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Driscoll Named MAC Smallbore Shooter of the Month
Philadelphia, Pa. (December 23, 2010) - University of the Sciences sophomore Brad Driscoll (Alvirne High School/Hudson, N.H.) has been named the Mid Atlantic Rifle Conference (MAC) Smallbore Rifle Shooter of the month for the month of November 2010 as announced today by the conference.
Driscoll is the fourth shooter from USciences to earn this honor since the award’s inception in 2008 and the first male shooter from the school to receive the honor. Previous winners include Courtney Cavalieri (Smallbore, February 2009); Hannah Goess(Smallbore, November 2008) and Deborah Booth (Air Rifle, October 2008). The award was created in 2008 and honors two shooters (one smallbore, one air) each month. The award is not necessarily based on the highest scores fired that month but to award outstanding performances (personal bests, recording scores well above season averages, gritty performances despite extraneous duress, etc), leadership, work ethic, classroom work and community service.
In the Devils two matches in November, the Hudson, New Hampshire native posted smallbore scores of 570 vs. Akron and 573 vs. IUP in the month of November. Currently Driscoll holds a 569.67 smallbore average which is 6th in the MAC, and has a 575.40 air average placing him 9th in the MAC. Brad was named to the 2009-10 MAC All-Academic Team and MAC All Rookie Team.
Driscoll is a second year Doctorate of Pharmacy major who made Dean’s List both semesters of his freshman year and subsequently earned CRCA Scholar Athlete honors in March 2010. The native of Hudson, NH has also been active on the University of Sciences campus as an Orientation Leader of Freshmen, Student Government Association senator, member of the Inter-Greek Council and Varsity Rifle Team Representative for the institution’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
Brad is also a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. Among the service projects he has participated in this past year have been volunteering his time with the USciences Garden planting, the Philadelphia Broad Street Run and with the West Philadelphia Soup Kitchen.
While in high school Driscoll learned the fundamentals of the sport the Hudson Fish and Game Club in Hudson, NH. Most recently at the National Championships at Camp Perry, OH, Driscoll earned first place as top junior collegiate and expert for the prone match aggregate. He also qualified for the Drew Cup.
The MAC is the largest rifle conference in the nation and currently consists of 15 members in eight states from Virginia to Massachusetts and west to Ohio. The MAC strives, through the practice of riflery, to promote the highest ethical standards of athletic competition and individual conduct, foster the development of mutual understanding and cooperation among its member institutions, and work to develop complete mutual understanding of the sport among all member institutions.
