USA’s McGrath wins World Skeet Championship

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Cherokee Tribal Citizen Jon Michael McGrath, a resident athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs won the Gold Medal at the 2011 NSSA International Skeet World Championship held at the Tulsa Gun Club.  McGrath posted a score of 194/200 plus 23 in the match final to win the world title.  Dustin Perry (Lindenwood University) earned the silver medal with a match score of 190 plus 24, followed by Morgan Craft (Lindenwood University).

In women’s skeet, Morgan Craft (Lindenwood University) won the Gold Medal, followed by Riley Moody (Owasso, OK) and Hannah Houston (Columbia, TN).

Jon Michael McGrath is 19 and a graduate of Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa.  He started shooting skeet at his first Boy Scout summer camp.  McGrath is a member of the USA Shooting National Team.  This past March he won the Gold Medal for the United States at the ISSF World Cup in Sydney, Australia.  The current world record holder, McGrath established two new world records 2009 with a match score of 199/200 and then shooting a perfect match final of 25 additional target to establish a second world record of 224/225.