 Leslie Ellins
got her start in shooting in the fall of 2000 by driving her daughter Jen to training three times a week. As the family lived a distance from the range, Leslie waited the two hours while Jen shot. The coach, Gord Carter, soon invited the waiting parents to try it out for themselves and Leslie was quickly hooked. She tried skeet a few times with her Dad as a teen and had done occasional hunting, but she just loved target shooting.
She started with some small successes in Sporting Rifle at the Provincial Championships and LSBA competitions and soon added Air Rifle and finally women's Sport Rifle to the mix. Leslie spent many weekends on the road traveling the three to four hour round trip to St Catharines to be coached by Jack Clinton. Jack just loves to help any shooter who is willing to travel to his range and his advice and training was invaluable to her.
She has been a member of the Ontario Provincial Team since 2002 and she realized her first major goal in 2004 by earning a spot on the 2005 National "B" Team for women's prone. Leslie attended her first international event, the World Cup in Milan in June 2005. She is now setting her sights on a spot on the 2006 National "A" Team and the 2006 military CISM team. She credits the incredible amount of support she gets from her husband Bill for her success. Leslie currently receives coaching at the Scarborough Rifle Club.
When she is not training, Leslie is busy running her incorporated Financial Planning business and the cattle farm she and her husband own in Lindsay, Ontario. Leslie is an officer in the Coboconk Sea Cadet Corps, where she coaches Cadets in shooting. She is an active volunteer in her local church and loves to spend time with her five grandchildren. In her very limited spare time she loves to canoe and fish in Algonquin Park.
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