CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Suman Sanghera, 16, of Great Falls, Virginia, was the leading junior air pistol athlete at the 2022 Camp Perry Open – held over the weekend of May 13-15. It was only her second time attending the annual event, but through her strategy of treating every match like a practice, she was […]
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CMP Awards Over 140 Scholarships to Marksmanship Athletes
CAMP PERRY, OH – After careful review, the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has presented 142 scholarships to outstanding junior marksmen through the CMP Scholarship Program for the 2021-2022 school year. Along with a generous $30,000 contribution from the Garand Collectors Association (GCA), the CMP awarded $178,000 in scholarships to remarkable young individuals from across the […]
Junior Caroline Martin Responds to Down Year by Discovering Merit On and Off the Range
Caroline Martin, 17, of Nemo, Texas, has been a member of the Granbury High School Marine Corps JROTC precision air rifle team since her freshman year. The team is full of talent – recently earning its fifth consecutive JROTC National Three-Position Air Rifle Championship national title in March while producing a number of other team […]
Granbury’s Folsom is the National Female Ultimate Fitness Champion
Submitted by Lt. Col. Scott Casey, Senior Marine Instructor, Granbury High School MCJROTC Cadet Lt. Col. Sarah Folsom, a member of the Granbury High School MCJROTC Pirate Nation Physical Training (PT) Team and the National Champion Precision Air Rifle Team, competed in the National JROTC Fitness Challenge April 15, 2022, in Daytona Beach, Florida, and […]
Results in for First Quarter of CMP’s Aces Postal Air Gun Competition
Scores are now final for the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Aces Postal Air Gun Competition for the first quarter. The mail-in style competition is fired in four quarters, with Q1 running from January to March. During the event, participants fire in air rifle, air pistol and para matches from their home ranges before sending scores […]
USAMU Athlete, Olympian Refines Impressive Rifle Career Through Precision and Love of the Sport
Alison Weisz, 26, is a self-proclaimed “nerd in life.” She’s a lover of science, specifically sports science, and has dedicated herself to a careful plan of calculated nutrition, weight-lifting, cardio, recovery, periodization and mental training that has helped carry her to success on the national and world stage. “I guess my interest for learning new […]
CMP Announces April Monthly Air Gun Match Results
The results are in for the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) April Monthly Air Gun Matches. The event was held April 23 at the Gary Anderson CMP Competition Center at Camp Perry, Ohio, and the South CMP Competition Center in Anniston, Alabama. The Ohio location saw over 140 entries, while the Alabama location saw over 50. […]
Scholastic Action Shooting Program’s Intercollegiate Pistol National Championship
In March, the 2022 SASP Intercollegiate Pistol Nationals were held at the CMP Talladega Marksmanship Park and South Airgun Range. The youth development program held back to back collegiate championships, with the international pistol events beginning after new champions were crowned at the SASP Action College Nationals. Collegiate shooting teams went head to head in international pistol events, […]
Teresa Casey, JROTC Air Rifle Championship Pioneer, Celebrates Retirement
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) would like to wish a happy retirement to Teresa Casey, who officially retired from Naval Service Training Command NJROTC Program Support on Jan. 31, 2022. In the world of junior air rifle, Casey was an essential part of molding one of CMP’s most popular events of the year, the Junior […]
Rifle Competitor Julie Klusmeier Plans Wedding Around CMP Air Gun Matches
“My dad likes to say that ‘shooters are weird,’ and I think he is right about that,” said Julie Klusmeier Landis, an air rifle competitor from Cincinnati, Ohio. “That makes me think of the Dr. Suess quote, ‘We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness […]