The Most Unlikely Champion

When Vera Koo enrolled in a firearm safety course in the late 1980s, she couldn?t have looked more out of a place. She was a petite, Chinese-American woman in a class of mostly men. She had no idea this ?man?s world? was about to turn her life upside down. In The Most Unlikely Champion, she shares her story of perseverance that eventually transformed her into the most unlikely pistol champion, an eight-time winner of the Bianchi Cup, America?s most prestigious action-pistol championship. In this memoir, she narrates how she had plenty of experience as a woman in a man?s world. She?d grown up in Hong Kong, where conservative Chinese values told women their place was in the home, where they would serve their husbands as supportive wives and mothers. When Koo was twelve, her father moved the family to the United States. With new opportunities came new challenges. Koo and her husband, Carlos, navigated the male-dominated world of real estate, only to find their business teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. They tried to build a family, but were shaken, time and again, by unexpected tragedies. Throughout the journey, she developed a deep faith in God which helped her the survive pain and disappointment threatening to crush her. The Most Unlikely Champion tells a story of triumph and tragedy, persistence, and pain. But more than that, it?s about how faith and hard work can help a person achieve more than they thought possible.