Mark your calendars for our INFORMATIONAL meeting on February 5th at 6:00-8:00 pm at the clubhouse.
We had a mandatory SIGN-UP meeting on February 10th, 2024. Started at 9:00 am for 8th grade and under and at 10:30 am for high school age. We will practice and shoot our conference scores primarily on Mondays at Jefferson. We will shoot in the rain, the only time we will cancel is extreme cold or lightning. We will have the first practice on 3-4. Our conference shoots will start 3-25 and run for 7 weeks.
- JSC YOUTH TRAP TEAM OVERVIEW The JSC youth team is a youth trap shooting Team whose focus is on safety, sportsmanship, and competitive trap shooting. We are part of the SCTP (Scholastic Clays Target Program) a national clay target organization and a member of the SWYTSC (Southern Wisconsin Youth Trap Shooting Conference). We will compete in a 7-week conference with a year-end shoot held on 6/1/24. All team members are encouraged to attend invites and are expected to attend the conference year end shoot. After the conference shoot, we will focus on State and Nationals. The State shoot is going to be either 6/21, 6/22 or 6/23 and should be a goal for everyone on the team to attend.
- There will be opportunities to participate in skeet and sporting clays. Please see a coach if interested. We compete in different levels including Varsity (Senior to Sophomore), JV (Freshman), Intermediate Advanced (8th & 7th grade), Intermediate Entry level (6th grade) and Rookie (5th grade and under) JSC Youth Trap has 15 volunteer coaches who are Level 1 NRA Shotgun Instructor Certified. We had a mandatory sign-up meeting on February 10th, 2024. Starting at 9:00 am for 8th grade and under and a 10:30 am for high school age. We will practice and shoot our conference scores primarily on Mondays at Jefferson. We will shoot in the rain, the only time we will cancel is extreme cold or lightening. We will have the first practice on 3-4. Our conference shoots will start 3-25 and run for 7 weeks.
- SAFETY Shooting glasses and hearing protection are always required while being on the trap. We will be doing gun checks on the first night prior to any shooting. We will have coaches look over the gun to make sure there are no visible obstructions or problems. You will then get a sticker that will need to be on the gun you choose to shoot. If you switch guns mid-season, make sure the new one gets checked prior to shooting it. Please have a shell pouch, if you do not own one there are plenty to use at the club. You must pick up any shells that hit the ground after you’re done shooting. With cold weather, real thin gloves may be used for the trigger hand. But you must be able to feel the safety and trigger.
- Our coaches have the right to remove any shooter for any safety violation they see. We have never had to do this before and don’t expect to this year.
- Conference (Mandatory to attend on 6/1/24) We belong to the SCTP (Scholastic Clay Target Program) and compete in the Southeast Wisconsin Youth Trap Shooting Conference against 13 other teams who also belong to the SCTP program. This is a 7-week season. During the regular conference season, we shoot 50 targets for score on Monday nights. We use our top 5 scores in each category to post against our opponent for the week. We have 3 categories for conference, Varsity (sophomores-seniors), Junior Varsity (freshmen), and Intermediates (8th grade and below). Conference team scores are based off the top five shooters in each category with a possible high score of 250.
- There are season individual awards as well based off the possible 350 season targets. You must shoot every week to be eligible for the “All-Conference” awards. Members of our conference include the following schools and clubs. 1. Wauwatosa 2. Milwaukee Lutheran 3. Marquette 4. Union Grove 5. Muskego 6. Cudahy 7. Brookfield East 8. Racine Lutheran 9. Shoreland Lutheran 10. Lake Geneva Badger 11. Jefferson 12. New Berlin 13. WI Lutheran 14. Oconomowoc At the end of our regular conference season the conference hosts a 100-bird conference shootout at the Waukesha gun club. This is the conference tournament. All shooters are expected to attend this shoot.
Invites
- Throughout the year there are invitationals. An invite is a 100-bird tournament held at different locations around the state. We will have sign up sheets once the season starts. In previous years, we participated in up to (3) invites. In an invite there are more classifications than in the conference. Varsity and JV stays the same, but the intermediate division is broken into 3 categories. Intermediate advanced is 7-8 graders, Intermediate entry level is 6th graders, and the rookie division is 5th grade and below. For the individual classes it is also broken down into men’s and women’s. Invites are optional. These will be announced as they become available. There will be signup sheets at the club. There will also be e-mails sent regarding signups for invites. Please check these to make sure that your child is not accidentally included or missed. Please notify me of any discrepancies. Anyone who signs up and doesn’t go will be responsible to refund the entry fees back to the team.
- WI State Shoots The Wisconsin state shoot is held the 3rd week of June in Rome Wi at the WTA home grounds. There will be around 1900 shooters from over 95 Wisconsin teams. We will compete at the state shoot in team scores and individual scoring. In 2022 our Varsity took 3rd place, and our intermediates took 2nd place. Last year we had several individual medals at the WI state shoot. Tyler Jablonski – 6th men’s varsity, Kyle Polster 4th men’s JV, Maddie Welter – 4th Ladies JV, and Brady Fincutter 3rd – men’s IA. We were also the 2018 Varsity State Trap Champions!!!! We had two previous State Trap Champions, Aaron Walechka 2017, and Alan Hauser 2021.
- Nationals Trap Shoot 2000 shooters from over 150 teams will be competing in Marengo OH, the week of 7/13 thru 7/20. Last year we took 20 team members there to compete. If interested, please make plans early! This is a really fun time and all those who have gone have had a great time.
- Parent Involvement We are in need of parent involvement in our program. Not limited to helping coach. There is plenty of things that will help us out. Please volunteer!
- Team Apparel Jone will have forms and samples available at the sign up. Fund Raising
- Please understand that shooting sports are not cheap. In order to keep costs down for everyone we do a few fund raisers. The first is a quick pizza sale. We will be selling Emil’s pizzas again this year. Next, we will have our annual raffle. We will have tickets to sell at $20 ea. Every shooter is expected to sell at least 5 tickets. This raffle is very important to our financial status as a team.
- We also actively welcome any parent to solicit team sponsors. A form letter has been drafted to distribute to potential team sponsors making it easy for you to approach businesses willing to support our team. Any donations are asked to be mailed directly to Coach Hauser payable to JSC Youth Trap Team. All of our sponsors will be recognized on our weekly Facebook posts.
- Fees The fee for joining the team is $300.00 per athlete. If there is more than one shooter per family, there is a discount for the second shooter. The fee is $200.00 for the second athlete. The fees include: • All the targets for the year • 2-cases of shells (10 boxes per case) • Entry fees to invites • Entry fees to the conference shoot • Membership in the SCTP • Membership in the ATA (if applicable) • JSC Yearly Youth Membership
- Please take care to make sure all forms are filled out in full. Thank you!
IMPORTANT DATES
- Last day for ANY shooters to sign up is February 19th- no exceptions.
- February 26th (NEW SHOOTERS) first night of practice (indoor) 4pm. Please bring only your gun.
- March 4th- ALL SHOOTERS (Outdoor) 4pm or later (no later than 630pm). Please bring your gun, ammo, ear plugs, vest/shell pouches, and safety glasses.
- March 11th All shooters practice – 4pm or later (not later than 630pm)
- March 18th ALL shooters practice together- 4pm (not later than 630pm).
- March 25th- 4pm (not later than 630pm) through May 20th. Weekly Conference scores starts.
- These will be on Monday nights at JSC.
- Fifty targets each night
- You can shoot practice rounds after your 50 round conference shoots. These MUST be done with a coach and a score sheet turned in.
Other Important Dates:
- February 26th, Friday- Apparel order forms due. Please turn these into Jone or Issa.
- March 4th, Monday- Pizza order forms are due. LAST NIGHT TO TURN ORDERS IN FOR CLOTHING- NO EXCEPTIONS. Please turn these into Jone or Issa.
- March 18th Monday- at JSC, Custom Ear Plugs on sight can be made with a discount to the shooters. Please sign up in a time slot. This is at your own expense (they are worth it!)
- April 1st, Monday- Pizza order pick-up (this is our bye week so no shooting this day)
- April 8th, Monday- Pizza Party
Possible Invite Dates
- April 19th-21st Horicon Invitational-Horicon Gun Club, 100 Trap
- May 3rd-5th – Green Bay Invitational- Brown County Sportsman’s Club. 100 Trap & 50 skeet, Joe’s Clays, 100 sporting clays.
- May 4th-5th- Sauk County Invitational- Sauk Prairie Trap & Skeet, 100 Trap & 100 Skeet
- May 11th-12th KM Invite- Fin N Feather, 100 Trap, Wern Valley Sportsman Club, 100 Sporting clays.
- May 18th Manitowoc Triple Challenge. Manitowoc Gun Club, 100 Trap, 50 Skeet, Joe’s Clays, 100 sporting clays.
- May 19th- Jefferson Spring 100- Jefferson’s Sportsmen’s Club, 100 Trap
- May 24th-26th Beaver Dam Invitational-Beaver Dam Conservationist in Beave Dam, 100 trap.
- June 1st-2nd -Conference shoot held in Waukesha-MANDATORY
- June 8th-9th Sauk Prairie- Skeet Shoot
- June 15th-16th Warrens - State Sporting Clays
- June 21st -23rd - Rome/Nekoosa Wisconsin American State Trap Shoot
- Held in Rome (not the one near Sullivan) WI at the WTA Home grounds.
- July 13th thru 20th - Marengo Ohio- Nationals
- Trap shooting may only be the 13th and 14th of July, with no guarantee of getting these dates.
April through May will be various invites you are able to sign up for on Monday nights. Times and actual days TBD until we are signed up for the invite.
As we receive the information for the many other invites that are held throughout Wisconsin, we will have information and sign-up sheets located at the counter for athletes to sign up for. These are on a first-come basis. Please only sign up for the invites you know you can commit to.