There are many sports amongst the U.S. and the world itself, but there is one in specific, Trap Shooting. A sport in which people shoot shotguns at random angles and rotating targets. One of the coaches for this sport is Ben Smolen.

“Just like other sports, the more work you put into it, the better you will be,” Smolen said, “we just help the kids, practice makes perfect.”

There lies more than one coach teaching the team, one coach for each station, there being five. That team has more than one hundred and ten opposing teams against it, eight competitions in the spring and six in the fall.

“There are 55,832 athletes and 1,972 college, high school, and homeschool teams with zero injuries since 2008,” he said, “everyone is friendly but there for the same reason, to win.”

Trap shooting requires lots of experience and practice, including stance, aim, hold on the gun, and much more. Each team member is required to practice twice or more a week, where coaches help fix their stances and how they position the gun to shoot the clay pigeons.

“We shoot in all different types of weather as long as there is no lightning,” Smolen said, “but most of the time the weather is pretty good.”

Trap shooting is shown to be able to work through majority weather, the coaches only canceling if there is lightning, like most would. Shooting in heavy rain and lightning has never shown to end well in most cases.