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McKenna Geer | Tokyo 2020 Olympic Profile

Team USA para rifle shooter McKenna Geer speaks about her journey to becoming a medal-winning para rifle shooter after trying the sport at a summer camp.

Video transcript

MCKENNA GEER: My name is McKenna Geer. I'm a 2016 Paralympic bronze medalist in the sport of rifle shooting. I'm originally from Arlington, Washington.

Started in the sport when I was 12 years old at a summer camp for kids with disabilities on camp access. And a year-- and just over a year and a half after I shot my first time camp I was out at year Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for my first Paralympic camp.

So a week after, I graduated high school in 2014, I became a full time resident at the Training Center and have been there ever since. You can always pick one thing to just improve by 1%. You can improve by 1% each day, you know that you're getting better over time.

Even if you don't necessarily see the improvement immediately, you know that you're putting into the work that you need to be the best by the time the games roll around, especially in areas where shooting at such a small target are our bull's-eye the size of a period in a newspaper. We really do have to obsess over the little details.