Three Hawkeye RedTails Sports Shooters Invited to Olympic Training Camp

WATERLOO–Three members of the Hawkeye RedTails Sports Shooting team have been invited to attend the B.J. McDaniel Olympic Shooting Camp held August 16-19, 2017, at the certified Olympic training center in Tillar, Arkansas.

Marcus Draves of Muscatine, Austin Boldt of Gilbertville, and Emily Klein of Tiffin qualified for the camp based on their performance at the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Collegiate Clay Target Championships in San Antonio Texas earlier this month. They will travel to the Delta Sports Shooting Complex in Arkansas and train with Olympic medalist Dan Carlisle and four-time national champion Marc Weeks.

Draves, a squad leader for the RedTails, shot 98 out of a possible 100 in San Antonio. His involvement with the sport began with the Amateur Trap Association and he traveled around the Midwest to compete in sports shooting events while in high school. He consistently scores in the mid and upper 90s at collegiate contests. Boldt also scored 98 out of 100 at the ACUI championships. A graduate of Don Bosco High School, he tied for third place in the Iowa High School Trap Championship and was invited to Colorado Springs, Colorado, for a camp at the certified Olympic training facility there.

Klein also had the opportunity to train at the Olympic facility in Colorado Springs while in high school. She has been shooting competitively for several years and won the Iowa State High School Trap Shoot last year and was among the top three finishers throughout high school. In San Antonio she was among five women who tied for first place, earning her invite to the Olympic camp this summer.