With the springlike weather continuing all week long, Saturday is a perfect chance for outdoors enthusiasts to test their shooting aim while helping support the remarkably successful Northwestern State track and field program.
The Second Annual Speed Demon Shoot, a shooting clays tournament, is Saturday from 8:30 a.m.-noon at the Natchitoches Shooting Range, 652 Tauzin Island Road. It will be a fun-filled day of competitive clays shooting, fellowship and great food.
It supports a program that has produced NCAA Division I champions twice in the past 13 years, and dozens of All-America competitors in a sport where that honor is earned by top 16 finishes at the national championships competing against the best-funded competitors from conferences like the SEC, Big Ten, Big XII and ACC.
Northwestern track and field has consistently overcome the odds to produce individual conference champions as well as teams that consistently contend for team Southland Conference titles, winning two in women’s competition in each of the last two springs.
The Speed Demons also have some of the better NCAA academic progress scores among all Southland and Louisiana peer programs, and graduate their athletes at an impressive rate. Community service has been a standard of the program for a decade under the leadership of coach Mike Heimerman, and before that, the legendary Leon Johnson for 33 years.
The Speed Demon Shoot will accept entries for teams of four, or individuals.
Individual and team scores will be tracked. Entry fees are $400 for a four-person team, $100 per shooter.
Sponsorship packages are available. All contributions are welcomed to help make this family-friendly event a success to support NSU track and field.
For information, to enter, to sponsor a team, or contribute, call Nolton Causey at 318-663-4964; Mike Heimerman at 318-715-8925 or Billy Ebarb at 318-451-0747.
