SCTP Youths, Coaches Spend Week At U.S. Training Complex Fifteen young shotgunners from around the nation took aim at fulfilling their Olympic dreams this past week at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Selected out of nearly 6,000 youths in NSSF’s Scholastic Clay Target Program, the athletes spent five days fine-tuning their shooting skills with U.S. Olympic shotgun coach Lloyd Woodhouse and his staff at this year's Junior Olympic Development Camp. The camp, which also educated 13 SCTP coaches on Olympic-style training techniques, concluded yesterday. “This is a marvelous program,” coach Woodhouse said of SCTP. “You’re getting to expose a lot of young people to the national and international versions of shotgun shooting. We have some marvelous young people—bright students—that are involved. This year there were almost 6,000 young people, and I know a high percentage of those were young women, which I think is just wonderful.” SCTP has been introducing thousands of youths into competitive shooting for five years. The program has skyrocketed in popularity nationwide, growing by approximately 50 percent in 2005.