Scholastic Program Kick Offs Competition Tuesday
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Scholastic Program Kick Offs Competition Tuesday





The world's largest shooting competition is getting a whole lot younger. Around 1,500 youngsters from 26 states will converge on the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Ill., Tuesday and Wednesday for the Scholastic Clay Target Program's (SCTP) National Trapshooting Championships. The team competition will kick off the world's largest shooting competition, the 107th annual Grand American World Trapshooting Championships. Last year, SCTP attracted a record 1,564 youths to Vandalia, Ohio, for the Grand, accounting for more than 25 percent of overall participation at the event. More than 8,200 youths from over 40 states are involved in SCTP, including an Arlington High squad from Tennessee pictured in the local newspaper. The program, developed by NSSF, has experienced phenomenal growth over the past few years. Last year alone, the program saw a more than 50 percent increase in participation, not to mention an 84 percent increase in female competitors. This is the first year the Grand American will be held at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Ill., located 58 miles east of St. Louis. The competition had been held in Vandalia, Ohio, since 1924 and various other locations before that. The recently opened Sparta complex, one of the most sophisticated shooting facilities in the world, covers more than two square miles with more than three times the amount of trap fields in Vandalia.
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