School Shooting Teams Get More Bucks For The Bang
Competitive Shooting Teams Thrive After Receiving Financial Support from Public Foundation
Columbia, MO – -(AmmoLand.com)- Twenty-six competitive shooting teams in high schools, colleges and universities will be able to practice a lot more this year after the MidwayUSA Foundation, Inc.’s Scholastic
Shooting Trust Fund approved new grants for the 2009-10 school year.
Recipients range from high school FFA teams to teams at major public universities.
The benefits of alumni and community support through Scholastic Shooting Trust Fund are telling: after receiving a grant of over $12,000 last year, the University of Missouri-Columbia team placed second at the national ACUI Clay Target Championship.
Larry Potterfield, president of the Foundation said, “Competitive shooting teams provide wonderful opportunities for students to make friends, to develop confidence, and learn discipline and leadership skills. However, most schools provide little or no funding for shooting teams, so it’s up to us to help.”
Teams will be receiving notification of grant eligibility in the next few weeks so they can prepare their requests, then it’s off to the practice range.
About:
The Scholastic Shooting Trust Fund (www.scholasticshootingtrust.org) was formed to provide funding for shooting sports education in traditional public and private high schools, colleges and universities, so that participating students can improve their confidence, discipline and leadership skills. Alumni, families of team members and community members fund the grants through donations to the Scholastic Shooting Trust so youths have a better opportunity to compete in the shooting sports. Larry and Brenda Potterfield created the MidwayUSA Foundation, Inc. in 2007 to support education in shooting sports, hunting, firearms safety and outdoor skills. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization and donations are tax deductible to the extent of state and federal laws.