Native New England Collegiate Shooters Earn 2016 Honors

 

With the end of the NCAA and NRA Collegiate season comes the recognition of outstanding performances on the range and in the classroom.

NRA All American honors were bestowed on The Ohio State’s senior Remington Lyman who was named to the second team in both smallbore and air rifle. Mackenzie Martin, a freshman at Murray State, also earned second team honors in smallbore and Honorable Mention air while Kentucky junior Sonya May was second team air.

The Colligate Rifle Coaches Association announced its Scholastic All Americans which included The Ohio State’s Lyman, Bailey Urbach, and Brenden Whitaker, Martin from Murray, Akron’s Dani Makucevich and Rebecca Green, and May from Kentucky.

Lyman and Martin both posted combined smallbore and air averages that placed them in ten top 17 of all collegiate shooters.

About Hap Rocketto

Hap Rocketto is a Distinguished Rifleman with service and smallbore rifle, member of The Presidents Hundred, and the National Guard’s Chief’s 50. He is a National Smallbore Record holder, a member of the 1600 Club and the Connecticut Shooters’ Hall Of Fame. He was the 2002 Intermediate Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion, the 2012 Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion a member of the 2007 and 2012 National Four Position Indoor Championship team, coach and captain of the US Drew Cup Team, and adjutant of the United States 2009 Roberts and 2013 Pershing Teams. Rocketto is very active in coaching juniors. He is, along with his brother Steve, a cofounder of the Corporal Digby Hand Schützenverein. A historian of the shooting sports, his work appears in Shooting Sports USA, the late Precision Shooting Magazine, The Outdoor Message, the American Rifleman, the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s website, and most recently, the apogee of his literary career, pronematch.com.
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