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Attention SCTP Coaches!

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Does your Team need ammunition? If so, please don’t forget about the fantastic ammo deals available to you and your athletes. Through our “Deals and Promotions” page under the SCTP tab in the red toolbar!
  • Nobel Sport Ammunition is available in many sizes and loads and starting at only $51.50 per case. Zanders Sporting Goods is a proud sponsor of the SCTP and you can order ammunition from them with the order form and contact info at the following link
https://sssfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NS-ZAN-YOUTH-SHOOTING-PRICING-12-5-16-thru-3-31-17.pdf
  • Gamaliel Shooting Supply is offering its newest program, the “Ready, Set, Pull” Program to all SCTP Teams. Gamaliel also offers Clever Ammo amongst other brands. Please check them out at the following link http://www.gamaliel.com/content/ready-set-pull.asp
We will continue to work with industry and ammunition manufacturers to bring you the best deals on ammunition and other shooting related products for your teams and athletes. Please watch our website, specifically under “Deals and Promotions” for more great programs!        

SCTP Athlete Raises Funds for SCTP Scholarships and New Shooting Range

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Lizzy Worthington
Lizzy Worthington
The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) not only turns out talented athletes, but it instills and promotes qualities that empower its athletes to become leaders in their communities. Lizzy Worthington, a 17-year-old senior at BGM High School in Brooklyn, Iowa, is a testament to the SCTP’s dedication to developing its athletes’ character, drive and ambition. Worthington, a Girl Scout and member of SCTP’s BGM trapshooting team, has raised more than $50,000 to plan and build a four-field trap range (Bear Creek Range) as part of her Girl Scout Gold Award Project. The trap range, which is located on county land much closer to the school than other trap ranges, will open this spring. In addition to providing a convenient facility for the BGM trap team to practice, it will provide a location for other area high schools to establish teams. Based in part on her Gold Award project, Worthington was selected to be the Girl Scout emcee for the Governor’s Luncheon for Scouting in Des Moines on Feb. 10, 2017. The event was a fundraiser for the Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa and the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America. Worthington also helped plan a banquet, which was held on Feb. 11, in Brooklyn, Iowa, which raised $10,000 toward the shooting facility and an additional $10,000 in SCTP scholarship funds. Worthington has already accomplished so much in her young age, and she’s just getting started. She early enlisted in the Navy in October of her senior year at BGM and was nominated for appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy by both Iowa’s U.S. Senators. She plans to attend the academy if appointed or Iowa State University, majoring in chemical engineering and joining the SIU Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps. The Gazette recently featured Worthington in a feature article touting her many accomplishments.

Georgia/South Carolina State Match

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GA-SC Match PhotoOn February 11, 2017, the inaugural Georgia/South Carolina state match was held in Athens, Georgia, at the Athens Rifle Club. Twenty nine athletes participated from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.   The weather was a beautiful day in Georgia in the mid 60's and everyone had a great time. Plans are already underway for the second annual Georgia South Carolina state match for February 2018. A special thanks to Bob Jones University and the Athens Rifle Club for hosting this event.

ShootersPost.com to Support the Scholastic Clay Target Program Scholarship Fund

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ShootersPostShootersPost.com, a shooting sports software company, and the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) are pleased to announce a program to support the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) scholarship fund. For all new and current SCTP host clubs utilizing ShootersPost services in 2017, a portion of the annual service fees will be donated to the SSSF for use in the SCTP scholarship fund. ShootersPost.com is an innovative system designed for and by shooting sports enthusiasts using state-of-the-art technical design, programming, and networking for shooting sports clubs across the country. ShootersPost works with shooting clubs and organizations and is offering a means for communications, event posting, advertising, membership tracking and scorekeeping. ShootersPost can be used for all clay target disciplines and more. “Shooters Post is proud to support the SCTP and its team’s clubs” Said John Koney, CFO for Shooters Post LLC. “This is where everything happens, at the club level. Providing a membership/scoring based IT program for the clubs will help them as well as the SCTP, a win/win across the board!” “Any time we can add funding to our scholarship program is a plus for our SCTP athletes and teams!” commented Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director. “Shooters Post offers a great gun club software package at a very affordable price, benefitting our teams and athletes is a great bonus. We appreciate their support for sure!” Gun clubs can get more information online at ShootersPost.com.

Congratulations to SCTP/SASP Finalists of Double Goal Coach Award

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Joseph Gans
Joseph Gans
The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) congratulates Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) coach Joseph Gans and Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) coaches Scott Poet and David Richman for being nominated as finalists for Positive Coaching Alliance’s prestigious Double-Goal Coach® Award presented by Deloitte. PCA's Double-Goal Coach Award is given to youth and high school sports coaches from throughout the U.S. who embody the ideals of the Double-Goal Coach, striving to win, while also pursuing the more important goal of teaching life lessons through sports. Fifty coaches will be selected from the finalist for the award. The coaches said they are honored and humbled that their teams nominated them for the award. Joseph Gans, coach of the Hazelton Area High School Cougars in Pennsylvania, said, “I normally don’t look for accolades, but it is quite an honor to be chosen among all the coaches out there. I am gratified my contribution to the sport of shooting and helping these young men and women achieve greatness has been recognized.”
David Richman
David Richman
Gans said aside from learning shooting skills and safety, he encourages the shooters to develop self-determination, proper attitude, self-control and focus. Richman, coach of the Lake Country Action Shooters in Wisconsin, said he was elated and humbled to find out he’d been nominated as a finalist. “I was so excited that someone had done this for me,” Richman said.  “It makes me feel good inside. I’ve been coaching for more than 25 years and can say that the best reward is when a shooter comes back later to say thanks for helping him or her out.” Richman says his goal as a coach is to show the shooters they’re in control and they have the ability to succeed. “I never coach to win,” Richman said. “Preparation leads to practice, practice leads to performance and performance provides an outcome. That outcome doesn’t matter as long as the athletes are doing their best and giving it their all.”
Scott and Lisa Poet
Scott and Lisa Poet
Scott Poet, SASP state advisor (with his wife, Lisa) and coach of the Pistol Prodigies in Michigan, said he was shocked and “blown away” by the nomination. “It was humbling and flattering to hear that our families went ahead and did that for us.” Poet said he wants his shooters to learn team work and how to work with others. “I also work to teach them about responsibility, safety and commitment to their team.” The 50 national award winners will receive $200; a certificate; recognition in PCA's website, newsletters and media campaigns; and the chance to win an all-expense paid trip to California to accept the honor during PCA's National Youth Sports Awards Dinner and Auction Presented by Deloitte on Saturday, April 22, 2017 in Palo Alto, California.  

Incentive for All SCTP Teams

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In an effort to help you and your SCTP teams with National Governing Body (NGB) fees for the 2016/2017 shooting season as well as growing your team’s MidwayUSA Foundation Team Endowment account, we have a new program in place for this shooting season! Background As you may be aware, the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) has maintained partnerships with several of our NGB’s including the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA), National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA) and National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA). These partnerships require that we host “registered events” at our state (where possible) and national championships and therefore our athletes competing in these events must have current memberships with the respective NGB. These partnerships provide two main benefits to SCTP athletes:
  1. Provide a pathway and additional opportunities for youth and families to continue participating in competition clay target shooting outside of the regular SCTP season.
  2. Provide much needed SCTP Scholarship funding to our graduating athletes. In 2016 the SSSF awarded $66,000 in college scholarships, supported in part by donations from our NGB partners.
Facilitating continued involvement in the shooting sports is part of the mission of the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation /SCTP and we believe these partnerships with NGBs help us accomplish our mission. 2017 Incentive Program While paying additional membership dues to NGBs may be un-popular with some coaches, we believe we have found a solution that will benefit everyone. For every dollar that your team spends on NGB memberships sent in through the SHOT system, we will send that exact amount of money to your team's MidwayUSA Foundation Team Endowment account! This will include your team’s coaches and adult volunteer memberships that are also paid through our system!! For example: “Team A” has 100 athletes who all shoot Trap. They remit payment (through SHOT5 or check to SCTP Headquarters) for 100 athletes’ ATA membership dues of $12 per athlete = $1,200. The SCTP/SSSF will then send that exact amount of money into “Team A’s” Midway USA Foundation account. It’s that simple! This only includes NGB membership dues paid through the SCTP. Dues paid directly to the NGB are not eligible. This will include ALL NGB Membership Dues paid from Sept. 1st, 2016 through May 31st, 2017 ONLY! Teams MUST have an active account with the MidwayUSA Foundation prior to May 31st in order to receive Team Endowment funding. So coaches, when registering your team remember to pay athlete NGB membership dues at that time to take advantage of this opportunity to grow your teams' MidwayUSA Foundation Team Endowment accounts! If you have any questions about this program, please contact me. I will be happy to explain it in more detail! Sincerely, Tom Wondrash – SCTP National Director

SASP Wisconsin State Advisors

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SASP welcomes two new Wisconsin State Advisors – Curt Kowalczyk and Jeff Haupt.
Curt Kowalczyk
Curt Kowalczyk
Curt Kowalczyk Kowalczyk started shooting at a very young age.  His father was an avid trap and skeet shooter who taught him and his brother about firearm safety and shooting. He also started shooting air rifles for the Jaycee’s when he was 10 years old and shot with the organization for many years at tournaments around Wisconsin and the Midwest. Kowalczyk continued to shoot trap and skeet and added sporting clays when he became an adult.  He also started shooting pistols and shot Bullseye league and PPC and added action pistol shooting six years ago. He is a certified NRA pistol coach and an assistant coach on the Union Grove Bronco Shooting Club’s SASP pistol and rifle team for three years.   Kowalczyk enjoys coaching and mentoring the athletes.  He has three sons and his two younger sons are involved with SASP and the oldest was involved with SCTP and is in the navy now. Kowalczyk looks forward to continuing coaching and is very excited to help spread the great benefits of the SASP.
Jeff Haupt
Jeff Haupt
Jeff Haupt Haupt is an avid hunter and archer who also enjoys Great Lakes fishing and shooting trap league. He is a member of the Kenosha Bowmen and Wisconsin Sportsmens Association. Haupt became interested in pistol when his children joined the school shooting club. He then became an assistant pistol/rifle coach for the UGES shooting team. Through this he developed a determination to teach, educate and promote the shooting sport to both young people and their parents. He looks forward creating opportunities for today's youth.

Brownells Continues Support of SASP

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BrownellsThe Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) announces its continued support from Brownells as a Bronze level sponsor.  Brownells is a shooters super site for gunsmiths and fans of firearms. It features gun parts, firearm accessories, gunsmithing tools and shooting supplies. “Participation in the shooting sports benefits young people greatly,” said Brownells CEO Pete Brownell. “Not only do they learn safe gun handling and marksmanship, they also learn personal responsibility, integrity, teamwork, and the value of discipline and practice. Brownells is proud to once again sponsor the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation.” Tammy Mowry, national director, Scholastic Action Shooting Program, said, “We are so pleased to have Brownells once again as a Bronze level sponsor.  The folks at Brownells realize and understand the need to keep our youth involved in the shooting sports.  We appreciate the support that Brownells has given over our program over the years.”

Level 1 Pistol Coach Class

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SASP coaches don’t miss out on your opportunity to attend the next upcoming Level 1 Pistol Coaches Class.  This class will take place March 18 (Saturday) and 19 (Sunday) at the Benchrest Rifle Club in Wright City, Missouri.  Class hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.  Club website is:   http://www.shootingstl.com/location.html. The Level 1 pistol coach’s course covers all required coaching fundamentals for pistol coaches in the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) in addition to other disciplines of pistol competition. The training is provided by the SASP/NRA/USAS National Coach Development Staff (NCDS).  Contact Rick Leach, rleach@sssfonline.com for copy of the registration form.  Pre-registration is required for this class. The cost of the course is $200 which includes all printed materials, 3-year coaching credentials with the NRA, and lunch/refreshments each day. The coach school is two days of sports-specific lessons and practical coaching exercises designed to teach the coach candidate the basics of coaching. The following general subjects are taught:  
Introduction to Coaching ProgramCoaching Ethics
Safety and Risk ManagementCoaching Methodology
Competition EventsSports Psychology
Rulebook UseTraining Planning
Equipment and FacilitiesRunning Quality Programs
Fundamentals of ShootingHow to Conduct Match

SCTP and Browning Partner Again in 2017

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browningThe Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Browning will again partner for the 2017 season in a big way.  Browning, returning as a Titanium Sponsor of the SCTP, will sponsor the official “Browning Scholarship” at this year’s SCTP National Championships. Above its normal support of the program and its teams, Browning will donate several firearms that will be raffled and auctioned off. All proceeds will be utilized in a single scholarship awarded to an athlete shooting a Browning shotgun in the 200 target Trap Singles at this year’s nationals to be held at the Cardinal Center in Marengo, Ohio, July 8-15. “We are excited to be a part of the SCTP again this year,” Rafe Nielsen, Browning’s communications manager, said. “The success of the Browning Scholarship program in 2016 shows that the SCTP is the leading organization for developing and supporting youth shooting. We’re looking forward to a bigger and better year in 2017, and are proud to be a part of an organization that gives so much back to the youth shooting community.” Tom Wondrash, SCTP national director, said, “We can’t say ‘thank you’ enough for the tremendous support and confidence that Browning entrusts in our nationally recognized program! And what a great opportunity for an athlete at this year’s tournament to make a huge dent in his or hers college tuition. Browning has really hit it out of the park yet again for SCTP athletes.” Are you or your company interested in supporting the largest competitive youth shooting program in the world? Check out the SCTP sponsor page and contact Tom Wondrash, SCTP national director at twondrash@sssfonline.com.