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JENNIFER FIERRO • PICAYUNE STAFF

CAMP PERRY, Ohio — Four national championships and record-breaking finishes during the month of July propelled shooter Katie Bridges to another honor.

The 18-year-old is the first junior in American history to qualify and compete in all the international matches in one season.

“I was expecting to shoot and have fun and, hopefully, do well,” said the 2012 Marble Falls High School graduate. “I wasn’t expecting all those other things.”

She set six records for juniors while competing at the Firecracker 4800 that are being processed at the National Rifle Association, association member Lones Wigger said.

In the Any Sights Team Championship, she had difficulty with the scope and wasn’t able to hit a paper target.

Coaches and teammates moved the scope for her and used a dirt clod to check the accuracy. The result was capturing the NRA Metric Prone National Championship by one point over Michelle Bohren.

Bridges and 84-year-old Joe Farmer paired for team matches. Calling themselves The Young and The Very Old, the two won the Iron Sights team national championship and the National Metric Prone Team Championship.

Bridges was a member of the USA Perishing Team. The Americans beat the British by 12 points.

The American and British women faced each other in the Goodwill Randle International Team Match, which the U.S. team won by two points.

She also was a member of the Randle International Women’s Team Match, the Drew Cup Junior Team and the Dewar International Team Match. The U.S. team faces international squads, but those teams compete in their countries at a different time and then turn in their scores.

jfierro@thepicayune.com

BRIDGES’ HONORS

• Firecracker 4800: overall champion and Metallic Sights Champion; broke six national records that are being processed at the National Rifle Association

• NRA Smallbore Metric 3-Position and Prone National Champion

• 3-Position Championship Matches: second in the 3-Position Champion; third in the Metallic Sights 3-Position Champion; third in the Any Sights 3-Position Champion; broke four national records that are being processed at the NRA

• Prone Matches: National Metallic Sights Prone Champion, National Any Sights Junior Champion and Smallbore Metric Prone National Champion; competed on the U.S. team in the Wakefield International Match, facing seven other countries

• Prone Team: National Metallic Sights Team Champion with Joe Farmer and National Metric Team Champion; third Any Sights Team

• NRA National Smallbore Championship at Camp Perry, Ohio: Overall NRA Smallbore Prone Women National Champion, National Smallbore Prone National Team Champion, Metallic Sights Women National Champion and Any Sights Junior National Champion; first in the Any Sights Team championship; second in the Metallic Sights Team championship