Scholastic Clay Target Program
Sarasota Hawks
“Preparing today’s youth to become the leaders of tomorrow.”
Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) sponsors the largest and most exciting clay target program for youth in the United States.
The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) provides kids from elementary grades through high school and college with the opportunity to participate in the fun and challenging sports of Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays, as well as the Olympic disciplines of Bunker Trap, Trap Doubles and International Skeet. SSSF is the official feeder program to USA Shooting and a path to the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team.
In keeping with the SSSF’s mission to provide, promote and perpetuate opportunities for young athletes to safely and enjoyably participate in high quality, team-based sports, each of the SCTP’s exciting disciplines are led by trained and dedicated adult coaches in a supportive environment and are focused on the safe handling and use of firearms.
The target of SCTP is to help young athletes reach their potential of becoming the best athletes—and young adults—that they can be.
At Sarasota Trap, Skeet, and Clays, the Sarasota Hawks, incorporated as Gulf Coast Scholastic Shooters, offers Sporting Clays, Skeet, and Trap instruction and competition for students in 5th through twelfth grades. The minimum age is generally about 12, although younger students will be accepted on a case by case basis if they are deemed to have the physical, mental, and emotional maturity necessary to successfully and safely participate.