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Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation

founded in 2000

a team-based youth development program that uses the shotgun sports of trap, skeet, and sporting clays to instill life skills such as discipline, safety, teamwork, ethics, self-confidence and other life values

2000 founded and funded by the partnership of the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Amateur Trapshooting Association
(American Trap was the only program)
2002 the National Skeet Shooting Association and the National Sporting Clay Association joined the partnership
(American Skeet and Sporting Clays added)
2007 the SSSF (Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation) was created as a public charity

Scholastic Clay Target Program
2012 the Scholastic Action Shooting Program was added
USA Shooting became involved
(Olympic Games, Bunker Trap and International Skeet were added)

210-448-8946

https://sssfonline.org/

About the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation

The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is a 501(c)(3) public charity that runs team-based shooting programs for school-age youth across the United States. Its best-known program is the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP), which grew out of a scholastic trapshooting program started by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and conceived by Doug Painter, who called it “Little League with a shotgun.” The first national championship in 2001 drew more than 200 high school trapshooters from 25 states. The program later added skeet and sporting clays, and in 2007 SSSF was established and chartered in Pennsylvania to take it over as an independent charity.

For gun owners and parents, SSSF is one of the largest pathways that bring young people into the shooting sports with coaching, safety training and team structure, and it serves as a feeder for national governing bodies and teams such as USA Shooting. The foundation has expanded beyond shotgun: it started the Scholastic Pistol Program in 2012 and renamed it the Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) in 2016 when rimfire rifle was added. The 2025 SCTP Nationals drew 3,675 athletes from 37 states with more than 23,000 entries. As of 2026 SSSF is active under President and Executive Director Rick Leach and is marking the 25th anniversary of the SCTP National Championships.

Key Facts

2001: first scholastic trap national championship, with more than 200 shooters from 25 states
2007: SSSF established and chartered in Pennsylvania to take over the NSSF scholastic program
2012: Scholastic Pistol Program launched
2016: pistol program renamed the Scholastic Action Shooting Program as rimfire rifle is added
2025: SCTP Nationals host 3,675 athletes from 37 states
2026: 25th anniversary of the SCTP National Championships

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