Beloit native competes to be show's 'Top Shot'
Season Three of "Top Shot" premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday on the History Channel. Local residents can see it two hours earlier by attending a DVD presentation, set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Central Christian Church, 2460 Milwaukee Road, Beloit. The viewing is free, but an offering will be taken to benefit the Beloit and Rockford police departments' chaplain programs.
Sara Ahrens served in the Army and as a cop but didn't get serious about marksmanship until she had to shoot a man who was trying to stab her.
Starting Tuesday, people across the country will learn how well the Rockford, Ill., police sergeant can shoot when they view the History Channel's "Top Shot" reality show.
The Beloit native is one of 16 competitors in the show's third season, which begins Tuesday.
Law enforcement officers and others across the stateline area will tune in to see one of their own. They include her sister, Kathy Sukus, who is operations manager for the Rock County 911 Center, and Sukus' husband, Dean, a Janesville police sergeant.
Before the officer-involved shooting in 1998, "I wasn't bad, but I wasn't anything special," she said.
The event was a Rockford police response to a domestic dispute in which a man tried to stab her.
She fired once, wounding him in the abdomen.
"It was a point-and-shoot situation," she said. "It had the effect it needed to.
"Once you feel like someone is trying to murder you, it changes you."
The incident began a journey that took her from OK to quite good on the firing range.
One of the first steps was FBI firearms school, where she changed her grip and her stance and learned other pointers.
"By the end of week, I was shooting better than I ever shot. I had no idea I could shoot that well," she said.
She continued to take training, sometimes on her own.
She felt like a novice when it came to firearms, so she started buying them. She has continued the hobby by buying a few guns each year.
She also branched out. She throws knives, shoots darts from a blowgun and shoots clays.
Ahrens joined Rockford police in 1997. She worked her way up to sergeant. She was a supervisor for the department's SWAT team. She also was the department's supervisor of training and recruiting and range master.
She played tennis and softball at Beloit Memorial High School, graduating in 1991.
"She's been athletic, but I think she's one of those girls that wants to show guys that she can do what they can do," sister Kathy Sukus said. "She's really motivated and likes to challenge herself.
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She throws knives, shoots darts from a blowgun and shoots clays. Ahrens joined Rockford police in 1997. She worked her way up to sergeant. She was a supervisor for the department's SWAT team. She also was the department's supervisor of training and
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