Jonesboro Youth Trap Team brings home awards at national trapshooting championships

Jonesboro, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – Aug. 28, 2025 – The Jonesboro Youth Trap Team won numerous awards at the 2025 AIM Grand National Trapshooting Championships in July.

Jonesboro Youth Trap Team assistant head coach Joey Glaub said this year’s team brought home the most awards ever. The championships took place July 26-28 in Sparta, IL.

Glaub said this was the largest group of kids he’s taken, with 25 students from the Jonesboro Youth Trap Team, which were divided into five-person squads. An additional five students were from A-State’s Shooting Sports Club, which also won several awards.

“There were a couple groups that had more kids there, but none of them won as many medals as we did. All six squads won medals and then the cool thing with the AIM portion of that is that you compete as a squad, but you also compete individually within your age group. So, there were nine additional individual awards,” he said.” We’ve never had this much success.”

The Jonesboro Youth Trap Team’s awards are listed below:

Squad Awards

“JTT Young Guns” – Runner up Pre-Sub Champion (2nd out of all Pre-Sub squads) score 914/1000 (ages 9-11yo)
“JTT Diamond State” Runner Up Sub Junior Champion (2nd out of all 75 Sub Jr Teams) score 974/1000 (ages 12-15yo)
“JTT Dirty Dusters” 1st Place Sub Junior Champion. Score 960/1000 (ages 12-15yo)
”JTT Uncoachables V3.0” 1st Place Junior B Champion. Score 980/1000 (ages 15-18yo)
”JTT Another One Bites the Dust” 1st Place Junior Gold D Champion. Score 956/1000 (ages 18-21yo)

Jonesboro Youth Trap Team members during the competition. (Photo provided by Joey Glaub)

Individual Awards:

High All Around (Combination of 200 Singles, 100 Handicaps & 100 Doubles)

Pre-Sub Junior Class C Champion – Sylas Bass 350/400

Event 1 – Handicap Championship:

Pre-Sub Junior Champion – Falcon Thompson 99/100
Pre-Sub Junior 10th – Dutch Cox 92/100
Junior Gold 4th – Cole Cureton (ASU Shooting Sports) 99/100

Event 2 – Doubles Championship:

Pre-Sub Junior class D Champion – Falcon Thompson 87/100

Event 3 – Singles Championship:

Pre-Sub Junior Champion – Dutch Cox 197/200
Pre-Sub Junior class C Champion – Sylas Bass 188/200
High Sub Junior Lady Champion – Piper Smith 197/200

According to Glaub, all the kids on the trap team are from Northeast Arkansas, and they all compete in the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Youth Shooting Sports Program as well.

“That’s our springtime activities. And they all practice and compete at the Jonesboro Shooting Sports Complex,” he said. “The opportunity at the range with multiple fields is that we can practice, and most of the time from May on, we’re going to shoot four boxes at a practice because that’s what we’ve got to compete.”

Glaub said this allows the students to practice in a competition-type environment. They also hold local tournaments at the facility, which helps students prepare for state and national tournaments.

“One of the reasons why we’re more successful now is because you can practice like you want to practice and then you can also compete locally as a warmup,” Glaub said. “There are different levels of intensity. With your local tournament… good practice, better than a normal practice; your state tournaments… even better because you’ve got even better through competition; then, you go nationally and it’s like, ‘OK, well, I want to be prepared because we’re going to have the best of the best’ and having that range in our backyard helps facilitate that.”