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Special Awards & Prizes The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will again award its annual Cornhusker Cup to the top high school competitor on the 150 targets. The Nebraska Trapshooting Association sponsors the top team award for the overall high school team. The Nebraska Conservation Officers Association will present the Larry Elston Award to the top high school 16-yard team. Ducks Unlimited will present a decorative trophy decoy, prints and other prizes to the top three Greenwing competitors, Thursday and Friday. Greenwing memberships will be available at the shoot. Proof of membership must be presented prior to competition to be eligible for these awards. Post your own scores at the office. The Jim Carlisle Heritage Trophy will be awarded to the high school winner of the 75, 16-yard program if that shooter had a parent or grandparent who shot in a previous Cornhusker Trapshoot. Post your own scores at the office, if you qualify. Americase has donated 2 airline approved gun cases to be won as raffle items. There will be a ticket for each registered competitor in a shooters bag to be dropped into designated buckets. Shooters will have to determine which case they would be interested in winning by putting the ticket into that corresponding bucket. For those shooting Over and Under Shotguns, the ticket would have to be submitted into the Over and Under case bucket. Those shooting Semi Auto or Pump shotguns, the ticket would be placed into the Semi Auto or Pump case bucket. Ammunition will be provided to individual and team winners in designated categories at the awards ceremonies. All shoot participants are eligible for random drawings throughout the shoot through various sponsor donations. You are automatically entered by your registration. You must be present to win! NRA All-Scholastic Cornhusker Team Scholarship The Gene Ripa Family of Lincoln recognized long ago that education is the foundation upon which all high school competition is based. After lengthy involvement with the high school shooting sports, the Ripa Family established the Cornhusker All-Scholastic Shooting Team in 1993 to honor senior-level shooters who have excelled in the classroom. The National Rifle Association has adopted this award and is providing a scholarship to each recipient. Selection is based on unweighted 4.0 scaled cumulative grade points attained throughout the student's high school career. To qualify for consideration, an administrator from the student's school must submit a letter on school letterhead verifying the student's cumulative grade point. Letters should be mailed to Gene Ripa, 3414 Old Dominion Rd., Lincoln, NE 68516 by April 10. ATA Hall of Fame Grant The ATA Hall of Fame annually awards a sizeable grant to the Cornhusker Trapshoot fund in the name of youth shooting sports. Notification of Scoreboard It is your responsibility to notify the scorekeep- ers in the office, if you are eligible for special awards including lady, DU, second generation shooter, etc. Notification must be made before figuring the scores, and shooters should check the scoreboard to see that they are properly marked. Rules ATA rules will govern this tournament where applicable. NTA directors and Game and Parks Shoot director have the final word in all reviews or discrepancies. Please check scores after each 25 round. All corrections must be made before score sheets leave the scorer's bench. The referee/scorer shall keep an accurate record of each score of each contestant. If he/she rules "dead" or "lost", the referee/scorer shall properly mark / or X for "Dead" and O for "Lost" on the score sheet. Any target scored other than clearly with /, X or O, or which appears to be scored, with both X and O, shall be "lost" unless the word "Dead" is clearly printed beside it. The scores of the competition shall be official and govern all awards and records of the competition. Scoring & Junior Safety Requirements Coaches must provide all full teams and each squad of three (3) or more shooters with a qualified score keeper for both Junior and Senior teams. Coaches must also provide all full JUNIOR teams and each squad of three (3) or more junior shooters with a qualified safety assistant to ensure junior shooters maintain strict safety procedures. Safety assistant will be stationed by the scorer stand and will immediately halt shooting if a shooting safety violation is observed or perceived. Except when in the act of calling for and 12

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