{"id":4596,"date":"2010-07-08T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2010-07-08T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:43:16","slug":"mullins-and-heiden-national-mens-and-womens-trap-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/mullins-and-heiden-national-mens-and-womens-trap-champions\/4596\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullins and Heiden: National Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Trap Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_3867trap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4597\" title=\"IMG_3867trap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_3867trap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>The US Olympic Training Complex is home to over thirty Resident  Athletes of the shooting sports.  The shotgun Resident Athletes made  their presence known at this year\u2019s USA Shooting National Championships  for Shotgun.  Five of the six medalists in the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Trap  events are Resident Athletes.  National Shotgun Coach Bret Erickson  called it the \u201cOTC Show,\u201d displaying obvious pride his hard-working  residents.  The 2009 Champion in the Men\u2019s Open Division, John Mullins,  reclaimed his title with a six-target lead.  Mullins entered the final  nine birds ahead of second place finisher Jacob Turner, but Turner and  Collin Wietfeldt turned up the heat in the final, scoring 23 and 22  respectively.  However, with a lead that strong they were unable to  catch Mullins.  Turner shot for a total of 260 targets and Wietfeldt,  also the National Champion of the Junior category, shot for 259 targets.   Following Wietfeldt in the Junior category was silver medalist Garret  Walters, four birds back.  TJ Bayer finished in third among Juniors with  254 targets.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing with the Resident Athlete theme was Rachel Heiden, your  new Women\u2019s Trap National Champion.  Heiden, technically a junior,  entered the final in first and remained on top with 253 targets.  With a  final of 23 targets, Kelsey Zauhar tried to play catch up in the final,  but fell short three birds.  She was followed by Resident Athlete and  2008 Olympic bronze medalist, Corey Cogdell, with 249 targets.  Leading  the Junior category was Kayle Browning with 243 targets.  Browning also  shot in the Women\u2019s Open final and finished fourth.  She was followed by  Miranda Wilder at 241 targets and Caitlin Weinheimer at 235 targets.<\/p>\n<p>For all scores and placings, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usashooting.com\/results.php\" target=\"_blank\">match results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Winchester Ammunition is a Proud Sponsor of the USA Shooting Shotgun  Team: Winchester\u00ae Ammunition has been the exclusive ammunition sponsor  and supplier of the USA Shooting Shotgun Team since 1999. Members of the  2008 shotgun team brought home four medals from Beijing using  Winchester AA International Target loads. Winchester is an industry  leader in advancing and supporting conservation, hunter education and  our country&#8217;s proud shooting sports heritage. For more information about  Winchester and its complete line of products, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winchester.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.winchester.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Olympic Training Complex is home to over thirty Resident Athletes of the shooting sports. The shotgun Resident Athletes made their presence known at this year\u2019s USA Shooting National Championships for Shotgun. Five of the six medalists in the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Trap events are Resident Athletes. National Shotgun Coach Bret Erickson called it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[3608],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-shooting","tag-usa-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","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=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}