Nanooks rifle ink more athletes

Post date: May 16, 2012 2:30:19 PM

by Danny Martin/dmartin@newsminer.com

May 16, 2012

FAIRBANKS—

The Alaska Nanooks rifle team added one of the nation’s top junior shooters to its roster for the 2012-13 season, as Tim Sherry of Highlands Ranch, Colo., signed a National Letter of Intent with the program that has captured 10 NCAA team titles in its history.

Sherry, according to University of Alaska Fairbanks press release on Tuesday, earned the bronze medal in the junior men’s 50-meter prone competition at the USA Shooting National Championships last July. It was the same event which returning Nanooks sophomore and Åll-American Ryan Anderson captured the junior national title.

Last month, Sherry earned the bronze in the three-position competition at the Junior Olympic Rifle Championships, helping elevate him to 16th in the national rankings.

“He really stepped up at the Junior Olympics last month and put up one of the top scores in the smallbore event,” Nanooks head coach Dan Jordan said in the release. “So he has a lot to add to our team and we’re looking forward to having him.”

The Mountain View High School senior leads juniors in USA Shooting for prone and is among three future Nanooks teammates ranked in the top seven — returning junior Michael Liuzza (second), Anderson (third) and fellow recruit Soren Butler of Casselton, N.D. (seventh).

Sherry also ranks 18th on an air rifle list that includes current and former Olympians as well as well as Nanooks Olympic gold medalist Matt Emmons, who ranks first. Nanooks alumnus Matthew Wallace is 15th, Anderson ranks 20th, Butler 21st and Liuzza 24th.

Sherry plans to major in mechanical engineering at UAF and has aspirations of working for an aerospace company.