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Frankenmuth Clay Target Club gains experience at nationals

  The Frankenmuth Clay Target Club competed in the USA Clay Target League Nationals over the long weekend of July 9-13 in Mason, Michigan.

  The team qualifying rounds were held July 11, with 264 teams from across the country participating in the event, with the top 80 teams advancing to the championship July 13.

  “The competition was very tough and our team did not make the finals,” Clay Target Club Assistant Coach Bill Fischer said. "Each competitor shoots 100 targets for a team total of 500. We shot 431 out of 500, with the top qualifying team shooting 490 out of 500.”

  The Clay Target Club in Frankenmuth was founded this year, so was a new experience for the kids, coaches and parents.

  “This was a great experience for the students and to see all the teams from around the country. We are proud of our students with the way they represented Frankenmuth at the competition,” Fischer stated.

  The Frankenmuth squad members were Meredith Bauer, Nicholas Hessler, Colton Kwaiser, Garin and Marek Kwater, and alternates Aden Rice and Easton Kwaiser.

  Fischer wishes to congratulate Bauer and Colton Kwaiser for shooting their first 25 targets at the nationals.

  The students are off for the rest of July and August and will resume their fall season on September 16.

  “We had a great first year in the Michigan High School Clay Target League, with 22 students participating in the club, 12 went on to the state tournament, and our junior varsity squad finished second in the team event,” Fischer said.

  Individually, Marek Kwater won the JV individual male division with a score of 96 out of 100 targets and Bauer came in third place in the individual female novice skeet division with a score of 62 out of 100 targets, The Kwaters also shot their first 25 targets during the league season. Marek is the lone senior, moving on the college this fall.....

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