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Custer, Washington Scholastic Action Shooting Sports “Team Gotta” Heads to the 2019 SASP National Championships to Defend Multiple Titles

Written by SSSF Staff on July 18, 2019. Posted in SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Twelve (12) Youth Athletes from Custer, Washington based SASP Team Gotta are heading to the 2019 SASP National Championships in Marengo, Ohio this week to defend a host of titles earned at the 2018 SASP National Championships.

In 2018 Team Gotta won 1^st Place in Rimfire Pistol, 1911 Pistol and Open Optic Rifle. Team Gotta, the SASP that travels each year across the country to attend the National Championships hold multiple events throughout the year to cover the cost of travel for the team athletes and coaches. Team Gotta Head Coach, Jim Coffey proudly stated, “last year and again this year our team athletes did not have to pay a dime to travel to Nationals”. The entire teams’ efforts throughout the year along with a grant from the Midway Foundation made all that possible.”

In addition to competing in numerous SASP events, Team Gotta youth athlete Naomi McKay, who finished 2018 as the Rimfire Pistol Senior Lady High Overall sang the National Anthem at the 2019 National Championships opening ceremonies on Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

About the National Championships
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SIG Team Captain Max Michel to appear and train at 2019 SASP Nationals

Written by SSSF Staff on July 8, 2019. Posted in SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Come meet and learn from SIG team Captain, Max Michel at the 2019 Scholastic Action Shooting Program National Championships!

All action shooting enthusiasts attending the 2019 National Championships at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, OH are invited to attend a unique learning opportunity presented by SIG. Clinic times are Monday, July 15 10:00AM and 3:00PM at the action shooting range. Max will also be shooting the official SASP course of fire on Monday starting at Noon.

Max will also be providing personalized coaching to 4 specially selected SASP athletes at noon while he shoots the SASP Nationals stages. The 4 SASP athletes will be chosen from those in attendance and will get to shoot one stage with Max while he coaches them through the stage.

Max Michel, Jr. is one of the most dominant shooters in the world today. Michel is a Guinness World Record holder and International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) World Champion (World Shoot XVII). He also holds seven World Speed Shooting Championships (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2009, 2007 and 2005), ten USPSA National Championships (2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004), five US Steel National Championships (2017, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2008), and more than 200 other major championship victories. As an international competitor, Michel has represented the United States in the last seven IPSC World Shoots and returned home bearing gold each time.

As the Captain of Team SIG, Max is recognized worldwide as a top tier athlete and instructor, along with being mentor and coach for the team.

Kids & Clays at 2019 SCTP Nationals

Written by SSSF Staff on July 2, 2019. Posted in SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) is partnering again with the Kids and Clays Foundation to host the 4th Annual registered two-day sporting clay charity event at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio!

The event will be held Friday July 19 and Saturday July 20 during SSSF’s Scholastic Clay Target Program National Championships. The event is open to parents,coaches, athletes and anyone attending the SCTP, the athletes themselves as well as the general public.

All registrants for the event will be entered in a drawing for a large prize package of firearms, outdoor and shooting gear worth more than $14,000! Prizes, donated by many great sponsors, are listed below.

Register in person at the Kids & Clays trailer located near the sporting clays lodge at the Cardinal Center. The event is open to those participating or attending the SCTP National Championships as well as the public.

The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is the nation’s leader in youth development shooting sports programs. The Kids and Clays Foundation supports a series of shooting events across the country with all proceeds benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities. All proceeds from this special two-day event will help each organization fulfill their mission.

“We’re not only happy to partner with Kids & Clays on this event but are thrilled to be able to offer such a large prize package just for participating in the event,” said Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Program Director. “This event will make for a great ending to what is shaping up as record-setting National Championships at Cardinal.”

Besides the great prizes, top finishers in this registered event will be recognized with trophies.

A portion of the proceeds, through the Kids & Clays Foundation, benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities, who provide housing and other help to tens of thousands of critically ill children and their families across the country each year.

“We are blessed to be associated with such a quality organization as the SCTP,” said Doug Jeanneret, Kids & Clays Foundation executive director. “We certainly invite all who have an interest in shooting and also in helping youth to attend this marquis event.”

Proceeds will also benefit the SCTP’s scholarship program providing assistance to graduating high school seniors continuing their education in college. Scholarship applications are available on the SSSF’s website.

The Prize Package for participants of the sporting clay event includes:

-Browning Silver Field 12ga
-Henry Golden Boy 20th Anniversary
-Savage 555 O/U 12ga
-Mossberg International 20ga
-Mossberg Shockwave .410ga
-Ruger
-Tristar Upland Hunter 28ga(Ducks Unlimited Edition)
-SKB IS300 Field 12ga. Semi Auto
-Promatic Pigeon Trap Machine
-White Flyer Assorted Merchandise
-Hodgdon one 8lb. Keg Hodgdon or IMR propellant
-Briley $250 Gift Card
-Allen Pistol Case
-And much, much more!

For more information on the Cardinal Shooting Center, visit www.thecardinalcenter.com.

Don’t Miss Your Chance to Win the grand prize of a Kolar Max O/U

Written by SSSF Staff on July 1, 2019. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The SCTP National Championships being held at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio July 13-20, begin in less than 2 Weeks!

SCTP National Raffle tickets featuring the Kolar Max can be purchased on-site at the Cardinal Shooting Center starting July 13, 2019. Visit the registration building or several other vendor stores to get yours. Vendor stores include the Kolar Arms store, along with the Blaser USA store, Browning and Beretta stores. Vendor trailers/tents that will also have these tickets available include CZ USA, SKB and Legacy Sports.

Don’t miss your chance to win the Kolar Max O/U or shotguns from Blaser USA, Browning, CZ USA, Beretta and SKB or a Howa Rifle compliments of Legacy Sports. The total value of all prizes is in excess of $30,000.00.

Drawing for these fine firearms will be held Saturday, July 20^th. Winners will be notified and must provide an FFL for shipping of their firearm. All winners will have their firearms shipped after August 1^st, 2019.

For more information see the SCTP National Raffle Press Release on the SSSF website.

Good Luck to all SCTP athletes and teams, we will see you at the Cardinal Shooting Center!

More Ways to Compete and Win Than Ever at the 2019 SCTP National Championships

Written by SSSF Staff on July 1, 2019. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

SCTP Teams from across the United States (29 states to be exact) are planning, packing, practicing, and getting ready to head with their families, teammates, and friends to the 2019 SCTP National Championships being held at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, July 13-20, 2019.

“We may reach that 2 million target mark!” Said SCTP National Director, Tom Wondrash. “That’s 11-12 Semi loads of Clay Targets thrown in just this week! This will be the largest National Championship in the history of the SCTP and I’m sure White Flyer (manufacturer of the clay targets and founding sponsor) is quite pleased to see this!”

Teams will be competing in Trap, Skeet, Skeet Doubles Sporting Clays, Double Trap, Handicap Trap and Bunker Trap. Most would think that would be enough however for 2019, SCTP has added several additional competitions for SCTP Teams to participate in including…

Make A Break Competition – Athletes have a chance to win a case of ammo each day by competing in the ever popular Make A Break! Winners will be awarded daily and the finalists will compete head to head on Saturday, July 20 where the grand Prize winner will receive a Fabarm XLR 5 Velocity 12ga.

Skeet Doubles Competition – Athletes that compete in Friday, July 19^th’s event of Skeet Doubles at the SCTP Nationals, will have the opportunity to have their number drawn to compete Saturday for a final round of Skeet Doubles and have the chance to win the Beretta A400 Action KO shotgun being donated by Beretta for this event! At the end of competition on Friday, several numbers will be posted and those athletes whose scores end in that number will be eligible to shoot another round of Skeet Doubles where the highest shooter will win the Beretta Shotgun!

Last Competitor Standing- All athletes are eligible to compete in the Last Competitor Standing events being held Wednesday evening after opening ceremonies as well as Friday evening after awards ceremonies for Handicap Trap, Trap Doubles and Bunker Trap. Wrist bands to compete are only $5 and athletes will have a chance to win firearms from our partners at Legacy Sports and SKB Shotguns! A total of 6 guns to be given away along with many other great prizes including about 60 cases of ammo, shooting glasses compliments of RE Ranger, leather shooting bags from Shamrock Leather and much more!

In addition, SCTP youth athletes, families and friends can enter the 2019 SCTP National Raffle where over $30,000.00 in prizes will be won including a Kolar Max O/U Shotgun and 6 additional guns. And like last year, individuals or teams can participate in the Flurry Shoot where prizes will be awarded every day.

For more information on the 2019 SCTP National Championships visit www.sssfonline.org.

New Scholarships to be Awarded at the 2019 SCTP National Championships

Written by SSSF Staff on June 27, 2019. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The Scholastic Clay Target Program is pleased to announce the addition of two new SCTP College Scholarship Awards at the SCTP National Championships, July 13-20, 2019 at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio.

Browning (a longtime supporter of SCTP) has for the last 3 years been the sponsor of the “Browning Scholarship”. This scholarship is awarded to the top athlete in Trap Singles (male or female) shooting a Browning Shotgun. In the past, this scholarship has been as much as $7,500!

For 2019, Blaser USA will be sponsoring the “Blaser Scholarship”! This scholarship will be awarded to the top athlete in Sporting Clays (male or female) shooting a Blaser Shotgun!!

In addition, also for 2019 SCTP National Championships, Beretta USA will be sponsoring the “Beretta Scholarship”! This scholarship will be awarded to the top athlete in Skeet (male or female) shooting a Beretta Shotgun!

Athletes competing in these events at the SCTP National Championships just need to complete an online survey before their event starts.

Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director made the following statement. “We are thrilled that Browning, Blaser USA and Beretta USA wanted to provide scholarship opportunities for our SCTP high school aged athletes. Providing scholarships is a mainstay of the SCTP program and adding these additional opportunities will impact even more of our SCTP family’s. We cannot thank Browning, Blaser USA, and Beretta USA enough for their support of SCTP and these scholarship opportunities”.

SASP Athletes Train & Compete at the Olympic Training Center

Written by SSSF Staff on June 27, 2019. Posted in SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) athletes had the opportunity to train and compete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. From May 24-26, 2019 12 Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) athletes learned to shoot the International disciplines of 10 Meter Air Pistol, Sport Pistol and Rapid-Fire Pistol. Athletes stayed at the Olympic Training Center and were trained by USA Shooting Coach Brent McPherson and former USA National Team Member and USA Shooting Board Member Jim Henderson. This was SASP’s first Junior Olympic Development Camp (JODC) in 5 years.

For action shooters the athletes picked up the Olympic disciplines quickly. Before they left the Olympic Training Center 8 of 12 athletes shot 10M Air Pistol scores that would have qualified them last year to be invited to the Junior Olympic Trials for a chance to make the United States Junior Olympic Team. Coach Jim Henderson stated, “In all my years of coaching I have never seen a group of athletes pick this up so quickly, and then perform at this high of a level.”

Congratulation to the following SASP athletes who applied and were selected to attend the SASP 2019 JODC.

Jordan Walton WI, Annie Unsell AL, Bailey Lueders MO, Julia Kassa AZ, Sydnie Gray MI, Natalie Unsell AL, Jacob Pruitt OH, Ethan Jardines VA, Robert Little TX, Sawyer Phipps TN, Zachary Winton TX, and Maccoy Gilkison VA.

We also had SASP coaches and SASP staff participate in an international discipline coach’s clinic on May 22 and 23 before helping coach the SASP athletes upon their arrival. Russell Gilkison VA, Samantha Engle MI were the coaches that participated in the coach program.

SASP is excited to watch as these athletes continue to participate in the International disciplines with hopes of one day seeing one of them standing on the podium and the American Flag is raised as they represent our county in international competition.

We look forward to again holding a JODC in 2020.

SASP would like to thank USA Shooting, especially Brent McPherson and Jim Henderson for their coaching and working with us to provide this great opportunity for our athletes. We would also like to thank the US Olympic Training Center for their hospitality.

SASP Coach Parent Challenge at Nationals

Written by SSSF Staff on June 27, 2019. Posted in SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

SASP will have a Coach/Parent/Adult SASP Challenge at Nationals. In the past we allowed coaches to shoot the SASP stages as a side match. Coaches asked us to remove that event during the competition day because they felt it was distracting to athletes at the National Championship, but they still wanted to be able to compete.

After a couple year break and some discussion, we have decided to add the adult match back for Tuesday and Thursday nights starting at approximately 4:30PM when the athletes are finished for the day.

Not only will you have bragging rights if you are the top competitor, but SASP will also be awarding firearms to the top finishers. The top male and female in Rifle and Pistol will win a firearm. For pistol you may compete with rimfire, centerfire or 1911 as long as your firearm would be legal for an athlete to use in our program. For rifle we will use the top finisher using any of the three SASP rifle disciplines. Competitors may shoot multiple guns following the same rules as SASP athletes.

Athletes are invited to come and coach and cheer on the adults.

Any profit made from this competition will go into the SASP Scholarship Fund.

To register go to Signup Genius https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0B45ABAB2BA0FB6-20192 fill in which night you wish to compete and firearm discipline or disciplines you will be competing in.

If you do not want to compete, but would like to have some fun by volunteering to be the safety officers for this event, email Kelvin at kwalton@sssfonline.com

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing everyone in Marengo.

Rick Leach
SASP National Director

Last Stops on the 2019 SCTP / NSSA / NSCA Tour

Written by SSSF Staff on June 25, 2019. Posted in Events, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The tour is designed so SCTP youth will be able to participate in premier skeet and sporting clays events, perhaps outside of their regular SCTP season. The tour provides opportunity for SCTP youth to compete for special awards while also experiencing the environment and excitement of the top skeet and sporting clays tournaments across the country!

SCTP athletes participating in NSSA and/or NSCA registered events, (including tour events) will also be eligible for NSSA-SCTP and/or NSCA-SCTP All American Teams!

For more information or to register for the Northbrook Skeet Classic go to: http://bit.ly/NSCSkeet

For more information or to register for the New Mexico State Sporting Clays Championships go to: http://winscoreonline.com/shooter_registration_nsca.php?tournament_id=4282

Please contact Nathan Boyd, NSSA Special Projects Manager with any questions:
nboyd@nssa-nsca.com

SCTP NATIONAL TEAM TRAP ATHLETES CONCLUDE U.S. NATIONALS AND JUNIOR OLYMPIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Written by SSSF Staff on June 19, 2019. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

It was a test of endurance, patience, and positive attitudes - it was the USA Shooting Trap National Championships back-to-back with the USA Shooting Junior Olympic Trap Championships in Colorado Springs. This was the test that the SCTP National Team has been “studying” for all year and the Trap Team was first in the blocks.

In spite of lightning, rain, wind, dust, cold, heat, and long days (30 squads of competitors) the determination and resilience of these athletes shone through. The first week saw Matt Wells (WI) battle his way to a Junior Men’s silver medal at the USA Shooting National Championships, earning a spot on the Junior National Team. Wells will now trade his SCTP National Team vest for a USA Shooting Junior Team vest.

“I have trained very hard to get this vest and position on the National Junior Team but my work as a competitive athlete is not done. I definitely think that being on the SCTP Team has helped me grow as a shooter. I would like to thank SCTP for the opportunity they have given me. I am excited to continue my journey on the Junior National Team,” Wells stated.

15-year-old Emilio Carvalho (CA) lead the way during the second week of competition at the Junior Olympic Championships, claiming the top of the leaderboard the very first day. But not far behind Carvalho was his teammate Matt Wells again. When both Carvalho and Wells collected their bib numbers for the final, Carvalho was still in the number 1 spot and Wells was in number 4.

Emilio Carvalho, Men’s final, Junior Olympic Championships.
Photo courtesy of USA Shooting.

When the dust finally settled, Wells remained in fourth place while Carvalho did not relinquish his lead until nearly the end of the finals round, when he finished in third place. His bronze medal podium finish places him on the USA Shooting Junior Squad, meaning that Carvalho will also trade his SCTP National Team vest for a USA Shooting vest.

“The SCTP camps and the mental training exposed me to new insights about the game. I feel grateful about my success and the opportunity that SCTP has provided to me to pursue my Olympic dreams. Thank you for an amazing year SCTP National Team!” beamed Carvalho.

Junior Men’s final, USA Shooting National Championships. Photo courtesy of John Thompson.

Coach Terri DeWitt said with a laugh, “I’ve been out here so long, I don’t even know what day it is anymore.” She continued, “But I do know this - without exception, these trap athletes performed beyond expectations. They should be proud of themselves - they came out here prepared; they came out here with a mission and they gave 100% effort to that mission. I’m extremely proud of the efforts put forth by this team, not only on the firing line, but behind the line as well. They were there for each other during these two long weeks, truly coming together as a team. I could not be prouder of these young adults,” she smiled.

Next up are the Skeet events: USA Shooting National Skeet Championships, June 16^th- June 19^th and USA Shooting Junior Olympic Skeet Championships, June 22^nd – 23^rd.