New USAS Board Members Elected

The 2008 elections to the USA Shooting Board of Directors has been completed with the election of Olympic gold medalist Launi Meili (Colorado Springs, Colo.) as the director representing USAS coaches and officials. The athletes elected two-time Olympian Connie Smotek (Bryan, Texas) to serve a second term as the Athletes' Advisory Council Representative (AAC) with 2000 Olympian Bill Keever (Rutherfordton, N.C.) being elected as the alternate to the AAC.

At-Large director elections resulted in Allen Harry (Littleton, Colo.) and Leland Nichols (Springfield, Mass.) being reelected to Board and Patrick Laux (Santa Fe, N.M.) was chosen as a new At-Large Director. At the USAS Rifle/Pistol National Championships this past July, Sandra Uptagrafft (Phenix City, Ala.) was elected as the pistol athlete director and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Jason Turner (Rochester, N.Y.) as the alternate. Alternate directors are only elected for athlete positions and serve when the primary director cannot attend meetings or meet other board requirements. All director terms are four years with the exception of the two year At-Large seat of Leland Nichols who was elected to fill Dr. Jim Lally's term. Dr. Lally will be leaving the Board in April due to bylaw term limits.