2025 ACUI National Championships webpage
SEWARD, Neb. – A group of 18 Bulldogs will represent Concordia University, Nebraska Shooting Sports at the 2025 ACUI Collegiate Clay Target National Championships. The 2025 national championship event will run March 17-22 and will be held at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas. Competition for the Bulldogs will begin on March 18. The event features 100 targets each in American Skeet, American Trap, Sporting Clays, Doubles American Skeet, Doubles American Trap and Super Sporting.
The ACUI Clay Targets program was established in 1968 and is the oldest collegiate shotgun sports program. The ACUI Clay Targets program is a nonprofit, student-centered, campus-based community of student-athletes, volunteer and paid coaches, range facilities, sponsors, friends, families and ACUI staff.
2025 ACUI National Championships Schedule – Concordia:
· Tuesday, March 18 – American Trap, Doubles American Trap
· Wednesday, March 19 – American Skeet, Doubles American Skeet
· Thursday, March 20 – Super Sporting
· Friday, March 21 – Sporting Clays
· Saturday, March 22 – Shoot-offs and Awards
At the 2024 ACUI National Championships, Head Coach Dylan Owens’ program placed seventh out of 15 squads in the Division 2 breakdown. Hillsdale College emerged as the 2024 national champion in Division 2. Four separate divisions are created based on a team’s number of athletes competing at the national championships. Last season, the Bulldogs cracked 2,784 targets towards the HOA team leaderboard. Individual honors were captured by senior Jessie Ciezki, the women’s open skeet national champion, and senior Claire Kee, the women’s open super sporting national titlist. From an HOA perspective, the Bulldogs’ top competitor was Breyer Meeks, who cracked 551 of 600 targets.
Heading into the 2025 national championships, Concordia has competed at eight events throughout the 2024-25 season. The Bulldogs won the Hastings Invitational back in October and placed second at the Southeast Community College Invitational later that month. In addition, Concordia turned in place finishes of third at the Prairie Circuit Conference Championships and fourth at the Simpson Invite, Midland Open, Concordia Sporting Invitational and Iowa Western Community College Invite.
All-conference awards were won in the fall at the Prairie Circuit Conference Championships by Sam Blevins and Katie Welker and all-freshman honors went to Trevor Burch and Carter McKenna. As part of the team championship at the Hastings Invite, Kaylee Hinton and Breyer Meeks captured HOA individual titles. In closing the fall at the SECC Invite, Devin Harris took home the skeet championship. At the most recent competition, the Iowa Western Invite, Katie Welker placed second among women’s athletes in doubles trap.
The ACUI will display results via its website (linked above) throughout the event. Check back for a full recap at the conclusion of the National Championships.
Concordia 2025 nationals competitors:
· Samuel Blevins (La Grange, Ky.)
· Ella Cowan (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Hannah Dean (Lincoln, Neb.)
· Colby Gaines (Tulsa, Okla.)
· Devin Harris (Kansas City, Mo.)
· Kaylee Hinton (Hiawatha, Kan.)
· Rayne Larrison (Mio, Mich.)
· Jaggar Luetje (Westside, Iowa)
· Carter McKenna (Belle Fourche, S.D.)
· Breyer Meeks (Filer, Idaho)
· Faith Ritchie (Lakeland, Fla.)
· Lane Schoff (Smithfield, Neb.)
· Gracie Schoaf (East Bend, N.C.)
· Brennen Stones (Crete, Neb.)
· Buchannan Tietjen (Hebron, Neb.)
· Mason Ward (Twin Falls, Idaho)
· Cael Washburn (Fort Collins, Colo.)
· Katelyn Welker (Hamill, S.D.)