Jazmin Almlie

Started: She began training and competing in the sport in 2010. (gofundme.com, 09 Jun 2014) Reason: She was playing wheelchair basketball at an adaptive sports tournament in Houston, TX, United States of America, when her final match was cancelled. The event also had an air rifle competition, where the winner would get the opportunity to attend a training camp at the US Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She entered and won, and decided to pursue the sport. "I was a hardcore wheelchair basketball player. When my last game was cancelled, I met a lady in the women's restroom. She happened to be with the NRA [National Rifle Association]. I started talking about growing up, that I used to hunt, I knew how to shoot. She was like, 'Okay, well, why don't you try this [shooting] match?' I blew everybody away with it." (Angel City Sports YouTube channel, 30 Jul 2021; Team Jaz USA Sports Extravaganza Facebook page, 13 Jun 2014) Ambition: To compete at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. (Facebook page, 16 Jun 2022) Awards: In 2023 she received the United States Distinguished International Shooter Badge from the Civilian Marksmanship Program [CMP] and USA Shooting. (thecmp.org, 13 Dec 2023) Additional Info: MOTHERHOOD She returned to training two weeks after giving birth to her first child, Rebekah, in 2015. "I got pregnant the final year before the [2016 Paralympic] Games. [My husband and I] had been trying for about nine years at that point. My coach was like, 'Yay, you're pregnant but are you kidding? This is the wrong time to get pregnant'. So I came back to training two weeks later [after giving birth]. Two months later, I qualified for the 2016 Games, and two months after that I got to go to Rio. That whole year in itself was an amazing thing." (Angel City Sports YouTube channel, 30 Jul 2021) COACHING She has worked as a rifle coach for the Houston Parks and Recreation Department in Texas, United States of America. (Facebook profile, 16 Jun 2022)