This is the official site of the OSU Varsity Rifle Team Booster Club
Current News
August 19, 2010
We noticed that the lunch flyer for Sept 26th did not include the price for the lunch. The event will be $20 per person.
August 7, 2010
Please join us for lunch with the current Varsity rifle team, rifle
alumni, our fans, and supporters. We will gather at 11:00 am
on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at The Fawcett Center, 2400
Olentangy River Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210. For additional details please see the Event Flyer.
May 9, 2010
On Saturday May 22nd At 6:00 PM, we welcome you to join the Booster Club, Coach Pat Cherry, and the OSU Varsity Rifle Team at Damon's on Olentangy River Road (north of the OSU campus and immediately south of West North Broadway) in Columbus for the OSU Varsity Rifle Team awards dinner. For the Booster Club, the first ten minutes of this event form our Annual Membership Meeting and election of board officers. The main event is sharing dinner with the Varsity and their parents, then enjoying the evening as Coach Cherry distributes several hundred pounds of plaques and medals. Please RSVP Coach Cherry by Wednesday May 19 th at (614) 292-3783 or email CherryP@buckeyes.ath.ohio-state.edu.
March 18, 2010
We just learned that Mr. George Martin Passed away on 15 March 2010 at age 84.
After graduation from High School at North Liverpool, Ohio George joined the Navy and was trained as an Aerial Gunner on a Torpedo Bomber. After the war he attended OSU in 1947 and became the first four year All American in rifle from any university. After graduation from OSU, George did exhibition shooting for Remington Arms Co., where he later became Vice President.
George Martin was the first rifle inductee into the OSU Hall of Fame and has been an avid member of the OSU Rifle Team Booster Club. When we were at the Olympic Training Center George would come down from his home in Littleton Col and visit.
His passing is a loss to OSU and the shooting world.
Sept 11, 2009
We now have more details about out Oct 4th Lunch and Match. The lunch will be at the Fawcett Center at 11:30, with the Match Starting at 2pm.
The dinner will have:
• Historical account of OSU Rifle from 1924 to present
• Introduction of the 2009 – 2010 Varsity Rifle team members
• Lunch: 11:30 am
• Recognition of Elizabeth and Denver Hague
• Featured Speaker: Gary Anderson, Director of the
Civilian Marksmanship Program at Camp Perry Ohio. Mr.
Anderson is a two time Olympic Gold medalist and has
served in several directorships and on several national
and international shooting sports committees and is
considered an expert on the subject of electronic targets.
Aug 31, 2009
With the students about to return to campus the 2009-2010 schedule has been announced.
The first match this year for the team is October 4th, however instead of competing against another college it will be against the booster club. Stay tuned for additional information, but if anyone would like to shoot it will be a half course smallbore and 60 shot air rifle match.
This year the Booster Club will have a tailgating tent beside Converse Hall at the home football games. So be sure to stop by if you are going to the games.
Also Alumni Greg Drown this summer became the 2009 3-Position Any Sight Rifle National Champion.
May 3, 2009
We held the annual booster shoot, and membership meeting inconjunction with the team awards dinner yesterday, and created a new Facebook page 
for the booster club.
April 22, 2009
Annual Membership meeting and Booster Club shoot will be May 2, 2009 at Converse Hall. The shoot will begin at 1:30pm, and the range will be open at noon.
The membership meeting will be held alond with the team's awards dinner at 6:00pm at the Damon's located at 3025 Olentangy River Road.
Oct 18, 2008
Coach Cherry has asked if we would post this questionare for anyone interested in joining the program.
We also updated our flyer (pdf).
Updated the Message from the President, to reflect what was published in the last newsletter.
May 11, 2008
We have added images from the Match and awards dinner.
April 19, 2008
Booster club President Paul Gideon has updated the Message from the President.
April 5, 2008
Well since the last update many things have happened, we have set a tenitive date of May 10th for our annual meeting, annual gruge match, and team awards dinner. We are working on a newsletter so in the comming weeks members should watch their mailboxes.
The team won the WIRC in smallbore and air this year.
James Clark qualified for an individual spot at NCAA Finals in Air this year, and finished 40th.
November 18, 2007
Additional Images have been added for this years team.
This years roster includes (In Alphabetical order):
November 1, 2007
Booster Club President Paul Gideon, has updated the Message from the President just in time for the new season.
The 2007-08 Roster and Shedule has been updated on the team page.
October 7, 2006
Booster Club President Paul Gideon, has updated the Message from the President just in time for the new season.
October 6, 2006
School is now back in session, and the following is a picture of the 2006-07 Team.
(Click on the image for a larger version.)
This years roster includes (In Alphabetical order):
Additional images will be posted of this years team once they are made available by Sports Information.
Also, we are working on another newsletter and if any of the Boosters/Alumni would like to contribute articles or feature ideas please contact us at club@osurifle.org.
August 27, 2006
The Ohio State Varsity "O" Association will induct 12 new members into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame the weekend of Sept. 15-16. Annette Kraml a rifle team member from 1984-87 is a member of this years class.
We also have updated the website so that it includes the Teams 2006-07 schedule. Additionally we have added information for a number of matches that will be held in the coming months.
Once the school year begins we will update the site with the roster, and pictures of the 2006-07 team.
August 20, 2006
Due to infomation provided by Alumni and booster member Greg Drown, we were able to update the Historical Team Roster for the early to mid 1980's.
Also added was a page recapping the 2005-06 season. We should have more information soon on the 2006-07 Team and will post it as soon as school starts.
We would like to also take this update as an opportunity to congratulate our Booster Club President Paul Gideon who won the NRA Smallbore Prone National Title this summer at Camp Perry for the second time.
March 28, 2006
We recently added a list of matches, included a recap of the 2006 NRA Open Sectional, and information on USA Shootings Plans and application form for creating regional training centers.
We are also in the process of adding a downloadable copy of Sam Ohlinger's 10tv interview to the web site and a new newsletter will be arriving soon in your mailbox.
February 2, 2006
Ohio State student-athlete Sam Ohlinger assisting with the Marksman Training Program for the Army's 82nd Airborne
Jan. 12, 2006 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Recently, Ohio State student Sam Ohlinger (So., Lockbourne, Ohio) had a unique opportunity to serve his country at Fort Benning, Georgia. Over winter break, from December 12th-16th, Sam worked in cooperation with the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) to teach advanced marksmanship principles to select army personnel as part of an initiative called the Squad Designated Marksman program (SDM). The SDM program is the brainchild of the Army Marksmanship Unit's commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel David Liwanag. The goal of the program is to increase marksmanship proficiency throughout the Army by eventually having a squad designated marksman, meaning someone with this advanced training, in every squad of the Army.
With the scope of the project being so vast, the AMU quickly realized that it was understaffed. This being the case, they petitioned the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) for help with the program. The CMP organizes the National Matches every year at Camp Perry, Ohio. Since the National Matches were initiated by President Teddy Roosevelt as a way to improve civilian preparedness in case of military crisis, the CMP found this to be an excellent opportunity to fulfill its primary purpose. The CMP alerted competitors of the army's dilemma and invited about 50 highly qualified and accomplished civilian shooters to a training program in June, 2005. From this group, the AMU then selected a little over half of these men to become military rifle instructors.
Sam Ohlinger, at 19, was by far the youngest shooter to apply and be granted this honor. He is the only college student, with most of the new instructors being middle-aged and possessing many more years of experience. Sam is in his second year as a member of the OSU Varsity Rifle Team, but has competed in the military style shooting, called high-power service rifle competition, for the last six years, winning various awards and small honors, including representing America in Bisley, England, as part of a national under 25 year old team in the summer of 2003, and winning a national trophy for being the best civilian service rifle shooter from the state of Ohio at the 2005 National Matches
While in Georgia, he worked directly with members of the army's 82nd Airborne, the most frequently deployed unit in the army. These men had been selected for this advanced training by their expert scores on the army marksmanship qualification course. Sam and the other instructors worked on the principles of sight alignment, sight picture, and trigger control as well as introducing the use of the sling supported position and advanced workings of iron sights. Finally, they worked with the soldiers using scopes and bipods, by this time teaching them to make shots at a range of 600 yards, doubling these soldiers effective range in the field from the standard army training that does not exceed 300 yards. All the soldiers were very enthusiastic about the program and appreciative of the time and effort put in by the AMU and the civilian volunteers. Sam is honored and privileged to be a part of this vast initiative with such important implications for improving our soldier's effectiveness and safety in the field.
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