Obviously there is some interest in competitive shooting at the Coast Guard Academy and they must have some good coaching as well.

The Academy not only took first place in the Scholastic Steel Challenge, their second and third teams took third and fifth place.

“The Scholastic Steel Challenge is a national team-oriented youth shooting program developed by the Steel Challenge Shooting Association and funded in part by a grant from the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The program is open to young men and women ages 12 to 20 and offers them the opportunity to compete as a four person team for a national title in the action pistol discipline of speed shooting.

“Earlier this year the program was expanded to offer college teams the opportunity to participate in the competition format.”

(Thanks to Robert Stoner for the lead.)