Starting Up High School or
College Shooting Program
The following are contributors to this Resource Page:
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Purpose of this Resource Page
These organizations recognized that each had their strengths, but individually they do not provide a single source of information or support for starting up school shooting programs. This web page is the ‘one stop shop’ for information and support to startup school shooting programs.
The issues to starting up school shooting programs are:
- Finding or building shooting facilities
- Funding for facilities, guns and equipment, competition travel, etc.
- Acquisition of guns and equipment (what to get, where to get it)
- Startup ‘how-to’ information (check lists, success stories, etc.)
General Information
The following links to information and resources have been provided by the above organizations to help parents, students and coaches start up new shooting programs and help grow current shooting programs.
- Olympic Path for Junior Athletes, click here
- Click here for a directory of all college shooting programs by state and discipline
Organization Contacts
- USA Shooting
- NRA Collegiate Shooting Programs
- NRA directory of college shooting programs
- Association of College Unions International/Clay Target Program (ACUI)
- Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation/Scholastic Clay Target Program/Scholastic Pistol Program
- National Shooting Sports Foundation
- Midway USA Foundation
- Higgins Branchini Shooting Foundation
- Civilian Marksmanship Program State Directors List
- Directory of ACUI collegiate shotgun teams
- Network with alumni from current and past USA Shooting Team (coming March 2014)
- Youth Shooting Sports Alliance
NRA womens programs
Startup Information
- College Ranges on the rise
- Starting an ACUI collegiate shooting program including funding information
- Starting a collegiate shotgun team by Mark McClure/University of AZ
- NRA ‘Developing a Scholastic Shooting Program
- NRA Collegiate shooting program start up guide
- Scholastic Clay Target Program
- SCTP new club startup information
- Coach Program information
- CMP Coach Resources/Information
- CMP Publications
Range Information
- NRA Shooting Range Services
http://range.nra.org/sourcebook.aspx - Olympic Shooting Range Facilities Guide, Indoor and Outdoor
- Steel vs Rubber Backstops - NSSF Range Report
- Lead management/NSSF
- Lead management/USAS/CMP
- Citadel lead management SOP
- Instructions for operation of the X-Ring Range Control Unit
Funding/Equipment/Guns
- NRA Foundation grants
- Higgins Branchini Shooting Foundation
- MidwayUSA Foundation Grants
- MidwayUSA Foundation Presentation
- National Shooting Sports Foundation – College Grants
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Youth Shooting Sports Alliance loaner guns and other equipment/supplies
Public Relations
- Hannover Germany club
- Rifle: The Sport (documentary - His Light Media Productions)
- Texas Country Reporter/Schreiner University Shooting Team
- 2012 London highlights
- Olympic Shooting Sports videos
- Gun safety and American history in Pueblo public school district
- Sarah Scherer from NBC Dallas.
- Shooting Stars Fox 4 News Report
- NRA Sports magazines
Education Options
The public education system (high school and college) create serious challenges for parents and athletes who want to pursue the Olympic path, but USAS national competitions don't all occur during the summer months. Many public schools only allow a student to be absent for three days participating in non-school functions/events.
Parents and athletes need more flexibility with education requirements, athlete training and time away to compete in various USAS national competitions. There are options: home schooling and online schools. Below are some online schools that you might want to consider.
US Performance Academy provided a presentation at the 2015 Biennial Coach Conference:
- US Performance Academy video presentation
- US Performance Academy - Pete Smith and Rob York - Power Point slides
Here is a link to the web page for the Dwight School's Open World School Program.
Click here for a video presentation about the Dwight School.
