Coach sill lyra

A Well-rounded coach for Well-rounded Results

Coach Sill Lyra  is a USA/NRA International Advanced Shooting Coach who has been involved in Olympic Air Pistol for more than 20 years.

He came to Colorado Springs in 1997 to be a pupil of Mr. Eric Buljung, who was at that time the National Head  Coach of the US Pistol Team and the only Olympic Silver Medalist in air pistol for  the US since the Olympics in Seoul. 

Coach Sill was Pistol Head Coach for the Olympic Training Center Juniors Shooting Club and then pistol coach for the Modern Pentathlon US Army World Class Athlete Program team and for the USOC-USA Modern Pentathlon Team.

Air Pistol is one of the events of Modern Pentathlon, and Coach Sill worked with elite athletes from a variety of sport  backgrounds. These Modern Pentathlon athletes most of the time never shot in their life, and his work was to transform them in Olympians.

After traveling internationally as a pistol coach for over 10 years,  Coach Sill has experienced the shooting philosophy of a diverse cadre of  world shooting schools. He has coached  Olympians in Modern Pentathlon over three Olympic cycles. His athletes won world cup gold medalist a Silver  Medal at 1999 Pan American Games, 3 athletes qualified and 2 competing at the Olympics in 2000, two Gold and two Silver medals at the Pan American Games in 2003 and 3 athletes at the Olympic Games in Athens.

Coach Sill founded the Sill Lyra Air Pistol Shooting Academy in 2006, an innovative internet coaching system that serves athletes all around the United States and the World from the immediate beginner, junior, to the Olympic level.

Sill looks forward to helping you start your air pistol journey or help you reach a higher level of performance.