{"id":10023,"date":"2011-06-13T21:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2011-06-13T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:14:33","slug":"shooting-usas-jon-michael-mcgrath-climbs-to-no-5-in-the-world-in-mens-skeet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/shooting-usas-jon-michael-mcgrath-climbs-to-no-5-in-the-world-in-mens-skeet\/10023\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting USA&#8217;s Jon Michael McGrath Climbs To No. 5 in the World in Men&#8217;s Skeet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10024\" title=\"McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McGrath-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McGrath-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/McGrath.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The  International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), the International  Governing Body for Olympic Shooting Sports based in Munich, Germany has  announced USA&#8217;s Jon Michael McGrath (Tulsa, OK) has moved up in the  World Ranking in the Olympic sport of Skeet from No. 7 to No. 5.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath  won the Gold Medal for the United States in April, 2011 at the World  Cup in Sydney, Australia defeating the best shooters in the world with a  score of 149 hits out of 150.\u00a0\u00a0 USA Teammate Kimberly Rhode (El Monte,  CA) is Ranked No. 1 in Women&#8217;s Skeet, Caitlin Connor (Winnfield, LA) is  ranked No. 4 and Jaiden Grinnell (Port Angeles, WA) is ranked No. 8.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath  was first introduced to the shooting sports at his first Boy Scout  summer camp when he was 11-years old and is a former Scholastic Clay  Target Program (SCTP) National Champion. SCTP is the Official Clay  Target Youth Development Program of USA Shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In  2009, McGrath earned the rank of Eagle Scout.\u00a0 He is a graduate of  Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa.\u00a0 McGrath is currently a resident  athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs  and a member of the USA Shooting Team. USA Shooting is the National  Governing Body for Olympic Shooting Sports in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), the International Governing Body for Olympic Shooting Sports based in Munich, Germany has announced USA&#8217;s Jon Michael McGrath (Tulsa, OK) has moved up in the World Ranking in the Olympic sport of Skeet from No. 7 to No. 5. McGrath won the Gold Medal for the United States in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,165],"tags":[1765,1766,3608],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa-shooting","tag-jon-michael-mcgrath","tag-the-international-shooting-sport-federation","tag-usa-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}