Peter Fiori

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Photo by: U.S. Air Force photo / Trevor Co

Photo by: U.S. Air Force photo / Trevor Co

Photo by: U.S. Air Force photo / Trevor Co

Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Lebanon, NJ
High School:
Voorhees
Position:
SB/AR

2020-2021 (Junior): Team MVP ... finished the year as a College Rifle Coaches Association (CRCA) second team All-American in both the smallbore and air rifle ... also earned third-team honors for aggregate scoring ... earned conference honors for both guns following the Patriot Rifle Conference Championships.

2019-2020 (Sophomore): Team MVP ... 2019 NJOSC 50m three-position rifle men champion (2339) ... ranked seventh in 10m air rifle men ... ranked 3rd in the fall selection match at Ft. Benning with a total of 2344 ... shot 587 in smallbore and 596 in air rifle against Nebraska ... came in first overall in smallbore and individual at Army ... came in sixth overall at the 2019 Winter Airgun Rifle Championships with a 1249.0 ... came in fifth overall against TCU with a 1175 ... placed fourth in the smallbore with 584 and seventh in the air rifle with 592 at TCU ... placed second overall at Alaska Fairbanks with a 1170 ... qualified as alternate for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (the Olympics was postponed due to COVID).

2018-2019 (Freshman): 2019 Most Valuable Marksmanship Award winner ... was the overall-conference winner with an 1184, and the conference smallbore champion ... following the NCAA Rifle Championships, he was named a first-team smallbore and second-team air rifle All-American ... he finished the season with a 1,174.3 average, the highest season average on the team and the seventh-highest average in the country ... at the 2019 National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships, he earned the gold medal for the Men’s three-position rifle ... set a national Junior record 1,178 ... went on to compete in the World Cup in Suhl, Germany, this past summer ... 2019 CRCA Scholastic All-American ... named Rifle Athlete of the Week: Jan. 21 (TCU/OSU); Feb. 16 (TCU) ... ISSF World Cup, Suhl, Germany: in the three-position, Fiori finished 22nd among 48 international competitors (1154) ... in the prone, he scored a 612.1, which was added to USA’s seventh-place score of 1841.6 for the event.

BEFORE THE ACADEMY: Pronounced Fee-Or-E ... attended Voorhees High School in Glen Gardner, NJ ... he is a member of the USA Shooting National Junior Team for air rifle and three-position rifle ... as of August 2018, he holds the USA Shooting national record for Men’s Junior 50-foot smallbore rifle (three-position Kneeling, Prone, Standing (KPS) with a score of 1059 set on Oct. 27, 2013, in the New Jersey Indoor Championships … qualified at the New Jersey state qualifiers in both rifles for USA Shooting National Championships (USASNC) … 2018: in April, he claimed the NJOSC 50-meter Three-Position Men’s Rifle Championship title with a 2329 … fired a 451.9 in the Final … in June, he finished 14th overall with a score of 2295 at the USASNC … went on to earn the bronze medal in the Junior Men Championships with a two-day score of 2295 … finished third with a 451.3 in the Final (2303) … in prone, he scored 1224.9 and finished in 21st place ... competed for Team USA in the 2018 ISSF World Championships in Changwon, South Korea ... finished 32nd in the three-position Junior Rifle ... Team USA finished eighth in the event.

HOBBIES: 3D printing, CAD, and video games.

ACADEMY: Member of Cadet Squadron 32 ... major is mechanical engineering ... participated in the Academy’s basic free-fall parachuting (AM-490) course last summer ... squadron’s academics clerk.