CEDAR FALLS – Athletes from 118 teams across Iowa converged on the Iowa State Trapshooting Homegrounds, north of Cedar Falls, from June 2-8, for the 2025 Scholastic Clay Target Program State Trap Shooting Championship. Nearly 3,000 athletes from fourth grade through high school shot more than 771,000 clay targets for the week, competing in three different competitions; singles trap, doubles trap, and handicap trap.
The Pleasant Valley Trap Team were the top Varsity Team Champions in Singles Trap, while the Ankeny Centennial Jaguars were the top Varsity Team Champions in Handicap and Doubles Trap. Individual honors are also awarded by age group for each discipline. A complete list of the results can be found online at https://app.sssfonline.com/nationals/4756.
The All-State team for singles trap is determined by the combination of the athlete’s league score and the Championship Event Score.
Ladies Singles Trap – All State Team
Quincy O’Donnell, Underwood Youth Trap Team, Captain
Lexi Henning, Wilton Trap Team
Lily Jennings, Ankeny Centennial Jaguars Shooting Sports
Hayley Burke, Oelwein Trap Team
Mackenzie Gabrielson, North Scott Trap Team
Men’s Singles Trap – All State Team
Matthew Eilers, Pleasant Valley Trap Team, Captain
Ethan Skow, Ankeny Hawks Shooting Sports
Grant Yuska, Pleasant Valley Trap Team
Ledger Smith, Albia
Nick Kelchen, Ankeny Hawks Shooting Sports
The High-All-Around Trap team is determined by the combination of the athlete’s Trap Singles, Doubles, and Handicap Championship Events Scores.
Ladies Trap High-All-Around
Lexi Henning, Wilton Trap Team, Captain
Quincy O’Donnell, Underwood Youth Trap Club
Lily Jennings, Ankeny Centennial Jaguars Shooting Sports
Mackenzie Gabrielson, North Scott Trap Club
Evelynn Erhardt, Cedar Valley Shotgunners
Kaitlyn Myers, Ankeny Centennial Jaguars Shooting Sports
Men’s Trap High-All-Around
Matthew Eilers, Pleasant Valley Trap Team, Captain
Ethan Skow, Ankeny Hawks Shooting Sports
Hunter Strong, Davenport Youth Trap
Izaac Zihlman, Mt. Pleasant Panthers
Spencer Block, Ankeny Centennial Jaguars Shooting Sports
Hunter Beason, Wilton Trap Team
The Scholastic Clay Target Program is one of the largest, fastest growing, and most exciting youth clay target programs in the country. Student athletes from elementary through high school and college have the opportunity to compete in sports such as trap, skeet, and sporting clays, as well as Olympic disciplines like bunker trap and international skeet.
The Scholastic Clay Target Program and Scholastic Action Shooting Program are youth development programs that promote shooting sports and competitive shooting as a means to help young individuals achieve their highest potential and become their best selves. The program’s goal is to instill personal values and character traits, such as fair play, compassionate understanding, individual responsibility, sportsmanship, self-discipline, and personal commitment in young people.