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May/June 2010 Left to Right: Kim Rhode, Vincent Hancock, Corey Cogdell & Glenn Eller In 2008, The USA Shooting Shotgun Team recorded the most medals won by any country— four—taking on the toughest competitors in the world with Winchester AA ammunition. The Choice Of Champions. Winchester AA Target Loads • Hard shot for tight patterns • Clean burning AA primer and powder • Reloadable high-strength hull • Loads for every shooter’s needs ® ® Official Ammunition of the learn more // www.winchester.com USA Shooting Shotgun Team ©2009. Winchester Ammunition. MaY/Jun 2010 Contents voluMe 18, no.3 FEATURES 20 Corey Cogdell; Blessed with Bronze ■ Katie McGinty 24 Nationals 2010 ■ Bill Roy 26 USA Shooting Team Foundation ■ Buddy DuVall DISCIPLINES 13 Pistol ■ Ray Arredondo 17 Rifle ■ Amy Sowash 18 Shotgun ■ Connie Smotek COLUMNS 4 From the Editor ■ Katie McGinty 6 Aim with AMU ■ SFC Theresa DeWitt 8 On the Firing Line ■ J.P. O’Connor 10 Coaches’ Corner ■ Katie McGinty and Paralympic Coach Bob Foth ON THE COMPLEX 28 Thoughts from: The Executive Director Competitions Marketing 32 31 NEWS & EVENTS Kim Rhode shooting her way to another gold medal at the 2010 World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Marco Dalla Dea, © 2010 ISSF. www.usashooting.org 3 From the Editor USA Shooting 1 Olympic Plaza Colorado Springs, CO 80909 Phone: 719-866-4670 Your uSA Shooting newS Administration Fax: 719-635-7989 Competitions Fax: 719-866-4884 elcome to your magazine. As a new USAS mem- Lindsay Brooke Competitions Manager ber and rookie staff member of USA Shooting, 719-866-4885 [email protected] I’m attempting to learn in leaps and bounds – feel Calah Duryea free to help me if you offer expertise in a par- Coaches’ Assistant/Team Manager 719-866-4611 ticular area. Please bear with me as I learn more [email protected] about your unique sport. Fear not, I have wielded a gun or two in my Buddy DuVall Wday, but not in a competitive setting. I’m not a greenhorn, but I’m also Director of Marketing 719-866-4880 not a Lones Wigger. Check out www.usashooting.com for my new [email protected] hire press release and some more information about your new editor. Bret Erickson National Shotgun Coach As we gear up for the US National Junior Olympic Championships, 719-866-4682 I am blown-away by the number of young athletes, parents, and bags [email protected] Lisa Erickson of equipment in the hallway. Shooters, I hope you take a moment to thank those who have helped Operation and Administrative Assistant 719-866-4682 you on the path to your dreams. I had the opportunity to chat with a very talented and grateful [email protected] athlete this month and I am happy that she is setting a good example for the younger generation. Bob Foth It was my pleasure to interview bronze medalist Corey Cogdell and a treat to talk with her father, National Paralympic Coach 719-866-4881 Richard, via telephone. It is refreshing to see a young athlete who has worked hard for her success [email protected] and remembers to thank those that have helped her along the way. I wish you as much joy reading David Johnson National Rifle Coach the article as I had writing it. 719-866-4630 [email protected] Nicole Levine Competitions Assistant 719-866-4882 “Shooters, I hope you take a moment to [email protected] Sergey Luzov National Pistol Coach thank those who have helped you on the 719-866-4615 [email protected] path to your dreams.” Katie McGinty Media & Public Relations Manager 719-866-4896 [email protected] The “Corey Cogdell: Blessed with Bronze” that you will read in this magazine is an abridged Robert Mitchell Chief Executive Officer version. Please refer to www.usashooting.org for the extended version, including her story from 719-866-4899 the 2007 Olympic Selection match and the reason behind Mrs. Cogdell’s decision to home school [email protected] Nichole Rae Corey and her sister. This is a new feature that we are pleased to bring our readers. We are limited Membership & Merchandise Manager 719-866-4743 by the number of words that go to print, so we have decided to post the extended versions online. [email protected] This is one of many changes that you will see in the upcoming few issues and through the Media/ Bill Roy Public Relations arm of USA Shooting. Director of Operations 719-866-4890 I have a distinctive writing style and clear-cut ideas for improving your magazine. With the help [email protected] of Mrs. Claire Sanderson, our very talented designer, I am looking forward to making some altera- Corrie West Marketing Manager tions. Is there something missing? If your USA Shooting News is not up to par, then please let me 719-866-4616 know how I can work to improve one of your many member benefits. [email protected] Karie Wright The next few editions will be part of my learning process as I begin to settle into a groove. In the Controller meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions (I’ll answer what I can), story ideas, 719-866-4887 athlete features, and more. Also, feel free to send me your articles or pictures – I will read and re- Editor: Katie McGinty Designer: Claire Sanderson spond to every submission, and if your content is appropriate for our readership, then you will get a Printing: Sport Graphics page or two in the magazine. Again, welcome to your new USA Shooting News and I look forward Cover Photo: Tom Kimmell to meeting you in the near future . did I mention that the Shotgun National Championships are Contributors: Ray Arredondo in July in Colorado Springs? I know a great hotel . and hope to see many of you there. Lindsay Brooke ■ Katie McGinty Marco Dalla Dea SFC Theresa DeWitt Buddy DuVall Bob Foth Bill Honza USA Shooting News is published six times a year. USA Shooting is the national governing body for Olympic Shooting sports Bob Mitchell in the United States. USA Shooting News is produced as a service to international shooters, coaches, officials and media who JP O’Connor Bill Roy cover Olympic-style shooting. Shooters featured in USA Shooting News magazine may be photographed without eye protec- Connie Smotek tion. These are posed photographs using unloaded guns and do not represent actual competiton. USA Shooting encourages Amy Sowash Jennifer Wilder all shooters to use proper eye and ear protection when shooting. Inclusion of advertisements in USA Shooting does not constitiute endorsement of advertised products or services by USA Shooting, its staff or its sponsors. 4 USA Shooting News They say you’re only as good as the company you keep. For us, it's a bragging right. At Cabela’s, developing, testing and evaluating gear is a big part of what we do every day. It’s our job to make sure the products we sell live up to your expectations. For us, cabelas.com | 888.888.4370 that’s business as usual. As an Olympic Medalist I know the importance of having top quality equipment that you can trust when the shot really counts, weather I’m on the range or in the fi eld Cabela’s provides me with equipment I can trust. Corey Cogdell Cabela’s Pro Staff DCW-001 Inc. © 2009 Cabela’s 18018_USAshootingmag.indd 1 12/1/09 8:17:04 AM Columns (Aim with AMU) Preserving Our Past hey say time marches on; how- that Patton, “hated to lose, but he was a good concluded, the “police action” in Korea drew ever, if we are lucky, we may competitor.” to a close and in 1956, President Dwight D. catch whispers of the past in In the course of Tibbets’ military career, Eisenhower issued a directive ordering the our haste to move forward. If he volunteered for the mission of piloting establishment of the United States Army you have been to Hook Range at the aircraft that was to drop the first atomic Marksmanship Unit. Its mission was to en- the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit for a trap bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on hance the overall marksmanship skills of U.S. Tor skeet match in the last few months, those August 6, 1945. Tibbets attained the rank of soldiers. By the fall of 1960, Hook Range and whispers could be heard more distinctly as Brigadier General (BG) before retiring from the Round House were now home to the new- the thumping of hammers reviving a dying the U.S. Air Force. The years rolled by; WWII ly formed International Shotgun Team. icon. The Round House, or “Big House” as referred to by USAMU shotgun team mem- bers, is getting a much deserved, and long overdue, facelift. This architecturally unique structure has a history studded with military generals, Hollywood legends and, of course, Olympians. But its origins are much humbler. Fort Benning began as a southern planta- tion spanning hundreds of thousands of acres. In 1918, it became a training post for World War I infantry troops. The undeveloped acre- age offered a variety of activities, such as hunting, for stationed soldiers. In 1938, the U.S. Army built the Round House on the for- mer southeastern edge of the developed area of Fort Benning. Its purpose was to function as a hunting lodge, but it was officially consid- ered an annex to the Officer’s Club. The con- struction of the Round House coincided with the designation of Hook Range as the Fort Benning Skeet Range.
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