Junior Women’s Skeet Sweeps Medals at ISSF World Championships

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- The U.S. Women’s Skeet Team knew that success would be the best medicine for their ailing coach. They delivered in the biggest of ways Friday at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships outside Moscow, Russia, with an impressive six-medal performance.

Their coach and 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Todd Graves had to be rushed to a Moscow-area hospital late Thursday night for an emergency appendectomy surgery. Coach Graves is recovering and news of his athletes’ performance might just be the perfect post-surgical pain management plan. The intense competitor and coach had to beaming from his hospital bed Friday afternoon.

In his absence, all the team did was gather six total medals including a medal sweep in the junior division and two team gold medals behind two world-record scores.

The U.S. Junior Women’s Skeet team of Katie Jacob (Rochester, Michigan), Austen Smith (Kellar, Texas) and Sam Simonton (Gainesville, Georgia) made history in Moscow with a 1-2-3 medal sweep with Jacob claiming the world title followed by Smith and Simonton. It’s the first-ever World Champs sweep in women’s skeet, junior or open. In junior competition, it’s the …Read the Rest

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