SHOOTING: Emily Esposito isn't a typical 21-year-old. Between studying at university and working two jobs, she spends her days travelling across Australia and around the world as a professional shooter.
She finished 11th in the women's 10m air pistol at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and reached her first major senior final in the same discipline at the recent 2015 Universiade.
Now her sights are set on qualifying for next year's Rio Olympics.
It's a feat her brother and sister Max and Chloe achieved earlier this month, becoming Australia's first confirmed athletes for the 2016 Games in modern pentathlon.
If she joins them, it'll be the first time the country has had three family members on the same Olympic team.
But Emily isn't feeling the pressure.
"It's awesome that they've qualified, but I need to my job to get there myself," she told AAP.
"It'll obviously be lovely to go with them, but we'll see."
Her next major competition is the ISSF World Cup in Azerbaijan, starting next week.
Her results will go some way towards qualification, but that won't be known until May.
The Sydney-born shooter lives on her own in Melbourne, with the rest of her family now based in Hungary.
Her father, who contested the modern pentathlon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, coaches Max and Chloe, while her mother is part of their support crew.
"It's very hard being away from them, we're very close," she said.
Rarely does she get a day off, with her studies in speech therapy, waitress work and a gig at an entertainment company filling every minute she's not training or competing.
"If I get an afternoon off it's the best thing ever.
"To get a full day off - no training, no work, no uni - is golden."
Esposito relies mostly on donations from family, friends, her university and shooting clubs to fund the travel she need to do to compete - which is at least once or twice a month.
"It's really hard," she said. "You see the big sports like swimming, and they've got a lot of sponsors and they get paid to do it.
"I don't get paid to do this. I get support going to my trips and what not, but I have to get my own funding.
"There's only a set budget that shooting can give to athletes, and when that runs out you've basically got to fend for yourself.
"It's incredibly hard because there's all these comps you want to do, but you can't because there's no money there."
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