The upcoming SCTP – SPP National Team Championships and its explosive registration launch this month seized the attention of NRA News, which featured SSSF President and Executive Director Ben Berka on Cam and Company, a talk show airing on the Sportsman Channel.
Berka discussed the National Championships with host Cam Edwards. Watch the interview.
Coaches and athletes will have two new side events to participate in at this year’s SCTP National Team Championships.
Preliminary 16-Yard Trap Singles
Preliminary 16-Yard Trap Singles – Coach/Athlete
You can learn about everything that’s happening at the 2015 National Team Championships with the event program, and it’s ready for your perusal. Use it to plan your schedule, learn about side events, or just stoke your excitement for the biggest event of the year!
The program also includes information on the SCTP International-Style National Championships in Colorado Springs.
The SCTP and SPP National Team Championships will be July 13-18 at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Illinois. Based on opening-week registrations that were almost double 2014 numbers, staff are expecting to have a record-breaking event.
If your team hasn’t yet registered, do it today!
June 1 was much anticipated by Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) teams across the country, as it marked the opening of registration for the 2015 SCTP National Team Championships. Based on the first day’s registrations, staff are predicting another record-breaking event.
In the first 24 hours of open registration for the July 13-18 tournament, the program saw 66 teams register 1036 athletes. Eighteen states were represented with 2,026 event registrations filed.
“These numbers are incredible; they doubled last year’s first-day totals,” commented Tom Wondrash, SCTP National Director. “Coaches set their alarm clocks to wake up at 12:01 on June 1 to register their teams!”
While the numbers are already up significantly from last year’s registrations, Wondrash points out that there will be enough shooting slots at the spacious World Shooting and Recreational Complex to fit in every team wanting to attend.
The Scholastic Pistol Program (SPP) will also hold its National Junior/Senior Championships in conjunction with the SCTP tournament. In its third year, the SPP event has registered 259 athletes from 24 teams in 13 states to date.
New SCTP side events include 16-yard Preliminary Singles Trap and a coach/athlete trap shoot. Team endowment funding, games, and many industry representatives will also be on hand all week. With appearances by people like MidwayUSA’s own Larry and Brenda Potterfield on Tuesday, July 14, Olympic Gold Medalist Vincent Hancock on Wednesday through Friday, shooting exhibitions and clinics by professional shooters, and more exciting events still to be announced, SCTP and SPP are looking at a very busy and exciting week in Sparta, Illinois!
It’s time to register for the 2015 SCTP National Championships at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Illinois. Registration opened on June 1 at sssfonline.org for the July 13-18 event.
To ensure your registration goes smoothly, please follow these policies and tips:
If the SCTP-SPP National Championships in Sparta, Illinois are a part of your team’s plans for this year — and why wouldn’t they be? — it’s a good idea to start considering accommodations for the week of July 13-18. To make it easier for you to know your options, especially if this will be your first trip to the Sparta area, we have some resources for you.
We’ve accessed a Google map that shows lodging in the vicinity of the World Shooting & Recreational Complex, so you can not only see your lodging options, but also where they are relative to the complex.
In addition, the World Shooting & Recreational Complex offers 1001 camping sites for those of you who want to stay right on the premises in an RV or tent. Click the link below to learn about the WSRC campground options and to access online reservations. You can also make campground reservations by calling Sherry Flowers at the WSRC, 618-295-2700, ext. 486.
Don’t know when you need to be there? Below is the schedule for each discipline:
We recently closed our National Championships survey after several hundred of you gave us your feedback on our year’s big events. As promised, we have drawn the names of eight (8) respondents to win a prize from SCTP or SPP. Congratulations to these winners:
Houston Unsell – SPP shooter from Alabama
SPP water bottle, patch, and pin
Darin Bruski – SPP and SCTP shooter from Wisconsin
SPP water bottle, patch, and pin
William M. Seifert – SCTP shooter from Michigan
Case of Nobel Sport ammo
Dakota Bishop – SCTP shooter from Texas
Case of Fiocchi ammo
John Michael Baggett – SCTP shooter from Tennessee
SCTP hat and t-shirt
Edward Rowland – SCTP coach from Tennessee
Weather Writer System
Terry Brookman – SCTP coach from Missouri
SCTP lanyard, coffee mug, and hot/cold pack
Thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to our survey and provide us with valuable information that we will use to make future events even better.
We want to know what you think. With our 2014 SCTP and SPP National Championships recently behind us, we want to know how we did. Did we meet your expectations or leave you wishing for more? Were our new features hits or misses? We’re already planning next year’s Nationals, and you can help us make the events even better by giving us some input.
Didn’t go to our Nationals events? We still want to hear from you! There are questions for shooters, parents, coaches, and everyone else who has reason to read this page.
We’ve designed the questions so you can simply click to give your response, but if you have more to say, there are opportunities for you to get it all off your chest.
To thank you for your input, we’ll be drawing for eight (8) prize packages that will be won by respondents. Prizes include ammunition, logo clothing, and logo gear.
Thank you in advance for your help in making next year’s National Championships the best ever!
SCTP shooters got a taste of Olympic-style shooting last week, competing in the 2014 SCTP National Team Championships for International Disciplines at the International Shooting Park near Colorado Springs, CO.
This year’s competitor numbers doubled last year’s totals. Bunker trap had 90 registrations, with 44 for International Skeet and 55 for International Double Trap.
In addition to squad and individual awards for the three disciplines, four athletes earned positions on the USA National Junior Team as a result of their scores:
Almost 200 athletes, coaches, and family members attended the awards banquet at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort, where shooters received medals and awards for their accomplishments. The four athletes winning spots on the USA National Junior Team were presented blue USA Shooting jackets by Todd Graves, former Olympian and current USA Shooting National Shotgun Coach.
Also attending the banquet and recognizing the shooters were Mike Theimer, USA Shooting Director of Youth Shooting; Lloyd Woodhouse, former Olympian and legendary USA National Coach; Dave Johnson, USA Shooting Director of Operations; and USA Shooting members Nick Boerboon and Morgan Craft.
Gold Medal winners include:
| Squad – Open | Tampa Bay Clays (FL) | |
| Squad – Senior | Des Moines Clay Crushers (IA) | |
| Individual Men’s Collegiate | Clayton Moniot | Kansas City Crushers (KS) |
| Individual Boys Senior | Nic Moschetti | TSSC Bears (CO) |
| Individual Boys Intermediate | Dillon Romero | Cody Clay Crushers (WY) |
| Individual Girls Senior | Molly Sheehan | Minute Man Sharpshooters (MA) |
| Squad – Open | Arizona Outdoor Sports (AZ) | |
| Squad – Senior | Minute Man Sharpshooters (MA) | |
| Individual Men’s Collegiate | Jordan Hintz | BHS Demons (WI) |
| Individual Boys Senior | Hank Garvey | Minute Man Sharpshooters (MA) |
| Individual Boys Intermediate | Sam Lama | Centerburg Youth SS (OH) |
| Individual Girls Senior | Madelynn Bernau | Waterford H.S. Trap Team (WI) |
| Squad – Open | U.S. Clay Target Academy (FL) | |
| Squad – Senior | CTC-Tennessee Blue (TN) | |
| Individual Men’s Collegiate | Myles Walker | BHS Demons (WI) |
| Individual Boys Senior | Roe Reynolds | Central Ark. Shotgun Team (AR) |
| Individual Boys Intermediate | Gabriel Shandles | U.S. Clay Target Academy (FL) |
| Individual Boys Rookie | Joshua Vega | U.S. Clay Target Academy (FL) |
| Individual Girls Senior | Grace Hambuchen | Central Ark. Shotgun Team (AR) |
| Individual Girls Intermediate | Logan Smith | U.S. Clay Target Academy (FL) |
More than 2500 young shooters, along with thousands of coaches, family members, and supporters, descended upon the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Ill. last week for the largest youth shooting event ever held, the SCTP and SPP National Championships.
The July 14-19 event saw significant increases in virtually every metric over 2013’s record-setting Nationals. In the SCTP event alone, competitors shot 715,000 targets, a 35% increase over last year. Shooters from 175 SCTP teams came from 26 states.
SPP also saw its own increases. In only its second Junior/Senior National Championship, SPP experienced an increase of 62% in participant numbers, hosting 326 shooters representing 39 teams from 15 states. Earlier this year, SPP hosted a separate Collegiate National Championship with close to 100 shooters from 24 squads.
With the largest contingency of shooters, Trap had almost 1900 participants, a 19% increase. A total of 736 shooters shot Skeet for a 29% growth, and the 677 Sporting Clays shooters represented a 30% increase.
Of the 2180 SCTP shooters, 1818 were male and 361 female.
“An event of this magnitude could only take place so successfully with a great deal of hard work and dedication from our student athletes, coaches, parents, team volunteers, and our own staff,” said Ben Berka, President and Executive Director of the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF), which powers SCTP and SPP. “We are especially grateful to our many sponsors and benefactors who make it possible for us to create an unforgettable experience for our athletes. We also owe kudos to the World Shooting and Recreational Complex, a remarkable venue that hosted our thousands of shooters and spectators with ease. We look forward to hosting our 2015 National Championships there.”
