The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF), the National Governing Body of the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP), is offering a scholarship program to reward deserving SCTP/SASP graduating seniors with needed college assistance. The main objective is to award as many scholarships as possible to qualifying SCTP / SASP graduating seniors. SSSF is establishing minimal guidelines for the selection procedure, thus allowing the final selection to be as simple as possible.
General Procedures:
Each applicant must be a graduating senior within the year of the awarded scholarship and must be registered for college before the scholarship is awarded in that same
Applicant must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative Grade Point Average through the most recent grading period ending on or before April 1, 2016.
Each prospective recipient must be registered as a full-time college student before the scholarship is awarded and must provide the name of the post-secondary college or community/ junior college to receive the scholarship proceeds. Each scholarship check will be mailed to the appropriate college in the student's name by October 1, The scholarship funds are to be used for tuition, fees, etc. This is a one-time, non-renewable scholarship.
Applicants may not be in receipt of any "full" scholarship funds in order to qualify (i.e., athletics, military academy, academic, etc.).
Applicants must have participated during 2015-2016 in one of their SCTP / SASP State Championships, National Championships, or regional events in Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays, or Olympic Bunker; Olympic Skeet Championships, Pistol or Rifle.
Applicants must be able to complete all parts of the application packet:
Application / Personal Information Page:
One Page Student Resume or School and Non-School Activities and Honors
One Page Essay (see Essay Guidelines)
Must attach current high school transcript or home school transcript!
Funds will be awarded, if available, and the goal is to assist as many SCTP / SASP graduating high school seniors as possible.
Brian Hood, Central Iowa SASP coach, was featured on NBC Nightly News this week voicing support for a bill Iowa lawmakers recently sent to the senate that would allow children in Iowa under the age of 14 to shoot handguns. Supporters say the law brings Iowa up to date with most other states. Those against the bill claim it’s creating a militia of toddlers. Hood’s 16-year-old daughter, Grace, competes with the SASP using a handgun, but his 13-year-old daughter, Emma, isn’t allowed due to the current law. “This is not about giving our children the combo to the gun safe,” Hood said. “This is about allowing them in a supervised scenario to learn a great sport.” To view the NBC Nightly News piece, click here.
The SCTP has announced dates for its National Fundraising Banquets. Anyone interested in attending any of these banquets can get tickets by contacting Amanda at the SCTP administrative office (awondrash@sssfonline.com) or by contacting a Director of Development. These banquets help raise funds in support of SCTP's scholarship program. Last year alone, the SCTP gave away almost $70,000 in scholarships to SCTP athletes going on to college. Dates: March 18th – Waterford, WI (almost sold out) April 21st – Grapevine, Texas May 6th – Columbus, Ohio June ? – Kansas City, KS (TBD) Sept. ? – Burlington, MA (TBD)
The SCTP has confirmed the dates for the “SCTP International Style National Championships” starting Monday, August 1 and ending Sunday, August 7. The event will be held once again at USA Shootings International Shotgun Range at Fort Carson, Col. There will be a limited number of beds available at the Olympic Training Center for athletes and coaches. Cost per night will be $100 per person. Event fees will be forthcoming. The event schedule is as follows: Monday/Tuesday August 1-2: Open Training 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday/Thursday August 3-4: Skeet Competition Friday August 5: Olympic Doubles Competition Saturday/Sunday August 6-7: Trap Competition The shooting competition will end with an awards ceremony and banquet Sunday, August 7 starting at 6 p.m.. This year’s banquet will be held at the Double Tree by Hilton in Colorado Springs. We do have a limited number of rooms available for $125 per night all-inclusive of taxes and resort fees! Please contact Amanda at awondrash@sssfonline.com to reserve your rooms at the Double Tree or the OTC.
SCTP coaches, state advisors and tournament coordinators, are you looking for an SCTP medal to give out at your local fun shoots and invitational shoot? Well, here they are! You can order any quantity of gold, silver or bronze SCTP medals for only $5 each. These are a high-quality, polished medal with SCTP on the ribbons and are available for immediate shipment. To place your medal order, just contact Amanda at awondrash@sssfonline.com She will be happy to help you.
Any shooter, male or female, grades 5-12, is invited to participate in the first Indiana Mid-State SCTP Sporting Clays Shoot by Kokomo Izaak Walton to be held April 24, 2016 at the Howard County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America in Kokoma, Indiana. Team endowment funding will be awarded by team placement and matching money is to be announced. Funding is being provided compliments of the Indiana Youth Shooting Sports Foundation. Competition Divisions:
Photo courtesy of Andre' Dall'au. We had a great turnout for the Southwest Winter Regional match , which took place on February 6 at the Cawthorne Cartridge Club in Navasota, Texas. Teams from Texas and as far away as Washington, New York, Florida, Maryland, Colorado, Alabama, and Arizona journeyed to the Lone Star state for some friendly competition. Service Academies (West Point, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy and Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Marksmanship Unit) all competed this year. We also had a few new teams join us just in time for the match. This was the first match that the U.S. Air Force Academy took part in. The Montgomery County Marksmanship Team and Hays County 4H Shooting Sports all joined just prior to the match and both had great turnouts for the match. This year 132 athletes competed in the match. Thank you to GLOCK and the Texas State Rifle Association for sponsoring the match. Thank you also to Kevin Jimmerson and Chuck Jones for being the match directors for the match.
This past December marked the first time a Level I NRA/USAS/CMP Shotgun Coach Certification Class has been taught in the great state of Hawaii. Helping put this all together was local coach (and previous resident of Iowa) and new team coach, Tom Griffiths. Tom helped make history not only for Hawaii but for the NRA and the SCTP!! Tom along with coaches Richard Hoeflinger and Greg Kunz will head up the newly formed team, The Big Island Breakers. “My goal is to bring this team to the SCTP nationals and see a feather banner with the state of Hawaii on it displayed along with all of the other states that attend the biggest and best youth National Championships in the world,” Griffiths said. “We want to break our share of the 1 million plus competition targets that will be thrown for that event!” Instructing the class of 14 in Hilo was NRA/NCDS Level II Instructor and SCTP National Director, Tom Wondrash. “It was my pleasure to teach the first Level I class in Hawaii and bring in these new and dedicated coaches to the SCTP,” Wondrash said. “We are looking forward to the new teams, athletes and families that this will surely ignite.” Amanda Wondrash was also available and worked with the new coaches on how to use the SHOT system, registering athletes, assistant coaches and general use of the website for tournaments and fun shoots. The Big Island Breakers and several other newly formed teams will be training at the Hilo Trap & Skeet club located just a few miles out of Hilo. These teams are also considering running their state shoot in conjunction with the PITA state shoot also being held at the Hilo Trap & Skeet Club. Just in the last several months and leading into March, there will have been well over 225 NRA/USAS/CMP Level I Shotgun Coaches trained by SCTP affiliated instructors / NRA NCDS including Scott Moniot, Chet Tuinstra, Hank Garvey, Jim Dickerson, Mike Carson and Tom Wondrash. Anyone interested in starting or becoming part of the National SCTP organization, please contact Chet Tuinstra at ctuinstra@ss
sfonline.com if you are in the eastern US and Scott Moniot at smoniot@sssfonline.com if you are in the western US. They are more than happy to help and explain the benefits of membership in the Scholastic Clay Target Program! About SCTP SCTP, along with Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) are youth development programs in which adult coaches and volunteers model sportsmanship, responsibility, honesty, ethics, integrity, and teamwork while using shooting sports programs to teach these and other positive life skills to the athletes. The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is responsible for all aspects of the Scholastic Clay Target Program and the Scholastic Action Shooting Program across the United States. The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation exists to raise funding and other resources for youth development programs in the shooting sports industry. To learn more about SCTP or SASP visit www.sssfonline.org
On Friday, January 29, 2016, Deputy Dustin Brock, Deputy Thomas Stege,
Deputy Charrone Reed, Leon County Sheriff’s Explorer Program, and David
Kirk, Florida state advisor with the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP),
conducted a training workshop on speed steel shooting at the Tallahassee
Rifle & Pistol Club for advisors from the Florida Sheriffs Explorer
Association. Twenty five deputy sheriffs from Leon, Hamilton, Charlotte, Broward, Palm Beach,
Manatee, and Saint Lucie counties participated in the training. The
deputies had a great time shooting the steel, and felt the SASP would benefit recruitment and retention. The purpose of the training was to emphasize the safety, fun, and
excitement of shooting modern steel targets. In addition, there was
discussion of how team competition in the shooting sports teaches
responsibility, discipline, leadership, and citizenship values. Based on the workshop, the deputies will now organize and train Explorer
Teams throughout Florida to compete in the SASP and the Florida Law Enforcement Explorer Shooting League. The Florida Law Enforcement Explorer Shooting League was organized by
the Leon County Sheriff’s Post and David Kirk to provide safe, fun, and
constructive shooting activities around the state and national
competition through the SASP. For additional information, please contact David Kirk, SASP State
Advisor, (850) 422-2974, kirk_d@popmail.firn.edu.
The Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) national match will be held in conjunction with the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) national match at the Cardinal Center, in Marengo, Ohio, July 9-16, 2016. The tentative schedule for match competition will be the same as in past years. We will offer 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. times, with the exception of the last Saturday (July 16), on which day we will only have the 9 a.m. starting time due to the awards ceremony later that day. Registration information will be available on the website in the near future.
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The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF), the National Governing Body of the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP), is offering a scholarship program to reward deserving SCTP/SASP graduating seniors with needed college assistance. The main objective is to award as many scholarships as possible to qualifying SCTP / SASP graduating seniors. SSSF is establishing minimal guidelines for the selection procedure, thus allowing the final selection to be as simple as possible.
General Procedures:
Brian Hood, Central Iowa SASP coach, was featured on 
SCTP coaches, state advisors and tournament coordinators, are you looking for an SCTP medal to give out at your local fun shoots and invitational shoot? Well, here they are! You can order any quantity of gold, silver or bronze SCTP medals for only $5 each. These are a high-quality, polished medal with SCTP on the ribbons and are available for immediate shipment. To place your medal order, just contact Amanda at 
This past December marked the first time a Level I NRA/USAS/CMP Shotgun Coach Certification Class has been taught in the great state of Hawaii. Helping put this all together was local coach (and previous resident of Iowa) and new team coach, Tom Griffiths. Tom helped make history not only for Hawaii but for the NRA and the SCTP!! Tom along with coaches Richard Hoeflinger and Greg Kunz will head up the newly formed team, The Big Island Breakers. “My goal is to bring this team to the SCTP nationals and see a feather banner with the state of Hawaii on it displayed along with all of the other states that attend the biggest and best youth National Championships in the world,” Griffiths said. “We want to break our share of the 1 million plus competition targets that will be thrown for that event!” Instructing the class of 14 in Hilo was NRA/NCDS Level II Instructor and SCTP National Director, Tom Won
drash. “It was my pleasure to teach the first Level I class in Hawaii and bring in these new and dedicated coaches to the SCTP,” Wondrash said. “We are looking forward to the new teams, athletes and families that this will surely ignite.” Amanda Wondrash was also available and worked with the new coaches on how to use the SHOT system, registering athletes, assistant coaches and general use of the website for tournaments and fun shoots. The Big Island Breakers and several other newly formed teams will be training at the Hilo Trap & Skeet club located just a few miles out of Hilo. These teams are also considering running their state shoot in conjunction with the PITA state shoot also being held at the Hilo Trap & Skeet Club. Just in the
last several months and leading into March, there will have been well over 225 NRA/USAS/CMP Level I Shotgun Coaches trained by SCTP affiliated instructors / NRA NCDS including Scott Moniot, Chet Tuinstra, Hank Garvey, Jim Dickerson, Mike Carson and Tom Wondrash. Anyone interested in starting or becoming part of the National SCTP organization, please contact Chet Tuinstra at 
On Friday, January 29, 2016, Deputy Dustin Brock, Deputy Thomas Stege,
Deputy Charrone Reed, Leon County Sheriff’s Explorer Program, and David
Kirk, Florida state advisor with the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP),
conducted a training workshop on speed steel shooting at the Tallahassee
Rifle & Pistol Club for advisors from the Florida Sheriffs Explorer
Association. Twenty five deputy sheriffs from Leon, Hamilton, Charlotte, Broward, Palm Beach,
Manatee, and Saint Lucie counties participated in the training. The
deputies had a great time shooting the steel, and felt the SASP would benefit recruitment and retention. The purpose of the training was to emphasize the safety, fun, and
excitement of shooting modern steel targets. In addition, there was
discussion of how team competition in the shooting sports teaches
responsibility, discipline, leadership, and citizenship values. Based on the workshop, the deputies will now organize and train Explorer
Teams throughout Florida to compete in the SASP and the Florida Law Enforcement Explorer Shooting League. The Florida Law Enforcement Explorer Shooting League was organized by
the Leon County Sheriff’s Post and David Kirk to provide safe, fun, and
constructive shooting activities around the state and national
competition through the SASP. For additional information, please contact David Kirk, SASP State
Advisor, 
The Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) national match will be held in conjunction with the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) national match at the Cardinal Center, in Marengo, Ohio, July 9-16, 2016. The tentative schedule for match competition will be the same as in past years. We will offer