{"id":30303,"date":"2014-07-09T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=30303"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T21:18:20","slug":"academi-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/academi-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship\/30303\/","title":{"rendered":"ACADEMI Sponsors 2014 IDPA U.S. National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ACADEMI<\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA<\/a>) announced that ACADEMI<\/a>, a leading, privately-held training and security solutions provider serving government and commercial customers worldwide, has again signed on as a major sponsor of IDPA\u2019s U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again IDPA is partnering with ACADEMI to bring our members one of the best championship events in the shooting sports. We\u2019re very grateful for the continued, generous sponsor support we receive from ACADEMI because it helps us further expand shooting opportunities,\u201d said Robert Ray, membership and marketing director for IDPA.<\/p>\n

ACADEMI joins Brownells, GLOCK, Harris Publications, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Wilson Combat as a gold level sponsor of the championship which takes place September 9 thru 13 at the U.S. Shooting Academy<\/a> in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The match is expected to draw over 300 of the sport\u2019s top shooters.<\/p>\n

\u201cACADEMI is proud to support IDPA as it continues to provide the highest-level of sport shooting competition.\u00a0As a provider of elite firearms training, ACADEMI values the community of excellence IDPA has built in the shooting community,\u201d said Pete van Hooser, Vice President of ACADEMI Training Services.<\/p>\n

For more information on IDPA, or to join the nearly 24,000 IDPA members competing each week, visit www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as @OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a> and Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IDPA announced that ACADEMI, a leading, privately-held training and security solutions provider serving government and commercial customers worldwide, has again signed on as a major sponsor of IDPA\u2019s U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[2535,3391],"class_list":["post-30303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-academi","tag-idpa-u-s-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303","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=30303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}