Former SCTP Champions Competing at ISSF World Cup

The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) has announced that six former Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Champions are competing as members of The USA Shooting Team at the ISSF World Cup Championships being held in Sydney, Australia from March 22 thru April 1.

SCTP is the Official Clay Target Youth Development Program of USA Shooting.

The six former SCTP National Champions competing at The ISSF 2011 Sydney World Cup are:

Vincent Hancock – Age 22, Eatonton, GA
SCTP National Champion – Men’s Skeet

Jon Michael McGrath – Age 18, Tulsa, OK
SCTP National Champion – Men’s Skeet

T. J. Bayer – Age 17, Bryan, TX
SCTP National Champion – Men’s Skeet

Caitlin Connor – Age 21, Winnfield, LA
SCTP National Champion – Women’s Skeet

Josh Richmond – Age 25, Hillsgrove, PA
SCTP National Champion – Men’s Double Trap

Miranda Wilder – Age 17, Diana, TX
SCTP National Champion – Women’s Trap

The 2011 Sydney World Cup, the second leg of the ISSF World Cup Championships, has 64 nations represented with 721 competitors in the Olympic sports of rifle, pistol, and shotgun.

For more information on the ISSF World Cup Competition or to view the ISSF Finals LIVE on the internet, visit www.issf-sports.org.

The USA Shooting Team is coming off a very successful competition at the ISSF World Cup in Concepcion, Chile a few weeks ago where Vincent Hancock, Jon Michael McGrath, and Frank Thompson tied the World Record in Men’s Skeet and captured a Gold Medal. Out of a possible 125 targets, Thompson finished with a competition score of 123, Hancock with 122, and McGrath with 121, posting a combined score of 366/375.

The Women’s Skeet, Men’s Double Trap, and Women’s Trap Teams all won medals as well. Jaiden Grinnell finished with a competition score of 96/100 targets plus 21 targets in the Match Finals Shoot-Off, and Josh Richmond finished with a competition score of 189/200 to win individual Bronze Medals in Women’s Skeet and Men’s Double Trap, respectively.

USA Shooting has 34 athletes participating in Rifle, Pistol, and Shotgun at the 2011 Sydney World Cup. 40% of the USA Shotgun Team (6 athletes) and all three members of the Men’s Skeet Team are former SCTP National Champions. The USA Shooting Team has the youngest Men’s Team competing in the ISSF World Cup Series and at the World Clay Target Championships in Belgrade, Serbia later this year.

Athletes are members of the United States National Team at USA Shooting, based at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. USA Shooting is the National Governing Body for Olympic Shooting Sports in the United States.

About SCTP
SCTP is a youth development program where adult coaches and volunteers model sportsmanship, responsibility, and teamwork while using shooting sports programs to teach these and other positive life skills to SCTP athletes. SCTP activities are designed to incorporate two indispensable elements – FUN AND SAFETY. The safe handling of firearms is the primary focus of all SCTP clubs.

For more information about SCTP, call 586-737-0805 or visit www.shootsctp.org.

NSSA-NSCA Launch Online Forums

SAN ANTONIO – The joint organization of the National Skeet Shooting Association and National Sporting Clays Association (NSSA/NSCA) announce new online forums for members with the goal of sharing accurate and unbiased information about their sports while stimulating camaraderie worldwide.

The new NSSA/NSCA forums arose from an agreement between the NSSA/NSCA and Shotgun Life, the first online magazine dedicated to the best in wing and clays shooting. Under the arrangement, Shotgun Life has donated the software, hardware, and technical support to resume the organizations’ forums, which have been dormant for over two years, as part of the online magazine’s 10 shotgun forums.

The forums are available by visiting www.shotgunlife.com and clicking on the Forum tab at the top of the page. NSSA and NSCA will distribute specific instructions to their members for registering and logging on to the forums.

“With the next generation of shooters becoming much more active in skeet and sporting clays tournaments, it was time to once again bring a meaningful exchange of information to our members around the world,” said Don Snyder, Executive Director of the NSSA/NSCA. “Shotgun Life came to us with a generous proposal that helped us accelerate our goals of using the Internet to help unite our members in an online global community.”

“It’s an honor to be underwriting the NSSA/NSCA forums,” said Irwin Greenstein, Publisher of Shotgun Life. “As a free, online magazine, our intent is to break down the barriers of entry to participating in the shotgun sports. Our support of the NSSA/NSCA forums is in complete alignment with the goals of these two tremendous organizations that have enriched the lives of so many shotgun owners.”

The National Skeet Shooting Association

Founded in 1928 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, the National Skeet Shooting Association is the official governing and sanctioning organization for the sport of skeet shooting.  It is a not-for-profit organization owned and operated by its almost 17,000 members.  For more information on the sport or the organization, visit www.mynssa.com.

 

The National Sporting Clays Association

Founded in 1989 by the National Skeet Shooting Association in San Antonio, Texas, the National Sporting Clays Association is the official governing and sanctioning organization for sporting clays in the U.S.  It has more than 20,000 members and is a not-for-profit organization owned and operated by its members. For more information, visit www.mynsca.com.

 

Shotgun Life

Launched in January 2009, Shotgun Life is the first online magazine dedicated to the best in wing and clays shooting. In addition to covering all the major clays sports and waterfowl and upland shooting, Shotgun Life showcases the finest shotguns in the world, women shooters and features extensive background information about the equipment and sports to help encourage new shooters to participate.  You can access Shotgun Life free of charge at www.shotgunlife.com.

NSSA – National Skeet Shooting Association

 

NSSA – National Skeet Shooting Association
National Skeet Shooting Association, National Governing and Sanctioning Body for Skeet Shooting. www.mynssa.com

National Shooting Complex

 

National Shooting Complex
National Shooting Complex, Home of the National Skeet Shooting Association and National Sporting Clays Association.  www.nationalshootingcomplex.com