Vegas Shoot - List of Winners and Facts

Who has won the Vegas Shoot in the Men's and Women's Championship Division? Through 59 years [as of 2025], there have been 42 different freestyle/open men’s winners as of 2025.



                    Men's                                               Women's 
2025     Bodie Turner           $50,000.00          Gracen Fletcher   $10,000.00
2024     Mathias Fullerton     $58,000.00         Tanja Gellenthien  $10,000.00                                                  
2023     Kris Schaff              $57,000.00          Tanja Gellenthien  $10,000.00
2022     Bodie Turner            $50,000.00          Liko Arreola          $10,000.00
2021     Kyle Douglas           $15,000.00          Liko Arreola           $5,000.00
2020     Kyle Douglas           $54,000.00          Paige Pearce       $10,000.00                                         
2019     Sergio Pagni            $53,000.00          Sara Lopez          $10,000.00                                
2018     Christopher Perkins  $52,000.00        Alexis Ruiz          $10,000.00                                   
2017     Mike Schloesser       $51,000.00          Tanja Jensen       $10,000.00                              
2016     Sergio Pagni             $50,000.00        Inge Van Caspel   $10,000.00                     
2015     Alex Wifler               $30,000.00          Sarah Prieels       $10,000.00                                 
2014     Mike Schloesser       $25,000.00       Sarah Lance           $5,000.00                           
2013     Reo Wilde                $30,000.00       Erika Jones               $6,000.00                           
2012     Jesse Broadwater      $30,000.00      Erika Anshutz           $6,000.00                               
2011     Reo Wilde                 $25,000.00        Erika Anshutz          $5,000.00           
2010     Dietmar Trillus          $25,000.00        Kelly Ward              $6,000.00                    
2009     Reo Wilde                 $25,000.00        Nichola Simpson     $2,300.00     
2008     Dave Cousins           $20,000.00        Nichola Simpson     $3,300.00       
2007     Chance Beaubouef    $14,500.00        Mary Hamm            $2,200.00     
2006     Jesse Broadwater      $15,000.00        Doris Jones             $3,400.00       
2005     Dave Barnsdale         $14,500.00        Mary Zorn                    $3,400.00          
2004     Chance Beaubouef    $14,500.00         Mary Zorn               $1,700.00        
2003     Chance Beaubouef    $10,000.00         Mary Zorn               $3,000.00       
2002     Mike Anderson          $10,000.00         Mary Zorn               $1,500.00        
2001     Jeff Hopkins             $10,000.00         Connie Calloway      $3,000.00       
2000     James Despart           $5,000.00          Mary Zorn               $3,000.00     
1999     Dave Cousins             $2,500.00         Michelle Ragsdale    $2,500.00       
1998     Jeff Rogers                $2,500.00          Michelle Ragsdale    $2,500.00        
1997     Roger Hoyle               $2,500.00          Petra Ericson           $2,500.00        
1996     Darrin McCutcheon     $2,000.00          Angela Moscarelli      $2,000.00        
1995     Mike Hendrikse         $2,000.00          Inga Low                   $2,000.00       
1994     Marvin Batliner          $2,000.00          Becky Pearson          $2,000.00      
1993     Dee Wilde                 $2,000.00          Fay Binney                $2,000.00      
1992     Kirk Ethridge             $2,000.00          Carol Bitner               $2,000.00      
1991     Frank Pearson           $2,000.00          Fay Binney                $2,000.00                   
1990     Jeff Rogers                $1,500.00         Fay Binney                $1,500.00                  
1989     Dee Wilde                 $2,000.00          L. Klosterman            $2,000.00       
1988     Jeff Rogers               $1,500.00          Becky Pearson           $1,500.00           
1987     Harold Mobley           $1,500.00          Becky Pearson           $1,500.00            
1986     Richard Wiley            $1,500.00          Becky Pearson           $1,500.00
1985     Terry Ragsdale          $2,500.00          Katie Smith                $2,500.00   
1984     Dave Barnsdale         $3,000.00          Katie Smith                $3,000.00   
1983     Jon Willig                  $1,500.00          Katie Smith                $1,000.00    
1982     Dean Pridgen            $1,500.00          Katie Smith                   $750.00     
1981     Gary Lampshire        $1,500.00           Katie Smith                   $750.00    
1980    Terry Ragsdale              $700.00          Michelle Ragsdale         $205.00           
1979    Terry Ragsdale           $1,500.00          Michelle Ragsdale         $750.00         
1978    Terry Ragsdale           $1,500.00          Faye Binney                  $750.00          
1977     Ray Walzczak           $1,000.00          Ginger McClintock         $750.00     
1976     Mark Perfect                $750.00          Eva Troncoso                $400.00          
1975     Jim Quarles                 $500.00           Eva Troncoso                $250.00          
1974     Bob Jacobsen              $500.00           Eva Troncoso                $250.00         
1973     Gene Parnell                $500.00           Darlene Collier               $250.00             
1972     Ken Ostling               $1,250.00           Mary Lynn Snyder          $500.00               
1971     Jack Lancaster          $2,000.00           Denise Libby                 $750.00             
1970     Victor Berger             $2,000.00           Ann Butz                       $750.00              
1969            Shoot Cancelled
1968            Shoot Cancelled
1967     Lester Gervais           $1,500.00          Lou Shine                       $700.00    
1966     Bill Wertz                  $1,000.00          Roma Squibb                     N/A             
1965          Shoot on Hiatus
1964          Shoot on Hiatus
1963          Shoot on Hiatus
1962     Marty Yurick                 $700.00          Lou Shine                     $500.00          

2025 - New Venue for 2025. Caesar's, Paris, Horseshoe, Bakkt Theater
             Men's Championship Prize reduced by $8,000.00. Was only $50,000.00. 
             Attendance falls to 3,877 archers. 
2024 - 4,491 Registered Shooters, Last year at Southpoint Hotel & Casino. $58,000 for first place.
2023 - 3,911 Registered Shooters, Archers from 55 countries, $530,000 in cash prizes and scholerships, 100+ vendors and  
             an Open Championship 1st place prize of $57,000. This was the shoots 57th year.
2022 - 
2021 - 
2020 - 3,816 Registered Shooters
2019 - 3,767 Registered Shooters
2018 - 3,546 Registered Shooters. Bobby Eyler actually won the shoot but was DQ'd on a random drug test.  
2014 - 2,000+ Registered Shooters
2013 - 1,800+ Registered Shooters
2012 - First year at South Point Hotel
2011 - First year the event is called "The Vegas Shoot". Last year at the Riviera Hotal & Casino
2005 - 1,583 Registered Shooters
2001 - 1,200+ Registered Shooters. First year at the Riviera Hotal & Casino 
2000 - NFAA Takes Over Shoot Management - event is now called the "World Archery Festival" until 2010.
             Last year the shoot was hosted at the Sands Expo.
1993 - First year the shoot was hosted at the Sands Expo.
1992 - The last year the shoot was held at the Tropicana Hotel. 1992 was also the only year this ridiculous target was used.

1990 - 1,367 Registered Shooters 
1987 - 1,150 Registered Shooters. Event is now called the "National Archery Show" until 1999.
1986 - The last year the shoot was called the Tropicana Indoor Archery Tournament
1981 - Only 600 Registered Shooters. Shoot becomes the Tropicana Indoor Archery Tournament.
1980 - Terry Ragsdale scores the first ever 900 round. Last year at The Hilton International Hotel & Convention Center
1979 - 800+ Registered Shooters
1978 - Shoot is now called the "Vegas Archery Tournament" through 1980.
1977 - 700+ Registered shooters. This is the only year the shoot is called the "International Indoor Championship".
             This was the first year at The Hilton International Hotel & Convention Center
1976 - Final year held at the Desert Inn
1974 - Bob Jacobsen was the last man to win unlimited/open with a recurve. Shoot becomes the "Desert Inn Archery Classic"
1973 - First year at the Desert Inn
1972 - The only year the shoot was held at the Thunderbird Hotel & Convention Center
1971 - Last year of only two years at The International Hotel & Convention Center
1970 - First year the flight system was introduced. First year shoot was known as the Vegas/U.S. Open 1970-1973.
             First year at The International Hotel & Convention Center
1973 - 638 Registered Shooters. New 16" Colored Face Introduced
1972 - 432 Registered Shooters. Moved to the Thunderbird Hotel
1967 - The only year the shoot was known as the "U.S. Open Indoor Championship".
1966 - The second and last year the shoot was called the Colt/Sahara National Open.
1963-1965 - Shoot has a three year hiatus.
1962 - First year of the shoot, the "Colt/Sahara National Open". Same name was used for 1966 only.


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