Will is 15
years old and a sophomore a Dacula High School. He takes his schoolwork very
seriously and has a 3.7 GPA. He was one of only a few students chosen from the
state of Georgia to participate in the Student Leadership Program at GA State
University this summer. He is also actively involved in student council, the
Dacula leadership team, and the FCA. His goal is to earn an academic
scholarship to college.
Will
started shooting competitively in the Scholastic Clay Target Program in 2008
where his squad won 1st place at the GA State Shoot and won 2nd
place at the National Championships in Sparta, IL.
In 2009
Will continued shooting with the SCTP as well as entering 13 National Sporting
Clays Association tournaments. He shot several Big Blast events including the
Gamaliel Cup, the Zone 4 Championship, and the US Open, which really developed
his hunger for competition. Will progressed from D to A Class in 2009 and was Sub
Junior Champion in 5 events and he made the NSCA All American Team.
In 2010
Will took his shooting to the next level and punched into Master class at the
age of 14 and established himself as one of the top youth shooters in the
country making the All American Team for the second time. He shot 25 NSCA
tournaments with over 6300 registered targets and was Sub Junior or Junior
Champion 19 times, Sub Junior or Junior Runner Up 6 times, and HOA in a couple
local tournaments. He shot in all the Southern State Shoots, the Zone 4 Shoot,
the US Open, and finished the year off by winning Sub Junior Champion at the
National Championships in San Antonio in his first trip there.
So far in
2011 Will has accomplished more than most shooters do in a lifetime. He has
continued to be a dominant youth shooter by winning 15 Sub Junior and Junior
titles. He has also proven himself to be one the best shooters overall, by
regularly finishing in the top 5 at large tournaments and winning HOA at 2 big
blasts, beating many of the top shooters in our sport. Will decided to branch out in the shooting
sports this year and was selected to participate in an Olympic Bunker Trap
Clinic at Ft Benning with the Army Marksmanship Unit. He enjoyed that so he
entered the Junior Olympic State Qualifier and won a Gold medal shooting
Olympic Doubles Trap for only the second time. This qualified him for the
National Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs where Will won a Bronze Medal in
his age bracket and placed 8th overall. In between all his Sporting
Clays and Olympic Trap shooting Will entered the GA State Skeet Championship
and won the 12 gauge event by shooting 100 straight and then winning the shoot
off against 3 established skeet shooters including a former state champion. The
year is not over yet and Will plans on winning another NSCA National
Championship in October.
Will
has some major industry sponsors helping him including Dupont Kreighoff, Pilla
Sporting Glasses, and PMS Firearms.