More than meets the eye
When she was 17 years old, Collyn Loper was the youngest member of the US shooting team who competed at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. She had already won a gold medal in Trap shooting in the Pan American Games the year before and she would eventually finish fourth on the biggest sporting stage of all.
Her shooting glasses are black over her right eye which leads people to ask her if she has an eye dominance problem. “Yeah,” she replies, “a big one.” She is completely blind in her right eye and has been since birth because of a rare, hereditary disease.
Kim Rhode — one of the most successful Olympic shooters of all time, and Collyn’s room-mate that year — pointed out that her achievement was made even more remarkable because she is right-handed and had to learn to shoot off her left shoulder. Anyone who
