I have a great story about Margaret Murdock. after she won a ton of rifle medals she started trying the polar opposite shooting sport-ISU skeet (which was my speciality) . IN 1988, she competed in the Skeet Trials. Normally one had to shoot a qualifying score to attend (170/200=which is akin to say a 220 bowling game) this event which also was the national championships but there were less than 120 people who both qualified and entered so there were so open spots and LtC Murdock entered ( I believe her brother or brother in law was a former army shotgun athlete and she came with him)
well on the last day of practice she is on my squad. We had two young hotshots and SSGT Matt Dryke-the defending gold medalist and a three time world champion. well MM wasn't exactly crushing the targets and the two young hotshots went up to Matt and I and started saying "WTF is this old lady doing here-she sucks". and I just looked at Matt and he reached in his pocket and pulled out a cigarette. He said "boys. that old lady has more championships than I do, and if you take this cigarette and walk way over to the fence (about 90 yards away) and hold it up, that old lady can take her 22 rifle and shoot that thing in half 100 times in a row.
Neat lady. many people thought she actually won the gold medal instead of Lanny Basham (who was one of my coaches and said that he thought she had won as well so during the medal ceremony, he pulled her up to the top slot on the podium
He has made millions as a mental management consultant to many top athletes
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