TINA L. SCOTT
EDITOR
The Merrill Bluejays Trap Team traveled to the Wisconsin Trap Association (WTA) Homegrounds in Nekoosa for the State shoot, on Friday, June 25. It was their final event of the season.
Between the four different levels, from Entry Level on up to the Varsity level, 31 athletes represented Merrill in the competition.
Judged on both an individual and a team level, Merrill was well represented.
Individual high scorers for Merrill included:
• Camryn Schultz, Ladies Varsity, score 98, finishing 9th out of 133
• Jordan Smukowski, Men’s Varsity, score 96, finishing 69th out of 536
• Cali Brown, Ladies Varsity, score 94, finishing 27th out of 133
• Christopher Holtz, Men’s Intermediate, score 94, finishing 27th out of 195
• Cameron Stadler, Men’s Varsity, score 92, finishing 200th out of 536
• Landon Hipke, Men’s JV, score 92, finishing 63rd out of 358
• Hollis Eternicka, Men’s JV, score 91, finishing 78th out of 358
• Louis Blum, Men’s Varsity, score 90, finishing 246th out of 536
In addition, Maria Ashbrenner, scored an 87 to land a 2nd place finish out of 43 shooters in the Ladies Intermediate competition.
As a reminder, a perfect score is 100. and Merrill’s Camryn Schultz came pretty darn close to that!
From the team standpoint, the Merrill Bluejay teams didn’t make the top 10, but they did make a respectable standing. Varsity took 24th place out of 82 teams.
Junior Varsity took 15th place out of 78 teams; Advanced took 28th (the Bluejays only had three shooters in this category) out of 56 teams. The Entry level team took 12th out of 67 teams.