Congratulations to the SVHS Marksmanship Team for qualifying for Nationals
When several members of Smithson Valley High School’s marksmanship team told Commander Vince Quidachay they wanted better results he had a solution.
Quidachay, who sits at the helm of the Navy Junior ROTC program at SVHS and is also the marksmanship team’s coach, simply changed the practice schedule.
“A few years back we were just practicing once per week,” Quidachay said. “We changed our schedule to four practices per week. Twice per day on Tuesdays and Thursdays – at 6:15 a.m. and at 4:15 p.m.”
The results have been staggering. They sent their first individual, 2017 SVHS graduate Ryan Randle, to the Navy Marksmanship Nationals last year.
This year, for the first time in school history, a team of five Navy JROTC students – Phillip Colton, Taylor Johnson, Kirsten Zeug, Grant Pattison and Anna Johnson – will represent Smithson Valley High School at the Navy Marksmanship Nationals. Nationals will take place in Phoenix, Arizona Feb. 8-10.
The team qualified for nationals after finishing third in the state competition in December.
