JORC Underway

 

Better that two dozen of New England’s finest junior shooters are ether on their way, have arrived, or packing to head west to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and the 2016 Junior Olympic Rifle Championships (JORC).

The JORC is the culmination of USA Shooting’s  National Junior Olympic program which provides young competitions year-round Olympic style competition. Junior shooters are able to participate in State Competitions sanctioned by USA Shooting, allowing them the chance to receive an invitation to shoot at the National Junior Olympic Championships hosted by USA Shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado.   The program serves as an important element of our pipeline development system in promoting the shooting sports. Junior Olympic goals are to allow the skilled junior athletes to obtain National competitive experience for future development. The program also serves as an opportunity to appoint the top finishers to the National Junior Team.

This year all of the New England states are sending delegations with Massachusetts having the largest group sending Jared Desrosiers, Ricky Miller, Kristopher Blaney, Benjamin Pacek, Brenden Seitz, Tyler Lefebvre, Matthew Lazarski, Mackenzie Conant, Aliya Butt, Maggie Flanders.

Six shooters will represent Connecticut; Eric Sloan, Tyler Glynn, Scott Condo, Kyle Kutz, James Henderson, and Kaitlyn Kutz. Tiny Rhode Island sends Alex Muzzioli, Marcus Mojica, Matt Pemberton, Rebecca Green, and Ruby Gomes.

A quartet of Granite state shooters  made up of Tobin Sanctuary, Andrew Solomonides, Elizabeth Dutton, and Bailey Urbach will be there along with Matthew Wright and Julia Hatch who are neighbors from Vermont.

The New England contingent is rounded out by Brandon Bryer, Shelby Varney, and Sarah Schnupp from Maine.

About Hap Rocketto

Hap Rocketto is a Distinguished Rifleman with service and smallbore rifle, member of The Presidents Hundred, and the National Guard’s Chief’s 50. He is a National Smallbore Record holder, a member of the 1600 Club and the Connecticut Shooters’ Hall Of Fame. He was the 2002 Intermediate Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion, the 2012 Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion a member of the 2007 and 2012 National Four Position Indoor Championship team, coach and captain of the US Drew Cup Team, and adjutant of the United States 2009 Roberts and 2013 Pershing Teams. Rocketto is very active in coaching juniors. He is, along with his brother Steve, a cofounder of the Corporal Digby Hand Schützenverein. A historian of the shooting sports, his work appears in Shooting Sports USA, the late Precision Shooting Magazine, The Outdoor Message, the American Rifleman, the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s website, and most recently, the apogee of his literary career, pronematch.com.
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