HILLSDALE, Mich., March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In partnership with USA Shooting, Hillsdale College and the John Anthony Halter Shooting Sports Education Center will host the 2021 USA Shooting Junior Olympic Development Camps. The skeet camp will run from June 13-17, and the bunker trap camp will run from June 20-24. Registration is available at this link and ends May 21.
“Hillsdale is proud to work with USA Shooting to provide young people across our country with the opportunity to pursue a path to Olympic-level shooting,” said Rich Péwé, chief administrative officer of Hillsdale College. “We look forward to similar future endeavors with USA Shooting.”
Campers between the ages of 12 and 20 will receive premier instruction from several current and former USA Shooting Olympians and National Team members, including World Cup Gold Medalist Aeriel Skinner and U.S. National Champion Frank Thompson, both members of the U.S. Olympic Shotgun Team.
“Through this partnership, we intend to bring junior-level development back to the successful levels we saw when the National Rifle Association was running the camps,” says USA Shooting CEO Matt Suggs.
“When I came back to USA Shooting last year, one thing I saw lacking were the junior-level development camps,” said Suggs. “The athletes who were most successful in the early ’90s came from the camps in ’85 or…
