Linda Joy has been competing in the shooting sports nationally for eight years. She started shooting American Skeet in 1989 when a friend introduced her to the game. Her love of competitive sports led her to polish her natural ability and work with a coach. Linda became a Browning Staff Shooter in 1993. Since then she has represented Browning in an impressive range of competitive shoots. Linda shoots exclusively with a Browning Citori Ultra Sporting Clays over and under shotgun. She has been featured in many magazines promoting the shooting sports. Because of her well-known classic shooting style, she has also been filmed in a commercial video to demonstrate her shooting technique.

After consistently winning local tournaments, Linda challenged herself early on by entering the National Championships held in Savannah, Georgia in 1990. With over 1,000 competitors she came home with 21 medals. The next year she won the Arizona State Lady's International Skeet Championship and the Arizona State Lady's Sporting Clays Championship. When International Skeet was eliminated for women at the Olympic Games she turned her undivided attention to sporting clays, an even more complex and demanding game than International Skeet.

At the 1993 California Ladies Charity Classic, presented by the Women's Shooting Sports Foundation, she won High Overall. The top women shooters in trap, skeet, and sporting clays were invited to compete for the title of Champion of Champions in Houston in 1994. Linda won High Overall at this inaugural event televised by ESPN. She was selected for the Ladies All-American Sporting Clays Team in 1995 and was the Lady Champion at Zone 7 (14 western states). She has won the Arizona State Women's Championship each year since 1992, and in 1995 was the first woman in the history of sporting clays to win an open state championship, winning High Overall, besting 125 men and women to capture the title.

In 1996 she again won the Zone 7 Lady's Championship, the Arizona State Lady's Championship and was selected for the Ladies All-American Sporting Clays Team. She repeated her win of the Champion of Champions event in Texas and is the first woman to win the title twice. She was invited to compete at the Louise Mandrell Celebrity Shoot in Nashville and won High Overall Female. Linda became the Lady Champion at the Seminole Cup in 1997; a coveted prize in a popular tournament with over 300 competitors. She was Lady Runner-Up at the prestigious Triple Crown, and again selected for the Ladies All-American Sporting Clays Team.

The fourth world English Sporting Championship was held in April of 1997 in San Antonio, Texas, with 448 shooters. Never before decided in a shoot-off, the gold, silver and bronze medal positions in the ladies competition were shared by three ladies from three different countries: the defending World Champion from Scotland, a woman from England, and American, Linda Joy. Linda Joy won the shoot-off, capturing one of the few American golds at this shoot and becoming World Champion.

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