By USA Taking pictures
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (September 30, 2026) – USA Taking pictures wrapped up its 2026 Rifle and Shotgun Fall Choice Matches following a number of weeks of competitors in Colorado Springs, with Nationwide Workforce positions on the road and shotgun competitors returning to the historic Fort Carson vary.
Rifle athletes opened the stretch Aug. 19-23 on the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Coaching Heart, competing in air rifle and smallbore three-position occasions.
Competitors then shifted to the USA Taking pictures Shotgun Vary at Fort Carson, the place skeet athletes competed Aug. 28-Sept. 1, adopted by entice Sept. 3-7.
The return to Fort Carson marked a big second for USA Taking pictures and the shotgun group. The historic vary has performed an necessary function in USA Taking pictures’s historical past, and this yr’s Fall Choice welcomed athletes from throughout the nation again for national-level competitors.
The entice match additionally noticed a report turnout, with almost 200 athletes registered to compete.
Rifle Fall Choice
For rifle, Fall Choice accomplished a two-part Nationwide Workforce choice course of that started on the 2026 USA Taking pictures Nationwide Championships. Mixed outcomes from each competitions decided the highest three athletes in Males’s and Girls’s Air Rifle and Males’s and Girls’s 50m Rifle Three Positions.
“That is our first time utilizing the brand new choice procedures, the place scores are carried into the ultimate,” mentioned Nationwide Workforce Coach Pete Durben. “It provides one other degree of depth to the choice course of and can higher put together our athletes for worldwide competitors. I’m excited to see how they carry out all through the rest of the worldwide season.”
Cecelia Ossi, Katie Zaun, Sagen Maddalena, Girls’s Smallbore Medalists
Males’s Air Rifle
🥇 Griffin Lake
🥈 Gavin Barnick
🥉 Peter Fiori
Girls’s Air Rifle
🥇 Alison Weisz
🥈 Cecelia Ossi
🥉 Sagen Maddalena
Males’s 50m Rifle Three Positions
🥇 Braden Peiser
🥈 Ivan Roe
🥉 Gavin Barnick
Girls’s 50m Rifle Three Positions
🥇 Katie Zaun
🥈 Cecelia Ossi
🥉 Sagen Maddalena
Following the mixed choice, the Rifle Nationwide Workforce contains:
Males’s Smallbore: Gavin Barnick, Braden Peiser, Ivan Roe
Males’s Air Rifle: Gavin Barnick, Peter Fiori, Griffin Lake
Girls’s Smallbore: Sagen Maddalena, Cecelia Ossi, Katie Zaun
Girls’s Air Rifle: Sagen Maddalena, Cecelia Ossi, Alison Weisz
The Rifle Improvement Workforce contains:
Males’s Smallbore: Levi Clark, Griffin Lake
Males’s Air Rifle: Lucas Kozeniesky, Tyler Wee
Girls’s Smallbore: Karlie Lynn, Carley Seabrooke, Alison Weisz
Girls’s Air Rifle: Isabella Baldwin, Elizabeth Peiser, Katlyn Sullivan, Katie Zaun
The mixed outcomes additionally assist decide which athletes will symbolize the U.S. at worldwide competitions for the rest of 2026, together with the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol in Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 8-16, and the Championship of the Americas (CAT) Video games in Lima, Peru, Nov. 21-Dec. 1.
Ivan Roe, Males’s Air Rifle
Shotgun Returns to Fort Carson
For shotgun, Fall Choice concluded the choice course of that started on the 2026 USA Taking pictures Nationwide Championships in Hillsdale, Michigan. Outcomes from the 2 competitions had been mixed to find out Nationwide Workforce rankings in Males’s and Girls’s Skeet and Lure.
Skeet
Samantha Simonton gained the Girls’s Skeet Fall Choice Match, adopted by Dania Vizzi with silver and Madeline Corbin with bronze. Christian Elliott took the Males’s Skeet title, with Vincent Hancock incomes silver and Dustan Taylor bronze.
Skeet Nationwide Workforce
Girls’s Skeet
🥇 Samantha Simonton
🥈 Dania Vizzi
🥉 Madeline Corbin
Males’s Skeet
🥇 Christian Elliott
🥈 Vincent Hancock
🥉 Dustan Taylor
Following the mixed choice, the Skeet Nationwide Workforce is:
Girls: Dania Vizzi, Kim Rhode, Samantha Simonton, Madeline Corbin and Amber English
Males: Vincent Hancock, Christian Elliott, Conner Prince, Dustan Taylor and Hayden Stewart
The choice additionally named Julia Nelson, Gracie Hensley and Karsyn Ross to the Girls’s Improvement Workforce and Remington McBee, Aidin Burns and Adam McBee to the Males’s Improvement Workforce.
Lure
Lure closed out the Fall Choice Matches Sept. 3–7 with almost 200 athletes registered to compete.
Aeriel Skinner took the Girls’s Lure title, adopted by Carey Garrison with silver and Kayle Browning with bronze. Jack Brosseau gained the Males’s Lure competitors, William Hinton earned silver, and William Browning took bronze.
Lure Nationwide Workforce
Girls’s Lure
🥇 Aeriel Skinner
🥈 Carey Garrison
🥉 Kayle Browning
Males’s Lure
🥇 Jack Brosseau
🥈 William Hinton
🥉 William Browning
Following the mixed choice, the Lure Nationwide Workforce is:
Girls: Aeriel Skinner, Rachel Tozier, Carey Garrison, Kayle Browning and Taylor Dale
Males: William Hinton, Glenn Eller III, Derrick Mein, Brian Burrows and Jack Brosseau
The Lure Improvement Workforce contains Madelynn Bernau, Carmen Cunningham and Micaela Velasquez for the ladies and William Browning, Todd Hitch and Derek Haldeman for the boys.
With Fall Choice full, the newly named Nationwide Groups flip their consideration to the remaining worldwide competitions on the 2026 calendar, together with the Championship of the Americas (CAT) Video games in Lima, Peru and the ISSF World Cup Remaining in Rome, Italy.
USA Taking pictures thanks all athletes, coaches, officers, volunteers and households for his or her help all through the Fall Choice Matches.
Full outcomes from the 2026 Rifle and Shotgun Fall Choice Matches can be found by way of the USA Taking pictures Occasions web page.
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