Florida Youth Shooting May 2024

Had a great time running the skeet and trap events at the State Shoot in Jacksonville last month. There are too many winners to list all of them in this issue. Thanks for all the pictures. I used as many as possible.

If you want to improve your skeet game I highly recommend the skeet camp June 1-2 in Palatka. I have been going to the camp for over 11 years, coaching and bringing my son. The coaches are great and we spend a lot of personal time with the students and their game. You can’t get a better weekend of coaching any where for a student’s skeet game.

Hope to see you there..

Have a great month!

2024 SCTP Southeast Regionals

2024 SCTP Southeast Regionals was held at Forest City Gun Club in Savannah Georgia. The Forest City Gun Club has 32 skeet fields, 28 trap fields, two sporting clays courses, and two five stands. This year’s competition consisted of 100 targets Sporting Clays, 100 Targets Skeet, 100 targets Trap and 50 Targets Super Sporting events. General Manager Zac Guerrettaz and his team did a great job keeping the machines filled and working throughout the event. Forest City Gun Club hosted the SCTP’s 594 Athletes, representing 41 teams from throughout the Southeast over 3 days of competition starting on Friday April 26 through Sunday April 28, 2024. Seven teams from throughout Florida competed in the event and for some of the teams it was their first SE Regionals. Athletes competed in Sporting Clays, Skeet, Trap and Super Sporting shooting up to 350 targets each. Shoot offs for Trap were held on Saturday night. Sunday Shoot offs were held for Sporting Clays and Skeet followed by awards.

Terri DeWitt, SE Regional Director of Development, coordinated and organized the shoot along with the help of SCTP SE State Advisors, and support team.

Representing the SCTP Staff with Terri DeWitt was: April Carr – Administrative Assistant, Tom Davis – Marketing, Sable (golden doodle) and Bernie TillBoard of Director.

SCTP State Advisors and Support Staff: Tennessee- Ashley Tone

Georgia - Sylvia McCart, Philip McCart, Todd Kirkpatrick, Angie Everson Florida – Joey Berardinelli, Chris Berardinelli, Robin Mixon, Wendell Mixon.

Sporting Clays 100 Targets

All Teams- Team-Rookie

3rd place - Matias Campos, Austin Miller, Rachael Dennard - Hot shots of South Florida

All Teams- Ladies- Rookie

1st place - Rachael Dennard - Hot Shots of South Florida

All Teams- Ladies- Junior Varsity

3rd place - Isla Rowell - Saltwaters Top Shots

Trap 100 Targets

All Teams- Team-Rookie

3rd place - Matias Campos, Austin Miller, Rachael Dennard - Hot shots of South Florida

All Teams- Men- Rookie

3rd place - Austin Miller - Hot shots of South Florida

All Teams- Ladies- Rookie

1st place – Rachael Dennard - Hot Shots of South Florida

All Teams- Men- Intermediate Entry

2nd place - Jaxson Fussell - Sure Shots 4-H

All Teams- Team-Jr Varsity

3rd place - Ryan Wedding, Shepard Simmons, Chase Schulte, Clay Dees, Wayne Bowen- Blackjack Smokin Aces

All Teams- Men- Jr. Varsity

2nd place - Levi Bartosch - Vero Beach Elite

All Teams- Ladies- Jr Varsity

2nd place - Madison Jackson - Vero Beach Elite

Skeet 100 Targets

All Teams- Team-Rookie

2nd place - Matias Campos, Austin Miller, Rachael Dennard - Hot Shots of South Florida

All Teams- Ladies- Rookie

2nd place - Rachael Dennard - Hot Shots of South Florida

Super Sporting

All Teams – Athlete – All

1st place – Brian Holtkamp - Hot Shots of South Florida

All Teams - team - Rookie

1st Place - Matias Campos, Austin Miller, Rachael Dennard - Hot Shots of South Florida

All Teams- Men - Rookie

1st place – Matias Campos - Hot shots of South Florida

All Teams- Ladies - Rookie

1st place – Rachael Dennard - Hot Shots of South Florida

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SANTAROSA

The Santa Rosa Squad took 6 shooters and their parents to the State Championship. There were several personal bests:

Will Marsden had a straight 25 in both trap and skeet. He had a personal best in both trap and skeet with matching 92’s. His trap score placed him tied for sixth out of 61 senior varsity shooters.

Olivia Marsden tied for first place in Ladies skeet with an 87. She took home Runner-Up Lady after shoot-off .

The Open skeet team of Max Van Camp, William & Olivia Marsden took Runner-Up with all 3 plus the coach Richard Marsden, winning a medal.

Boykin Sheaffer and Luke Baltz both competed in their first SCTP at the Intermediate Entry Level. Luke took fifth place out of 37 in his division in Sporting Clays!

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Haven Clay Team (North Bay Haven, Panama City, Florida)

Shawn Cherry, Caroline Nowell, Landon Martin and Brock Spann

2024 SCTP State Championship

Sponsors

We would like to thank our Sponsors for making the 2024 Scholastic Clay Target Sports State Championship a great success, recognizing these youth are the future of the sports and supporting our youth shooters at this event.

Jacksonville Clay Target Sports, the Club management, inside and outside support staff and members for hosting the shoot, supplying golf carts, helping print out awards sheets, allowing us to jury and modify the targets in sporting clays, keeping the machines running and full as well as dedicating one sporting clay course, all the trap and skeet fields for our tournament both April 6 -7, 2024, Starting each day off with a safety brief and the national anthem and much more.

The Florida Sporting Clays Association (FSCA) and members for the sporting clays event by, donating monies to reduce the cost for each shooter, waived the FSCA state shooter fees, purchased trophy buckles, and covering the trapper cost for the shoot.

The Florida Skeet Association (FSA) and members for the skeet event by, waiving the FSA state membership fees and the state shooter fees.

Jim of Jim White Collection Trophies for his support with the Trophy Belt Buckles for all three events, sporting clays, trap, and skeet.

Joe Loitz, Chris Berardinelli, Kiersten Sales, Debbie Sales and Robin Mixon for helping with jurying targets on the sporting clays course, course and range management, tabulating scores and officiating shoot offs to name a few.

Jeniffer Allen, Dominic Kelsey and Jacksonville University for obtaining the trappers and referees.

Clubs, Coaches, Parents for their support, time and dedication to help develop these youth in shooting sports “ This is the future generation of Shooters to keep our clubs open and clay target sport flourishing”

2024 SCTP State Championship

SCTP Skeet

Skeet was shot on Saturday only with four flights, utilizing nine fields, with up to six athletes per field. Joe Loitz did a great job as Head Referee and Field Manager moving all 178 athletes through the course and conducting shoots off shortly after 5:30 pm. For this shoot there were 17,800 registered skeet targets thrown, a lot of first time skeet shooters taking part this year.

Lance Grenevicki Jr. of Vero Beach Elite shot a 98 for the noncollege division HOA with Owen Hass of FSU Skeet and Trap for the college division shooting a 97.

For the Top 5 to represent Florida SCTP at Nationals we had an impressive shoot off as the second spot through alternate number six position were all tied with a 97. Shooting off were Daniel Byron of Saltwaters Top shots, Brayden Wojcieszak of Young Guns at Quail Creek, Wayne Bowne and Wyatt Tabacchi of Blackjack Smokin Aces, and Jackson Biggs of Hot Shots of South Florida.

The Hot Shots of South Florida and the Blackjack Smokin Aces put on a spectacular shoot off to determine the winner of the Perpetual Trophy for the 2024 Skeet State Championship. Congratulations to the Hot Shots of South Florida as the winner of the Perpetual Trophy for the 2024 Skeet State Championship.

Top 5 plus alternate #(6) representing Florida SCTP in Skeet at Nationals

Lance Grenevicki Jr. – Vero Beach Elite

Daniel Byron – Saltwaters Top Shots

Brayden Wojcieszak- Young Guns at Quail Creek

Wayne Bowen – Smokin Aces

Wyatt Tabacchi – Smokin Aces

Jackson Biggs – Hot Shots of South Florida

2024 SCTP State Championship

SCTP Sporting Clays

The sporting clays course and targets were set perfectly for the range of athletes from rookies to college ages. Three rotations, two on Saturday, at 9:15 and 1:00 pm, one rotation on Sunday at 9:15 which had A & B squads to get all 197 athletes representing 20 teams/clubs through the course.

Owen Hass of FSU Skeet for college division and Trap and Brayden Wojcieszak of Young Guns at Quail Creek for the clubs/ team’s division achieve a sore of 95 each and were High overall.

Congratulations to the Young Guns at Quail Creek from Quail Creek Sporting Ranch for winning the Perpetual Trophy for the 2024 Sporting Clays State Championship as the HOA Team.

Top 5 plus alternate #(6) representing Florida SCTP in Sporting Clays at Nationals

Brayden Wojcieszak – Young Guns at Quail Creek

Levi Bartosch – Vero Beach Elite

Daniel Byron – Saltwaters Top Shots

Joel Bass – Young Guns at Quail Creek

Bryan Holtkamp – Hot Shots of South Florida

McKenna Wojcieszak – Young Guns at Quail Creek

2024 SCTP State Championship

SCTP Trap

Trap was scheduled for Sunday with five flights, utilizing all seven fields. Joe Loitz was the Trap Field Manager overseeing this event with 156 athletes and ran the shoot offs after the scores were tabulated. This year we had 15,600 registered trap targets thrown, with a lot of first time Trap shooters participating.

Brayden Wojcieszak of Young Guns of Quail Creek shot a 98 for the non-college division HOA with Hector Rangel of Jacksonville University Sporting, Skeet and Trap Team for the college division HOA shooting a 96.

The Blackjack Smokin Aces Team won the Perpetual Trophy for the 2024 Trap State Championship with the team’s top 5 shooters breaking 450 of 500 targets.

Top 5 plus alternate #(6) representing Florida SCTP in Trap at Nationals

Brayden Wojcieszak- Young Guns at Quail Creek

Grayson Box – Sarasota Hawks

Hayden Luffman – Smokin Aces

Lance Grenevicki Jr. – Vero Beach Elite

Natalia Kutch – Sarasota Hawks

Marshall Shoeneman – Vero Beach Elite

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NSSA Skeet Camp

June 1-2 Palatka, Florida

If any teams ever want to come to Tampa Bay Sporting Clays and shoot the international bunker with the Tampa Bay Clays we would welcome that. We hold practices on Sundays from 11AM to 2PM. We will be glad to assist in coaching the shooters on how to shoot the international bunker as well. All we ask is that you please let us know in advance that you are coming as we wouldn’t want you to show up and nobody be there.

Tampa Bay Sporting Clays 10514 Ehren Cutoff Land O Lakes, Fl 34639

Contact Daryl Patrick: Stokjock@gmail.com

Registered Sporting Clays

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Polk May 19th

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Quail Creek May 26th

Blackjack May 27th

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