By CJ Songer,
Contributing Editor

Soldier Girl Julie Goloski grew up hanging out with her dad. He started working IPSC matches, and the next thing you know, she was shooting them. Pretty well, too, I guess. One thing led to another, as things tend to do; the titles piled up, and when she was seventeen, just at the age to be thinking about graduating from high school, she was "squadded" with shooters from the US Army Marksmanship Unit for the United States Practical Shooting Association's Area 17 Championship match. She thought they were great. They thought she could shoot. That fall at the USPSA national match, the USAMU recruiter came calling, and Julie ended up joining the Army. Eight years and a slew of medals and honors later (including being named the 1999 US Army Athlete of the Year), she joined the Glock shooting team, where this past year she won back-to-back USPSA Ladies Production and Limited 10 national championship titles to round out her string of hits. (And darnnit, she's a really nice person, too.) Please see her website at: www.juliegoloski.com for more information on her many titles and awards.

Born On The Bayou Okay, so Kay Clark Miculek probably wasn't born on the bayou. It does seem unlikely. However, she's got very strong roots in Louisiana, and a shooting range there, not to mention the Clark family gun store (Clark Custom Guns, Inc). Her dad was Jim Clark, Sr., a renowned bullseye championship shooter from way back, and that might have had something to do with how Kay wound up on her high school rifle team back in the days (not so long ago!) when girls didn't really do that kind of thing. She won her first national title in 1975 when she became the Women's High Power Rifle Silhouette Champion. Five years later, she switched to practical pistol, and started amassing titles: two-time IPSC World Champion, four-time USPSA Unlimited National Champion, six-time USPSA 3-Gun National Champion, and so it goes. Somewhere along the way, Kay met and married a guy named Jerry Miculek. (Yeah, he shoots a little bit, too). They had several children, but that hasn't appreciably slowed her down much: she continues to compete in national and international practical pistol competitions on a regular basis (and to win them!), teaches handgun and 3-gun classes regularly, runs the LadySureShot Camps, and participates actively in teaching and organizing all sorts of junior shooting camps and programs. And, whoa, did I mention the juggling? More can be found at http://www.bang-inc.com

Mom Always Liked You Best Lisa Munson is a stay-at-home mom. That would probably surprise her kids all to heck, since she does spend a fair amount of her time traveling and taking care of the business of being a national shooting champion. (I'm a stay-at-home mom, too, and my kids are quite cynical. Hey, a woman has interests, okay? You'll be grateful someday! And while we're gone, nobody's nagging you to pick up your rooms, right? Right.) Lisa stands about five-foot-zip and weighs next-to-nothing, which is, of course, why she likes the big caliber guns-she shoots .38 Super, .40 or .45, depending on which classification title, Open or Limited, she's gunning for. She's won literally hundreds of trophies since she started doing this sport some eighteen years ago as a way to have fun with her husband, and, trust me, to get out of the house. (She lives in Washington. The state. Where it rains or snows a great deal of the time, and she had small kids.) Oh, she can talk about being a perfectionist and needing to give 110% to everything she tries (see the Heidi Thomas interview with her at http://www.womenandguns.com/archive/old0303issue/munson0303.html ) but I'm putting my money on the notion that the real draw was the chance to get out and talk with other adults. Okay, and to shine.