The Emmanuel Lions Shotgun team competed all week in San Antonio, Texas, at the ACUI/SCTP Collegiate National Championship shooting a total of 600 targets per athlete, which consisted of skeet, doubles skeet, trap, doubles trap, sporting clays and super sporting.

Emmanuel broke 2,862 out of 3,000 to finish 8th out of the 110 college and universities present regardless of division. This is a 6 target improvement over last year's National competition.

Congratulations to the team for taking home the Division 2, 1st place title in sporting clays.

The following five athletes shot a combined score of 471 out of 500 to secure our first place spot…

Coty James (Jr.) 97,
Eric Brown (Sr.) 96,
Jack Stapleton (Jr.) 94,
Brandon Smith (So.) 93,
Henry Johnson (Fr.) 91.

Additionally, your Emmanuel University Clay Target Team is also coming back home with a Division 2, 2nd place win in doubles skeet with the following athletes shooting a combined score of 481 out of 500…
Thomas Maddox (Fr.) 97, Coty James (Jr.) 96, Henry Johnson (Fr.) 96, John Callaway (So.) 96, Mason Jackson (Fr.) 96.

We would also like to congratulate the following athletes for their individual achievements…
Coty James:
1st place Sporting Clays Men's Class AA
1st place Super Sporting Men's Class AA

Eric Brown:
3rd place Sporting Clays Men's Class A

Matthew Anderson:
2nd place Sporting Clays Men's Class C

Well done, Lions! We are so proud of each and every single one of our athletes for how they not only prepared for this competition, but also of how they competed until the very end. Go Lions!