INVITATION

TO THE

2020 NORTH DAKOTA SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING

&

AWARDS BANQUET

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Eagles, Valley City, ND

Please attend the annual membership meeting at 2:00 pm.  Topics of discussion will include our junior shooting sports programs and other shooting sports programs around North Dakota and the USA.  The Eagles is located at 345 12^th AVE NE, Valley City, ND. 

Schedule of Events Saturday, January 25, 2020

Annual Membership Meeting (Eagles)  2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Social Hour (Eagles) – cash bar   5:30 pm

Dinner ( Roast beef & breast of chicken w/ Twice Baked Potato & salad)   6:30 pm

Annual Awards Presentations, Guest Speaker, HOF Ceremony  7:30 pm

Guest Speakers – Dacotah Faught & Joe Martin

NDSSA HALL OF FAME INDUCTION – William (Bill) Langer 

Rooms: AmericInn at 280 Winter Show Rd SW in Valley City, ND has a small block of rooms available for NDSSA Banquet attendants. The block reservation is good thru January 3^rd. The rate is $99.90 for a 2 queen bed room. They do offer free breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center and they are pet friendly. Call 701-845-5551 for reservation and tell them that you are attending the NDSSA Banquet.

Contacts:  For additional details on the membership meeting, dinner, awards banquet, contact Garth Weber 701-330-3284 or garth.weber@gmail.com

TICKET ORDER FORM - NDSSA BANQUET AND AWARDS CEREMONY

Adult(s) $30 each ___ ($35 at the door) Junior (s) $20 each ____

Please order tickets in advance before January 17th.  Make checks payable to NDSSA and mail to: Garth Weber 714 11^th Street NW #6, Valley City ND 58072

Guest Speakers

Dacotah Faught & Joe Martin

Dacotah Faught is a 2018 graduate of The University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. In 2013, Faught began her collegiate rifle career at The University of Tennessee at Martin.  Faught transferred to Nebraska in 2016 to exhaust her athletic eligibility.  As a student-athlete, she attended the NCAA collegiate rifle championships four times and earned three All-American honors. In 2015, she was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.  She also competed at the 2015 International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Shooting Championships in the Junior Air Rifle category held in Granada, Spain.  Dacotah grew up in Amenia, North Dakota (in the Casselton area) and she now resides in Fargo, ND.

Joe Martin graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2018 where he received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Martin began his collegiate career in 2014 where he would go on to earn All-American honors in smallbore and receive an at-large bid to the 2018 NCAA Championships.  Martin was a four-year scholastic All-American, and received the award for the Ohio Valley Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2018.  Joe grew up in Emerado, North Dakota (the Grand Forks area) and he currently resides in Grand Forks, ND where he works as a Mechanical Engineer at Lunseth Plumbing & Heating.

Hall of Fame Inductee

William (Bill) Langer

We will induct William Langer into North Dakota’s Marksmanship Hall of Fame and hope that you can join us.

We will recognize Bill’s efforts and commitment to improve the shooting sports in North Dakota from his home in the very small community of Perth, ND

• Bill has sustained membership in the NRA and NDSSA for more than 20 years.
• Bill has served as an officer of the NDSSA Board of Directors.
• Bill has been an officer in a local club.
• Bill has served as a youth marksmanship coach for far more than 10 years.
• Bill has been an active competitor in the rifle and pistol shooting sports for much more than 20 years.

What is unique about Bill’s accomplishments is something that had not been previously done in North Dakota.

Bill was instrumental in the introduction of the shooting sports into the Wolford Public School System. Bill established the Wolford Wolves Shooting Sports Team. Members of that team were thus able to compete in State Championships, Regional and National Championships with the full support of the Wolford Public School System. He is now attempting to do something similar in the St. John, North Dakota school system, and we wish him the best in that endeavor.

It is Bill’s devotion to the promotion of light rifle and air rifle as well as air and smallbore pistol programs for youth that has really made a mark on the future of the shooting sports in North Dakota.