Daniel Carlisle, Ruby Fox to be inducted into U.S. International Shooting Hall of Fame
USA Shooting has officially announced the induction of Ruby Fox and Daniel Carlisle into the U.S. International Shooting Hall of Fame for 2008.
Carlisle (Austin, Texas) is one of the most successful shotgun shooters in history. Carlisle started shooting American Trap competitively at the age of 14. In 1975, at the age of 18, Carlisle joined the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit and that same year won the Pan American Games. From 1975-1988, Carlisle won 14 gold, two silver and two bronze medals in international shooting events. He was a member of two Olympic teams, claiming the bronze medal in Men’s Trap at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At the Seoul, Korea Games of 1988, Carlisle competed in both the trap and skeet events, where he finished fourth in skeet and ninth in trap. Carlisle was within a trigger pull in 1988 of placing an Olympic medal in skeet next to his 1984 Olympic medal in trap.
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New USAS Board Members Elected
The 2008 elections to the USA Shooting Board of Directors has been completed with the election of Olympic gold medalist Launi Meili (Colorado Springs, Colo.) as the director representing USAS coaches and officials. The athletes elected two-time Olympian Connie Smotek (Bryan, Texas) to serve a second term as the Athletes’ Advisory Council Representative (AAC) with 2000 Olympian Bill Keever (Rutherfordton, N.C.) being elected as the alternate to the AAC.
At-Large director elections resulted in Allen Harry (Littleton, Colo.) and Leland Nichols (Springfield, Mass.) being reelected to Board and Patrick Laux (Santa Fe, N.M.) was chosen as a new At-Large Director. At the USAS Rifle/Pistol National Championships this past July, Sandra Uptagrafft (Phenix City, Ala.) was elected as the pistol athlete director and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Jason Turner (Rochester, N.Y.) as the alternate. Alternate directors are only elected for athlete positions and serve when the primary director cannot attend meetings or meet other board requirements. All director terms are four years with the exception of the two year At-Large seat of Leland Nichols who was elected to fill Dr. Jim Lally’s term. Dr. Lally will be leaving the Board in April due to bylaw term limits.
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USA Shooting Announces Glenn Eller, Kim Rhode as 2008 Athletes of the Year
USA Shooting is pleased to announce that 2008 Olympic gold medalist Glenn Eller (Katy, Texas) and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Kim Rhode (El Monte, Calif.) have been selected as the 2008 USAS Athletes of the Year.
These athletes were chosen based on the USAS Athlete of the Year Policies and Procedures and were selected by a points system.
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