A Shotgun Sport First for San Antonio

Colonel Hanzel and the 1975 Trap and Skeet team at Trinity achieved a San Antonio first when the seventh annual National Intercollegiate Trap and Skeet Shooting Championships were to be hosted at the local site of the San Antonio National Gun Club and Trinity University would be the host school. The Alamo City was selected as the site of the National Championship by the recreation committee of the Association of College Unions International, which sponsors the shooting completion.

Trinity being the home of the 1974 national champion skeet shooting team, was known for its “National leadership in intercollegiate skeet shooting plus the excellent facilities at the National Gun Club, the headquarters of the National Skeet Shooting Association, spurred the decision by the committee to move the tournament.” The championships were previously held at the Cleveland Winchester Gun Club in Chardon, Ohio. The National Intercollegiate Trap and Skeet Championships were first held in 1969 at the University of Iowa. Fifty shooters participated that year. The year before the championships were held in San Antonio, 238 shooters from 42 colleges and universities representing 23 states shot in the competition. The Tournament in San Antonio ran for four days (the first day for registration and practice) and it consisted of four events: international skeet, modified clay pigeon, American trap, and American skeet.