Michael Christopher Tilley a.k.a Chris Tilley was born in Winston Salem, NC 1985 on May 6th.  He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and started shooting at the age of 12. His dad built Raleigh’s first indoor shooting facility in 1996.  Cazz, one of the instructors at his dad’s range took Chris to his first match in the summer of 1997.  Nine years later Chris wins the Open National Championship and does it at the youngest age ever of 21. In 2002 Chris Won the Junior World Championship and held it until 2008 the longest that a Junior has ever done before! Chris Won the first point series in 2003 and over the past 11 years has won over 50 major matches and 2 National Championships.  Over the past 4 years Chris has been teaching and has instructed more than 1000 students. 

Chris has been playing hockey and the 2007 season was the highest scoring player in his league.

On June 2009 Chris married his lovely wife Marianna.  They still live in Raleigh and work as a team traveling and competing in matches  all over the world.