Competing for gold at a future Olympic Games is not a far-fetched goal in the mind of a Rotorua 13-year-old who has wowed her club with a near-perfect smallbore shooting score.
Western Heights High School Year 9 student Cheyanne McKenzie has only been doing smallbore shooting for the last year and a half.
But this week she shot a near-perfect score at the Rotorua Indoor Shooting Club, getting 100.07 on a target card. The highest a shooter can score is 100.10.
"It was the last thing I was expecting. I haven't been doing shooting for very long and it's really hard to achieve a 100, let alone a 100.07.
"There's so many little factors that can put your shot off from breathing to your position. My friends didn't realise how good it was until they tried it themselves and found out how hard it is."