With a solid mix of veteran talent and multiple competitors making their Olympic debut, the USA Shooting team heading to the Paris 2024 Games later this month boasts a roster featuring some of the best competitive pistol, rifle and shotgun shooters in the country.
Seventeen shooters will compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics as part of Team USA. Shooting events at the Paris 2024 Games will take place from Saturday, July 27, to Monday, August 5. Here is an inside look at the talented USA Shooting athletes that qualified to represent our country on the ultimate stage.
SHOTGUN TEAM
Vincent Hancock (Fort Worth, Texas)
A three-time Olympic gold medalist, Vincent Hancock will compete at his fifth Olympic Games in Paris this summer. He set a new Olympic record at the Tokyo 2020 Games after hitting 59 of 60 targets in the men’s skeet final, also making history as the first skeet shooter to win three Olympic gold medals in the process. At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Hancock will have the opportunity to win two medals, thanks to the inclusion of the new mixed team skeet event. In addition, he coaches two skeet shooters on the U.S. Olympic Team.
Austen Smith (Keller, Texas)
Paris 2024 will mark Austen Smith’s second appearance at the Olympic Games. At the Tokyo 2020 Games, she was the youngest member of the team, finishing 10th in the women’s skeet event. Earlier this year, she won a gold medal in the women’s skeet event at the 2024 ISSF World Cup Baku, as well as notching a phenomenal performance at the U.S. Olympic Trials for Shotgun, Part 2, earning 487 U.S. Olympic Shotgun team selection points. Smith is coached by three-time Olympic gold medalist Vincent Hancock.
Conner Prince (Burleson, Texas)
A 2023 ISSF World Cup Rabat gold medalist in the mixed team skeet event, Conner Prince will make his Olympic debut in France this summer. Like Austen Smith, the 24-year-old Prince is coached by three-time Olympic gold medalist Vincent Hancock. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, he will compete in the men’s skeet and mixed team skeet events.
Dania Vizzi (Odessa, Fla.)
A seasoned international competitor, Dania Vizzi will compete at her first Olympics in France this summer. Along with teammate Vincent Hancock, at the 2023 Pan American Games she earned a gold medal in the mixed skeet team event. A 2017 World Champion, at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Vizzi will be competing in two events—women’s skeet and mixed team skeet with teammate Conner Prince. For competition, Vizzi uses Winchester’s AA International, 24-gram No. 9, 1,325 f.p.s. target load.
Derrick Mein (Paola, Kan.)
Derrick Mein punched his ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after an exceptional performance at the U.S. Olympic Trials for Shotgun, Part 2, where he earned a total of 234 qualification points, plus three final points for a final aggregate score of 237. Paris 2024 will be Mein’s second appearance at the Olympic Games, after finishing 24th in the men’s trap event during his Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, as well as 13th place with teammate Kayle Browning in the mixed trap team event.
Rachel Tozier (Pattonsburg, Mo.)
After earning a bronze medal in the women’s trap event at the 2023 Pan American Games, Rachel Tozier captured the final U.S. Olympic shotgun quota for the Paris 2024 Games. A staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, she will be competing at the Olympic Games for the first time in Paris this summer. Besides her shooting-sports career, Tozier is also known as a weightlifter and has participated in several bodybuilding competitions.
Will Hinton (Dacula, Ga.)
Another member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, Staff Sgt. Will Hinton has been a competitive shooter since his youth and grew up in a family of avid wingshooters. He competed in his first sporting clays tournament in 2008 and he was a member of USA Shooting’s Junior Worlds team in 2013, switching to international-style trapshooting in 2016 after enlisting in the Army. A 2022 Championship of the Americas winner and boasting six ISSF World Cup medals, Hinton will compete in the men’s trap event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Ryann Phillips (Gail, Texas)
Making her Olympic debut this year, Ryann Phillips will compete in the women’s trap event in France this summer. She is currently a student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. A 2024 Championship of the Americas women’s trap bronze medalist, Phillips also won a gold medal in the women’s trap team event and is a 2023 junior world champion.
RIFLE TEAM
Mary Tucker (Sarasota, Fla.)
A former member of the West Virginia University rifle team, Mary Tucker is one of the top air rifle and smallbore shooters in the world. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she earned a silver medal in the mixed team air rifle event with teammate Lucas Kozeniesky. More recently, Tucker brought home two gold medals and a bronze at the 2023 Pan American Games, along with a gold medal at the 2023 ISSF World Championship, helping to set a new team record at the latter. In July 2023, Tucker moved to the Czech Republic to work with a new shooting coach, three-time U.S. Olympic rifle medalist Matt Emmons. Additionally, at the collegiate level she won the NCAA smallbore rifle individual title this past March.
Rylan Kissell (Denver, Colo.)
Rylan Kissell qualified for the Paris 2024 Games and will make his Olympic debut in France this year. He won the 2023 NCAA individual air rifle championship while a junior at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and moved to Colorado Springs that same year to train with USA Shooting. Kissell will compete in the men’s air rifle, men’s 50m smallbore rifle and mixed air rifle team events at the Paris 2024 Games this summer.
Sagen Maddalena (Groveland, Calif.)
Making her second Olympic appearance after competing at the Tokyo 2020 Games, Sagen Maddalena qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics and will compete in the women’s air rifle event. A sergeant in the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, she was previously a member of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks rifle team. No stranger to success on the international stage, at the 2023 Pan American Games she won the women’s air rifle event and earned a total of three medals. In addition, she was a two-time medalist at the 2023 ISSF World Championship.
Ivan Roe (Manhattan, Mont.)
A sergeant in the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, Ivan Roe will make his Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Games, competing in the men’s air rifle event. He was a member of the 2023 ISSF World Championship team and the 2022 Championship of the Americas team, earning a gold medal and a U.S. Olympic quota at the latter. Roe was among the first USA Shooting athletes to punch his ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after the third U.S. Air Gun Trials selection match held this past January.
PISTOL TEAM
Katelyn Abeln (Douglasville, Ga.)
Another USA Shooting athlete making her Olympic debut in France this summer, Katelyn Abeln qualified to compete in the women’s air pistol event. A competitive shooter since she was 12 years old, her first experience in shooting sports came from her local 4-H club, where Abeln began her journey to the Olympics as a BB gun shooter. Abeln was a member of the Ohio State University pistol team before graduating in May. She was also on the 2023 ISSF World Championship team and earned three medals at the 2022 Championship of the Americas.
Keith Sanderson (Monument, Colo.)
A two-time NRA Precision Pistol national champion, Keith Sanderson will be at his fourth Olympic Games in France, competing in the men’s rapid-fire pistol event. Sanderson previously served in the Army and Marine Corps, and was most recently a member of the 2023 ISSF World Championship team and 2023 Pan American Games team. He also earned the last Paris 2024 Olympic quota needed for the U.S. in the men’s rapid-fire pistol event at the 2024 Championship of the Americas earlier this year.
Alexis Lagan (Boulder City, Nev.)
After competing at the Tokyo 2020 Games, Alexis “Lexi” Lagan is returning to the Olympics and will compete in the women’s air pistol event in France this summer. She began shooting international pistol at the University of Utah. Lagan picked up a silver medal in the event at the 2023 Pan American Games, also securing the U.S. a Paris 2024 Olympic Games quota. Additionally, she earned three medals at the 2022 Championship of the Americas and is a six-time national champion.
Henry Leverett (Bainbridge, Ga.)
For his second appearance at the Olympics after competing at the Tokyo 2020 Games, Henry Leverett is qualified for the men’s rapid-fire pistol event at the Paris 2024 Games this summer. He comes from a family of sport shooters, with his brother, Jack, competing alongside him at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. More international accomplishments for Leveret t include being a member of the 2023 ISSF World Championship team and securing a bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games, where he also garnered the U.S. a Paris 2024 Olympic Games quota.
Ada Korkhin (Brookline, Mass.)
Making her Olympic debut in France this year, 20-year-old Ada Korkhin is slated to compete in the women’s sport pistol event at the Paris 2024 Games. An Ohio State University student-athlete, she finished in second place overall at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Korkhin also earned herself a gold medal at the 2024 Championship of the Americas in the women’s 25-meter sport pistol team event, where she stood on the podium with her teammates, Katelyn Abeln and Lisa Emmert-Traciak.
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