Name: Mary Tucker
Sport: Shooting
Discipline(s):
Rifle Shooting
Event(s): 10-meter Air Rifle, Mixed Team 10-meter Air Rifle, 50-meter Rifle 3 Positions
Height: 5-3
Weight: 120
DOB: 7/20/2001
Birthplace: Pineville, N.C.
Hometown: Sarasota, Fla.
High School: Sarasota Military Academy (Sarasota, Fla.) ‘19
College: University of Kentucky '23, Kinesiology
Coach(es): Jayme Shipley
Olympic Experience
- One-time Olympian (2020); one-time Olympic medalist (silver)
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, silver (10-meter air rifle mixed team), 6th (10-meter air rifle), 13th (50-meter rifle 3 positions)
Other Career Highlights
- 2021 ISSF World Cup New Delhi, gold (Air) silver (Women’s Team Air) bronze (Mixed Team Air)
- 2021 NCAA Champion (Air)
- 2021 NCAA Champion (Smallbore)
Personal:
Daughter of Jennifer Tucker Mogensen...One younger brother, Reece...Hobbies include riding horses...Picked up rifle shooting in high school, training most days in her family’s garage...Once referred to as the “rebel child” of shooting, she quit her high school team and learned to teach herself via YouTube videos and online resources...Named Rookie Shooter of the Year as a freshman at University of Kentucky…Athlete of the Year sophomore year...First UK athlete to sweep gold in both events at NCAA Championships (Air and Smallbore Rifle)…Less than a week later, competed at ISSF World Cup New Delhi where she won gold, silver, and bronze medals…Has a cat named Trigger...Doesn't have a sense of smell.
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