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Schiller Smotek, Connie
- 2004 Olympic Trials, 1st- women's skeet
- 2003 National Championships, 3rd-skeet
- Five-time National Skeet Champion
- 1992 Olympics, 25th (only one of six women competing against men)
- Set a women’s skeet world record in 1992
- 1989 World Champion bronze medalist
- In her 20 year career, is a multiple medal winner a various World Cup
- Was USA Shooting’s Female Shotgun Athlete of the Year in 1991 and 1992
- Was the first female member of her 4-H shooting club in College Station in 1979.
- Learned to shoot international-style skeet at a training camp led by world and Olympic champions Dean Clark and Matt Dryke
- Played volleyball, basketball and ran track and cross country at Bryan High School
Connie is an administrative assistant in the department of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University. After failing to make her second U.S. Olympic Team in 2000, a disappointed Connie took time off from the sport to re-group. “I just decided I was going to do it and everything had to work around my shooting, but I couldn’t sacrifice my family and my job,” she said. Connie credits an understanding husband and boss with her new found enthusiasm. She hopes to improve on her Barcelona results, in which she was one of six women competing against 60 men. “I’m usually at the range in the early morning in order to be in the office on time,” she said. “I work out at lunch, get a quick shower in and then it’s back to the office. Then in the evening, I get another practice round in.”
On training for the Olympics while working full time:“People think, ‘why are you doing this?’ They think I am crazy.”
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Height: 5’6”
Born: 22-Aug-64
Hometown: Bryan, Texas
Resides: Lyons, Texas
Sport: Shooting
Event: Skeet
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