By Press Times Staff
PULASKI – Deedra Irwin, a 2010 Pulaski High School graduate, has been named to the US Biathlon 2021 World Championship team.
Biathlon is a mixture of Nordic skiing and rifle shooting.
The women’s world championship roster consists of five members for the event, which will be held in Pokljuka, Slovenia, Feb. 10-21.
All races will air live on the Olympic Channel with same-day or next-day coverage available on the NBC Sports Network.
This is Irwin’s first senior-level world championship event.
After leaving Pulaski, Irwin graduated from Michigan Tech University in Houghton, where she ran cross country and track and Nordic skied all five years.
She qualified for the U23 World Ski Championships her redshirt senior year in Kazakhstan.
From there, she moved to Ketchum, Idaho, and skied professionally for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation’s Gold Team.
She raced with Sun Valley for two seasons before trying biathlon in 2017 at a Lake Placid, New York, camp.