Jessie Abbate Returns To Steel Challenge Winner’s Circle

Jessie Abbate Returns To Steel Challenge Winner’s Circle

Jessie Abbate
Jessie Abbate Returns To Steel Challenge Winner's Circle
Steel Challenge Shooting Association
Steel Challenge Shooting Association

PIRU, Calif. –-(Ammoland.com)- For the second year in a row, and for the third time in her career, Jessie Abbate of McDonough, Ga. claimed the title of world’s fastest female shooter by winning the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships in Piru, Calif.

In addition to winning the overall title, Abbate won the Lady’s Open Rimfire title as well as the Lady’s Steel Master title which represents the best combined score of the Open, Limited and Rimfire events.

“Winning both again was amazing, especially this year. It was a tough weekend for me and I really had to fight for it,”said Abbate who in 2009 won all three matches she entered and dominated the event but found this year’s competition to be mentally challenging.

“Sometimes your mental game isn’t where it’s supposed to be. Last year I felt like I couldn’t make a mistake, and then this year I put a lot of pressure on myself to break the records that I had set and I wasn’t seeing things the way I did last year, or something was just not the same, so I adjusted and worked around that.”

And work around it she did. Abbate started the match strong taking the Lady’s Open Rimfire title by winning seven of the eight stages in the match, giving up the fastest time on Outer Limits to newcomer Sarah Irish of Dearborn, Mich. Abbate’s final time of 76.90 seconds outpaced the second place shooter Kay Miculek of Team Smith &Wesson by 11.60 seconds.

Miculek, a Princeton, La. resident and seven time Women’s World Speed Shooting Champion, finished second in 88.50 seconds. Third place, and the Junior Lady’s title, went to Irish who finished 1.39 seconds behind Miculek in a time of 89.89 seconds.

Then in the Limited event, Abbate fell to second behind the captain of the Smith & Wesson shooting team, Julie Golob of Glasgow, Mont. Abbate won five of the eight stages in the competition but gave up 4.83 seconds to Golob on the stage Outer Limits.

Jessie Abbate
Abbate won the Lady's Open Rimfire title as well as the Lady's Steel Master title
Kay Miculek
Kay Miculek taking aim at Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships in Piru, Calif.
Julie Golob
Julie Golob Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships in Piru, Calif.
Sarah Irish
Sarah Irish at Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships in Piru, Calif.
Janae Sarabia
Janae Sarabia Shooting at Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships in Piru, Calif.

About the SCSA:
The Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA) is the national governing body of the sport of Speed Shooting and organizer of the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships. To learn more about the Steel Challenge Shooting Association and the Steel Challenge visit the Web site at www.steelchallenge.com. There you will find diagrams of the stages of fire, complete listing of past results, a list of past champions, world record times and more.