Following impressive national showings at both the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) National Championship and the Sig Sauer Relentless Warrior Championship, the Corps of Cadets Marksmanship Unit (CCMU) is among the most decorated collegiate marksmanship teams for the 2023-2024 season.
College Station, TX. APRIL 8th, 2024- The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Marksmanship Unit has once again claimed numerous awards on the national level. Founded in the fall of 2011, the team’s 12th season has solidified their status as one of the nation’s most decorated collegiate marksmanship teams.
In early March, the CCMU traveled to Talladega, Alabama to compete in the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) National Championship, with the team divided into two squads of four, designated Maroon and White. The CCMU’s Maroon team earned the first place title in two competition divisions after competing against several universities from around the nation, including the Virginia Military Institute. The White team placed fifth overall. In addition to the championship title, all four members of the Maroon team were ranked in the top ten individual shooters for both divisions. The team’s victory in Talladega marks their eighth national title at the event in the last decade.
Weeks after claiming the SASP Title, the same team of cadets traveled to Epping, New Hampshire to compete in the Sig Sauer Relentless Warrior Championship. This competition features a combat style 3-Gun match and is attended by all the United States Service Academies, Senior Military Colleges and the Canadian Royal Military Academy. Texas A&M’s CCMU placed second overall, and also claimed the Top Gun and High Lady Shooter awards, among other individual awards. In the eight years that CCMU has participated in this competition, the team has consistently placed within the top two teams.
The CCMU is one of 11 athletics teams offered through the Corps of Cadets. The team is one of the few Corps athletics teams that competes and achieves success nationally. This elite team is comprised of 27 members from across the country. Members undergo a rigorous training and try-out process before being hand selected for the team.
Dating to 1876, the Corps of Cadets is the oldest and largest student organization at Texas A&M University. Leveraging a military based cultural model throughout the four year leadership training program, the Corps prepares cadets to lead at the community, state, and national levels and produces some of the nation’s finest leaders in the public, private and military sectors. Texas A&M is one of the few schools to offer military commissions in all branches of service with the Corps remaining one of the largest uniformed bodies of students in the nation. Membership in the Corps carries no military obligation, with over half of current cadets not pursuing a military commission.
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Media contact: Robin Nelson, Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, 979-862-1922, [email protected].