Join SPP or Start a Team — Here’s Why

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As the 2016 shooting year gets underway, the Scholastic Pistol Program invites shooters and coaches to join the program. Whether you're already involved in SCTP and want to add another discipline, an existing pistol team that doesn't participate in SPP, or a coach or shooter interesting in starting a new team, SPP offers many benefits:
  • Insurance - You'll be covered by SSSF's insurance plan during practice sessions and at matches.
  • Matches - You'll be eligible to compete in state, regional, national, and virtual matches against teams all over the country.
  • Endowment Funds - Endowment money that is won at SPP matches will be deposited into the team's MidwayUSA Endowment account.
  • Camaraderie - Competing against other SPP teams provides camaraderie and allows team members to make friends throughout the program. Where else can scholastic teams shoot with student athletes from all over the country?
Register your team today, find a team to join, or contact Tammy Mowry, tmowry@sssfonline.com, 724-822-7390, for more information.
SKB Shotgun Promotion

Raise Team Funds with SKB Model 200HR Shotgun Promotion

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SKB Shotgun Promotion Your SCTP or SPP team can raise operating money and endowment funds with the SKB shotgun promotion being offered by MidwayUSA Foundation. An SKB Model 200HR 28 gauge shotgun is offered to all youth shooting teams with a team endowment account. MidwayUSA Foundation will provide a registration packet with additional details about the promotion and the information you need to sign up. Funds returned to your endowment account from this promotion will be matched. This beautiful shotgun has a scalloped receiver with a rounded and sleek profile. The receiver, forend iron, and trigger guard are enhanced with hand-engraved scroll accents and finished with genuine bone charcoal color case-hardening. It also has a gold accented trigger. Accessories include a fitted luggage case, five thin-walled choke tubes, a choke wrench, and a trigger lock. Your team can design its own promotion, such as a raffle, to raise funds with the shotgun. See the promotional flyer for more information.

Potterfields Donate Over $200,000 to MidwayUSA Foundation Team Endowment Program

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Larry and Brenda Potterfield
Larry and Brenda Potterfield at the 2014 SCTP-SPP National Team Championships
Larry and Brenda Potterfield, owners of MidwayUSA, recently donated $205,342 to the MidwayUSA Foundation to benefit youth shooting sports, including SCTP and SPP teams. This donation stems from the matching program offered by the MidwayUSA Foundation. Donors have the ability to choose the shooting team that will benefit from their donation, and Larry and Brenda Potterfield match that donation. Along with the matching program, the MidwayUSA Foundation offers its active teams promotional items to use as fundraisers. Larry and Brenda Potterfield also match proceeds generated from these promotions and returned to a team’s respective endowment account. The MidwayUSA Foundation is a public charity working to sustain the shooting sports industry by providing long-term funding to youth shooting teams. Shooting teams with a Team Endowment Account can draw 5% of their account balance each year to use for team expenses. The funds are used for ammunition, uniforms, entry fees, travel costs and more. For more information about the MidwayUSA Foundation, Inc., visit www.midwayusafoundation.org or call 1-877-375-4570.
2015 Nationals

See, Download & Share Photos from 2015 Nationals

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Nationals_cover Our collection of photos from the SCTP-SPP National Team Championships in Sparta and SCTP National Championships for International Disciplines in Colorado Springs have now been assembled on our Flickr page and are available for you to view, download, print, and share.

Click here to see our 2015 Nationals photos on Flickr


Even if you haven't used Flickr before, you'll probably find it pretty intuitive once you poke around a bit. However, here are a few notes to speed up the learning curve:
    The album will open to a collection of images on one page. If you want to look at an image in full-frame or to share or download it, just click on the image to open it. With any image opened, look for these icons in the lower right corner: Flickr icons If you wish to download the image, click on the icon on the right, the "down" arrow. What you're seeing on the page will usually be a much smaller version of the image, with several larger sizes available to be downloaded. You'll see some options: Flickr image sizes Just choose what you want. For a social media icon - or postage stamp - you might choose the 150x150 option. For a large print, go with the largest available size. To submit to your newspaper, download the largest available size to allow them to re-size it as needed. If you want to share the image in social media, click on the center icon, the "right" arrow, and again you'll have options and some choices to make: Flickr share For most purposes, such as sharing on Facebook or Twitter, you'll need to select "Link" as the Code option. If you want to embed the photo into your blog or website, you can choose "HTML." When that is the case, you will also have a choice of sizes.
If you choose to share images on social media (yes, do!), please continue to use the event hashtag, #SSSF2015.

Go to our Flickr page.


Coaches: Complete ATA/NSSA/NSCA Registrations Through SHOT System

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As a reminder, any athletes planning to compete in state or national SCTP events must be members of the respective national governing body (NGB). Athletes in SCTP trap singles events must be members of ATA and athletes competing in SCTP state or national skeet or sporting clays events must be members of NSSA/NSCA. All targets will be registered with the respective NGB for those events. Coaches: When renewing or registering teams and athletes requiring NGB membership for the new season, please complete the membership registrations and payments through the SHOT system. This will ensure that SCTP gets credit for those registrations and increase the college scholarship funding available for us to award to our graduating athletes. Please complete the registrations and payments at least 30 days prior to your scheduled competition to ensure time for processing of membership credentials through the respective NGB offices. Learn more about ATA membership for SCTP athletes.  

SSSF / SCTP Promotes Tuinstra to Director of Development – Eastern U.S.

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Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation / Scholastic Clay Target Program announces the promotion of Regional Field Representative (Great Lakes Region), Chet Tuinstra, to the position of SCTP Director of Development for the Eastern U.S., effective September 1. Chet has been involved with the SCTP since 2005 and will join existing Director of Development for the Western U.S. Scott Moniot in helping develop new SCTP teams and growing existing teams from the Mississippi River east and west, respectively. "Chet has done a great job overseeing the Great Lakes Region and helping start new SCTP teams in our biggest region, with 9,000+ athletes and coaches," said Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director. “This also shows that we are committed to growing the SCTP with dedicated, hardworking people who are supportive of our mission and youth clay target shooting in general.” In his new role, Tuinstra will provide leadership and support for SCTP Regional Field Representatives, state advisors, and coaches in the eastern half of the United States. For more information or to start a Scholastic Clay Target Program in your area, please contact your Director of Development or Regional Field representative below: Scott Moniot, smoniot@sssfonline.com
    Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) South Central (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas)
Chet Tuinstra, ctuinstra@sssfonline.com
    East (Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina) Southeast (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida) Great Lakes (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio)
Jennifer Kirchhoefer, jkirchhoefer@sssfonline.com
    Southwest (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico)
Jeff Weiler, jweiler@sssfonline.com
    North Central (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota)
Hank Garvey, hgarvey@sssfonline.com
    Northeast (Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut)
Larry and Brenda Potterfield

Larry and Brenda Potterfield Donate Nearly $100,000 to Youth Shooting Sports

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Larry and Brenda Potterfield, owners of MidwayUSA, recently donated $99,077 to the MidwayUSA Foundation to benefit youth shooting sports. This donation stems from the matching program offered by the MidwayUSA Foundation. Donors have the ability to choose the shooting team that will benefit from their donation, and Larry and Brenda Potterfield match that donation.
Larry and Brenda Potterfield
Larry and Brenda Potterfield at the 2014 SCTP-SPP National Team Championships
Along with the matching program, the MidwayUSA Foundation offers its active teams promotional items to use as fundraisers. At this time, teams can register to receive a Winchester Model 70 Super Grade rifle, as well as Browning Butcher Kits to raise funds for their shooting team. Larry and Brenda Potterfield also match proceeds generated from these promotions and returned to a team’s respective endowment account. The MidwayUSA Foundation is a public charity working to sustain the shooting sports industry by providing long-term funding to youth shooting teams. Shooting teams with a Team Endowment Account can draw 5% of their account balance each year to use for team expenses. The funds are used for ammunition, uniforms, entry fees, travel costs and more. For more information about the MidwayUSA Foundation, Inc., please visit www.midwayusafoundation.org or call 877-375-4570.

SPP / NRA Hold First Pistol Camp and Level 1 Coaches’ Class

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SPP-NRA Camp Illinois State Rifle Association in Bonfield, Illinois hosted the first SPP/NRA athlete pistol camp and Level 1 coaches' certification on August 7-9. Eight athletes participated in the camp and six SPP coaches were certified as NRA Level 1 pistol coaches. Daniel Subia, NRA National Trainer, Rifle and Pistol, and Bill Perkins, SPP Regional Field Representative from Arizona, conducted the class for the coach certification. Rick Leach, Wisconsin State Advisor and head coach for the Ozaukee Scholastic Shooting team, as well as John Leach, assistant coach for the Ozaukee Scholastic Shooting team, and Tammy Mowry, Program Manager for the Scholastic Pistol Program, conducted all of the range time instruction for the campers. SPP extends its thanks to Richard Pearson of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) for the invitation to host this year's camp and to all the ISRA range safety officers for their support during the weekend. SPP and NRA are planning a second camp in Arizona in December.
The camp was a wonderful success. Not only did the campers have a great time, they made new friends from across the country. We hope the camp continues to grow both in size and locations. The camp is a great place to spend some time learning new skills and making new friends." --Daniel Subia, NRA National Trainer, Rifle and Pistol
The SSP/NRA Pistol Camp was one of the safest, best organized, and well-run camps I have ever been involved with. The Illinois State Rifle Association is looking forward to hosting the camp again next year." --Richard A. Pearson, Executive Director, Illinois State Rifle Association
SPP/NRA Pistol Camp

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