The MIT Varsity Pistol Team homepage was created last year to provide an on-line resource to all who might be interested, containing a general overview of the team as well as relevant links. A brand-new photo gallery containing pictures from this last season are up on the page as well. Or, students could come in and shoot at special, randomly numbered targets and try to achieve one of the day's high scores, earning them one of many prizes and gift certificates donated to us by Newbury Comics, Toscanini's, and other local merchants. In the world of pistols and travel, the raised money won't go far, but it will serve well in other purposes. It will be used to enter local matches at the Sharon and Woburn shooting ranges, and for support equipment, possibly including grips and mechanical work.
Some small changes are in the works for the pistol team next year.
This year, we experimented with the concept of having the team divided up into three squads, in an effort to provide more individual attention and inter-squad competion. However, it was discovered that it was incredibly difficult to schedule practices for each of the squads in a manner that met everyone's schedule. This was not aided by the fact that most of the team members are in their sophomore and junior years, when most majors require students to take their labs. Also, finding another time that allowed the three squads to compete against each other proved even more difficult. Ben Leong Moving over to finances, the team is doing well.