The freshman athlete from Idaho proved the old adage true: practice makes perfect.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Moments before she became the second-ever rifle athlete to record a perfect 600 at the NCAA Championships, University of Alaska shooter Elli Spencer took a beat.“I looked at them, and said, ‘I’m going to take a dry fire,’” the Nanook told Newscenter Fairbanks in an interview.
“The dry fire was actually really awful. When I took it, it wasn’t good. It would have been a nine if it was a real shot,” she said.“After that, I was comfortable, calmed down a little bit. It grounded me a little bit,” she said. Spencer’s spotless performance came on the second day of the competition. Her positive showing, along with multiple other 590-plus rounds from her teammates, also pushed the Nanooks toward an outcome of more than bragging rights.
Though not the finish the defending champions might have sought, the razor-thin margin let the Nanooks bring bronze back to Interior Alaska.
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