Connie Smotek

Connie Jean Smotek (née Fluker; born August 22, 1964, in Temple, Texas) is an American sport shooter.

[2] She produced a career tally of eleven medals, including two (one silver and one bronze) in skeet shooting at the World Championships (1986 and 1995), and was selected to compete for the U.S. team in two editions of the Olympic Games (1992 and 2004).

[1] Having pursued the sport since the age of fourteen, Smotek trained full-time as a member of the skeet team for Brazos Valley Skeet and Trap Club in College Station, Texas, under her personal coach Lloyd Woodhouse.

[3] Smotek was one of the six female shooters who competed in the mixed skeet tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where she scored 145 out of 150 targets to share a twenty-fifth place tie with eight other shooters in the qualifying stage, narrowly missing out on the final by a single bird.

[7] Smotek fired her first 11 shots in the final round, but could not move into the medal position with only 22 out of 25 birds, finishing only in sixth place for a total record of 90.