Youth Teams from Around the Nation To Vie for National Trap Championships
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Youth Teams from Around the Nation To Vie for National Trap Championships





SCTP Event Kicks Off World's Largest Shooting Competition, Aug. 6

SPARTA, Ill.—More than 1,000 young trap shooters from around the nation will compete next week for national titles, trophies and scholarship awards in the National Shooting Sports Foundation's (NSSF) Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Trap Championship.

Competition is slated for Aug. 6-7 at the World Shooting and Recreational Complex in Sparta, Ill.

The competition will feature teams from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin.

The SCTP competition will kick off the world's largest shooting competition, the 108th annual Grand American World Trapshooting Championships.

"Teams have worked hard all year to get to the Grand American. They've practiced, battled for state titles, have held fund-raisers to pay their expenses here, and this is their chance to show the rest of the country what outstanding trap shooters they are," said Zach Snow of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), which developed and coordinates SCTP on the national level.

The multi-Grammy and Country Music Association award-winner Charlie Daniels Band will perform an Aug. 6 live show saluting America's youth in the shooting sports. The concert is sponsored by Winchester, with support from "Trap & Field" magazine and NSSF.

SCTP, experiencing remarkable growth over the past six years, has been called "the Little League of shooting sports." In 2007, participation reached nearly 10,000 students, approximately 25 percent more than in 2006.

"Thanks to the hard work and commitment of volunteers around the country, SCTP's success and popularity continue to skyrocket," said Snow.

SCTP's best could be selected to attend an Olympic development camp in August in Colorado Springs, and some will go on to compete at the collegiate level.

In addition to trap shooting, SCTP sports include skeet and sporting clays.

Trap is a clay target shooting game, also an Olympic sport, named for the device that throws targets into the air. Targets are thrown at random angles, testing shooters at five different shooting stations. A round consists of 25 targets per shooter.

In skeet, another Olympic sport, targets are thrown from two trap houses. Shooters move in a semi-circle between the two houses. Depending on station, targets are singles or doubles. Each shooter gets 25 targets per round.

Sporting clays is designed to simulate field shooting. Courses are laid out in natural surroundings, much like golf, with shooters moving from station to station. Targets are typically presented in pairs. A round consists of 50 or 100 targets.

SCTP skeet and sporting clays national titles were decided July 13-15 at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio.

"Like other sports, shooting instills teamwork, focus, responsibility and leadership," Snow said.

In SCTP, girls compete head-to-head with and against guys. This format is proving popular and female participation in SCTP has risen 178 percent over the past three years. In fact, nationwide, 5 million women now enjoy the various forms of target shooting, a 50 percent jump from just 5 years ago.

SCTP is a program of NSSF managed in partnership with numerous sponsors, agencies and organizations, including each sport's national governing body: Amateur Trapshooting Association, National Skeet Shooting Association, National Sports Clays Association and USA Shooting.

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