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By Mike Krei, Director
NRA Competitive Shooting Division
July, 2010
Introducing Your Competitive Shooting Staff
Shooting Sports USA is preparing a new series of articles to introduce you to your Competitive Shooting Division staff. Each article will highlight two departments within the division and give you a short biography and job description of each person. It is our hope that you will get to know us better and meet the people you work with on a regular basis. There are 26 people that work within the Competitive Shooting Division and each has a monumental task of sanctioning over 10,000 matches, maintaining 150,000 shooter classifications and running 47 annual National Championships. I think you will find that we have the experience and knowledge to run the best and largest competitive shooting organization in the world.
New Web-BAsed Tournament Sanctioning Project
It is my hope that by the time you read this edition of Shooting Sports USA, we will have uploaded our new, web-based tournament sanctioning program. By the end of 2010, all tournaments will be sanctioned through this new system. We will rollout the program to all of our clubs and even have some incentives to sign on and use the system for the first time.
We will continue to accept tournament sanctioning forms by fax and mail, but all tournaments will ultimately be entered into the new system. We have worked to make the process easy and fast and have tried to keep the same format that you are used to with paper forms. With one form, you will be able to sanction a match up to 12 times. In a future issue of Shooting Sports USA, we will show you screen shots to walk you through the new sanctioning process.
Club Champion Tournament/NRA Day Challenge
What a unique concept - a simple and easy shooting competition for your club, fraternal organization or junior club. Pick a minimum of three courses-of-fire out of the 10 outlined in the Club Champion Brochure; use at least two guns (rifle/pistol, pistol/shotgun or rifle/shotgun) and have fun. Register your tournament and we will send all awards, event posters, press releases, scorecards and final report forms right to your club. Registration can be completed by mail or online. This out-of-the-box event can be used to find the best all around marksmen in your club and reward them with a beautiful NRA Silver Club Champion belt buckle, with silver and bronze medals for your second and third place finishers. High Woman, High Senior and High Junior will also receive medals, shipped to your club in time for presentation at the event.
The great part of this new program is that it can be used for NRA Day events, club picnics or to invite other organizations to your club for a fun match. To assist in paying for this new program, NRA will ask that your club include a $10 per adult and $5 per junior as part of the match fees to be returned to the NRA. Clubs can add additional fees to cover other costs or as a club fund raiser.
Regardless if you use this event at your annual club picnic, public outreach or as a stand-alone match, everyone participating will have a fun experience and will be hounding you for the date of the next event.
Have a great summer shooting season.
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