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(Army Sgt. 1st Class Adam Sokolowski)
This year, in 2018, I was the Bianchi Cup

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Open champion, and that that was kind of
a significant, uh, championship because

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we've only been started shooting this
sport since 2015. So over the past three

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years, '16, '17, and '18, I was the Bianchi 
Cup national champion, so, the

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first person to win all three
consecutively. Initially that didn't

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cross my mind, but once I won the
metallic championship and won two in a

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row, I could have, you know, could have
decided to go for another championship

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again back-to-back, but I decided to do
something different and go for the Open

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Championship, which is the most-coveted
trophy, but is also the most difficult to

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win. So, this year I was fortunate
enough to win. I was competing against

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champions that are like Doug Koenig, who
is a 18-time national champion. So, for me

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to come into the sport having -- relatively
a newcomer, only shooting for the last

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few years -- um, and beating somebody like that,
is pretty significant. Even myself

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initially, I didn't, you know, I wanted to
go and show -- have a good showing and

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shoot well and represent the Army, but I
didn't expect to actually come away with

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the championship.