Maple Ridge Christian School student Erin Beckett, has her 'sights,' pun intended, on making Canada's national team for the Brazil 2016 Olympic Games.

She will be competing for a place at the London 2012 Olympic Games, but she has to place first or second at the International Sport Shooting Federation, (ISSF), world cup event in Munich this June.

Beckett was named to the Canadian ladies national competition air pistol development team last week, and will represent Canada as the youngest national team shooter at just 17 years old.

In March she competed in the in the ladies 10-metre competitive air pistol event at the Joe Elkin Memorial BC Air Gun Championships in Richmond.

She hit scores of 368, 371 and 377, totalling 1,116 of a possible 1,200 points, which was only 14 points behind the match winner from the Canadian national team.

In February Beckett and her Langley teammate brought home a silver medal for B.C. in the ladies team air pistol competition at the Canada Games in Halifax (Shooter hits target in Halifax, Feb. 25 TIMES).

Beckett follows in the footsteps of Kim Eagles (née Savory), who also represented Maple Ridge at world championships and the Olympics as a competitive shooter.

Both athletes have roots in modern pentathlon, an Olympic event that displays the skills of the perfect soldier. Along with shooting, modern pentathletes compete in swimming, show jumping, fencing and running.

Beckett is sponsored by HyperStealth Biotechnology Corporation and by North Fraser Event Centre where she also coaches young athletes in shooting and fencing.