Oklahoma was well represented at the 2017 National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships. Teams and individuals from

several disciplines made the stage.

Sarah Trotter, Landon Weeks, Brooke Bollinger and Colten Smith finished 4th overall, 4th in field and 3rd in FITA in Recurve

Archery. Sarah placed 4th in FITA and 4th overall individually while Landon placed 9th in FITA and 10th overall.

Zachary League finished 9th overall in Hunting Skills. He also placed 5th in hunting skills and sporting clays and 4th in

Decision making and Archery.

Payton Mayer placed 3rd in Skeet, 5th in Trap and 5th overall. Payton, Blake Randall, Nathan Beagle and Riley Hamilton

placed 2nd in Skeet and 4th in Trap.

Marissa Bensch placed 7th in 3 position Sporter Air Rifle.

The Oklahoma team improved to 6th this year moving up from 7th last year.

2017 Oklahoma 4-H Shooting Sports Team

September 26, 2017

2017 Oklahoma 4-H Shooting Sports

Volume 2~Issue 1~September 2017 ~ Marissa Bensch

Meet your newest Oklahoma

and National 4-H Shooting

Sports Ambassador !

Zachary started shooting with

the 4-H program at age nine.

He began shooting recurve ar-

chery, and now Zach is certi-

fied in archery, air rifle, shot

gun and smallbore rifle.

Zach has been an active partici-

pant in the Northwest District

Winter Shooting series. He has

brought home Jr. Compound

Archery Champion as well as

Senior Air Rifle Champion.

Zachary claimed State 4-H Air

Rifle Jr Champion and placed 4th

& 2nd at State Air rifle as a

senior competitor. Zach also

placed 1st in this year’s mail-in

air rifle contest.

League has represented Okla-homa at Nationals in Air Rifle,

placing 33rd out of 93 in 2016,

and Hunting Skills, placing 10th

out of 54 in 2017. Zach made

appearances on the podium at

Nationals by placing 5th in Gen-eral Hunting Knowledge and 4th

in Hunter Decision Making.

Zach has presented power

point presentations on the

Local, County & State level.

League tag teamed with his

cousin, Austin Rankin (The

Northwest District VP), pre-

sent a workshop called

“Beyond the Range”. League

has organized his local club to

clean up the shooting range at

the Optima wildlife reserve.

Currently League is the Guymon 4-H Club’s President and the Tex-

as County Game Leader.

He is also active in Quiz Bowl,

Band, and track. This summer, He

competed at 4-H Shooting Sports

Nationals and spent an intense

week at the U.S. Coast Guard

Academy’s Introduction Mission.

certified in shotgun and muzzle-

loader, and county level certi-

fied in 22. Pistol and rifle, air

pistol and rifle, hunting and

wildlife, archery, and western

heritage. He has currently

served as a 4-H coach for the

past 18 years and even though

his children are now adults, he

continues to volunteer as a

coach for 4-H in Garfield Coun-

ty.

Lindell says “I have enjoyed my

time and experiences through

Lindell

got his start with 4-H coaching

in 1998, when his two eldest

daughters started participating

in 4-H shooting sports. Lindell

made the decision to become a

certified coach, to ensure his

kids would be able to partici-

pate in aspects of the 4-H

shooting sports program.

Lindell has been certified in all

the 4-H shooting sports disci-

plines in the state of Oklahoma.

He has been state and nationally

4-H shooting sports, and all

these kids have accomplished

over the years. The best part of

being a coach in this program is

getting to watch these kids get

started in our sport and grow

through the program. Eventual-

ly, they will grow up and age out

of the program, but I hope to

have them back in the future, to

help with the youth, passing on

4-H to the future generations to

come.”

4-H Shooting Sports Ambassador News

Page 2 2017 Oklahoma 4-H Shooting Sports

To Make

The

Best

Better Coach Spotlight ~

Zachary League

Page 3 2017 Oklahoma 4-H Shooting Sports Newsletter

We had a successful turn out for the State Small-bore rifle and pistol contest. There were a total number of 23 competitors for the rifle

portion of the contest, and 11 competitors for pistol. The weather was sunny and hot with a slight cool breeze between various stages of

the competition. Several volunteers arrived early to help setting up target stands, arranging the safety line and firing points, and serving

as range officials for the day.

Range officials for the day were Christal Bensch, Terry Nelson, Billy Bullard, Jason Tacker, Charles Urquhart, Sterling Atwood, Ivan Rodg-

ers, Annette Brouse, and JJ Jones. Amanda Goeppinger, Susana Horton, Tonya Boatman and Michael Bensch volunteered to handle scoring.

As the participants arrived they were given instructions to take their cased firearms and equipment to be checked in by Michael Bensch

and Charles Urquhart. Check in ran smoothly and everyone was ready to compete, many bottles of water had already been consumed to

keep the participants, volunteers, and range officials hydrated.

The first part of the event was the Small-bore rifle contest, starting with the 3 position, then the CMP, and finally silhouettes. The second

part of the event was the Small-bore pistol contest, starting with silhouettes, then the slow fire bullseye, and ending with the Camp Perry

round.

State .22 Rifle & Pistol Contest

Sr Division .22 Rifle Top 5

Marissa Bensch Payne

Shanell Boatman Payne

Clay Laughlin Bryan

Taylor Goeppinger Wagoner

Joe McClure Bryan

.22 Pistol Top 5

Marissa Bensch Payne

Alex Parker McIntosh

Donivin Horton Wagoner

Rykken Brownlee Pittsburgh

Noah Spence Payne

Intermediate Division . 22 Rifle Top 5

Madison Goeppinger Wagoner

Brayden Bensch Payne

Carson Atwood McIntosh

Jacob Lynch Logan

Cody Boatman Payne

Sr .22 Rifle 1st Place Team ~ Payne

Marissa Bensch

Shanelle Boatman

Noah Spence

Candace Spence

.22 Pistol 1st Place Team ~ Wagoner

Dominic Horton

Donivin Horton

Taylor Goeppinger

Tyler Goeppinger

Individual Individual Individual Overall Overall

Discipline Contestant Day 1 Placing Day 2 Placing Day 3 Placing Individual Team

Archery Com-

pound Logan Stephens

FITA 23rd

Field Round 17th

3-D Round 16th 14th

14th

Joe-Z Jones 35th 34th 30th 31st

Michael Bird 76th 81st 40th 63rd

Clay Galbreath 78th 92nd 68th 83rd

Shanda Stephens - C

Archery Re-

curve Sarah Trotter

Field Round 11th

FITA 4th

3-D Round 15th 8th

4th

Landon Weeks 12th 9th 13th 10th

Brooke Bollinger 22nd 19th 35th 21st

Colten Smith 16th 30th 36th 25th

Perry Trotter - C

Air Pistol Alex Parker Single Shot 37th

Silhouette 53rd Slow Fire 38th 44th

13th

Dalton Menees Rapid Fire 36th 54th Bullseye 47th 48th

Makayla Hamilton 52nd 43rd 40th 47th

Rykken Brownlee 48th 56th 46th 54th

Billy Bullard - C

Air Rifle Marissa Bensch

3 Position 7th

Standing

Sporter 15th

Silhouette 29th 18th

13th

Shayla Boatman

83rd 79th 33rd 65th

Shane Wilson

76th 34th 51st 58th

Greg Holman

80th 56th 68th 70th

Christal Bensch - C

Hunting Skills

Zachary League

Wildlife ID

and 23rd Hunting Skills 5th

Hunter Deci-

sion 4th 9th

10th

Abagail Colten Management 37th and 29th Making 36th 39th

Pazlie Jones and 54th Sporting Clays 48th and 44th 53rd

Archer Bohlen Archery 37th 43rd Smallbore Rifle 48th 48th

Jennifer Colten - C

2017 National 4-H Shooting Sports Championship Results

Clay Galbreath became the first person

to represent the state of Oklahoma for

the last 5 years at the National Shooting

Sports Championships. Clay has had a

very successful career throughout his

years in the 4-H Shooting Sports Pro-

gram.

Clay has been a huge inspiration to

younger 4-H members in the program,

as well as the people around him out-

side of his sport. Clay has always been

ready to lend a helping hand. He dis-

plays sportsmanship to his fellow com-

petitors and he has shown incredible

leadership skills. Clay has attended the

National championships in muzzleloader,

shotgun, .22 rifle, air rifle and compound

archery.

We wish Clay good luck in his future and

hope to see him back in the 4-H program

as a coach and volunteer!

Muzzleloader Brennen Tacker 50 Yard 11th Bottles and 40th Silhouette 21st 29th 8th

Colby Cook Bullseye 48th Critters 48th 29th 42nd

Dylan Cope 37th 28th 21st 27th

Ron Akers - C

Shotgun Payton Meyer Sporting

Clays 22nd Skeet 3rd Trap 5th 5th 6th

Blake Randall 59th 15th 57th 43rd

Nathan Beagle 87th 47th 35th 60th

Riley Hamilton 54th 11th 12th 25th

Dustin Conner - C

Smallbore

Pistol Kolt Scalf Slow Fire 60th Silhouette 48th Camp Perry 60th 60th 15th

Tyler Goeppinger Bullseye 52nd 57th Round 46th 54th

Joe McClure 59th 55th 45th 56th

Tala Gillenwaters 63rd 48th 63th 62nd

Annette Brouse - C

Smallbore

Rifle Ashten Urquhart Silhouette 28th Civilian 35th 3 Position 12th 20th 10th

Samuel Spence 51st Marksmanship 76th Slow Fire 69th 67th

Ashley Hayes 54th Program 59th Bullseye 59th 61st

Shanell Boatman 17th 68th 27th 23rd

Charles Urquhart - C

Clay Galbreath ~ 5 Time National 4-H Shooting Sports Competitor

2017 National 4-H Shooting Sports Championship Results

Oklahoma 4-H Shooting Sports State Contests

Oklahoma 4-H Hunting Skills Contest October 7, 2017 OKC Gun Club

Oklahoma 4-H Trap Contest October 21, 2017 Okla. Trap & Skeet Assoc.

Oklahoma 4-H Muzzleloader Contest November 11, 2017 OKC Gun Club

Oklahoma 4-H Air Rifle Contest January 20, 2017 Fire Lake Arena, Shawnee

Oklahoma 4-H Air Pistol Contest January 20, 2017 Fire Lake Arena, Shawnee

Oklahoma 4-H Junior & Intermediate Outdoor Archery Contest and Senior FUN Shoot

April 14, 2018 Payne Co. Fairgrounds

National 4-H SS Championship June 24-29, 2018 Grand Island, NE

EXTRA Oklahoma 4-H Shooting Sport FUN Events

Duncan 4-H Fall Trap Shoot October 7, 2017 Duncan Gun Club

Payne Co. Hotshots Air Rifle/Pistol January 13, 2018 Payne Co. Expo – Stillwater

Payne Co. Hotshots Indoor Archery January 27, 2018 Payne Co. Expo – Stillwater

McIntosh Co. Outdoor Archery March 24, 2018 McIntosh Co. Fairgrounds

Terry Nelson

Extension State 4-H Assistant State Shooting Sports Coordinator

terry.nelson@okstate.edu

4-H Youth Development 205 4-H Building Stillwater, OK 74074 ( P ) 405.744.9645

( C ) 405.334.7866

( F ) 405.744.6522

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