Locals can watch Phillips in Paris on TV
Locals can watch Borden County’s Ryan Phillips make her bid for the 2024 Olympic Gold R Paris, France live on TV but they better be ready to stay up awfully late or get up super early depending on the way you look at it especially as far as the first round of competition is involved.
This year’s Summer Games at Paris, France will be exclusively broadcast by NBC and Telemundo the Spanish language feed.
NBC Lubbock station’s KCBD Channel 11’s Digital Content Producer Emma McSpadden told the Press-Reporter this past week that Phillips’ first round of competition will be aired live at 2 a.m. on Tuesday July 30 and 2 a.m. on Wednesday July 31.
“That’ll be our air time here anyway,” McSpadden said.
If Phillips, who qualified for this year’s Olympics as the United States’ top woman trap shooter, can advance to the finals then it’ll also air on Wednesday the 31st but at 8:30 a.m.
“We’re excited about having the opportunity to bring this to so many people in our West Texas coverage area. I’m a ‘small town girl’ which makes it easy for me to root for somebody like Ryann,” McSpadden said. “That and just knowing how much hard work Ryann has put into her sport.”
Phillips’ passion for shooting began back in the third grade through 4-H, Phillips qualified for this weekend’s Olympics out at Paris France as the top woman trap shooter in the United States. Competing against 50 of the country’s other trap shooters at Tucson’s Trap & Skeet Club back in the second week of March at Tucson, AZ Phillips emerged as the top women’s trap shooter out of this country with a score of 453.
Phillips is currently ranked umber five in the world in Women’s trap. Trap shooting is one of the a three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting. This sport requires the accuracy with the aiming and firing at a four and a quarter inch target hurled through the air at an average speed of 42 Miles Per Hour.
Trap shooting first made its debut in the Olympics back in 2000 using anywhere from 125 to 250 targets.