{"id":26806,"date":"2013-12-16T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=26806"},"modified":"2014-01-02T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:09:25","slug":"smith-wesson-taps-lou-denys-as-match-director-for-2014-idpa-indoor-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/smith-wesson-taps-lou-denys-as-match-director-for-2014-idpa-indoor-nationals\/26806\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#038; Wesson Taps Lou Denys As Match Director For 2014 IDPA Indoor Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lou-Denys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26807\" alt=\"Lou-Denys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lou-Denys-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 For the second year in a row, Lou Denys has been named Match Director of the prestigious Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship, according to an announcement made today by officials with the International Defensive Pistol Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDPA<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith-wesson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith &amp; Wesson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the prominence of the Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship, now in its 17th consecutive year, as one of the premier events in all the shooting sports, the position of match director is one of the most important in competitive pistol shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored that Smith &amp; Wesson and IDPA have once again asked me to oversee this important championship event. I am looking forward to working with a great team of safety officers and staff to insure the 2014 Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship maintains its well-deserved reputation for excellence,\u201d said Lou Denys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LOGO-2014-SWIN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-26677\" alt=\"SWIN-14 logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LOGO-2014-SWIN1-300x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>The Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship serves as the official start of the IDPA season. The 2014 match, which is already sold-out, will take place February 20-22 and draws over 300 of the best IDPA shooters to Springfield, Massachusetts to compete on the indoor ranges of the Smith &amp; Wesson Shooting Sports Center.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDPA, the Smith &amp; Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship or to join the 22,000-plus IDPA members competing each week all across America, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/officialidpa\" target=\"_blank\">@OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShootIDPA\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/shootidpa#\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/shootidpa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shootidpa.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, Lou Denys has been named Match Director of the prestigious Smith &#038; Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship, according to an announcement made today by officials with the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) and Smith &#038; Wesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[2690,2901,59],"class_list":["post-26806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-lou-denys","tag-sw-idpa-indoor-nationals","tag-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}