sara Mikata found IMCI through an internet search. She came to New York City in De-cember 2012 and trained with IMCI coaches for three weeks for private and group lessons. A summer camp is being organized
for Japanese shooters to train with IMCI in June 2013. Mikata is a 2013 IMCI member..
Top Emerging Olympic- Path Athletes: Juan Pena Velazquez — 16, New Jersey, no prior shooting expe-rience when he joined IMCI in September 2011; silver medalist in the NJ 2012 NJ Junior Olym-pic Air Pistol Championship; received an invite to the 2012 National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs in April 2012 shooting his personal best with 536 points.Derek Lopez — 15, New Jersey, no prior shooting experience when he joined IMCI in December 2011; bronze medalist in the mixed-team competition event in the 2012 National Progressive Position Air-Pistol Junior Olym-pics Championship at Anniston, Ala. performed his personal best.Jeffrey Wang — 16, New York, Out- of-State winner in the N.J. 2012 N.J. Junior Olympic Air Pistol Championship. Received an in-vite to the 2012 National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs
in April 2012; bronze medal-ist in the mixed-team competi-tion event in the 2012 National Progressive Position Air-Pistol Junior Olympics Championship at Anniston, Ala. performed his personal best finishing ninth. A piano-concert enthusiast, Wang shot the State 2013 JO in Penn-sylvania due to conflict in match schedule. He had a piano con-cert the day of the JO in N.J.Will Marshall — 14, New Jersey, rifle shooter before joining IMCI in December 2011; bronze med-alist in the N.J. 2012 N.J. Junior Olympic Air Pistol Champion-ship; received an invite to the 2012 National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs in 2012.Thomas Dobrek — 9, New Jersey/Pennsylvania, no prior shooting experience when he joined IMCI in January 2012; bronze medal-ist in the mixed-team competi-tion event in the 2012 National Progressive Position Air-Pistol Junior Olympics Championship at Anniston, Ala. performing his personal best in Basic Sup-ported.
CTC Coaches: Isabelita Perez — Coach Certifica-tion level 3; Perez is President of Vizcaya Bank and concurrently Director of Financial Manage-ment at City University of New York. She was a Principal and Senior Vice President of Geneva Capital; President of her con-sulting company Perez Business Development Corporation with clients that include listed corpo-rations in the United States and Europe. Perez has a MBA in fi-nance and completed advanced studies in Strategic Financial Analysis from Harvard Busi-ness School; Wharton School and St. John’s University. She is a certified Level 3 Coach and competes as a sharpshooter in bullseye and international pistol competitions. She also shoots trap, sporting clays and rifle.Norm Glitz — Coach Certification Level 1; pilot, engineer, a master in conventional pistol, an expert in rifle and a certified coach, Glitz flew with the U.S.
International Marksmanship Center Monroe Township, N.J.
