A Glastonbury-based Scout has reason to celebrate after beingpicked for the Great Britain junior squad.
Samantha Slade's target shooting skills have seen her take partin a number of events. Group Scout leader Richard Slade said: "Shehas taken part in local, district and county target shootingevents, as well as the Scout National target shooting competitionsthat are held at Bisley and the British National Airgunchampionships."
With her continuing progress, people began to notice herachieving good scores at Bisley and invited her to join the nationalScout target shooting squad. It wasn't long after that, that she wasnoticed by the Great Britain junior squad.
"After Samantha was invited to attend a weekend of training,observation and assessments of her shooting skills by the GB juniorsquad, she was invited to join them," said Mr Slade.
"Her training has begun she will be involved in national andinternational competitions. Obviously, we're all very proud of herand wish her all the best in the future."
Samantha isn't the only scout showing promise with, with JoeThomas from the 4th Glastonbury group in training for the Britishairgun championships, and two other members of the group - TollySnell and Tom Taylor - have been selected for the Somerset team inthe county finals.
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