4-H wants to establish a shooting club in Fairfax County. The
4-H shooting program can offer instruction in one or all of the
following: airgun, archery, handgun, rifle and shotgun.
Volunteers are needed to teach one or more of these. 4-H provides the
curriculum so volunteers only have to follow it to pass on these skills
to America’s next generation of shooters and
voters. 4-H provides the training needed to teach each
class. Club instructors will need to attend a brief weekend
of 4-H training. Each instructor gets certified to teach one
of the disciplines during the weekend. Preliminary plans are to meet
once a month on a day that is convenient to instructors and club
members. The club would most likely participate in the
Fairfax County 4-H Fair each summer. Can you help? Contact
Mike Lamarra on 703.768.4247 with any questions.
Six members of the NoVa Sharpshooters Junior Rifle Club traveled to the
US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for the USA Shooting
Junior Olympics. To be invited to the Junior Olympics a shooter must
shoot a qualifying score in a state Junior Olympic Qualifier
match. This year, the Virginia JOQ was held at the US Naval
Academy in Annapolis MD. The NoVa Sharpshooters had 12
shooters enter the match.
Brad Pravlik (age 15) was the only male
shooter from Virginia to shoot a qualifying score. He shot in
both International Air Rifle and 2-Position Small Bore Rifle.
This was his first trip to Colorado Springs. After 4 days of
shooting, Brad’s scores were in the middle of the 93 young
men whose ages ranged from 12 to 20. Fantastic results from a
young man who first started shooting a year and a half ago.
Qualifying air rifle match at the US Naval Academy
With five participants, The NoVa
Sharp-shooter girls were out in force this year.
Eighteen-year old Emily Houston lead the team which also included
14-year olds Elizabeth Willette, Emma Holman and Maddy Pike, each of
whom had previously been invited to the OTC. Twelve-year old
Morgan Lluy made her first trip to the OTC.
A new selection process and higher
automatic qualification scores were required to get to the Junior
Olympics this year. The competition was very
close. Emma Holman ended up in 5th place overall and won a
silver medal in the J2 (14 to 16-year old) category.
A highlight of the Junior Olympics was
watching former NoVa Sharp-shooter Shannon Wilson win the gold medal
overall in the Women’s Small Bore Rifle competition.
