What do you get a Rear Admiral for Christmas? A trophy of course.

Christmas came early at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy when members of the USCGA’s Combat Arms Team presented Rear Adm. Sandra Stosz, the superintendent of the USCGA, with the Scholastic Steel Challenge 2011 Fall Collegiate Championship trophy they won back on November 12 in competition at the Sig Sauer Academy.

Photo: PO1 NyxoLyno Cangemi

Pictured above are (from left) U.S. Coast Guard Academy Second Class Cadet Jake Naum, Second Class Cadet Barton Nanney, Rear Adm. Stosz, Second Class Cadet Jon Sapundjieff and First Class Cadet Alex Webber.

Back in May the squad won the inaugural SSC Spring Collegiate Championship hosted by Smith & Wesson at the Hartford Gun Club.