Last week, the Georgia Southern Clay Target Team became the 2024 ACUI/SCTP Division II National Team Champion in American Skeet. With over 1,100 shooters from 106 colleges across 34 states, Georgia Southern’s team won first place in the combined skeet, trap, and sporting clays scores.
Here are Georgia Southern’s top skeet team and individual winners on their awesome performances during regular competition and intense shoot-offs:
* 1st place High Overall Skeet Team and Division II winner(s): Jackson Schaaf, Tate Skipper, Dawson Peek, Andrew Cohen, and Brayden Floyd
The Eagles shot a phenomenal 497/500 in the rain and mud. Two other teams with National Champion credentials, Hillsdale College and Fort Hays State, also posted scores of 497/500. Clemson shot 496/500 and just missed the shootoff as did Texas A&M who posted 494/500. The three teams were to shoot true doubles at stations 3, 4, and 5, but all five Eagle shooters hit both birds on station 3 while the other teams missed a single target to give Georgia Southern the claim to a National Champion title.
* 1st place High Overall Skeet winner: Tate Skipper
* 1st place High Overall Division II and 3rd place Sporting Clays: Andrew Cohen
* 2nd place Sporting Clays B-Class: Landon DeLoach
* 2nd place High Overall Division II Lady and 3rd place Sporting Clays Lady B-Class: Cheyenne Anderson
* 3rd place High Overall: Blake Reed
They have earned National Championship titles in 2021, 2022, 2023, AND 2024! Georgia Southern University Shooting Sports Education Center
Since the NCAA decided to sanction rifle and not shotgun 50+ years ago, ACUI took the shotgun sports and has held the Collegiate Clay Target Championship for more than five decades. This event is equivalent to a NCAA National Championship event.
