CC/NP/RRMR trap shooting team celebrates 20th year with awards banquet

By John Burbridge

sports@charlescitypress

CHARLES CITY — In its two decades of existence, the Charles City/Nashua-Plainfield/Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock trap shooting team has grown three-fold.

That’s already referenced by the team’s expanding name, which was recently christened to include all three of the schools it draws from.

The CC/NP/RRMR trap team has also recently added an intermediate program for junior high shooters, and has expanded its range of competition to include handicap — further firing lines for deadeyes — and skeet.

Last Friday within the Floyd County Fair’s Youth Enrichment Center, the CC/NP/RRMR trap team held its annual awards banquet while celebrating its 20th season. More than 250 attended the event, which included a prime-rib dinner and an array of auctions and raffles for sought-after prizes.

Among the trap shooters honored was Hunter Brase from Nashua who received the TJ Houdek Memorial Award, annually awarded to the CC/NP/RRMR trap shooter who best exemplifies Houdek’s commitment to the sport and its preservation.

Houdek was an accomplished trap shooter and an avid outdoorsman before he died in a motorcycle accident involving a semi-truck in 2016. The tragedy proved to have a tangible legacy to the region as it hastened the completion of The Avenue of the Saints Floyd Interchange several years ago — an upgrade from the deadly and oft-confusion intersection where the accident took place.

Other CC/NP/RRMR trap shooters honored were Ella-Mae Koebrick for Most Improved High School Shooter; Liam Gaede for Most Improved Intermediate (Junior High) Shooter; Hunter Boehmer for the Spirit Award; and Eden Smith for the Coaches Choice Award.

The annual banquet serves as a fundraiser for the team’s scholarship awards as well as for upgrades to the Nashua Fish and Game Club, the home site for the CC/NP/RRMR trap team.

The team will be competing in the Iowa State Scholastic Trap Shoot at the Cedar Falls Gun Club. The team is scheduled to shoot on Sunday (June 6) of the weekend slotted for high school shooters.