Don Sipes, NRA’s National Shotgun Coach Trainer, bring us news that the Coach Education Program will be conducting the largest Shotgun Coach School in the history of the program. Scheduled for March 14-15, 2009 outside of Little Rock, AR, the Coach School will train over 110 people affiliated with an Arkansas youth clay target shooting program.

The Shotgun Coach School will include 12 hours of classroom instruction and four hours of practical field exercises. Participants will learn how to coach five disciplines of clay target shooting including International and American Skeet, International and American Trap, and Sporting Clays.

Sipes is pleased with the expansion that the Shotgun Coach Program has seen in recent years. “The growth has been phenomenal,” said Sipes. “We had 495 [NRA Certified Shotgun Coaches] as of July 1, 2007, and after this Arkansas school, we’ll have over 1,500 coaches.” Looking to the future, Sipes hopes to have 1,800 NRA Certified Shotgun Coaches by the end of 2009.

Visit the Coach Education Program website to learn more about becoming an NRA Certified Shotgun Coach, and view scheduled Coach Schools open to the public, or call (703) 267-1401 for more information.