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Archive: August 2024

Hayden Frazer: Pheasants Forever High-School Conservation Leader

Friday, August 30, 2024
Written by Gary Krukar
Categories: Conservation

High School graduates do not always have a plan for what they want to do next. Hayden Frazer’s plan has been in development for several years. Together with his life experiences in the field of conservation, several years of leadership training, and his academic record, he has been able to secure a full scholarship to the university of his choice.

Hayden grew up in a hunting and fishing family. He expressed the significance of that circumstance by remarking: “Both activities have opened my eyes to how important taking care of our world is, and I strongly believe passing on the traditions of hunting and fishing is one of the best things I can do to ignite people’s interest in conservation.”

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MidwayUSA Foundation is the Leading Advocate for Youth Shooting Sports

Saturday, August 17, 2024
Written by YAH Staff
Categories: News
Tags: midwayusafoundation, youthclaysshooting

August is National Shooting Sports Month and MidwayUSA Foundation is proud to celebrate the month with continued opportunities to support youth shooting programs. As the leading advocate for youth shooting sports, MidwayUSA Foundation has over $400 million endowed to ensure generation after generation has the funding to participate. The endowment model guarantees the money is available in perpetuity.

Nearly 2,800 youth shooting teams rely on MidwayUSA Foundation funding to conduct practices, travel to competitions, pay for ammo, and cover other critical expenses that youth shooting teams incur. In addition to youth shooting teams, the Foundation assists over 80 organizations at the state, regional, and national levels. Organizations including the Scholastic Clay Target Program, Scholastic Action Shooting Program, USA Shooting, ACUI Clay Targets, and more rely on annual funding from MidwayUSA Foundation. The non-profit public charity has provided $725 million in grants to support youth shooting sports. In 2024, alone, the Foundation has paid just under $8 million in cash grants and is set to provide another $3.3 million in the coming weeks.

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2024 SSSF National Championship Continues to Break New Records

Sunday, August 11, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: News

The 2023-2024 season for the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation’s (SSSF) youth development programs has concluded with another record-breaking National Championship. Hosted at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, the annual youth shooting sports competition once again set the mark for the largest shoot in Cardinal Center history. Between the SSSF’s clay target and action shooting youth programs, 40 states were represented at the National Championships, which saw over 3 million rounds safely fired without incident.

Action shooting sports participation continues to grow throughout the nation for young athletes and had a strong showing at the SSSF’s Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) National Championship. Once again in 2024, the SASP broke the world record for the largest action shooting event in the world, all by youth athletes. With over 2,600 entries, athletes safely fired over 565,000 rounds of ammunition in competition without incident, along with side matches, sponsor demos, and practices tallying in additional hundreds of thousands of rounds. SCTP participation surged as well with over 3,100 athletes and over 9,000 event entries during the twelve-day event schedule. This marks the largest national championship the SCTP has ever conducted, with over 2 million White Flyer targets being thrown in competition, side matches, and practice.

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17-Year-Old Air-Rifle Phenom Kenzie Kring Has Her Eyes on the 2028 Summer Olympics

Tuesday, August 06, 2024
Written by Irwin Greenstein
Categories: Rifles

You might call Kenzie Kring an accidental air-rifle star. It wasn’t as though she’s been wanting to compete in air-rifle tournaments all her life. In a way, you can say that air rifles actually found her.

Kenzie’s air-rifle journey started with a pragmatic introduction into the sport. Nearly four years ago, when she was researching college applications, she felt that a scholarship was somehow achievable, but wasn’t quite sure how until she noticed something particular on the applications. 

“At the bottom of every page of the applications was someone shooting an air rifle,” she recalled. “So I went to the local shooting club and picked up an air rifle. It felt like a natural for me.”

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