{"id":61752,"date":"2021-10-25T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61752"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:51:45","slug":"shotgun-team-claims-8th-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61752","title":{"rendered":"Shotgun team claims 8th national title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s always interesting to see how the Fort Hays State University shotgun team will top what it accomplished the year before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FHSU\nfinished in the top three at two different national tournaments in a span of 10\ndays last spring when events from the fall and spring semesters were combined\ninto one semester because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\ncould the fall 2021 season top that, one might ask? Consider it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort\nHays State brought home its eighth national championship earlier this month by\nwinning the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) in Columbus, Ohio, and\nfinished with an incredible, FHSU program-record 2,953 targets out of 3,000\n(.984 percentage).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas the fourth consecutive SCTP national title for FHSU, which not only\ndefeated all the Division II teams (with 10 to 20 shooters) at this year\u2019s\nevent but also outscored all the Division I squads (20-plus shooters).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One\nof the highlights of the meet for Fort Hays State was the perfect 200-for-200\nperformance of Jared Greenwood, a sophomore from Augusta. That not only earned\nhim first-place individual honors in men\u2019s sporting clays, it also helped FHSU\nwin that team competition in Division II. FHSU also took first in D-II in trap\nsingles and recorded the top score in all divisions in American skeet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.\nDuane Shepherd, an assistant professor of health and human performance and one\nof the team\u2019s coaches, was pleased not only with the team\u2019s performance but\nwith its work ethic as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese\nkids worked extremely hard to get where they\u2019re at,\u201d said Shepherd, who founded\nthe program at FHSU in 2004. \u201cThey are very focused, and they deserved it. It\u2019s\none of the hardest working teams we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FHSU\nadded a junior varsity program this year and also added two coaches \u2013 Jerrod\nLies, an admission counselor at FHSU, and Cody Escritt, who volunteers his\ntime. Both are former All-Americans for the FHSU shotgun team. Shepherd is in\ncharge of skeet, Lies the trap shooting, and Escritt \u2013 sporting clays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis\nway, the kids are shooting a lot of targets every day and getting more\nindividualized attention,\u201d Shepherd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nvarsity team practices every Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesdays reserved\nsolely for the JV squad. The coaches then select some of the JV shooters to\nwork with the varsity on its practice days. Incorporating JV members in with\nthe varsity benefits the entire program, as the JV team gets valuable varsity\nexperience while being mentored by varsity members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis\nway, they know what to expect to be successful, and they are getting seasoned\nas they get ready for the next year,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cWe\u2019re organizing them to\nbe shooting at a level they need for the varsity experience, and we believe it\nwill work in their favor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other\nhighlights for FHSU included six shooters finishing in the top 10 individually\n\u2013 Greenwood, Riley Ross, Lane Sorensen, and Brock Barton in the men\u2019s division\nand Katie Petersen and Hailey Zulkoski in the women\u2019s division. FHSU featured\nseven shooters who shot one or more perfect rounds of 100-of-100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross,\na senior from St. Paul, Neb., who has been part of several national\nchampionships during his FHSU career, was a member of all three first-place\nteam events for FHSU en route to finishing third in high overall (HOA) for the\nmen (590-of-600).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petersen,\na graduate student from Fremont, Neb., won the women\u2019s skeet competition with\n198-of-200 targets, which helped her claim HOA honors for the women\n(583-of-600). Other individual top-three efforts besides Greenwood\u2019s perfect\nperformance in sporting clays and Ross\u2019 third HOA finish, were Jade Chapman,\nfirst place, women\u2019s trap, and Sorensen, second place, men\u2019s skeet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National\ncompetitors for FHSU (listed in alphabetical order), and their hometowns, were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brock\nBarton, Fairbury, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zach\nBeers, Syracuse, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jade\nChapman, Papillion, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will\nDulohery, St. George<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jared\nGreenwood, Benton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex\nHunter, Hickman, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hank\nMcVeigh, Lincoln, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie\nPetersen, Fremont, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riley\nRoss, St. Paul, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan\nSt. Peters, Godfrey, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logan\nSmith, Burwell, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lane\nSorensen, Hampton, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mason\nWeller, Palmer, Neb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xander\nWinchell, Spring Hill\n\nHailey Zulkoski, Ord, Neb.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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