Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation

Scholarship Opportunity

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.

Since 2013, the SSSF has awarded over $1,231,500 in scholarship funds benefiting over 1,290 student athletes, from nearly all 50 states in the Scholastic Clay Target and Scholastic Action Shooting programs.

We are pleased to announce that the SSSF awarded $120,000 in scholarships in 2025!

In addition to the SSSF scholarships awarded to youth athletes, special scholarships are awarded by program sponsors Browning, SKB, and Beretta. Eligible athletes must shoot a Browning shotgun in trap singles, a Beretta shotgun in skeet events, or a SKB shotgun during sporting clays events, respectively at the National Championship.

2026 Scholarship Application Now Open

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
  • Applicants must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative Grade Point Average through the most recent grading period ending on or before April 1, 2026.
  • 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 by August 1, 2026. Failure to submit the required information by the deadline will result in a forfeiture of the scholarship.  Each scholarship check will be mailed to the appropriate college in the student’s name by August 15, 2026. 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 to qualify (i.e., athletics, military academy, academic, ).
  • Applicants must have participated during 2024-2025 or 2025-2026 and must have previously participated in a State, Regional or National Competition.
  • 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.

          ☆ SCTP Applications please send to sctpscholarships@sssfonline.com 

          ☆ SASP Applications please send to saspscholarships@sssfonline.com


    Athletes competing in both SCTP and SASP are welcome to apply for scholarships under both programs but are only eligible to receive one SSSF scholarship.  Please submit separately as detailed above.

     

    Application Deadline (for the entire application packet): Midnight, April 15th, 2026

     

    All Materials Must Be Received together as One Single PDF File by Deadline!  No exceptions!

     

    Scholarship recipients will be notified via email in early June and will be posted on the SSSF website.

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    Note: The application is a Word Doc, to ensure proper download, use a desktop computer.

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