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I am a newer coach (2yr) with 2yr old high school trap club in park city montana. Looking forward to reading about other coaches success' and failures in all aspects of coaching. For our second year we went from a team of 5 to 17 and the increase of the team came with some major growing pains. My 2 biggest problems is getting the students athletes to practice in the off-season, and getting them to actually consider the instruction be provided to them from me and the other 2 coaches as well as the local ata trap club members that want to help out occasionally.

I want to share something personal today — something that means a lot to me, and I think it’ll mean a lot to many of you too.

A good friend of mine, Dan Ehlers, gave me the notes you'll find in the attached PDF. Dan was one heck of a trapshooter, a straight shooter in life, and one of the first guys who ever really encouraged me when we were building the Crivitz Trap Team back in the spring of 2022. We met not long after I moved to Crivitz, and before I knew it, we were shooting together regularly, talking shop, and I ended up becoming friends with his whole crew. His best friend Jon, his brother Tim, and Ryan.

Dan passed away in October of 2024. And man… I miss him. I miss sending him my shot report after a shoot. I miss the phone calls, the banter…

I wrote about a few of these in my post regarding Fundraising for High School Trap Teams. Grab them, make them yours, change them up as you see fit and help your teams grow!

-Randall

Hey everyone — Randall here.

I wanted to break down something I get asked about all the time: How do you fund a full high school trap program without constantly scrambling for money?

For us at Lake Noquebay Sportsman’s Club, it all starts with one simple rule:

Before you talk fundraising, you have to understand your costs...

Every offseason, we build our budget like this:

1. Figure out the true cost per student athlete

Im am a newer coach with 3 years coaching the local HS Trap team, I am looking forward to some advise from different coaches who are not directly linked to the team.

Kicking Off the Off-Season (AKA: The Real Work)

Hey everyone -

Figured I’d start this group off with something that’s been on my mind a lot lately: the off-season for our high school trap teams.

Most people see the practices, the meets, the wins, the misses… but honestly, the part nobody sees is everything we’re doing right now. These months before anyone signs up are where 90% of the work actually happens.

Right now our youth committee at Lake Noquebay Sportsmans club is planning for Crivitz, Coleman, and Wausaukee High School Trap Teams - trying to get schedules in place, figuring out volunteer roles, and making sure we don’t start the season already behind. I’m rewriting parts of our handbook, cleaning up the lettering program, sorting out safety training, and trying to get our committee structure dialed in so it’s not the same two or three people doing everything.

We’re…

Please post shootathon sheet in files.

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