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Featured Team Members
Zoë Stirling
Following a lucky chance meeting a few weeks prior, Zoë joined the 2015 Great Britain Palma team to the USA as Physiotherapist just a few weeks after graduating from University. In 2019, she joined the team again for the trip to New Zealand and so South Africa will be Zoë’s third overseas tour in nine years.
Working for the NHS for the past 7 years, Zoë has worked within many different roles and specialised in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy in 2018 before an extended stay in New Zealand after the 2019 tour. Now back in the UK, she is currently working with complex patients in the community setting, seeing a wide range of presentations.
Zoë is really looking forward to re-joining the team in South Africa in 2024 but unfortunately has no plans to stay on after this one.
Theo Dodds
Theo started shooting with an air rifle in his back garden at the age of 4, continuing at Tonbridge School. He first toured overseas with the GB U21 team to the 2015 World Championships, then with the GB U25s to South Africa in 2017 and New Zealand in 2019. Theo’s first GB cap was awarded for the 2021 Kolapore Match and his first senior overseas tour was to South Africa in 2023. A keen smallbore shooter, he became the youngest in history to “do the double” by winning both the Earl Roberts and the X Class Aggregate in the 2019 Bisley Smallbore Meeting.
Now an Officer in the Royal Navy and a trainee Observer in the Fleet Air Arm, Theo is very grateful to receive support from his Service as he looks towards success in the 2024 Palma as one of only two serving members of the team.
Under 25s
Harriet Bramwell
Harriet began shooting at Sedbergh School aged 13 and continued at Shrewsbury School for sixth form, touring with the UKCRT, Athelings and GB U19 teams. She was selected for her first England tour in 2019 to Canada, being picked to shoot in the Commonwealth Match and gaining her first England cap. She is also a proud Lancastrian and coaches the county team.
This will be Harriet’s third tour to South Africa and follows a successful tour in March 2023 with the GB U25s and as a coach with the England team. She’s thoroughly excited to be returning in 2024 for the World Championships as Captain of the U25 team.
Harriet is in her 4th year of medicine at the University of Bristol, having just finished her intercalation BSc in prehospital medicine. She lives in the Lake District and generally enjoys outdoor swimming, sailing, and getting into the fells.
Under 21s
Sarah Rorison
Sarah began shooting at Sedbergh School as a young cadet and has loved it ever since her first Bisley trip. She became Captain of the shooting team in her last year at school, and has been to the Channel Islands three times as a shooter and coach in cadet GB teams. She trained with the English Lions last year and is a proud member of the Lancashire county team. This will be her second time shooting in South Africa after joining the GB teams there in March 2023. She is delighted to be selected to represent the GB U21s at the World Championships and is looking forward to improving her skills and helping build a strong team on tour.
Sarah is in her second year studying Biology at the University of Sheffield. In her free time she enjoys art, spending time with friends and learning about wildlife.
Veterans
David Richards
GM SC
David is no stranger to the General De Wet ranges in South Africa, having toured there on three previous occasions, including in the Palma year of 1999. He is also familiar with the Veterans having been a member of the team to the last World Championships in New Zealand in 2019. David has toured many times with GB and England and has been lucky enough to have had some success over the years, including shooting and coaching in many GB teams at home, and abroad and winning the H.M. Queen’s Prize when he was MUCH younger…in 1984.
Apart from Target Rifle, David also shoots smallbore and stalks deer. He has run a charcuterie business for several years and is married to Karen who is back home looking after the dogs.
Jeremy Tuck
Jeremy first shot fullbore at Bisley in 1973 with Whitgift School CCF. 2023 saw him, and his trusty blue range box, celebrate 50 years of shooting at Bisley. In that time he has won many finals badges in both the H.M. Queen’s Prize and St.George’s, and been selected for Surrey county and England. Jeremy came late to touring, with his first GB tour to Canada in 2013 and then to the USA and Canada in 2016. His first visit to Bloemfontein was in 2023, rounding off some hugely enjoyable tours to date.
Jeremy is looking forward to revisiting Bloemfontein which will be his first official GB Veterans appearance, but with ICFRA targets and tricky winds he expects to no longer be able to say he has ‘never dropped a point for GB’!
His wife Alison, appointing herself ‘shooting manager’, provides invaluable encouragement and constructive critical feedback when needed!
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