By Matt Browning
What started as a “sure why not?” moment for Maize South’s Kyan Crooks turned into something more than that with trap shooting.
“I first got into trap shooting about midway through my freshmen year when my sister’s (at the time) boyfriend mentioned something about coming out to a ranch and shooting some targets,” Crooks said. “I figured why not it may be fun so I went and ended up joining their youth clay target program which was a team called the ‘Wichita Clay Dusters.’”
Between being a member of the Clay Dusters and shooting with the Ark Valley Gun Club Crooks has been able to develop his ability.
“For example with the Wichita Clay Dusters we would go to events at different locations every now and then and they would take place there for a day,” Crooks said. “However here at the school we shoot every Sunday for an entire season which is seven weeks plus two weeks for practices at Ark Valley Gun Club. Those seven weeks are considered competition weeks and the scoring from those will go to our total and contribute to our average at the end of the season.”
While Crooks has not taken home any trophies or awards, he gets satisfaction for just being involved.
“Being able to shoot every weekend and being able to enjoy that is a good enough award as it is,” Crooks said.
