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Lindenwood fields new shooting teams
By Tim Renken Of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
09/11/2002
Lindenwood University is offering students a new way to pay for their schooling. This year for the first time the school in St. Charles is awarding scholarships to men and women competing on the skeet and trap teams. They'll get aid for breaking clay targets.
Lindenwood's program has five shooting sports: American skeet and trap, international skeet and trap and a relatively new sport called 5-stand.
To put together a team that can compete with the likes of Purdue, Indiana, George Mason, Virginia Tech, Iowa State, Missouri, Missouri-Rolla, Southwest Missouri, Colorado State and the military academies, Lindenwood is giving financial aid to 21 men and four women this year.
The director of the shooting sports program is Joe Steenbergen, a retired police officer who is now a professor of criminal justice. Like his colleagues who coach basketball, tennis and soccer at the school, Steenbergen has been beating the bushes for top shooters.
"We've recruited some smart students, great kids who are fantastic shooters," he said. "We have a very good team for a first-year program. Two of our kids, Laura Kolb (Beaumont, Texas) and Brad Deaumann (Crockett, Texas) are Olympic junior world champions.
"Charley Morrison (Columbia, Tenn.) shot a 98 to win the 27-yard trap handicap at the Grand American World Trap Championships this month. Bryan Stuntbeck (Wadena, Minn.) broke 200 straight to take the trap singles. You can win any title you want with 200 straight. Shon Doyle (Sparta, Wis.) broke 98 to win the junior trap doubles."
Lindenwood competes in the Association of Colleges Unions International program in shooting. The ACUI sanctions intercollegiate competition and each April sponsors a national championship meet that draws college shooters from all over the country.
So far Steenbergen has four major events on the team calendar:
• The ACUI championship at San Antonio in April.
• The Missouri Fall Handicap at the Missouri Trap Association complex at Linn Creek in October.
• The skeet World Championships (August 2003) at Northbrook, Ill.
• The Grand American World Trap Championships in August 2003.
What Steenbergen needs most now is corporate sponsors for the team to help out with ammunition, guns, etc.
Why did the university decide to field a shooting team?
"It was the idea of the president, Dennis Spellmann," he said. "He and I feel it's like any other sport.
"Shooting competitively builds character, helps kids mature emotionally and helps develop a sense of responsibility."
By Tim Renken Of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
09/11/2002
Lindenwood University is offering students a new way to pay for their schooling. This year for the first time the school in St. Charles is awarding scholarships to men and women competing on the skeet and trap teams. They'll get aid for breaking clay targets.
Lindenwood's program has five shooting sports: American skeet and trap, international skeet and trap and a relatively new sport called 5-stand.
To put together a team that can compete with the likes of Purdue, Indiana, George Mason, Virginia Tech, Iowa State, Missouri, Missouri-Rolla, Southwest Missouri, Colorado State and the military academies, Lindenwood is giving financial aid to 21 men and four women this year.
The director of the shooting sports program is Joe Steenbergen, a retired police officer who is now a professor of criminal justice. Like his colleagues who coach basketball, tennis and soccer at the school, Steenbergen has been beating the bushes for top shooters.
"We've recruited some smart students, great kids who are fantastic shooters," he said. "We have a very good team for a first-year program. Two of our kids, Laura Kolb (Beaumont, Texas) and Brad Deaumann (Crockett, Texas) are Olympic junior world champions.
"Charley Morrison (Columbia, Tenn.) shot a 98 to win the 27-yard trap handicap at the Grand American World Trap Championships this month. Bryan Stuntbeck (Wadena, Minn.) broke 200 straight to take the trap singles. You can win any title you want with 200 straight. Shon Doyle (Sparta, Wis.) broke 98 to win the junior trap doubles."
Lindenwood competes in the Association of Colleges Unions International program in shooting. The ACUI sanctions intercollegiate competition and each April sponsors a national championship meet that draws college shooters from all over the country.
So far Steenbergen has four major events on the team calendar:
• The ACUI championship at San Antonio in April.
• The Missouri Fall Handicap at the Missouri Trap Association complex at Linn Creek in October.
• The skeet World Championships (August 2003) at Northbrook, Ill.
• The Grand American World Trap Championships in August 2003.
What Steenbergen needs most now is corporate sponsors for the team to help out with ammunition, guns, etc.
Why did the university decide to field a shooting team?
"It was the idea of the president, Dennis Spellmann," he said. "He and I feel it's like any other sport.
"Shooting competitively builds character, helps kids mature emotionally and helps develop a sense of responsibility."
