Tim Sherry

National Team

Date of birth:

07/8/1994

Hometown:

Evergreen, Colorado

College:

University of Alaska Fairbanks '17

Olympic Experience:

Biography:

Tim Sherry is from Evergreen, CO. His junior club where he started competitive shooting is Cherry Creek Gun Club in Aurora, CO. Tim graduated HS from Mountain Vista HS in Highlands Ranch, CO. He went on to attend the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2012. As a junior, Tim won Junior Olympics in 2014. The same year, he attended 2014 Junior World Championships, where he placed 11th in prone. He was NCAA individual smallbore national champion in 2014 and the PRC smallbore conference champion in 2015. Tim is a 9-time All-American, earning honors for NRA smallbore, NRA airgun, and CRCA in 2014, 2015, and 2016. He was the UAF rifle team co-captain in 2016. Besides his NCAA career, he graduated cum laude in mechanical engineering.

In 2017, Tim enlisted in the Army as an infantryman. He is currently a member of the Army Marksmanship Unit in Ft. Benning, GA. Since joining the Army, Tim took 4th place with Ali Weisz in the air mixed team event in Beijing in 2019. He won the 2019 USA Shooting National Championships in smallbore. Tim won gold at the 2019 Pan Ams in smallbore. There he set a new Pan American record and placed 8th at World Cup Rio de Janiero in 2019. Most recently, Tim took home a total of four medals at the 2022 Championships of the Americas Games.

Competition Highlights:

  • 2024 CAT Games: Four-time medalist: Gold, Men's 50m Smallbore Rifle Team; Gold, Men's 10m Air Rifle Team; Bronze, Men's 10m Air Rifle; Silver, Team 50m Rifle Prone
  • 2023 Pan American Games: Silver, Men’s 50m Smallbore Rifle
  • 2023 ISSF World Championship: Bronze, 300m Standard Rifle Open and Men’s 300m Prone Rifle
  • 2022 CAT Games: Gold, 50m Rifle 3 Position Men’s Team; Silver, Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Position; Bronze, 50m Prone Rifle; Silver, 50m Prone Rifle Mixed Team
  • 2022 ISSF World Championships: Bronze, 300m Rifle
  • 2022 USA Shooting Rifle National Championships: Bronze, Men's 50m Smallbore
  • 2021 ISSF New Delhi World Cup: Gold, Men's Team Air Rifle
  • 2021 ISSF New Delhi World Cup: Silver, Men's Team Smallbore
  • 2019 Beijing Air Mixed Event, 4th place with Ali Weisz
  • 2019 ISSF Rio de Janiero World Cup: 8th, Smallbore
  • 2019 Pan American Championships: Gold (set new Pan American record), Men's Smalbore Rifle
  • 2019 USA Shooting Rifle National Championships: Gold, Men's Smallbore
  • 2015 PRC Smallbore Conference Champion
  • 2014 USA Shooting National Junior Olympic Championships: Men's Smallbore National Champion