Pat Spurgin
Olympic athlete
1965 –
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Who is Pat Spurgin?
Pat Spurgin is an American sports shooter, now living in Fairbanks, Alaska. She competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics. She became the first Olympic Champion in Air Rifle for Women, at the time being an 18 year old student at Murray State University, Kentucky.
Pat Pitney has volunteered as an assistant coach for the Alaska Nanooks at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for almost two decades. The team has won the NCAA Rifle Championship nine times since 1994.
The Pat Spurgin Rifle Range in Murray, Kentucky is named after her.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1965
United States of America - Education
- Murray State University
- Lived in
- Fairbanks
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on July 23, 2013
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