Hall of Fame
By: Kevin Neuendorf Director of Media and Public Relations
USA Shooting to Induct Glenn Dubis & Admiral Willis A. Lee into Hall of Fame
The U.S. International
Shooting Hall of Fame will in- duct two new members dur- ing a December ceremony as four-time Olympian Glenn Dubis and Admiral Willis A. Lee were selected among an all-star cast of candidates. The Hall of Fame induc-
tion will take place Decem- ber 4 in Colorado Springs, Colorado as part of USA
resume. During his shooting career, Dubis won the World Rifl e Championship three times, won the Rifl e Champi- onship fi ve times at the Con- seil International du Sport Militaire Championships (known as CISM or the Mili- tary World Championships) and set or tied six world re- cords. He represented the United States in the CISM
Shooting Male Rifl e Shooter of the Year. Upon his retirement from
the U.S. Army Marksman- ship Unit (USAMU), then deputy commander Robert W. Aylward had this to say of Dubis: “He’s the Michael Jordan of the shooting world. People call the CISM rifl e tro- phy the ‘Dubis Trophy’ be- cause his name is engraved
and Pistol Championships in the same year. A 1920 Olympian, Lee was a mem- ber of the Rifl e and Running Target team competing in 14 events and fi nished as the high medal winner for the Games, taking home seven team medals overall includ- ing fi ve gold, one silver and one bronze. “Shooting ev- erything from army rifl e to miniature (smallbore) and
Glenn Dubis (left) stands on the winner’s platform following men’s smallbore competition at the 1987 Pan American Games where he was awarded gold medals in both the individual and team categories. Photo by Steve McGill
Admiral Willis A. Lee (right) By US Navy [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Shooting Alumni weekend taking place during the 2015 Winter Airgun Champi- onships. A four-time Olympian
(1984, 1988, 1996, 2000), Dubis fi nished outside the top-20 in just one of his eight Olympic events while fi nishing as high as fi fth at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. While an Olympic medal eluded him during his illustrious career, he still built an impressive shooting
Military World Games more than a dozen times. He is a member of the USAMU Inter- national Rifl e Hall of Fame as well as his hometown’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
In
1997, Dubis won individual Silver and Team Gold Med- als at the Championship of the Americas, a Silver Medal in the Seoul, Korea, World Cup, three national cham- pionships and was a CISM team member. He was also named as the 1997 USA
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on it so many times; he’s won the CISM Rifl e Cham- pionship more times than everyone else in the world combined.” Dubis, a veteran of Oper-
ation Desert Storm, earned the nomination over distin- guished candidates that in- cluded Ed Etzel, Jim Hill, Da- vid Kimes and Todd Graves. In 1907, Admiral Wil-
lis A. Lee became the only American to ever win both the Open U.S. National Rifl e
running target, Lee was an ever-present fi xture on the Antwerp medal stand,” said Col. Jim Crossman in his book, Olympic Shooting. Lee and his teammate Lloyd Spooner held the record for the most medals won at a single Olympics for 60 years. Admiral Lee, who passed
away in 1945 at the age of 57, also enjoyed a distin- guished naval career.
He
commanded the U. S. Naval Battleship Division Six dur- ing the Battle of Guadalca-
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