In March 2021, Deshaun Jenkins squeezed his first competition trigger. By May 2024 he was a USPSA Grand Master, the highest classification the sport hands out. That arc usually shows up in highlight reels and end-of-year features, not on a résumé. Now it’s on Team CZ’s letterhead.
The Czech-rooted firearms maker confirmed this week that Jenkins, an Atlanta native with a public-safety background and a coaching practice that has quietly produced its own pipeline of new shooters, has joined its U.S. competition roster. He’ll be shooting the Shadow 2 platform at major USPSA matches through the season.
“I’m excited to join CZ and represent a brand that has such a strong reputation in competitive shooting,” Jenkins said. “From the first time I shot the Shadow 2 platform, I knew it was something special. I’m looking forward to pushing myself and competing at the highest level with equipment I trust.”
What sets Jenkins apart isn’t only the speed of his climb, although hitting Master Class in Carry Optics division inside of 12 months is hardly a footnote. Where most shooters spend years calibrating to a single division and a single gun, Jenkins has been trading platforms like a working musician trades guitars: Limited Optics, Factory Gun and Race Gun. He took the overall win at the 2023 Atlanta Practical Shooting Championship, walked away with the Limited Optics title at the 2025 Alabama State Championship and added a Limited Optics win at the 2025 Dragons Cup for good measure.
Off the timer he runs his own coaching operation as an NRA-certified instructor, building rookies into match-ready competitors and posting the receipts to a social audience north of 14,000 followers on Instagram: @DJenks412. Before any of that, he worked public safety in downtown Atlanta and also spent time on the private security side.
CZ-USA Marketing Director Chris Sprangers framed the signing as a fit issue more than a numbers play, pointing in particular to Jenkins’s investment in the competition shooters coming up behind him.
Team CZ already carries some of the louder names on the practical shooting circuit. Adding Jenkins gives the roster a young USPSA Grand Master who can win across categories and translate the discipline of the sport to a generation of shooters who found him on their phones before they ever saw him on a stage.
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