Clover High in Clover SC is the newest high school trap shooting team #Lucky#13

We here at 1MMAGC feel it is absolutely important to support youth shooting sports and we are excited to learn that yet another team has been formed at Clover High in Clover South Carolina. They join 12 other teams as “lucky #13” and will offer not only the opportunity to compete, but to teach gun safety and handling skills to these teens. We know that if we pass on proper gun handling skills and safety to our children, they will in turn pass that on to their own kids some day. This is how you help to keep gun ownership and preservation of rights alive. If you have the opportunity to support youth shooters do so.

We have had the privilege of watching Shyanne Roberts grow into the amazing competitive shooter that she is, and it is wonderful to see how far she and her fellow youth competitors have come. The amount of respect these teens have for firearms and their abilities to handle them safely show that education is incredibly important. It should be taught in school, and in fact could aid in stopping firearm accidents, lessen accidental death from improper handling and help keep kids safe (no matter what the anti rights crowd says about this).

Here is the press release from Clover High:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 21, 2020

CLOVER HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCES CLAY SHOOTING TEAM

CLOVER, S.C. – Principal Rod Ruth has announced the formation of an officially sanctioned and High School Supported High School Clay Target Shooting Team at Clover High School.  Currently there is only a handful of teams in the South Carolina State High School Clay Target Shooting League, CHS will be the first in the tri-county area.

The team will be coached by Pete Cappuccilli, a Lake Wylie resident and retired NYPD Detective.  Prior to his relocation to South Carolina, Cappucilli also served as a member of the Fire/Rescue squad, as Captain, on Long Island.

Dan Roberts will join Cappucilli as a member of the coaching staff. Roberts is a certified Firearms Instructor and Range Safety Officer with over 15 years in the field.  He has trained with many top professionals and various Law Enforcement agencies with over 20 years of experience with various fire departments throughout the country.  Roberts has previous coaching experience having worked with his daughter, CHS Sophomore Shyanne Roberts, who has won three state women’s division shooting championships in the last four years.

Also joining the coaching staff as the Chief Safety Officer is Kelly Hamrick Bivens. Bivens is former Federal Law Enforcement Officer as part of the Nuclear Rapid Response Team at the Duke Energy Nuclear Power Plant.  She is also a SLED Certified Instructor, NRA Training Counselor in all disciplines and owner of 1st Defense Firearms Training. 

Student participants will learn and participate in mandatory firearms safety training and safety education with practical applications of firearms safety as well as take part in one of the fastest growing High School Sports in the Country. The Consumer Safety Council has consistently found that shooting sports have had an excellent long term safety record, including being deemed safer for athletes than other more traditional High School Sports. Additionally, the shooting sports are one of the few sports that truly are co-ed in nature as well as inclusive for students with physical handicaps in many instances.

-Each Child, Each Day…Excellence-