Hillsdale College Announces Ladies for Liberty Shooting Scholarship Recipients

The half-tuition scholarship is reserved for female students on the Hillsdale College Shotgun Team.

by posted on September 18, 2025
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Hillsdale College Ladies Of Liberty Winners 2025
From left, scholarship recipients Madeline Corbin, Luciana Kern and Marin McKinney.
Image courtesy Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College has announced that Madeline Corbin, Luciana Kern, and Marin McKinney have been awarded the Ladies for Liberty Shooting Scholarship, a half-tuition scholarship reserved for female students who are members the Hillsdale College Shotgun Team.

“Madeline, Luciana and Marin excel in both their studies and the shooting sports,” said Morgan Morrison, director of outdoor programs. “They embody Hillsdale’s commitment to truth and liberty, and we are pleased to recognize that with this scholarship.”


Madeline Corbin image courtesy Hillsdale College

Madeline Corbin ’27 of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, is pursuing a major in biology. She competes in international skeet in addition to being a member of the Hillsdale College Shotgun Team, recently winning gold for women’s skeet in the Junior Championship of the Americas in Barbados. She also belongs to the 1844 Society and has been named a Drummond Fellow at Hillsdale’s Nimrod Education Center for her interest in hunting and fishing.

Luciana Kern ’28 of Las Vegas, Nevada, plans to pursue a major in political economy and a minor in Spanish. She competes on the Hillsdale College Shotgun Team, recently taking first place in women’s trap doubles at the ACUI/SCTP Spring Central Midwest Conference Championship. She is also a member of the Chi Omega sorority.

Marin McKinney ’28 of Foristell, Missouri, is pursuing a major in art. She competes on the Hillsdale College Shotgun Team, recently taking first place in A Class Women’s Skeet Doubles at the ACUI/SCTP Collegiate Clay Target Championship.

The Hillsdale College Shotgun Team has won eight national championships and currently competes in Division II. Multiple athletes have won ISSF World Cup medals, and 33 team members have been named All-Americans. The team competes primarily in American trap, trap doubles, American skeet, skeet doubles, sporting clays, and super sporting. Some athletes also compete in Olympic trap and Olympic skeet.

About Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College is an independent, nonsectarian, Christian liberal arts college located in southern Michigan. Founded in 1844, the College has built a national reputation through its classical liberal arts core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies, even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a circulation of more than 6.9 million. For more information, visit hillsdale.edu.

 

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