SCTP Collaborates with PITA to Promote Youth Shooting Sports

By Justin Stakes

San Antonio, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) announces a new collaboration with the Pacific International Trapshooting Association (PITA), representing the first time the SCTP has coordinated efforts with that national governing body to promote youth shooting sports opportunities.

SCTP and the PITA will jointly host the SCTP Western U.S. Trap Shooting Tournament at the Evergreen Sportsman’s Club in Olympia, Washington on July 23-24. The tournament will run concurrently with the PITA’s Youth Education Shooting (Y-E-S) Grand Pacific Championships. Teams affiliated with either the SCTP or PITA / Y-E-S program are eligible to participate. SCTP will offer over $30,000 in team endowment funding.

SCTP has relationships with national governing bodies (NGBs) for each of the shooting sports its youth shooting program promotes, including the National Skeet Shooting Association, National Sporting Clays Association, Amateur Trapshooting Association, and USA Shooting. Working cooperatively with the PITA, which promotes trapshooting and sanctions tournaments in 10 western states and provinces, represents support from each of the applicable NGBs.

“SCTP has worked diligently with the national governing bodies to be in line with them and include them in our program,” commented Tom …read more

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