Zoe Traul and Maddy Maline (front row, third and fourth from left) shot the NRA prone metallic sights completion this summer, and both finished in the top 10 women. This achievement secures them each a spot on the USA Randle Team that competes against Great Britain and the Crown Colony states each year.

In 1952 the NRA challenged Great Britain (England/Scotland/Wales) to an annual rifle match between the countries’ top 10 women’s smallbore prone competitors. The US team is selected each year at the national championships from the prone metallic sight scores with 10 women named to the firing team and two alternates named, which become wind coaches to firing team members.

Once a woman makes the team she is eligible to compete on the Goodwill Randle Team.  The Goodwill Randle Team assembles and competes every 4 years, alternating between the USA and Great Britain.

Elizabeth Harty (B.A.2017) was the first woman from the Michigan Rifle Team to make the Randle Team in 2016 and joined the Goodwill Randle Team that traveled to England in 2017.  Elizabeth’s last Randle Team appearance was in 2022.  Joyce Yu (B.S. 2020) also made the team in 2019 and received the Eleanor Dunn Trophy for as the highest scoring Randle team member that year.

Michigan Rifle’s Head Coach, Mike O’Connor, also had a very successful summer, capturing the 2025 NRA Smallbore Three-Position Title. He also claimed the 2025 NRA Lones Wigger Iron Man Trophy, awarded for the highest combined score across both Smallbore Rifle national championships.

You can read more about his match here.

GO BLUE!