Maggie Kelch

With a few more weeks to go, more than 500 shooters are already registered for the 2023 Ohio State Sporting Clays Championships being held at the Cardinal Shooting Center Aug. 3-6. Shooters from as near as Pennsylvania and Michigan and as far as California and Tennessee will be competing.
Christina Loudenslager, president of the Ohio Sporting Clays Association (OSCA), said that they broke records for attendance in 2022 and are excited to see attendance up again this year.

Vanessa Donato became the first student in school district history to go to college with a shotgun shooting sports scholarship.
After considering a number of college shotgun shooting programs, Donato chose to accept an offer from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. The Lindenwood Lions are an NCAA Division 1 team and considered one of the most prestigious shooting programs in the country. Donato began shooting on the North Ridgeville High School trap team when she was in the eighth grade.

Doylestown native William Browning started shooting trap when he was only six years old. Since then, he has won state, regional, and national honors as a member of the Buckeye Chippewa youth shooting team at the Copley Trap Club. 
While he is proud of all his accomplishments to date, the 2022 Chippewa High School graduate has his sights set even higher. His goals are to become a member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit and to compete for Team U.S.A. shooting in the Olympics. He’s well on his way to accomplishing both.