trap shooting

An informational meeting for students and parents interested in Owatonna High School's first trap shooting team will be held Tuesday, November 29, in the junior high cafeteria at 7PM.

Owatonna High School students will have another extracurricular option come next spring as the school board approved trap shooting on a 6-1 vote during their Monday meeting.

Monday's Owatonna School Board meeting room was jammed with students excited about the potential of adding trapshooting as a varsity sport at Owatonna High School.

With a fourth-place finish in the team standings and a pair of top 15 individual performances, Saturday was a good day for NRHEG at the state trap shooting tournament in Prior Lake.

The 2016 Clay Target Championships began Tuesday in Alexandria. Over an eight-day period, more than 7,000 athletes will take part in the biggest such event in the world.

The NRHEG trap shooting team moved into first place in their conference two weeks into the season. The Panthers also have one of the top 20 shooters in the state.

Due in part to the continued rapid growth of high school trap shooting, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is offering another round of shooting club grants.

The Medford trap shooting team took 13th place out of 30 teams at the MSHSL-sponsored state clay target tournament Saturday in Prior Lake.

The Medford High School trap shooting team qualified for the MSHSL tournament June 20 after taking fifth place in Alexandria on Friday.

Blooming Prairie's Blossoms (A) captured the title by placing three shooters among the top 10 in their conference. The NRHEG Panthers (4A) had six of the top eight shooters while settling for second place.