Posted January 6, 2016 8:17 pm by Comments

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Dania Vizzi
Dania Vizzi participating in Silver Dollar Trap Club’s sixth annual Shoot for the Cure event, a breast cancer awareness event run by the Silver Dollar Resorts community in Odessa, FL.
AmmoLand Gun News
AmmoLand Gun News

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Making it in competitive skeet shooting is hard enough for those who’ve been shooting their whole lives. So what about those who spent the majority of their lives doing something else?

What if that something else was dancing?

As a three-time Junior Olympic Women’s Skeet champion, and silver, bronze and gold medalist in the in the past three consecutive world championships, 20-year-old Dania Vizzi never expected to make it here. It was only a few years ago the Tampa native began competitively shooting.

In fact, she spent the large majority of her life working towards a professional career in dance. She was even accepted into one of the world’s most elite dance programs, the summer dance intensive at The Juilliard School. After her summer at Juilliard in New York, she decided it wasn’t her path.

If she went to college at Juilliard, she would have to sacrifice shooting skeet—there aren’t many gun ranges in West Manhattan. She chose to stay …Read the Rest

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