CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Mark your calendars! The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is thrilled to announce SGT Sagen Maddalena of the U.S. Military Marksmanship Unit because the 2025 Nationwide Matches First Shot Speaker. She’s going to take her ceremonial first shot on July 14 at 4:30 p.m. on the Camp Perry Nationwide Guard Coaching Facility’s historic Rodriguez Vary in Port Clinton, Ohio.
Since 1907, the Nationwide Trophy Rifle and Pistol Matches have been held at Camp Perry – welcoming every era’s most proficient marksmen and girls from across the nation in addition to these hoping to be taught extra in regards to the sport. The First Shot Ceremony serves as the normal opening to the month-long competitors season, whereas the First Shot speaker is an honored distinction amongst the marksmanship neighborhood.
SGT Maddalena started her profession as a junior on the California Grizzlies highpower rifle group. As a Grizzly, she garnered a number of successes together with the Freedom’s Fireplace Trophy as a member of the best scoring group within the Nationwide Matches Junior Rifle Group Match in 2013. Maddalena went on to affix the College of Alaska Fairbanks rifle group earlier than heading to the Military.
After a number of successes on a world stage, she made her Olympic debut on the 2020 Tokyo Video games earlier than returning to Group USA for the 2024 Paris Video games in each air rifle and smallbore – incomes silver within the ladies’s three-position match.
The CMP is honored to have her again to kick off the 2025 Nationwide Matches!
In regards to the Nationwide Matches:
The Nationwide Matches schedule is comprised of the Trophy Pistol and Rifle Matches, Nationwide Video games Matches, Nationwide Smallbore Matches, Nationwide Air Gun Championships and the Nationwide Mid-Vary and Lengthy Vary Matches. Together with a number of aggressive alternatives, the Nationwide Matches consists of a wide range of instructional clinics for all expertise ranges in addition to buying picks from a few of as we speak’s main business distributors.
Plan your go to to the 2025 Nationwide Matches and look at the schedule of occasions at https://thecmp.org/cmp-national-matches/.
The Civilian Marksmanship Program is a federally chartered 501 (c) (3) non-profit company. It’s devoted to firearm security and marksmanship coaching and to the promotion of marksmanship competitors for residents of the USA. For extra details about the CMP and its packages, log onto www.TheCMP.org.
