 | | | Photo courtesy Kim Bowers
| | | | | | Last year, trap shooter Kimberly Bowers trained in Livermore and competed nationwide as a senior at Campolindo. Now she's a student at Pima Community College in Tucson, where she continues to hone her trap skills.
"When I first moved down here, I didn't think I could handle the heat. It would be 97 [degrees] outside and I had to hold my gun which would feel like it was on fire," she said.
Since last year, Bowers has competed at a Junior World Cup contest in Finland, and last October, Bowers placed second at Fall Selection in Kerville, Texas, which qualified her to represent the United States in a Shotgun World Cup competition in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. She was the second youngest woman to compete, shooting 66 out of 75 targets, ranking her 23 out of a field of 47 women.
Bowers's shooting competitions are ongoing. "First I'm going to Georgia for the Spring Selection match then I head to Germany for the Junior World Cup," she said. "A few days after that I go to Colorado for the Junior Nationals, returning at the end of summer for Nationals."
Bowers is both enthusiastic and practical about the 2016 Summer Olympics. "I am really gunning for it," she said, "[but] I have a few years to really train for it and become the very best that I can be."
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA