How long is the Fall season?

Fall League is approx. 6-weeks (practice/reserve and 5 competition weeks).

Spring League is approx. 12-weeks (Practice, Reserve, Competition & Championship in Alexandria).

What student is eligible to participate?

Students must be in grades six through twelve (or per school team requirements) and possess a league-approved firearm education certificate.

Can a physically disabled student participate?

Yes. Many shooting ranges are handicap accessible.

Can boys and girls participate?

Yes. This is the only high school sport that can host co-ed and adaptive student athletes.

How is competition scored?

The League uses the True Team® scoring method which emphasizes the top overall team performance, rather than top individuals. This type of scoring is similar to high school swimming and track. Check the League’s website for more details about True Team® scoring.

Is competition focused on the individual or team?

Individual performance contributes to the team’s performance. Upon completion of the league, high round averages for the top male and female in each conference are recognized. Otherwise all scores contribute to the team’s overall performance and team conference champions are recognized at the end of the League’s season.

Do I have to travel to other shooting ranges to compete?

No. Competition occurs at the local shooting range.  Scores are submitted by the coaches on the League’s website and compared against other schools’ scores within the conference.

How do athletes and families track performance?

Each athlete receives access to the Shooter Performance Tracker® – a web-based application to monitor an athlete’s scoring and progress rankings that are compared against their team, conference, and all other student athletes in the state.

What does it cost to participate:

• UPDATED Gun Club and Uniform prices, please check with your coach

Basic RULES

At Practice or Tournament 

1. Guns must remain UNLOADED in parking lots, buildings, to and from fields, and while walking to and from stations. 

2. Protective eyewear is a MUST while shooting or standing at your station. Students are responsible for providing their own eyewear.

3. Protective ear wear is a MUST while shooting or standing at your station. Students are responsible for providing their own ear wear; either ear plugs or muffs.

4. Closed toed shoes are a MUST. All athletes are required to have closed toed shoes while shooting. No flip flops or sandals.

School Rules
ABSOLUTELY NO guns or ammunition are allowed on school grounds. Schools include but are not limited to Kennedy, Normandale Community College, Jefferson, Oak Grove Middle School, Olson Middle School, and Valley View Middle School. Please know that “grounds” includes the parking lot, so guns and ammunition are not allowed to be left in a parked car during school hours, or to be in a car for activity pick up. 

Students will need to keep all guns and ammunition at home and pick up required items after school before heading to practice. If parents plan to pick up students after school and the gun/ammunition will be in the car, please arrange for a pick up location not on school grounds.

Clothing

Please wear weather appropriate clothing. We will be shooting in ALL weather conditions; rain, snow, freezing temps, heavy wind, and humid/hot. Shooting will cease in the event of lightning.

How to Letter

1. Average of 19 for the season

2. Shooting a perfect 25 during the schedule school practice

3. Placing in the top 3 at conference

About Trap Shooting

Trap Shooting

A practice or competition event will consist of shooting two 25 target rounds for a total of 50 targets from

the 16-yard station. Up to five athletes (squad) will occupy the stations on a trap field. Station one is

assigned the “squad leader”.

Trap Field

The trap field is the area of a shooting range where trap shooting occurs. Each field contains shooting

stations (typically concrete walkways with yardage markers) and a trap house.

The trap house is the structure in front of the stations from which the clay targets are launched. Only

facility personnel shall enter and maintain the trap house. A cone or flag will be displayed when the trap

house requires maintenance and shooters are required to exit their shooting station and make firearms

safe until the trap house maintenance is completed and the cone or flag is removed.

Ammunition Recommendation

Ammunition specifications must meet the use requirements of the shooting range.

Typical ammunition used for trap shooting:

Gauge Shot Shot Size

12 1 oz. or 1-1/8 oz. #7.5 or #8

20 7/8 oz. #8

Targets At Each Station

Five shots are taken at each of the five stations. After the first five shots are completed by the entire

squad, each shooter will move to a new station by:

● Verifying the gun is unloaded.

● With the chamber open and the shotgun pointed in a safe direction, rotate in a clockwise manner

to the next station.

● Station one will move to station two, two to three, three to four, four to five, and five to one.

● Station five will rotate to their right moving away from the station four shooter who is moving to

station five and continue to walk behind the other shooters to station one.

● Await the “START” command from the scorekeeper.

● The squad leader is the first to shoot in each round.

● Repeat process until all shooters have each shot 25 targets.

● No shooter will move to the next station until the last target in a round is completed.