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Support Knightly on her pathway to academic excellence, the Olympics and to the upcoming prestigious sporting clays World Championships, FITASC World Championships, U.S. Open, and The National Championships…..
Dear Gracious Supporters & Sponsors,
Knightly is so touched and grateful for
your kindness and for thinking of her and offering to support her in some way during the National and International competitions that she will be entered into this year.
The generosity of your time and in helping Knightly link with others and evoking a feeling in her that she is safe and secure means the world to her.
Even though her Dad isn’t here with her, she has the best caliber of support that are looking out for her and have her six.
Evelyn Knightly is the daughter and only child of Expert Marksman Marine Corps Special Operations Joint Terminal Air Attack Control Fires Chief SSGT Chris Goski.
Knightly loves the competitive shotgun sports of Sporting Clays, Skeet, and Trap.
Her dream is to go to the Olympics and represent the United States of America with honor while maintaining the highest honors grade point average in her Academic Studies.
Her Dad was USMC MARSOC and did 6 combat tours and died in the line of duty while on active duty when she was three years old.
Her Dad’s twin brother was 10th Mountain and 82nd Airborne and died of a broken heart shortly after he lost his twin brother. Both are remembered and missed dearly.
Knightly has always been a gifted and talented student with an enthusiasm and a love of learning that is extraordinary. She loves tutoring, mentoring, and helping others in school, out on the ranch, and at the gun range.
Knightly is a freshman in high school and receives the Folds of Honor and Folded Flag scholarships to attend school.
Every semester she has received Head of Academy Honor Roll of straight A's in all honors courses with a GPA of 4.3.
Knightly will be inducted into the National Honors Society this month.
Since Kindergarten, she has achieved straight A's in every subject. She has a love of learning and mentoring younger students.
She recently passed the college entrance exam and is attending college as a dual enrollment student.
She loves her teachers and the student community and her peers look to her to be a role model and a positive influence.
Knightly is an awesome kid with a heart of gold and just won Florida State Champion in Sporting Clays, Skeet, and Trap in her class in both the youth and adult divisions.
She is ranked #1 All-American Sub-Junior Lady and has earned a spot on the coveted 2023 DuPont/Krieghoff NSCA All-State Team.
She is respected and admired throughout the shooting world and is a favorite to be interviewed and featured in the shooting magazines in print and online.
Knightly Duris has impressive Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts with many loyal followers and gives weekly interactive updates and accolades to her beloved supporters.
She loves volunteering her time and talents to help the younger kids in this sport. She wishes to pass on her knowledge to the next generation and continue to be a positive, influential role model for the rookie kids just starting out.
To practice and keep up training on a highly competitive level leads us to look to sponsors who believe in her to keep her having a fighting chance in the game and afford her the opportunity to be a representative of companies and individuals that she loves and also believes in.
She is training for the upcoming prestigious sporting clays World Championships, FITASC World Championships, U.S. Open, and The National Championships.
Knightly’s natural ability to be efficient and accurate with rifle, pistol, and shotgun seems to have been passed down in the genes from her Daddy.
This sport is her passion and I try my best to give her everything she needs to compete and be successful and to help others along the way.
I thank you in advance for your time and hope you can help me support her as a military kid in this sport and give her a chance where she might otherwise not have it without her Dad to guide her.
As her Mom, I wear both the Dad and Mom hats and I do my best and give my all to help her dreams come true.
From ear and eye protection to equipment and maintenance to entry fees with options to course transportation to practice clay targets and ammo to travel expenses and training to optimum athletic and scholastic excellence it truly takes a village.
We are always happy to give back and volunteer with any events to support our National Treasures whom are our Veterans. We support our Blue Star and Gold Star Families, brave First Responders, Patriot Guard Riders, as well as individuals and businesses that support our mission.
* For tax deductible donations please contact Black Dagger Military Hunt Club. *
Semper Fi!
Kindly, Stephanie Duris
(Knightly’s Mom)
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KNIGHTLY’S SHOOTING RESUME:
*** 2023-2024 SEASON ***
* Veteran’s Cup *
-Highest Overall (HOA) - Perfect Score (100/100)
*FL Honeybelles Syren Spring Classic *
-Highest Overall (HOA) (91/100)
* Jack Links Cup * (Class C/D)
-Make-A-Break -Level 1 A-E Champion -HOA Higest Overall Lady
-1st Place Red Prelim
-1st Place Blue Prelim
-1st Place 20ga Sporting Sub Jr
-2nd Place FITASC (tied for 1st Place - tiebreaker)
-2nd Place Lady 20ga FITASC
-2nd Place Blue Prelim Sub Jr
-3rd Place Main Event
-3rd Place 20ga FITASC
-3rd Place 5-Stand
-3rd Place 28ga Sporting Sub Jr
-4th Place 28ga FITASC Lady
-4th Place 5-Stand Sub Jr
-4th Place 20ga Sporting
-5th Place Red Prelim Sub Jr
*NSCA FL State Championship *
(Class B)
-Main Event Lady Resident 1st Place Champion
-Thursday Prelim 1st Place Champion
-Thursday Prelim Sub Jr 1st Place Champion
-Main Event Runner Up Sub Jr
-Friday Prelim Runner Up
-Friday Prelim Runner Up Sub Jr
-5 Stand Sub Jr Runner Up
-Main Event 3rd
*2024 Southeast Regional Championship * (Class B)
-FITASC Champion -Winchester Ladies Cup Champion
-5 Stand 3rd
-Make-a-Break Top 8
*** 2022-2023 SEASON ***
(Intermediate Advanced IA) (Class D/E)
* 2023 NSCA-SCTP All-American Team (1st Place)*
*2023 DuPont/Krieghoff All-State Team*
* 2023 Young Guns Top Sporting Clays Shooter Intermediate Advanced *
* All Scholastic Team 4.0 Academic Achievement Sporting Clays*
* 2023 7th Annual Veterans Cup: HOA Highest Overall Champion 98/100 *
* NSCA U.S. OPEN*
-2nd Place WINCHESTER Lady's Cup (FITASC, 5 Stand, and Main Event)
* SCTP FL State Warm Up *
-1st Place IA Team Champions
* SCTP FL State Championship *
-1st Place Individual Trap IA Champion -1st Place IA Team Skeet State Champions
-1st Place IA Team Sporting Clays State Champions
-Individual Skeet IA Runner Up
-Individual Sporting Clays IA Runner Up
* Jr. U.S. Open *
-1st Place Lady Team Intermediate Main Event Champions
-1st Place Lady Team Intermediate Preliminary Event Champions
-3rd Place Individual Intermediate Lady Main Event
* NWTF Turkey Shoot *
-3rd Place FITASC Class D
* Jack Links Cup *
-1st Place 28g FITASC Champion
-28g Sporting SubJr Runner Up
-20g Sporting SubJr Runner Up
-3rd Place Blue Prelim SubJr
-3rd Place 28g Sporting Lady
-3rd Place FITASC Class D
* NSCA FL State Championship *
-1st Place Main Event Champion
-1st Place SuperSport Champion
-1st Place 28g FITASC Champion
-1st Place 28g FITASC Lady Champion -1st Place 20g FITASC Champion
-5-Stand Runner Up
-5-Stand Sub Junior Runner Up
-Main Event Sub Junior FL Resident Runner Up
-Thursday Prelim Runner Up
-Thursday Prelim Lady Runner Up
-Thursday Prelim Sub Junior Runner Up -FITASC Runner Up
-20g Sporting Sub Junior Runner Up -3rd Place Main Event Sub Junior
-3rd Place SuperSport Lady
-3rd Place SuperSport Sub Junior
-3rd Place Friday Prelim
-3rd Place Friday Prelim Sub Junior -3rd Place 20g FITASC Lady
-3rd Place 20g FITASC Junior
-3rd Place 28g Sporting
*** 2021-2022 SEASON ***
(Intermediate Advanced IA) (Class E)
* 2022 Young Guns Top Sporting Clays Shooter IA *
* All Scholastic Team 4.0 Academic achievement and top percentage in all 3-Gun disciplines (Pistol, Rifle, & Shotgun) *
*Junior Olympics International Bunker Trap *
-Open Team Champion -Individual Intermediate Lady Runner Up
* SCTP FL State Warm Up *
-Open Team Champion
-Individual IA Runner Up
-3rd Place Intermediate Advanced
* SCTP FL State Championship*
-IA Team Sporting Clays Champions
-IA Team Trap Champions
-IA Team Skeet Champions
-Individual Sporting Clays State Champion
-Knightly tied for Highest Overall Lady Sporting Clays Runner Up with a 90/100
* NSCA FL State Shoot *
-3rd Place SuperSport Sub Junior Individual
-3rd Place Sub Junior Individual Prelim -3rd Place Prelim Class D
* SCTP Southeast Regional Championship *
-Intermediate Advanced SuperSport Runner Up
-3rd Place IA Team Trap
-5th Place Individual IA Skeet
-5th Place Individual IA Sporting Clays
* SCTP National Championship, Ohio *
-4th Place IA Sporting Clays
-Top 5 Lady Top Gun (pistol, rifle, shotgun)
-Top 10 Skeet
-Top 10 5-Stand
-Top 10 International Olympic Bunker Trap
-Top 10 1911 Pistol
* The Gator Cup Championship *
-FITASC Champion
-Main Event Champion
-5-Stand Runner Up
* NSCA U.S. Open *
-WINCHESTER Lady's Cup Runner Up (Determined by a combined score for three events ( FITASC, 5 Stand, and Main Event)
* Jack Links Cup *
-FITASC Champion
-Prelim Champion
-5-Stand Runner Up
-SuperSport Runner Up
-Main Event 6th
* Fall Ladies Honeybelles Shoot *
-1st Class Runner Up 88/100 She was only four targets from Highest Overall.
*** 2020-2021 SEASON ***
(Intermediate Entry IE) (Class D)
* SCTP FL State Warm Up *
-IE Team Champions
* SCTP FL State Championship *
-Team Sporting Clays Champions
-3rd Place Skeet, Trap, Sporting Clays Overall
* SCTP Southeast Regionals Championship *
-3rd Place Sporting Clays Individual Intermediate
-3rd Place Trap Open Team
* SCTP National Championship, Ohio *
-National Champion Individual IE Super Sport Runner Up
-3rd Place IE Team in Super Sport
-5th Place Individual IE Skeet
-7th Place Sporting Clays
-Shot 90 out of 100 targets in Trap!!
* NSCA National Championship, Texas *
-Individual Advanced Sub Junior Lady Sporting Clays Main Event Runner Up
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My Dad, SSGT Christopher, was a 12-year Marine Corp Special Forces veteran with MARSOC special Forces as a JTAC.
He did seven combat tours of duty to Iraq and Afghanistan. I was 3 years old when my Daddy died and he had deployed 3 times in my 3 years (and plus one other short 4-month deployment while my Mommy was pregnant).
My Dad was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina his entire career. He was a JTAC Fire Controls Team Chief.
He was a math genius and calculated air strikes coordinated by land, air and sea. Camp Lejeune was the premier place for him to train in his specialty.
One of the traits that I commend my Daddy for is his ability to comprehend all the directionals, coordinates, wind speeds, and so much more that he needed to call in precision air strikes without collateral damage.
I believe that this gift was natural to him and was passed on to me because I can naturally calculate in a split second how I need to hit a 3-inch round clay target being thrown from a 185 foot tower and crush it.
My Dad knew how important his job was and had trained for 12 years in that specialty so that he was assured the military had the best man for the job out there working alongside the other branches of the military towards successful missions.
I respect that trait of dedication to a cause bigger than himself and I hope to be able to do the same by being a neurosurgeon in a military hospital one day.
Born May 1, 1981 in TX and residing in part in NJ, Staff Sergeant Christopher enlisted in the Marine Corps on November 5, 2001.
He attended Marine Combat Training at Camp Pendleton, CA, followed by Field Artillery Fire Direction Control School.
He was assigned to 14th Marines HQ Battery FDC section and later to 2nd ANGLICO.
SSgt. Chris joined MARSOC (Marine Special Operations Command) in 2009 and was assigned to 2nd MSOB (Marine Special Operations Battalion), Camp Lejeune, NC.
SSgt. Chris served 6 tours of duty and was training for his 7th deployment at the time of his death.
SSgt. Chris served in both Iraq and Afghanistan in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, fighting the enemy in close combat on every deployment.
SSgt. Chris' personal decorations include two Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medals, three Combat Action Ribbons and three Good Conduct Medals among many others listed in full below.
SSgt. Chris died in the line of duty while on active duty.
Ssgt. Christopher was a caring and vivacious man and a loving father to me, his only child. He found fulfillment in being a United States Marine and felt it was his duty to serve his country whole-heartedly.
His family and friends were honored and blessed to have known him and he will forever be missed.
God holds him now in his arms and peace is his covering.
My Dad’s twin brother, 1ST SGT Michael, was a Green Beret Army Special Forces and he just died July, 4 2016.
They are now eternally together and both buried in the same grave at DFW National Cemetary.
We are all deeply saddened by this loss. I was close with my beloved uncle.
Our whole world has been shattered and we have been putting the pieces back together again, maybe not picture perfect, but rather a unique stained glass mosaic allowing God's light to shine in and out.
I have faith and hope that over time God will fill our void even if it's drop by drop.
STAFF SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER GOSKI’S OIF-OEF DEPLOYMENTS:
2003 Jan-Aug Africa
2004 Sept- Nov Mahmudiya-Yusufia Iraq
2004-2005 Nov-May Fallujah Iraq
2006 Feb-Sept Ramadi Iraq 2007-
2008 Sept-April Iraq
2009 March-July Iraq
2010-2011 Nov-July Afghanistan
2011 Jan-July Afghanistan
SSGT CHRISTOPHER GOSKI’S MEDALS RECEIVED:
-Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal With 1 Gold Star
-Combat Action Ribbon With 1 Gold Star
-Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon Bar With 4 Bronze Stars
-Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal With 1 Bronze Star
-Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal
-National Defense Service Medal
-Afghanistan Campaign Medal With 2 Bronze Campaign Stars
-Iraq Campaign Medal With 4 Bronze Campaign Stars
-Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
-Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
-Sea Service Deployment Ribbon With 1 Silver Star
-Armed Forces Reserve Medal With "M" Device and Bronze Numeral "2"
-NATO Medal ISAF Afghanistan.
God Bless America and all who honor and protect it along with their families, and all of you who are the angels that love military kids and give them a chance where they might otherwise not have it without their Dad or Mom.
Semper Fi . Always Faithful .