North Dakota's 4-H shooting sports archery team placed fifth and the shotgun team placed 18th at the 2022 4-H National Championships in Grand Island, Neb., June 26-July 1.
The youth competed in a field of 30 teams in the shotgun events and 28 teams in the archery events.
The North Dakota teams consisted of competitors who qualified in the 2021 North Dakota State Championships in shotgun and archery. Each team had four members who competed in their qualifying discipline.
Members of the archery team were Clay Ceynar and Jake Ceynar from McKenzie County, Jacob Russell from Dickey County and William Schmidt from Hettinger County. Halle Dunlop, Will Gebhardt, Kylie Thompson and Jacob Schirado from Morton County represented North Dakota in shotgun.
The archery teams were required to participate in 3-D, World Federation Field Archery and a half-field round of National Federation Archery Association archery at the National Championships. The shotgun events included trap, skeet and sporting clays. Participants earned individual and team awards for the top 10 placings in the discipline for each day and overall match awards.
Shooting sports is sponsored by Scheels, a supporter of the North Dakota 4-H Foundation.
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