Action Shooting Sports team reaps four national titles in Alabama

Liberty University’s Action Shooting Sports team sent two four-shooter squads to this past weekend’s Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) Collegiate National Championships in Talladega, Ala., and finished first in three events.

The Flames won the Tammy L. Mowry Rifle Cup, a traveling trophy for best overall rifle team.

The various events involved timed competitions with rifle and pistol shooting at targets set up at various locations on a range at the CMP Talladega Marksmanship Park.

“It was a wonderful weekend for the team, winning every category in which we entered and placing third with the second squad in one category, with several exceptional individual achievements,” Head Coach Bill Crawford said. “Our team went down and performed exceptionally well, beating out teams that did likewise.”

The Action Shooting team is one of three teams in Liberty’s Shooting Sports program, along with shotgun and rifle. The teams are part of Liberty’s Club Sports program and practice on ranges at the university’s Liberty Mountain Gun Club, a full-service shooting facility built for the use of Liberty students, faculty, and staff.

The Flames finished first out of seven Rimfire Rifle Iron Sights teams in 2 minutes, 45.52 seconds, seven Rimfire Rifle Optic Sights squads in 2:49.39, and seven Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) foursomes in 2:43.29. A second Liberty team also placed third in the Rimfire Rifle Iron Sights division in 3:00.73. The Flames entered one squad into the Rimfire Pistol Iron Sights event, which also took home first-place honors in 2:57.8.

Individually, the Flames had the second- through fifth-place winners in the Rimfire Pistol Iron Sights category. (Read more competition results on the team’s webpage.)

This coming weekend’s NRA Intercollegiate Club Rifle Championships at Fort Benning, Ga., was canceled and next week’s scheduled ACUI Shotgun National Championships in San Antonio, Texas, have been postponed until May at the earliest as precautionary measures in response to the spread of COVID-19.