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Not to take anything away from the boys but…no less than four out of 43 teams at the Daisy National BB Gun Championship Match, held in Rogers, Arkansas over the 4th of July weekend were all girl teams. Additionally, the Daisy Junior 3-P Precision & Sporter Air Rifle competition immediately followed the national 5-meter BB competition and some of the same ladies excelled there as well.
The ladies also took home the top three individual awards. The overall individual bronze medal winner was Abigail Keeven from the Washington Missouri Shooting Sports Team in Washington, Missouri; the silver medal winner was Reba Smith with the Penns Valley Shooting Team in Spring Mills, PA and the gold medal winner was a member of an all girl team.
Maybe it was the inspiration from gold medalist Nancy Johnson who delivered the keynote address at the opening ceremonies of the 45th annual event. Johnson won the first gold medal for the USA in the 2000 Sydney Olympics with her win in ladies air rifle. “The best advice I can give these kids this weekend would probably be to give their best and let the rest take care of itself, because they’ve put in the hard work and they are going to do well,” she said.-[source]
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