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2018 SSSF/NRA All-Scholastic Team Announced

Written by SSSF Staff on June 13, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation(SSSF) and National Rifle Association (NRA) Competitive Shooting Sports division are proud to announce members of the 2018 All-Scholastic Team!

Over 230 student athletes from 25 states have been named to the team this year and will be recognized at the opening ceremonies of the SSSF/SCTP/SASP Team Championship event on July 18 in Marengo, Ohio. The All-Scholastic Team recognizes the top student athletes in the SSSF’s Scholastic Clay Target and Scholastic Action Shooting Program for their achievements in the classroom, on the range and in their communities. Through an application process, 2018 All-Scholastic Team Members have proven academic excellence by posting 3.0 or better grade point averages, shooting excellent scores in recent competition (95% in trap or skeet, 85% in sporting clays, 88% in international trap/skeet or 75 seconds or less for SASP) and by demonstrating outstanding community involvement. See the state-by-state athlete profiles for the 2018 All Scholastic Team members and learn more about how the SCTP and SASP are working to improve the lives of young people across the country. Congratulations to all qualifying team members!

Congratulations to 2018 Scholarship Recipients

Written by SSSF Staff on June 13, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation is proud to announce the 2018 recipients in its Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) Scholarship Program. One hundred thirty three student athletes from 25 different states will receive scholarships totaling $83,300. From 2013 to date, SSSF has awarded nearly $400,000 in scholarship funds benefiting over 400 student athletes in the Scholastic Clay Target and Scholastic Action Shooting programs. Athletes who are graduating from high school in 2018 and will enroll in college this year were eligible to apply for this year’s scholarships. Awards are based on SCTP/SASP participation, academics, need, essays and other factors. The scholarships are being funded by generous shooting industry sponsors, as well as supporters and donors who provide the SCTP with funds through national fundraising banquets. Congratulations to the following 2018 Scholastic Action Shooting Program scholarship recipients:

State	Name	Sponsor
IA	Zachary Henry	GLOCK
KY	Austin Arnold	SASP
TN	Anders Rider	SASP
WI	Kiera Wood	GLOCK
WI	Teagan Richman	SASP
WI	Emily Rasmussen	Taurus

Congratulations to the following 2018 Scholastic Clay Target Program scholarship recipients:

State	Name
AZ	Hanna Hughes
AZ	Kira Cornell Dean
AZ	Cody Gill
AZ	Lewis Aul
CA	Lauren Hamada
CA	Wyatt Hambly
CA	Isaac Smith
CA	Alexander Ke
CO	Mason Wolfe
CO	Dalton Kirchhoefer
CO	Bryon Baca
GA	Charles Toms
GA	Kevin Bandt
IA	Dain Stolba
IA	Bailey Beckman
IA	Alexis Berte
IA	Allison Pettinger
IA	Brooke Willson
IA	Sydney Pierson
IA	Dayton Harson
IA	Garett Tierney
IA	Sarah Jordan
IA	Stephanie Vipond
IA	Trenton Kruse
IA	Christopher Mott
IA	Ashton Lamborn
IA	Lucas Schmitz
IA	Jenna Kinch
IA	Bailey Schmitz
IA	Caleb Williams
IA	Zachary Henry
IA	Cole Baskerville
IA	August Helgeson
IA	Dayne Crouch
IA	Nicole Breese
IA	Carter West
IA	Kyle Myers
IA	Sloan Volkman
IA	Willam Hurd
IA	Michael Mohr
IA	Carl Preston
IA	Rebecca Crawford
IL	Jesse Stevens
IL	Ryan St. Peters
IL	Isaac Barnes
IN	Jacob Eggebrecht
IN	Spencer Jordan
IN	Tyler Eggert
MA	Andrew Worringham
MA	Meagan Wyson
MA	Alexia Davos
MA	Devereux Marshall
MD	Chase Tyeryar
MI	Megan Scholl
MI	Joshua Bush
MN	Megan Ringate
MN	Austin Swan
MO	Tom Browne
NE	Anna Denman
NM	Patrick Lasher
OH	Julia Horner
OH	Derek Sinclair
OH	Courtney Leszczynski
OH	Eugene Koczwara
OH	Quinton Taylor
OH	Nolan Andrasik
OH	Kathryn Taylor
OH	Carson Ledford
OH	David Spradlin
OH	Matthew Le Cras
PA	Mauren Mitchell
PA	Dylan Henkins
PA	Nathan Metzger
SC	Mary Gregory
SC	Benjamin Tillman Kinney
SC	Aubrey Cromer
SC	Jessica Knox
SC	Tangie McFee
SC	Carrie Haltiwanger
SC	Abigail Milling
SD	Kjerstin Aspaas
TN	Jacob Pinson
TN	Anastasia Zimmerman
TN	Evan Fleet
TN	Tori Brown
TN	James Hartman
TN	Lauren Thomas
TN	Mikaela Messer
TN	Kincaid Gillespie
TX	Dakota Brown
TX	Charles Buckin III
TX	Victoria Scott
VA	Zachary Wells
WI	Zachary Becker
WI	Jack Meixelsperger
WI	Lea Beckman
WI	Sunny Rufsholm
WI	Laura Behr
WI	Andrew Grady
WI	Megan Cernohous
WI	Rebecca Reeves
WI	Jason Brewer
WI	Riley Hammer
WI	Aimee Spiering
WI	Josie McHugh
WI	Korryn Clint
WI	Matthew Bougie
WI	Ty Flannery
WI	Steven Klika
WI	William Zajkowski
WI	Matthew Wells
WI	Harlan Schwanebeck
WI	Reed Miller
WI	Ethan Jensen
WI	George Carlo Clark
WI	Samuel Coates
WI	Easton Meier
WI	Nicholas Mader
WI	Edie Keung
WI	Hunter Sadler
WI	Jordan Marvin
WI	Casey Lucas
WI	Adam Hilger
WI	Matthew Young
WI	Sarah Schwacher
WI	Ian Walton
WY	Reese Romero

Reserve Golf Carts and Pre-Order Ammunition for Nationals

Written by SSSF Staff on June 9, 2018. Posted in Events, SCTP Blog, SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Do you or your team need to reserve golf carts or pre-order shotgun ammunition prior to the 2018 National Championships in Marengo, OH? If so, please follow the links below to reserve your carts from Eagle Golf Carts or pre-order ammunition from the Sportsman's Den. Golf Cart Information and Reservations Ammunition Pre-Order Information The complete event program will be available soon - in the meantime please refer to the event information and schedule of events posted to our website. We look forward to seeing you in July!

Hollywood Comes to the SCTP Nationals

Written by SSSF Staff on June 4, 2018. Posted in Events, SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

For several months now, we’ve been working with some folks in the movie world who are interested in what we do here at the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP). I am very pleased to announce that at the 2018 SCTP National Championships being held at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, they will begin filming a major motion picture that’s going to be the first of its kind in the clay shooting world! This movie has a great story line and the SCTP staff, coaches and athletes will be featured throughout the show. We’ll be releasing more details over the next couple months but for now make your plans to be at this years National Championships in Marengo, Ohio July 14-21. You never know, you might end up on the ‘big screen’!! Check out the trailer on our YouTube channel and stay tuned, much more to come! Tom Wondrash SCTP National Director

Nearly 2,700 to Attend Iowa SCTP Trap Championships

Written by SSSF Staff on June 4, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Cedar Falls, IA - Starting Wednesday, June 6th the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Iowa State Trapshooting Association (ISTA) will be hosting the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) state trapshooting championship event at the ISTA home grounds just north of Cedar Falls. Middle school and elementary aged athletes will begin the competition on Wednesday with high school athletes competing Thursday through Sunday. Over 630,000 clay targets will be fired at during the five days of competition with 2,639 youth from 117 Iowa teams scheduled to participate. This week’s trap championship event is the first culminating event to a season of trap, skeet and sporting clays competitions that started last fall where Iowa teams logged 800 competition events from September 1 through the end of May. Iowa youth have fired at nearly 1.7 million clay targets in these local competitions alone. Event Details Wednesday, June 6^th – Rookie and Intermediate Divisions (Grades 8 and under) Thursday, June 7^th – Doubles and Handicap (i.e. added distance) Events, All Ages Friday, June 8 through Sunday June 10 – High School Divisions Iowa State Trapshooting Association Home Grounds 6138 W Cedar Wapsi Rd, Cedar Falls, IA 50613 Event Program, Schedules and Results Complete event program can be found at: http://www.iowadnr.gov/Portals/idnr/uploads/Law%20Enforcement/2018eprogram.pdf Interactive squad schedules may be viewed by going to http://shot.sssfonline.com/shot/bin/comp/report/schedule.asp?id=1724 then navigating to the event you would like to see the squad schedule for. Results leaderboards can be found at: http://shot.sssfonline.com/shot/bin/comp/report/leaderboard.asp?id=1724 Scheduled Teams and Athlete Hometown List https://sssfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Iowa_State_Trapshoot_AthleteList_2018.xlsx https://sssfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Iowa_State_Trapshoot_AthleteList_2018.pdf Media Contact Chris VanGorp, Shooting Sports Coordinator, Iowa DNR Chris.VanGorp@dnr.iowa.gov 515-313-8048 Download the complete media advisory here.

Blaser USA to Partner with SCTP again in 2018

Written by SSSF Staff on May 25, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Blaser USA makers of fine shotguns like the F3 and now the F16 have agreed to support the Scholastic Clay Target Program yet again in 2018 as a Platinum member! Passionate about perfection – The next generation of game and competition shotguns has arrived with the introduction of the new Blaser F16. Only through the restless pursuit of perfection is it possible to create a perfectly balanced over and under shotgun with the lowest profile action on the market! The renowned jury of the British Shooting Industry Awards – consisting of journalists and industry experts – voted the F16 best shotgun 2017! With this official acknowledgement, the F16 has lived up to its claim, to be the best... “Blaser USA is very proud to support the SCTP,” commented John “Mo” Parsons, Blaser USA’s Shotgun Product Manager. “Blaser USA believes in the SCTP’s mission, values and structure. They continue to be a positive and strong growing youth organization, a quality we like to see and support in a youth program!” “It’s a little overwhelming and exciting to have great Industry sponsors like Blaser USA supporting us at a very high level. They truly understand how important good youth programs are to the future of shooting sports,” said Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director. “We see Blaser USA’s presence continue to grow in the firearms industry and hope that our program has helped them with that. We appreciate their decision to continue supporting the SCTP and look forward to a long lasting relationship with them!” Are you or your company interested in being part of or supporting the largest competitive youth shooting program in the world? Then contact Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director at twondrash@sssfonline.com or check out our 2018 Media Guide at: https://sssfonline.org/about-sssf/advertise-us/.

SCTP Heads for the Big Screen

Written by SSSF Staff on May 24, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The Scholastic Clay Target Program will be featured in a major motion picture filming this summer at nationals!

SCTP National Team Trains in Colorado

Written by SSSF Staff on May 24, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

The first weekend in May, four of the SCTP’s National Team members – AJ Nomina, Mark Shields, Madeleine Taylor, and Tyler Thiede – met coaches Terri DeWitt and Joe Buffa in Colorado Springs for the third National Team training camp this year. This camp was intended to coincide with the Colorado State Junior Olympic (JO) Championships in order to offer National Team members an opportunity to compete in a training match.

Not only was this particular camp an opportunity to train on the home range of USA Shooting’s National JO Championships as well as the SCTP’s International National Championships, it gave National Team members a chance to test their training under true match conditions. Coach DeWitt explains, “You can never quite replicate match pressure in a training environment, which is what makes ‘practice’ matches like these so valuable.” The results speak for themselves. All four SCTP National Team athletes made the finals in their respective events and two of them came away with medals; AJ Nomina took home a Bronze medal in Skeet and Tyler Theide battled his way to the Silver medal in Trap. National Team (NT) athletes earned their spot via participation and placement in the 2017 Scholastic Clay Target Program International Championships held July 23-29, 2017. 2018 national team members receive ongoing coaching in the international shooting disciplines, a USA Shooting jacket, paid fall selection match fees and ammo, along with an SCTP National Team vest, five cases of NobelSport Quattro Finest International ammunition and more! The 2019 National Team will be selected based on scores from the 2018 Scholastic Clay Target Program International Championships to be conducted July 22-27 in Colorado Springs.

CZ-USA Renews Sponsorship with SCTP

Written by SSSF Staff on May 22, 2018. Posted in SPP Blog, SSSF News and Information.

CZ-USA announced recently that they will sponsor the SCTP again as a Platinum Level Sponsor for the 2018 shooting year! CZ-USA has developed the “SCTP Sterling” available now as well as competition type shotguns like the CZ-USA “All American Trap Combo” and the “612 Target ” for competitive shooters of all ages. People can see many of these fine firearms at our national championships being held July 14-21 at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio! “The SCTP is a world class program and understands what it takes to run a youth shooting organization!” said Dave Miller, CZ-USA’s Special Project & Shotgun Product Manager. “We believe very strongly in the SCTP’s mission and direction and are proud to support such a fine organization with our products!” CZ-USA has supported the SCTP at a very high level now for several years. They are constantly looking for ways to get more involved with both the SCTP and the SASP, both programs of the SSSF. “We are very proud to have World record holder Dave Miller and CZ-USA a part of our program!” commented Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director. “CZ-USA is a great friend and partner of not only our national organization but of the teams and families as well! Like many of our other sponsors, CZ-USA gets it. They understand that our youth are the future of the shooting sports and they work closely with us in developing more opportunities for them. We appreciate all they do in support of what we stand for!” Are you or your company interested in being part of or supporting the largest competitive youth shooting program in the world? Then contact Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director at twondrash@sssfonline.com or check out our 2018 Media Guide at: https://sssfonline.org/about-sssf/advertise-us/.

Pre-Squadding Information for 2018 SCTP National Championships

Written by SSSF Staff on May 2, 2018. Posted in SCTP Blog, SSSF News and Information, Uncategorized.

Due to the extremely large volume of teams and coaches trying to squad for the 2018 National Championships, we have decided to implement a new registration path this year to take some pressure off coaches competing for slots and shooting times when general online registration is open and available on June 1st. This year, we are trying something new. We are going to allow teams to “pre-squad” for the SCTP National Championships. Here’s how it will work: Teams must send via US Postal Service to the Burlington, WI address provided, a filled out “Nationals pre-squad form” available on our Forms and Handbook section of our website. You will need to fill out a form for each team “scenario”……meaning, the dates and times for each squad you want entered. These squads must be “pre-built” in your team’s page and be built for each discipline. Date for SCTP to receive these forms is Tuesday, May 15. Do not send prior to that date, entries received with a prior date stamp will not be accepted!! This form must be sent in with payment either by credit card or by check, no payment sent in with forms will result in no squads entered for that team. These funds are “nonrefundable”!! If you pay for 15 athletes and only 12 show up, the other 3 athlete’s fees are not returned. A team may change shooters or resquad them before nationals, that is no problem. We will take the presquad forms in the order they are received by us from the US Postal service and in order of the time stamp on the envelope. No dropping off of forms will be allowed and PLEASE, do NOT send these forms with a signature required. They will be put at the end of the forms received that day or the next day if they are sent with a signature required…… Squading will be confirmed and posted prior to the opening of the National Championship squading on June 1^st. Please give us 3 options or “scenarios” for your teams squads as many slots will fill up fast. See the form and instructions for more details regarding squading for the SCTP National Championships! Hope to see you all in Marengo, Ohio July 14-21!

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