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St. Tammany Parish:
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Straight
Shooter:
Paul Giambrone III |
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by Laura Kalnajs
There’s a nineteen-year-old world champion living in our midst, yet there’s a good chance you haven’t even heard of him. Covington’s Paul Giambrone III is a skeet shooter.
Paul’s dad has managed the Gun Club in Bridge City for 13 years, and has been skeet shooting for more than 20 years. When young Paul was one day short of his eighth birthday, all of his begging paid off—he was allowed to try skeet shooting. By 1999, Paul was good enough to place third in the overall world championship at the World Shoot, held every year in San Antonio, Texas. In 2001, he won the 20-gauge event, and came in first in the overall world championship. Tournaments have taken him to such places as Detroit; Houston; Tupelo; Richmond, Virginia; Little Rock; and Savannah. He’s been on the All-American team for four years, and was co-captain for 2002. (Captains are the two best overall shooters for that year.)
One of Paul’s special memories is of a 2002 tournament in Tupelo. He scored a perfect 500 for the weekend: He didn’t miss a single target in the four regular events or in the optional doubles. His father had a perfect 400 in the regular event. Paul and his father won the parent-child event with a perfect score of 800, and have a permanent place in the Skeet World Record Book as the first parent-child team to do so. Paul is also the youngest person, at 15, to ever shoot a perfect 400, also earning him a place in the World Record Book. Quite an accomplishment for a young man not even out of his teens.
Paul practices at least three times a week, shooting about 8-12 rounds at a time, and usually more when his life is not too busy. Considering the fact that he’s a student at Southeastern with a 3.6 average, as well as a mortgage broker, AND he helps his dad manage the gun club, it’s amazing he has any time to shoot at all. In his “spare” time, he likes to duck hunt, and he’s also into cars. He has a Hyundai Tiburon he enjoys tooling around in.
Remember the name: Paul Giambrone III. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more from this impressive young man in the future.
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