Lauryn Mark

Medal record
Representing  Australia
Women's shooting
Commonwealth Games
	2002 Manchester	Skeet Individual
	2002 Manchester	Skeet Pairs
	2006 Melbourne	Skeet Pairs
	2006 Melbourne	Skeet Individual

Lauryn Annyn Mark (née Ogilvie,^[1] born April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, United States^[2]) is an American Australian Olympic Women's Skeet shooter. She is considered one of the world’s leading female shotgun clay target shooting coaches and is a licensed Class 'A' International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) shotgun instructor. She is renowned for her comprehensive training drills, her attention to fundamental technique, shotgun fitting and physical fitness programs that compliments competition. She has worked with the ISSF as a coaching examiner since 2024. Administratively, Mark has twice been employed as a National High Performance Program Manager for National Olympic teams and produced successful Olympic Games qualification on both occasions. She has been the co-owner, with her husband, Olympic Gold Medalist Russell Mark, of the clay target shooting coaching company “Go Shooting Pty Ltd” since 1999 and has produced over one hundred instructional videos for their popular YouTube channel. Mark won a silver medal at the 2003 World Cup Final (Rome), finished fourth in Women's Skeet in the 2004 Summer Olympics^[3] and won three gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

In March 2022 she was appointed for one year by the Sports Authority of India as the High Performance Manager for the National Rifle Association of India's Shotgun Team where she was publicly recognised and acclaimed for designing and implementing the selection policy that resurrected Indian Shotgun Shooting and qualified multiple athletes into the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

In May, 2023 Mark joined the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association as the High Performance Manager and also performed a dual role as the National Women's Skeet Coach for the remainder of the 2023 season. Mark resigned her position on October 31, 2023, the day after Qatar qualified the Men's Trap team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In March 2024, Shooting Australia announced that Mark would temporarily become a Skeet coach for the Olympic Shotgun Squad and would help prepare them for the forthcoming 2024 Olympics in July.

Lauryn Annyn Ogilvie was born on April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, to clay shooter Jon Ogilvie. She started shooting in 1991,^[4][5] and started formally competing in June 1997 at the World Championships in Peru. She became the youngest competitor ever to win Women's Skeet in the United States Open Skeet Championship in 1999.^[6] In 2003, she won the silver medal in the Women's Skeet event at the World Cup Final in Rome.

After moving to Australia, Lauryn Mark won eight Australian National Women's Skeet Championships to her name. In 2012 she competed in her second Summer Olympics. She retired from competitive competition in 2014 and is now employed by the ISSF as a coaching lecturer and examiner for their International Coaching Academy.

In 2012, she controversially became a men's magazine cover girl when she posed for Zoo Weekly wearing a bikini in Australian Olympic Team's green-and-gold color whilst holding a Beretta double-barrel shotgun. The remuneration she received from the magazine was donated to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.^[7][8]

Lauryn Mark was a contestant on the inaugural series of the Australian television series of Australian Ninja Warrior in 2017.

In 1999, Ogilvie established a corporate entertainment business, "Go Shooting" Pty. Ltd., with Australian Olympic gold medallist Russell Mark. She established the hugely successful "Go Shooting YouTube Channel" in 2018. She married Russell Mark in a surprise wedding ceremony on March 17, 2004, at a Hamilton Island beach. The couple have two children,^[9] Sierra Evelyn Mark (b. 23 June 2005) and Indiana Todd Mark (b. 29 January 2007).