Freedom Fire Shooting Sports Program Structure
- Freedom Fire Shooting Sports open to middle and high-school students. Students may participate as Freedom Fire Shooting Sports athletes in accordance with the rules and policies of the Scholastic Clay Target Program, Ben Avery, and/or any other host facility.
- Freedom Fire Shooting Sports is a private club.
- Freedom Fire Shooting Sports athletes and the club organization shall adhere to all commitments established by the club bylaws to remain in good standing (examples include but are not limited to election of officers, holding monthly meetings, maintaining academic qualification, and participating in a community service project.)
- All Club athletes will be recognized for Club participation as well as having the opportunity to compete in a limited number of Scholastic Clay Target Program sanctioned events. Freedom Fire Shooting Sports Club level will be available to all students (no cut) with a practice scheduled 2-3 times each month from October through April.
- Freedom Fire Shooting Sports will also field a Varsity Competition Team and a Jr. Varsity development team which will compete in significantly more events throughout the state, region and nation. By necessity such teams will have a more aggressive practice and competition schedule to be determined by the coaching staff.
- All Club and Jr. Varsity Squad and team placements are earned and are subject to revision at any time. There is no guarantee of placement on any particular squad for any athlete regardless of tenure or class year. Squads will be determined exclusively by the coaching staff based upon performance, athleticism, skill, team support, academic standing, attitude, practice attendance, competition scores and any other criteria which the coaches determine are in the best interest of the team.
- The process for naming the captains and assistant captains for squads will be at the sole discretion of the coaching staff.
- At a minimum, athletes must qualify for the Varsity squad in at least one discipline and compete at the SCTP State and National level within that squad. Additionally the athlete must qualify and attend the Zone Championship of the national sanctioning organization, or equivalent, within their Varsity discipline
All Freedom Fire Shooting Sports coaches are nationally certified in their discipline. For every practice, one coach is assigned to each squad, with the average squad size of 5 athletes.