Scholastic Clay Targets Program
with the opportunity to showcase their competitive shooting skills and earn state and national
recognition. The program is designed to instill in participants safe firearms handling, commitment,
responsibility, leadership and teamwork.
The Scholastic Clay Target Program is a cooperative effort between the National Shooting Sports
Foundation (NSSF), the firearms industry's largest and most diverse trade association and the governing
bodies for trapshooting, skeetshooting and sporting clays shooting - the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA), the National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA) and the National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA), respectively.
Program Goals:
Safe and Responsible Handling and Storage of Firearms
Character and Citizenship Development through Teamwork
Introduction to a Lifetime Sport that Families can Enjoy Together
Sponsorship: The NSSF along with its partners the ATA, the NSSA, the NSCA and the
Montgomery County Chapters of Pheasants Forever, Prairie Whitetails, Rehabedge, LLC., Glenn Shoals Struttin' Gobblers, Midwest Targets and the Litchfield Sportsman Club.
Program Scope: Trapshooting
Program Focus: TEAMS! Participation in the SCTP requires that one be a member of a TEAM.
Each team must register with the SCTP National Program Office.
Activity fees: $50.00
Team Supervision: An adult Coach leads each team.
Eligibility: Students enrolled in grammar, middle, junior, or senior high school.
Basic Competitive Unit: The SQUAD. The minimum squad size is five.
Teams must have at least one full squad to become an officially recognized SCTP team.
There is no upper limit to the number of members on a team or to the number of squads a team may field.
Competitive Divisions: Rookie Division: 5th graders and below
Junior Division: 6th, 7th and 8th graders
Senior Division: 9th - 12th graders
Balanced Skill Levels: Novice and Experienced Categories in the Junior and Senior Divisions.
Competitive Levels: Competition is conducted at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
Awards:SCTP awards presented to the starting members of the top three squads in each Division
and Category at the SCTP State and National Championships in Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays.
Program Materials: Each registered team member receives a FREE SCTP hat and T-shirt.
For Program Information: Contact Brad Ozee at [email protected] or (217) 652- 2799.
Please read these documents for more information:
Organizational Meeting
March 24, 2007
Orgnaizational Meeting
