Education
He attended South Dakota State University for two years majoring in agriculture, before he transferred to Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, where he studied emergency management.
He attended South Dakota State University for two years majoring in agriculture, before he transferred to Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, where he studied emergency management.
Beaman started his sporting career as an avid archer, until he decided to try out for shooting at his teenage years. Beaman also qualified for the men"s 10 m air pistol at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second from the United States. Olympic Team Trials in Fort Benning, Georgia. He had finished on exactly the same score of 682.0 points (581 in the preliminary rounds and 101 in the final), as his teammate Jason Turner, but lost in a shoot-off by two tenths of a point (02) for a bonus of 10.3.
Beaman initially placed fifth in this event, but was upgraded to a higher position, when North of Korea"s Kim Jong-Su tested positive for propranolol, and consequently, stripped of his bronze medal.
In 2011, Beaman had won a bronze medal for the men"s 10 m air pistol at the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, Georgia, with a score of 686.6 points. Since 2008, Beaman had been competing at the ISSF World Cup, where he achieved numerous top-ten finishes in air (AP60) and free pistol (FP). He also won silver medals for the 10 m air pistol at the United States. national championships, and claimed his first ever career title at the 2010 Championships of the Americas (Centre for Alternative Technology Games) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with an impressive score of 682.3 points (580 in the preliminary rounds and 1023 in the final).
Beaman eventually became a member of the rifle shooting team for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, until he was approached by United States. national pistol coach Erich Buljung, silver medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, to switch from rifle to pistol.
