Our Junior Members President is Jace Walters who is a 16 year old national podium level competitive shooter from Elyria Ohio that has traveled all around Ohio, the U.S.A and Canada competing in archery and firearm tournaments. Jace has also been a Honor Roll Student since the beginning of 5th grade, mom and dad said if he doesn't maintain good grades that he won't be missing school to compete in competitive shooting competitions.
At the age of 5 Jace shot a bow and rifle for the first time. He liked it, but it was just something to do for fun when we didn't have a dirt bike race to go to. At 8 Jace started hunting and at the age of 9 got a Bear Apprentice 2 compound bow and started competing in the NFAA-Ohio archery events. A year later at 10 Jace started competeting in select national events and the following year earned his first national level podium, in Yankton South Dakota in the NFAA - First Dakota Classic. In 2022 an archery related injury greatly limited Jace's archery practice schedule, so he filled that time shooting firearms and then of course started competeting.
In 2023 Jace hung up his bow because of that arm injury and went full time with firearms competitions. And what do you know, he wasn't half bad. In 2023 Jace placed 3rd in a USA Shooting (Ohio) Precision Shooting event, placed high Junior in a Falling Steel World Series event, won the GSSF CMP National Challenge in the Junior Division as well as the GSSF CMP Annual Challenge (Civilian Amateur Division) and advanced to GSSF Master Shooter at the age of 15 years old.
In 2024 Jace's primary firearms focus will again be competing in multiple GSSF indoor and outdoor matches within Ohio and the surrounding states, as well as joining his first SASP (Scholastic Action Shooting Program) team. Then filling in his schedule with USPSA & Steel Challenge events and then competeting in various other steel, paper and action shooting outlaw matches across the region as time and funds allow.
The LaGrange Hunt Club is proud to be a supporter of Jace in his competitive shooting endeavors and is proud of all that he has done and continues to do to involve youth in our club. To discover the benefits of becoming a partner of Jace for the 2024 shooting season, send an email to Recreation@JaceWalters.com to receive his ‘2024 Partner Benefits Form’.
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