{"id":35555,"date":"2015-07-17T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=35555"},"modified":"2015-07-20T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T17:18:22","slug":"top-five-states-at-the-2015-sssf-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/top-five-states-at-the-2015-sssf-nationals\/35555\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five States At The 2015 SSSF Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SSSF-States-small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-35556 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SSSF-States-small.png\" alt=\"SSSF-States-small\" width=\"720\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SSSF-States-small.png 720w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SSSF-States-small-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SSSF-States-small-600x581.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participation at the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation&#8217;s 2015 National Team Championships is broad reaching with 28 states represented. Nearly three quarters (74.1%) of the 2,800+ shooters come from just five states. Here&#8217;s how athletes from the SSSF&#8217;s Big 5 break out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennessee (25.3%)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Volunteer State accounts for 25.3% of all athletes with 601 competing in SCTP (24.4%) and 109 (31.6%) in SPP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illinois (18.6%)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe home of the World Shooting &amp; Recreational Complex, the Land of Lincoln sent 484 (19.6%) of shotgunners and 40 (11.6%) of the pistol competitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wisconsin (14.9%)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Badger State athletes came to shoot with 371 (15.0%) in SCTP and 47 (13.6%) in SPP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iowa (8.1%)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Hawkeye State rolled in with 200 (8.2%) of the SCTP athletes and 29 (8.4%) of those in SPP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missouri (7.2%)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Show-Me State showed up with 202 (8.2%) SCTP competitors, and despite not having any shooters in the SPP Nationals they still hold down fifth overall on this list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SCTP-SPP-States.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-35558 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SCTP-SPP-States.png\" alt=\"SCTP-SPP States\" width=\"1008\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SCTP-SPP-States.png 1008w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SCTP-SPP-States-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SCTP-SPP-States-600x299.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three quarters (74.1%) of the 2,800+ athletes at the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation&#8217;s 2015 National Team Championships come from just five states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2597],"tags":[3587,3585,3586],"class_list":["post-35555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-shootingsports","tag-sctp","tag-spp","tag-sssf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555","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=35555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}