2024 OTSA OFFICERS & BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Grand American was once again nothing short of magnificent! I’m sure everyone that made the trip was glad they did and had a wonderful time. The shooting began Thursday before preliminary week as the AIM kids began competing in skeet, sporting clays and trap. This year I was able to be there for the AIM shooting, it was exciting to see over 1500 young shooters doing their best! Surely the ATA’s AIM program is the best thing out there for our young shooters. And our Oklahoma kids have done verywell over the years and this year was no different, Oklahoma youth broke high scores and brought home plenty of hardware. Preliminary week of the Grand began on Wednesday. Clay Laughlin broke 100 straight on that first day in the handicap event. On Sunday of preliminary week Michael Gates broke 98 in the doubles event and 98 in the handicap. He went on to win the handicap 8 way shoot off with 25 straight. Gates was also junior HAA. Oklahoma shot well and claimed many trophies throughout the 10 days of shooting. You can view all scores at scores.shootata.com Five Oklahoma shooters posted perfect scores in the World Clay Target Championship: Kya Funkhouser, Braydon Bliss, Shelby Skaggs, Ron Bliss and Jacob Diller. After shoot off Skaggs was 2nd time Lady 1 Champion, Bliss was 2nd time vetchamp, Diller finished junior gold RU and Funkhouser brought home Lady 1 3rd. All in all it was another good day for Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s young ladies shot well in the Grand American Handicap: Kynsli Harman was sub jr champion with her amazing 99, Alexis Pletcher brought home the Lady I champion trophy with her awesome 98 and Addison darling won junior RU with her 98. I think we had another good year at the Grand American, great shooting Oklahoma!For your information at our Zone meeting we elected Steve Ricketts for our Vice President and at the annual Delegate meeting the proposed age range change for the Vet category was voted down.Please let me know of any first time 100 straights and any target attainment milestones, the ATA has stopped sending notifications. Call, text or email: 918-932-4029, jtrayer22@hotmail.com.Jeff TrayerATA Delegate