{"id":30492,"date":"2014-07-24T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=30492"},"modified":"2014-07-24T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:53:59","slug":"larry-and-brenda-potterfield-honored-at-scholatic-shooting-sports-foundation-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/larry-and-brenda-potterfield-honored-at-scholatic-shooting-sports-foundation-nationals\/30492\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry and Brenda Potterfield honored at Scholatic Shooting Sports Foundation Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan Hathaway [Director of Foundation Development] names Larry and Brenda Potterfield as Founding Life Diamond Members of the Champion\u2019s Roundtable and presents them with custom Shamrock Leathers shell bags.<\/p><\/div>
\nColumbia, MO \u2013 Approximately 2,500 athletes gathered in Sparta, Illinois to compete in the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Pistol Program\u2019s (SPP) national championships.\u00a0\u00a0 Also in attendance were Larry and Brenda Potterfield, owners of MidwayUSA.\u00a0 The Potterfields were honored by SSSF as the \u2018Founding Life Diamond Members\u2019 of the Champion\u2019s Roundtable, which recognizes donors who have made major contributions to the SSSF mission.<\/p>\n

Accepting the honor during a coaches\u2019 meeting, Larry spoke about what it meant to be able to contribute to the shooting sports industry.\u00a0 \u201cBrenda and I are lucky enough to give away half of our income every year, but without all of you [coaches] out there teaching those kids safety, spending hours at practice, and using your personal vacation time to travel to competitions, it would just be a stack of money, so thank you for all you do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry and Brenda also visited the pistol range, trap fields, lunched with coaches and shot a round of trap with some SCTP athletes.\u00a0 \u201cThese kids will remember this opportunity for years to come. They [Larry and Brenda] are giving a lot more than financial assistance, they\u2019re giving these athletes opportunities that will benefit them in all aspects of life,\u201d said Ben Berka; Executive Director of SSSF, about the Potterfield\u2019s generosity.\u00a0 The SCTP and SPP national championship has continued to grow, substantially, every year.<\/p>\n

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Larry and Brenda Potterfield shoot a round of trap with SCTP competitors<\/p><\/div>\n

SSSF is responsible for all aspects of the SCTP and the SPP across the United States.\u00a0 Both of these programs are youth development programs in which adults, coaches, and volunteers use shooting sports to teach and demonstrate sportsmanship, responsibility, honesty, ethics, integrity, teamwork and other positive life skills.<\/p>\n

The MidwayUSA Foundation is a public charity established by Larry and Brenda Potterfield to help offer permanent funding for youth shooting teams through its Team Endowment Account Program. For more information about the MidwayUSA Foundation, please visit www.midwayusafoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0 or call 1-877-375-4570.\u00a0 For more information on SSSF, visit www.sssfonline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Potterfields were honored by SSSF as the \u2018Founding Life Diamond Members\u2019 of the Champion\u2019s Roundtable, which recognizes donors who have made major contributions to the SSSF mission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3407],"class_list":["post-30492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-scholatic-shooting-sports-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}