Saturday 8 November
By Ashley Gaden
Sheer determination and pure stubbornness has led to Shoalhaven Clay Target Club member Shannon Moroney’s return to shooting with two gold medals already in his possession and more in contention for at the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games.
The now discharged defence force member and his partner Tracey Willet have overcome a physical and emotional roller-coaster in order to return to their family past time of shooting.
“One of my mates got me into it and it was great fun but Tracey took it up because I was supposed to build her a veggie garden and never got around to it so she’d come down to annoy me and took it up herself,” Moroney said.
“I really enjoy down the line because its got nostalgia about it but we do shoot in all disciplines back home.”
However it was an accident on the way to work that put a halt in the family’s past time.
“I was in an accident around two years ago where I hit a pot-hole riding to work and hit my head,” Moroney said.
“I fractured my skull, had bleeding on the brain and needed surgery on both my shoulders.
“I don’t remember it but it was my fitness that saved me.”
After taking up the sport 10 years ago the pair have turned the Games into a family affair with Moroney and their son Sage joining Willet for their first Games as a family.
“It’s something we’ve always wanted to do and now that things are much better we are in a position to come up,” Moroney said.
“It’s become a mental release purely on the fact that I took it pretty hard when they discharged me from the defence force because I loved it and was proud of it. It’s hard to be medically discharged out of something you love.
“But it’s something we do as a family and it’s the one thing we did before that hasn’t changed.”
As the rehabilitation process continues so to does the support from the shooting community and the Shoalhaven Clay Target Club.
“What the club has done for us and the encouragement from them and the people at the club is incredible,” Willet said.
“It’s been a very emotional week but we can’t give up and might go across for the worlds in New Zealand in 2017.
“But we will absolutely without a doubt be back every time for the Games.
“We still don’t have that veggie patch but I’m happy to buy me veggies,”
The new system was born here and filagra this is not anything that we would like to see. Caverta although better in some elements but not important for us.
