Bret ERICKSON

Bret Erickson was a shotgun shooter who competed at four Olympic Games between 1992-2008, missing only the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He was on the US national team for 25 years and won six US titles. Erickson competed at the 1991, 1995, and 2007 Pan American Games, winning five medals, with a gold in 1995 team trap. He was the 1990 World Champion in double trap, and won four medals in all at the World Championships, including silvers in double trap in 1991 and in trap in 2001.

Erickson graduated from Midland Lutheran College in 1982 and then joined the US Army Marksmanship Unit in 1983, retiring from the Army in 2005. He later managed the Willawalla Creek Shooting Center in St. Jo, Texas, and served as the head coach for shotgun sports at Midland University (formely Midland Lutheran College). In 2010 he was named the USA Shooting national shotgun coach.