Elizabeth Lanier Fennell
It's hard to imagine that someone with an interior design degree could become a full time shooting instructor, but that's exactly what Elizabeth Lanier Fennell did. She attended a shooting lesson by invitation and wound up sharing it with another shooter, but she was hooked from the start. While raising three kids, finding the time to shoot was tough, but Disney movies and Happy Meals afforded her the chance to squeeze in an hour lesson from time to time. After taking a trip to Scotland for driven birds she decided to involve other ladies in the shooting game by getting them together once or twice a month while the kids were in school and husbands were at work. That was the foundation of what is now G.R.I.T.S (Girls Really Into Shooting), which currently has nine chapters in various states. She is a NSCA Level III Instructor an an advocate for ladies hunting and shooting, whether recreational or competition. She and her husband own the Fennell Shooting School near Charlotte.
