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Born | Rapid City, South Dakota, United States | 22 May 1995|||||||||||
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Alison Marie Weisz (born May 22, 1995) [1] is an American rifle shooter. In 2020, she qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Weisz was born in Rapid City, South Dakota and grew-up in Belgrade, Montana. Weisz first learned to shoot a gun at age 9 when her family enrolled her in a firearm safety class. [2] She graduated from Belgrade High School in 2013. [3] She attended University of Mississippi. [3]
A month after graduating for the University of Mississippi, Weisz joined the United States national shooting team and won her first competition. [3] In 2018, Weisz came in second at the Championship of the Americas. The following year she won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima. [2] In 2020, she qualified for the United States Olympic team for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [2]
She is a specialist in the United States Army and serves in the Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Moore, Georgia.