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Clay Shooters at Mississippi College Advance to Championships in San Antonio


MC freshman Chandler Brown

Mississippi College’s clay shooting team remains on target to excel in this spring’s national championships in San Antonio.

The MC squad expects to perform well at the Texas event after freshman Chandler Brown, 18, arrived on the Clinton campus in August as one of America’s best trapshooters. The Germantown, Tennessee resident has enjoyed a successful first season in the college ranks.

At the ACUI Collegiate Clay Target Championships, Brown will join five MC teammates at the noisy competition in the Lone Star State March 23-26. The students are signed up for events like skeet, trapshooting and sporting clays.

Also making the journey for the MC squad: Skyler Burks of Flora, Grant Pence of Hoover, Alabama, Spencer Remley of McComb, Joshua Richardson of Gulfport and Mitch West of Batesville. Jimmy Grant serves as the team’s coach.

Schools like the University of Texas-San Antonio, Mississippi State University, Florida State University, Texas A&M, Florida, Jacksonville University in Florida, the University of Alabama and Mississippi College compete in the Association of College Unions International or ACUI.

Chandler Brown honed his sharp-shooting skills as a member of the Memphis Sport Shooting Club. He was named to the 2015 Amateur Trapshooting Association All-American Team. Chandler took up the sport as a hobby as a 9th grader.

A graduate of the Memphis University School in Tennessee, Brown brought remarkable skills to MC’s clay shooting team. Over the summer months, he competed at events in Florida, Ohio, and Iowa, among other stops.

Trapshooting is a game of movement, action and split-second timing, Amateur Trapshooting Association officials say. It requires accuracy and skill to repeatedly fire and break a 4 ¼ inch disc tossed through the air at a speed of 42 mph. That speed simulates the flight path of a bird fleeing a hunter.

Trapshooting is among three major disciplines of clay pigeon shooting. The others are skeet shooting and sporting clays.

For more information about MC’s clay shooting team, contact Jim Turcotte, vice president for enrollment management and dean of students at 601-925-3315 or turcotte@mc.edu