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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 5, 2003
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern
College staff member and alumna Tonya Drake of McCalla recently
donned a pistol and
holster to win the overall Ladies Championship for Cowboy Action
Shooting in Alabama.
The Alabama state championship was held
this fall in Grant, Ala., by members of the Cowboy Action Shooting
Club “The North Alabama Regulators,” which
is affiliated with the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS). The club is
one of four in Alabama.
The annual contest is made up of men, women, and children of
all ages dressed in authentic western clothing who compete in several
shooting events with pistols,
rifles, and double barrel/pump shotguns. The guns used by the clubs are both
authentic and replicated firearms of those used between 1860 and 1899. The
shooting takes place over several stages using numerous targets and different
scenarios.
Drake won the Ladies Championship by achieving the best time
in shooting out of all the women competing from Alabama. She qualified
for the regional championship
of Cowboy Action Shooting that will be held in Georgia in May 2004. Drake
has practiced shooting for more than a year and uses a 45-colt
caliber gun.
The SASS, which consists of more than 300 clubs across the U.S.,
holds a membership of more than 35,000 individuals and attracts
hundreds of shooters and thousands
of spectators each year.
Drake, who is a staff accountant in the
college's Comptroller's
Office, has been employed with BSC for seven years. She is a 1996 graduate
of Birmingham-Southern. |