Name: Sagen Maddalena
Sport: Shooting
Discipline(s): Rifle Shooting
Event(s): Women’s 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle Three Position
Height: 5-4
Weight: 110 lbs
DOB: 8/6/1993
Birthplace: Woodland, Calif.
Hometown: Groveland , Calif.
High School: Keyes to Learning Charter (Keyes, Calif.) ‘12
College: University of Alaska Fairbanks '18, Natural Resource Management
Olympic Experience
  • One-time Olympic Experience (2020)
  • Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 5th (50m Rifle 3 Positions)
World Championship Experience
  • Most recent: 2018 – 26th (Women’s 50m Rifle Three Positions)
  • Years of participation: 2014, 2018
  • Top Finish: 26th – 2018 (50-meter rifle three-positions)
Other Career Highlights
  • Awarded Distinguished Rifleman by the Civilian Marksmanship Program in 2011
  • Four-time NRA First Team All-American in Air Rifle (2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 & 2017-18)
  • Three-time NRA First Team All-American in Smallbore (2015-16, 2016-17 & 2017-18)
  • Three-time CRCA First Team All-American (2016, 2017 & 2018)
  • NRA Second Team All-American in Smallbore (2015)
  • Four-straight appearances at the NCAA Rifle Championships (2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018)
  • Two time Alaska Rifle's Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2016-17 & 2017-18)
Personal: Daughter of Randy and Susan Maddalena ...One sibling, Marty ...Natural Resource Management major with a concentration in Forestry...Got involved with shooting through 4-H, which taught her organization and her grandpa, who taught her patience...Walked-on to one of the best rifle programs in the country at Alaska Fairbanks, and red-shirted her first season in 2013...To gain more match experience her coach, Dan Jordan, suggested she compete at the World Cup tryouts in May 2014, which ultimately proved successful as she earned the privilege to compete internationally. ...Enlisted in the U.S. Army in March 2019 and was assigned to the USAMU International Team as a shooter/instructor
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