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Tartan's Trap Team Advances to State
Last month, Tartan's Trap Shooting Team won their conference. Now the team will compete in the state championship.
This weekend, Tartan High School’s Trap Shooting Team will travel to Alexandria to compete in the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League’s State Tournament.
According to District 622’s website, this year marks the team’s second season.
Tartan is part of the Minnesota Metro East Conference that consists of St. Paul Academy, Simley, Henry Sibley, Burnsvile and White Bear Lake.
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The Minnesota State High School Clay Target League (MSHSCTL) was started in 2001 at Plymouth’s Gun Club after members realized that unless the sport started attracting young members, the gun club wouldn’t last long.
The MSHSCTL website says that Plymouth Gun Club Youth Program Director Jim Sable brought the idea of creating a high school clay target shooting team to the Minnesota State High School League.
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Last year, 29 schools participated in trap shooting, up from just eight teams in 2008.
To learn more about the clay target league rules, click here. To read a Patch story about Tartan’s trap team, click .