United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

Despite the loss of some excellent shooters to graduation this past year, the United States Coast Guard Academy Pistol team has experienced an inspiring and exceptional season. With a returning member 2/c Rabii Boughdiri and led by captains 1/c Eric Eng and 2/c Brian Howard, the senior members had plenty of obstacles including teaching the new members as well as personally setting higher standard for themselves. The newcomers this season not only had large shoes to fill but in addition high expectations to achieve. Yet, with a primarily junior and inexperienced team the Coast Guard Academy was able to send five shooters 1/c Eric Eng, 2/c Rabii Boughdiri, 2/c Mike Langelier, 2/c Alyssa McDonald and 4/c Joshua Schwartz to nationals to compete on a free, standard , and air team. 1/c Eric Eng and 4/c Joshua Schwartz should also be congratulated for receiving personal invites to nationals in the events of free and standard. At nationals there were outstanding finishes by 1/c Eric Eng in standard taking 19th and 18th in free, 4/c Joshua Schwartz taking 31st in free, 2/c Mike Langelier taking 25th in standard and 2/c Alyssa McDonald taking 40th in air.

As we look ahead to next season with the newly elected co-captains 2/c Alyssa McDonald and 2/c Mike Langelier, we must unfortunately say goodbye to 2/c Brian Howard who will be training for the Boston Marathon and 1/c Eric Eng to commencement. Thank you both for your time, experience, and unyielding patience this past season. Eric may you enter the fleet with fair weather, following seas, and always remember Semper Pistol.

Pistol - 2007-2008 Season Preview/ 2006-07 Review

SEASON PREVIEW

The pistol team is being lead this year by 1/c Eric Eng, one of our two returning seniors. With six of our top eight shooters graduating last year the team is really looking to our underclass to have breakout seasons. During the off season the team was able to refurbish 10 of our standard pistols and replace some of our older free pistols. This will be the first time in over 20 years that the team has purchased new free pistols. With the new shooters and the new weapons we are looking forward to an action packed season.

SEASON REVIEW

The 2006-2007 season for pistol was a great year with a team anchored by many seniors. The team performed well throughout the season steadily improving on the road to nationals. At the U.S. Military Academy sectionals 1/c Lundin won the silver medal in air pistol 1/c Murtaugh won the silver medal in free and the gold medal in sport pistol and a gold medal in women’s air pistol.

The team went on to take 6th in the nation overall behind Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1st), U.S. Military Academy (2nd), U.S. Naval Academy (3rd), University of Utah (4th), and The Ohio State University (5th). As you will notice all of these schools are Division 1 schools. In pistol there are no divisions so we often compete and win against schools that have many times more students than we have. 1/c Murtaugh had a stand out performance in women’s sport pistol and took 4th in the nation. It was a very productive season and the first class cadets will be sorely missed the next year.