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| NRA-BEEMAN FAST FACTS |
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The first female competitor to ever win a NRA-Beeman feature was PENNY GILLETT, of Fresno, California. Penny was the overall rifle winner at the 1997 Desert Challenge, in Mesa, Arizona. |
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JOE SHRADER of Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, earned a law degree from Duquesne University, and is a former mayor of Cambridge Springs. |
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DOUG BERMEL from Corcoran, Minnesota, won 10 NRA-Beeman events in 2001, breaking the single season record for feature wins that was held by GEORGE HOMAN of Harrisonburg, Virginia, who won 7 events in 1998. |
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Before his injury, KENNY ROGERS of Las Vegas, Nevada, was a professional dancer and figure skater who appeared in the feature film "Sonja Henie In London", and several NBC television specials. |
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The youngest competitor to win an NRA-Beeman event was ROOSEVELT WRIGHT from Birmingham, Alabama, who was 16 when he won at the 2000 Maryland Wheelchair Games in Salisbury, Maryland. |
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Before his injury, MIKE STILES of Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada, was a professional jockey. |
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The first NRA-Beeman event was conducted in April 1997, at the Southeastern Wheelchair Games in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where the feature event winners were George Homan for pistol, and Barbaro Ponce for rifle. |
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MIKE JWANOUSKOS from St. Paul, Minnesota, competed in the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games as a one-arm archer, then went to the 1992 Barcelona Games as a pistol marksman, making him the first athlete in Olympic and Paralympic history to represent the United States in these two sports at consecutive games. |
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KENNY ROGERS of Las Vegas, Nevada, became the oldest shooter to win an NRA-Beeman event, when at age 79 he took high honors at the 2004 Fresno Wheelchair Shooting Championships in Fresno, California. |
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The NRA-Beeman tour has the most diverse market share of any shooting sports event. The overall event winners have been 18% female, 16% juniors, 14% members of a minority, and 33% of the higher disability levels, making this a truly broad based promotion for the shooting sports. |
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BARBARO PONCE was able to enter the United States for medical care and to become a resident, because the then Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, interceded with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Barbaro has gone on to earn a master's degree in architecture from Georgia Tech university. |
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Pistol competitor, KAREN VAN NEST, was featured on the January 2002 cover of the new Canadian Shooting Sports magazine. |
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The NRA- Beeman tour has expanded the audience for the shooting sports by appearing in such unconventional locations as a university student center, 1/10 mile indoor track, hotel ballroom, sportsmen's shot, rehabilitation hospital and a metropolitan convention center. |
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NRA-Beeman regular, RONNIE BROWN, recently moved to Locust Fork, Alabama, from the nearby town of Remlap, where he was raised. Remlap is an interesting name, to say the least. It seems that many years ago, the Palmer brothers settled in central Alabama to start a business and the town of Palmerdale. As sometimes happens in family relationships, a difference of opinion developed between the brothers, and one moved down the road to establish his own town. In order to make a point with his brother, he named the new town Remlap. You guessed it, Remlap is Palmer spelled backwards. |
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Honorary Chairman WARD BURTON'S grandfather, Ed Burton, was an outdoor writer for the Richmond, Virginia, Times-Dispatch daily newspaper. |
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Pistol shooter KESTRA CHILDERS of Prattville, Alabama, has been struck by lightening on three separate occasions during her lifetime. |
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