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Former Comet deadeye Colton Crooks on target while claiming four titles at SCTP Collegiate Championships

Former Comet deadeye Colton Crooks on target while claiming four titles at SCTP Collegiate Championships
Press photo by John Burbridge
Charles City graduate Colton Crooks emerged as the Men’s Individual Trap, Sporting Clays, Skeet and Overall champion at the SCTP Collegiate State Championship held Oct. 21-22 in Waukee. Crooks was an individual state champion for the Charles City/Nashua-Plainfield high school trapshooting team in 2022.

Press Staff Report

WAUKEE — When Colton Crooks hits three out of four targets, something is terribly amiss.

Seventy-five percent is far from the standard Crooks helped set when he became the Charles City/Nashua-Plainfield high school trapshooting team’s fourth state champions in 2022 after hitting 200 of 200 of his initial targets and then going 49 of 50 during the subsequent shoot-offs (249 out of 250) at the Iowa State Trap Shooting Championships.

Crooks has maintained his deadeye status while shooting at the collegiate level as a member of Hawkeye Community College’s sport shooting team. And while shooting with the RedTails at the Iowa Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Collegiate Championships held Oct. 21-22 at the New Pioneer Gun Club in Waukee, Crooks went his aforementioned 3 for 4.

Crooks won the Men’s Individual Singles Trap and the Men’s Individual Sporting Clays while emerging victorious in tiebreaking shootouts in both categories; and also won the Men’s Individual Skeet.

In the fourth Men’s Individual discipline — Super Sporting Clays — Crooks didn’t place but shot well enough to help him earn the meet’s High Overall Men’s first-place award.

Crooks helped the RedTails place third overall as a team behind champion Iowa Western and runner-up Iowa Central.

More than 160 athletes from 13 Iowa colleges competed in the championships.

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