Newspaper clipping. Tricia Foster. National Rifle Championships. Camp Perry, OH., Aug. 1970
Scope and Contents
Sunday Star, Aug.22,1970. "Area Women Outshoot Men at Perry" Two of the sensational winners in the Championships are both women. One is Tricia Foster, 25, mother of 18 mo.-old daughter (Anne), wife of Army Maj. now instructing So.Vietnamese in his specialty-like hers, marksmanship. At Camp Perry, she won the Natl.Smallbore Metallic Sights Prone title, etc. She also was women's champ in the 4-position smallbore rifle at Camp Perry last summer and made the U.S. team for the World Championships in Phoenix AZ. But the victory over all comers in the iron-sight smallbore prone at Perry put her in a class very few women achieve in the U.S. or elsewhere. Since becoming a mother, she has shot far better, she says, and with a cooler attitude....The discomfort of shooting while pregnant made her violate all the old rules about position-a heresy among purist smallborers and she got better and somehow looser doing this. To relieve some of her husband's absence, she is taking up high power rifle shooting, usually .30 caliber, the Int'l version, a grueling endurance match at 300 meters. She's been practicing it and plans to enter a match. Foster has another pursuit, nutrition. She is majoring in it as a junior at the Univ.of MD, where she lives with her Navy-retired parents pending reassignment of her husband.
Dates
- Aug. 1970
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