MEET THE BERETTA SHOOTING TEAM

Team Beretta, founded in the early 1980s, is a team of professional shooters of various ages and experience levels that compete as Brand Ambassadors for Beretta USA in the fields of trap, skeet, sporting clay, pistol, and 3-gun competitive shooting. Since 1977, Beretta has led the way in all forms of competitive shooting sports and continues to strive for excellence. During the 2016 Olympic Games, Team Beretta shooters took ten out of the possible fifteen podiums in trap, double trap, and skeet shooting events. Team Beretta shooters not only compete at the highest professional levels as well as at national and regional competitions, but they also mentor and train future competitors.

Team Beretta athletes brought home five out of the six possible medals in the men's and women's skeet events at the recent 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, with one gold (Vincent Hancock), two silvers (Diana Bacosi and Jesper Hansen), and two bronzes (Wei Meng and Abdullah Al-Rashidi).

Kim Rhode

Kim Rhode is a six-time Olympic medalist that boasts the honor of being the first American in any individual sport to win 6 medals in 6 consecutive Olympic Games. Read More Read Less

Since taking her first World Champion title at the age of 13, Kim has remained a staple in the competitive shotgun sports world with 14 national and 50 international medals to date. When she is not at the range, Kim spends her time as an advocate for the 2nd Amendment and shooting sports as a board member of the Kids and Clays Foundation, National Rifle Association, and the California Rifle & Pistol Association as well as serving as the Chairman of the ISSF Athletes Committee.

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International Skeet

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Diane Sorantino

Diane Sorantino currently serves as the captain of the Beretta Shotgun Team and is a 3-time NSCA National Champion and 5-time U.S. Open Champion with 33 international medals. Read More Read Less

With 23 years of competitive shooting under her belt, she is one of the most accomplished sporting clays shooters in the game and was inducted into the NSCA Hall of Fame in 2006. Diane is a retired Chief of Police with the Cape May City Police Department, where she served for 26 years (12 as Chief). Currently, she teaches alongside her fellow teammate, Anthony Matarese, as an Associate Instructor at the A.I.M. Shooting School.

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Sporting Clay

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Vincent Hancock

Vincent Hancock is the first Olympic skeet shooter to win gold medals in the same event in consecutive Olympic Games and the first person ever to win four World titles in Men’s Skeet. Read More Read Less

Vincent Hancock started competing at 11 years old and officially joined Team Beretta in 2004 at just 15 years old. He is the first Olympic skeet shooter to win gold medals in the same event in consecutive Olympic Games, the first person ever to win four World titles in Men’s Skeet, and one of only three men in the shotgun discipline to earn four world titles in his career. In addition to his competition excellence, Vincent also serves as the Advisory Council Shotgun Representative on the USA Shooting Ethics Committee and is a private coach to several US Olympic and international shotgun athletes. Vincent is now a 3-time Olympic Gold medalist and 4-time Olympian, with gold medal win in 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London), and 2020 (Tokyo).

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International Skeet

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Anthony Matarese, Jr.

Anthony Matarese, Jr. is a 26-time NSCA All-American and 18-time Team USA Member that holds the honor of being the first American to win the World Sporting Clays Championship. Read More Read Less

Inducted into the NSCA Hall of Fame in 2014, Anthony Matarese, Jr. is one of the most renowned shooters in the sporting clays world with a bevy of regional, national, and world titles under his belt. In 2020 Anthony became the first person to win all 4 major titles during his shooting career: The US Open, National Championship, World Sporting Clays Championship, and the World FITASC Championship. Alongside his father and brother, Anthony owns and operates M&M Hunting and Sporting Clays, one of the only full-service clay shooting and hunting operations in the United States.

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Sporting Clay

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Zachary Kienbaum

Zachary Kienbaum is a back-to-back NSCA National Champion and 8-time NSCA All-American Open Team Captain that holds the honor of being the first inductee into the California State Hall of Fame. Read More Read Less

Zachary Kienbaum is a 27-time NSCA All-American and 20-time Team USA Member that has been shooting competitively since he was 12 years old. Competing heavily throughout his youth and up until today, Zach has won countless trophies and accolades, including the honor of being the first inductee for the California State Hall of Fame. When he isn’t traveling to state, regional, national, and international competitions, he travels the country as a visiting instructor with many prominent shooting clubs and coaches several up-in-coming youth and junior shooters.

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Sporting Clay

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Desirae Edmunds

Desirae Edmunds is a 2-time NSCA National Ladies Champion and 6-time NSCA Championship Tour Ladies Champion that has been a part of Team Beretta for the past 5 years. Read More Read Less

In between her many appearances at local, regional, national, and international competitions each season, Desirae travels the country and teaches youth and female shooters the finer arts of sporting clays. In her spare time, she is an avid waterfowl and small game hunter and will often find the nearest fishing hole at each of her competitions to relax.

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Sporting Clay

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Meagan Harrington

Meagan Harrington recently won her first-ever NSCA Ladies National Champion and Ladies World FITASC Champion titles and is currently studying on a nursing degree path at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Read More Read Less

Meagan Harrington is a 23-year-old junior member of the Beretta Shooting Team and is currently studying on a nursing degree path at the University of Texas Health Science Center. . Competing since she was just 9 years old, this homegrown Texan boasts numerous competition wins and honors, including 7 Ladies HOA titles with the Texas State 4-H organization. Now in her tenth season on Team Beretta, Meagan recently won her first-ever NSCA Ladies National Champion and Ladies World FITASC Champion titles in the 2021 shooting season. Recently, Meagan defended her title as the reigning ACUI Ladies National Champion at the 2021 ACUI Collegiate National Championship and joined the rest of her Texas A&M Trap and Skeet Team as the 2021 ACUI Collegiate National Champions.

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Sporting Clay

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Jared Greenwood

Jared Greenwood is a 2-time Sub-Junior/Junior National Champion, 8-time Sub-Gauge Champion, and 3-time Junior/Sub-Junior All-American currently studying agricultural business at Fort Hays State University. Read More Read Less

Jared Greenwood is a 21-year-old junior member of the Beretta Shooting Team currently in his junior year at Fort Hays State University studying agricultural business. Now in his fifth season on Team Beretta, he is a consistent competitor in the junior category with several state and regional wins in the past few years. When he is not on the sporting clays course, Jared can be found working with his dad at his custom stock shop, tossing the football around with his old teammates, or just hanging out with his faithful canine companion.

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Sporting Clays

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Dominic Grossi

Dominic Grossi is a 3-time Junior NSCA National Championship Runner-Up, 2-time World FITASC and World English Medalist , and 5-time World FITASC Junior Team Champion currently studying engineering at Texas A&M University. Read More Read Less

Dominic Grossi is a 3-time Junior NSCA National Championship Runner-Up, 2-time World FITASC and World English Medalist , and 5-time World FITASC Junior Team Champion currently studying engineering at Texas A&M University. He has consistently fought his way to the top of the podium as a sub-junior and junior shooter and is a 10-time NSCA All-American Team Member and 6-time U.S. Sporting Clays Team Member. Dominic also competes as a part of the Texas A&M University Trap and Skeet Team with numerous regional and national titles during the ACUI competitive season. Recently, Dominic and his collegiate team brought home the gold at the ACUI National Championship and are now the reigning ACUI Collegiate National Champions.

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Sporting Clay

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Joseph Fanizzi

Joseph Fanizzi is the youngest member of Team Beretta at age 18 and is the recent 2021 NSCA HOA National Champion and World FITASC Junior Champion. Read More Read Less

As a sub-junior and now a junior competitor, Joseph has an exceptional podium record, often placing among the senior men throughout the season, and is a 3-time Team USA Sporting and FITASC Team Member and a 3-time All-American Open First Team Member who achieved a Master class designation at the age of 13. Joseph is a freshman at Texas A&M University pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Construction Science.

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Sporting Clay

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JJ Racaza

JJ Racaza is a 5-time IPSC and USPSA National Champion and a 3-time Speed Shooting WCH Champion who has repeatedly been ranked as one of the top 5 competitors in the USPSA and IPSC disciplines. Read More Read Less

Repeatedly ranked as one of the top 5 for USPSA and IPSC shooters, JJ holds and has broken multiple world speeding shooting records. As a former DHS Federal Agent, he held positions as a Lead Firearms Instructor, Field Training Officer, and Law Enforcement Academy Instructor. Currently, JJ is certified as an instructor in firearms and defensive tactics from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and is an instructor for PFC firearm training programs.

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Practical Shooting

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Jessica Hook

Jessica Hook is a 2-time USPSA PCC National Championship medalist and a 3-time Bay Area Rifle Championship Ladies Champion that is certified as a Master Class Shooter and NRA Pistol Instructor. Read More Read Less

Jessica Hook has been competing in the action shooting sports for eight years and is a ladies’ champion in various 3Gun, PCC (Pistol Caliber Carbine), and Rifle/Carbine competitions. As a talented competitor, she has amassed numerous podium honors during her career, including a ladies’ second-place podium honor at the 2019 USPSA National Championship - PCC Division. With a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, Jessica spent over a decade working as a professional video game artist on AAA titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Advanced Warfare.

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Practical Shooting
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Ben Hardt

Ben Hardt is the newest member to Team Beretta and has several top three divisional finishes in IDPA and USPSA matches in recent years. Read More Read Less

He has accomplished a first-place finish as a CDP Expert in the 2018 IDPA Nationals and a division win at the 2020 NorCal Section Golden Bullet Championship. Hardt is an IDPA and USPSA Master Class shooter in several divisions that began competing seriously in 2018 and has most recently finished third overall in his division at the 2019 IDPA World Championship and first overall in the 2020 IDPA National Postal match.

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Practical Shooting

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MEET THE BERETTA SHOOTING TEAM

Kim Rhode

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Diane Sorantino

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Vincent Hancock

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Anthony Matarese, Jr.

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Zachary Kienbaum

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Desirae Edmunds

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Meagan Harrington

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Jared Greenwood

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Dominic Grossi

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Joseph Fanizzi

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JJ Racaza

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Jessica Hook

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Ben Hardt

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