(MICHIGAN) The 2024 USA High School Clay Target League National Championship has wrapped up in Mason, Michigan with over 1,800 registered shooters taking part.
BOYS INDIVIDUAL SHOOTING –
- While in 197th place going into the final round of competition, Brody Lenington, from Cedar Vale-Dexter High School in Kansas, came back to win a shoot-off with 14 other athletes, claiming the Boys National Champion Title
GIRLS INDIVIDUAL SHOOTING –
- An Illinois girl, Madelyn Coats, from Franklin-Waverly High School, was the Female National Champion, after going into the finals ranked 36th
TEAM SHOOTING –
- Out of the 260 high school teams in the competition, Yamhill-Carlton High School from Oregon won the National Team Title
TOP TEN INDIVIDUAL SHOOTING –
- There was one area athlete that finished in the Top Ten of clay target shooting at the National Tournament, that was Hank Sipe, from Dieterich High School
TOP FIVE TEAM SHOOTING –
- Finishing in the Top Five in the team competition was Illinois’ Mt. Pulaski High School
FINAL ROUND INDIVIDUAL SHOOTERS (BOYS & GIRLS) –
Others from our downstate area that made it into the Individual Finals :
- Conner Beckman, Chance Borries, August Jansen of Teutopolis High School
- Dane Funneman, Claresa Ruholl of Teutopolis High School
- Emma Jones, Wyatt Newburn, Brandon Walls, Kaden Field of Effingham High School
- Brayden Hahn, Madison Hahn, Colby Koester of Dieterich High School
- Raylee Martin & Jade Short of Beecher City High School
- Austin Carlen of Cumberland High School
- Chase Hassebrock of South Central High School
- Braden Meyer of Patoka High School
For more on the championship, go to the highschool.usaclaytarget.com website