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Featured Team Members
Jeremy Langley
As Captain for the Palma, Jeremy has been working with a large squad for the last three years which culminated in March 2023 with an in-country tour and final selection. This ‘pre-Palma’ tour was a great way for the team to experience the challenges of shooting in South Africa and Jeremy is greatly looking forward to renewing old friendships forged by many years of international competition, whilst hopefully redressing the 1999 Palma Match result!
Jeremy (a third-generation shooter from Devon) is a seasoned international shot and coach having toured for Great Britain on 19 previous occasions (including six tours to South Africa – spanning three decades). In 2023, he captained the GB team to a single-point win in the Protea Match.
In his spare time when not shooting or coaching, he and his wife Judy can be found chasing after their two sons, Benjamin & Harry.
Rick Shouler
GM
Rick, an Oakham School veteran, shoots for Nottinghamshire county. This will be his fifth GB tour to Bloemfontein and he absolutely loves competing against talented friends in South Africa. This will be Rick’s eighth GB overseas tour and second World Championships.
Rick has shot in four of the Big 5 team matches (with a future Australia Match firmly in his sights!), was part of the winning GB teams in the 2008 and 2023 Protea matches and the England team in the 2019 America Match. Individually, in the UK, he won the St George’s competition in 2018 and, perhaps most notably, the H.M. Queen’s Prize in 2021. Rick has also enjoyed some individual success in Bloemfontein, winning the Free State Open and a number of other competitions.
Rick lives with his partner Sarah and four children, Sam, Alex, Lily and Harrison. He works as a Director at KPMG in Canary Wharf.
Under 25s
Henry Waldern
Henry first began shooting smallbore in 2014. In 2018 as part of Charterhouse CCF he transitioned to fullbore, competed in his first Imperial Meeting and has stayed ever since.
After school, he moved on to captain Exeter University Rifle Club, where he has just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Physics and is now staying on for a Masters in Financial Mathematics.
This will be Henry’s first tour as both a team member and Adjutant, and hopes to put his experiences from individual and University shooting to good use. He has enjoyed a steep learning curve over the last five years, representing England in the National Match twice along the way. He hopes to build on his success for the future, beginning with the World Championships in 2024.
Under 21s
Thomas Craig-Fleming
Thomas started fullbore shooting in 2016 at Lancing College, where he also represented Sussex although he now shoots for Kent. His first tour was with the UK Cadet Rifle Team to Jersey in 2019. He was an Atheling in 2020, but never made it to Canada as the tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the postponed Imperial Meeting that year, he won the Conwey Fenton Memorial Challenge Cup.
Thomas graduated from the English Lions development pathway in 2023 before which he also had the opportunity to compete in the SA Open Championships as a member of the GB U25 team in March. He is very much looking forward to being a member of the GB U21 team competing in the 2024 World Long Range Championships in Bloemfontein.
Away from the range, Thomas is studying Psychology at Brunel University, London.
Veterans
Stephen Penrose
Having first discovered the delights of shooting in South Africa as part of the 1993 GB team, Stephen is looking forward to making his 10th return visit. He first started shooting at Rugby School, continuing at Cambridge University where he managed to change course enough times to ensure he got in plenty of practice. Over the years, he has shot in many teams matches, has captained the England team in the National Match and enjoyed the odd highlight individually too – winning the SA Long Range Agg in 1993 and State President prize in 1999.
Stephen is a veterinary surgeon by profession and was a partner in a small-animal practice in Colchester; now managing a small property business. He is a keen skier and, with all three children having flown the nest, he enjoys travelling with his wife Kate.
Nick Brasier
GC
Nick took up shooting in earnest at University, captaining the smallbore club and being dragged to Bisley to take up fullbore shooting. His first GB tour was with the 1991 team to Canada where he won the Governor General’s Prize, followed by a GB tour to Zimbabwe and South Africa in 1998. Nick has toured with seven GB Target Rifle teams (and one Match Rifle team), including the Palma teams of 2007 and 2011. He came 4th in the 2003 World Long Range Individual Championship at Bisley, winning the Day 3, 900 yard competition.
Nick is Chairman of the London and Middlesex Rifle Association and regularly takes club teams on tour to distant and not-so-distant ranges away from Bisley. Nick is also a Friend of the Royal Opera House, and enjoys travelling to both new and favourite places around the world.
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