Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Iowa's North Scott Trap Team Wins JV Div. Handicap Trap National Title

COLUMBUS, Ohio – North Scott's Junior Varsity squad picked up its second national title leading an Iowa team sweep in Handicap Trap in the Junior Varsity Division during competition at the 2017 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Team Championships.

Earlier in the competition the North Scott squad claimed the Double Trap title. In Handicap Trap the squad broke 886 of their 1,000 targets. Thomas Keeshan of Princeton led with 188 followed by Jaydon Biles (Princeton) with 185, Jacob Dies (Princeton) with 184, Nick Kunde (Princeton) with 165 and Grace Bjustrom of Eldridge with 164.

Held July 8-15 at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, more than 2,300 athletes representing 29 states faced over one million clay targets during eight days of competition in the shooting disciplines of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays.

A pair of squads from the Ankeny Centennial Jaguars Trap Team rounded out the top three. The Black squad was led by Jackson Bresson (181), followed by Chase Martin (173), Kael Richmond (164), Hunter Ryan Block (160) and Taveon Fairchild (157), and claimed second place with a final target count of 835.

Ankeny's Silver squad finished third with 807 targets. Joshua Jorgensen was the team's top shooter (175) followed by Peter Collins (165), Creighton Kesterson (164), William Merk (158) and Cole Joshua Anderson (145).

Members of both the Black and Silver squads hail from Ankeny, Iowa.

The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) is a youth development program in which adult coaches and other volunteers use the shooting sports of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays, as well as the Olympic disciplines of Bunker Trap, Trap Doubles and International Skeet to teach and to demonstrate sportsmanship, responsibility, honesty, ethics, integrity, teamwork, and other positive life skills. Nationally, there are nearly 14,800 students and more than 3,300 adult volunteers across 45 states participating in the Scholastic Clay Target Program.

The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. (SSSF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the National Governing Body for the Scholastic Clay Target Program. SCTP was started by the National Shooting Sports Foundation in 2001.

For more information about SCTP and SSSF, visit www.sssfonline.org. You can also follow SCTP on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ShootSCTP or @ScholasticShootingSports on Instagram.