CMP Three-Position Air Rifle Camps Begin 10th Season

By Sommer Wood, Staff Writer/Editor

Back: Andrew Hahn, Joseph Hall, Ray Geyer, Brad Donoho, Cameron Hicks Front: Vicki Goss, Jennifer Marshall, Natasha Dinsmore, Katie Harrington

The 2006 CMP Three-Position Air Rifle Camps mark a decade for a program that has influenced countless young shooters across the country and is revered as the premier camp of its kind. This year’s schedule and staff plan to carry forward the standards that campers and coaches have come to expect.

The camp is once again led by Dr. Dan Durben, who is serving as the Camp Director for a third season. Durben is a 1988 Olympian, was the National Rifle Coach from 1996 through 2000 when he coached the U. S. Olympic Shooting Team. He coached the National Paralympic Shooting Team in the 2004 Paralympics. The camp’s assistant director is CMP staff member Sommer Wood, who was a member of the Clemson University Club Rifle Team. Returning staff this year are Vicki Goss and Brad Donoho from the University of Kentucky, Natasha Dinsmore from West Virginia University, Katie Harrington from the University of Nebraska, and Joseph Hall from Jacksonville State University. New camp counselors this year are Andrew Hahn of Memphis State, Jennifer Marshall of North Carolina State, Ray Geyer of the University of Kentucky, and Cameron Hicks of Murray State.

The camps will begin this summer in Channelview, Texas on 5 June. Then the staff travels to Fort Benning, Georgia on 11-17 June to participate in the USA Shooting National Championships and also to conduct the second CMP Advanced Camp, which was an invitation-only camp for outstanding juniors who attended CMP summer camps in previous years. From Fort Benning, the camp travels to Spartanburg, South Carolina and the campus of Wofford College on 17-21 June. Oceanside, California will be the next stop for the CMP camps on 27 June-1 July; spaces are still available for this camp for anyone interested in attending. The staff then returns to Fort Benning to conclude the camp season with three weeks of regular camps plus a three-day session designed for coaches. The Coaches Camp will be held 6-8 July and still has space available; the regular camps run 11-29 July and all of these camps are full with waiting lists.

For more information about the camps or to keep track of scores from the end-of-camp matches, visit the CMP website at www.odcmp.com.