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Lindenwood Shotgun Sports Team
The Lindenwood Lions Shotgun Sports team represents Lindenwood University in Collegiate Shotgun shooting. The Lindenwood program has established itself as a nationwide dominance, and has the most consecutive National Championships of any team in the United States.(Lindenwood) The Lindenwood Lions Shotgun team has won the last 10 consecutive National championships and is on track for number eleven in the 13/14 season. The shotgun team has been a major factor in the world starting in 2003.(ACUI) March 30th, 2013 Marked the tenth year of perfection for the program.

Lindenwood Shotgun Team
Head Coach- Shawn Dulohery

Other Coaches
 * Steve Wolk
 * Craig Hancock
 * Steve Wirth
 * Doug Jack
 * Home Gun club- Gateway Gun Club, Hazelwood, MO
 * Division- ACUI D1
 * Location- St. Charles, MO
 * National Championship Titles- 10

Head Coach Shawn Dulohery
The head Coach Shawn Dulohery was Born May fourth 1965 In Kansas City, Missouri. He has been in the Shotgun world since he was a young child. Dulohery got into the outdoors at age six when he started hunting with his father. At age 18 he started is competitive shooting career while enrolled in school.(Dulohery) He grew up to advance his skills and represented the United States of America in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Dulohery represented the United States in International skeet finishing in Fifth position.

2013-14 Roster
This year’s roster consists of 89 members from all walks of life.. The team has members from more than 20 states and two countries. Team members have traveled as far from Washington, Texas, New York and Virginia to be a part of the award winning program. Each member specializes in their own discipline consisting of Trap, Skeet, International Skeet, Bunker Trap and Sporting clays. This year the team has traveled to several Collegiate shoots all over the country as well as specialized events in each discipline. Collegiate Events have included The Lindenwood Invite at the Lions home club in Hazelwood Missouri, The University of Kentucky Invite in Lexington, KY, and the Tiger invite in Columbia, MO. The Lions have made their presence noticeable at each event by nearly sweeping the entire tournament if not winning every event. The Lions Shotgun team travels to San Antonio, Texas in March of 2014 to compete in the National Championship trying to make it the 11th straight title.

Practice and Traveling with the Team
Each week during the shooting season one can find the Lions out at the range. Practice is set up for a lower tier and a top tear. Top tear practices two times a week on Mondays and Wednesdays while the bottom tear practices on Thursdays. Each night of practice the shooters get anywhere from 100 to 150 shells to go out and shoot. Some weekends before a large tournament the team will receive 250 shells to go out and get geared up for the upcoming weekend. When the team travels to events they use multiple methods of transportation. Depending on the distance needed to travel the team takes either 15 passenger vans, Coach buses, or airplanes. When traveling with a large group within a few hundred miles the team usually takes a 60 passenger bus, while on the extremely long trips they take commercial planes. During the trips team members must take everything needed to compete. This includes uniforms, shooting supplies, personal shotguns, and school supplied ammo. Each team member has a specialized shotgun just for them and their needs. Most trips require around 400 rounds of ammo, which the individual is responsible for during the trip. Shooting supplies consist of ear plugs, a team issued vest, shooting glasses and choke tubes for the shotgun.

Uniforms
The Lindenwood Shotgun team has an ever-changing wardrobe of uniforms. This year’s uniform consists of 5 of the same t-shirts consisting, Black, Gold and three shades of grey. The shirts are a standard Lindenwood design with Shotgun Sports in-between Lindenwood and University. Also for awards they have a black polo with sponsors on the sleeve. Pants for the team include black golf shorts or long khaki pants. The team is also issued a black Lindenwood sweatshirt and rain jacket. The amount of combinations for the uniform is endless for this team. The reason behind the multiple is so the team never wears the same uniform twice at a single match. Also this helps not show grease and gunpowder on the uniform after multiple days of competing.

Eligibility
In order to be on the Shotgun team there are many factors that come into play. First and foremost grades are most important. Team members are expected to be academically eligible before all else. Members of the team must uphold a 2.0 GPA and all times in order to be allowed to travel or practice. For freshman team members however they must carry a 2.5 GPA to be considered eligible. Another factor for eligibility are practices. Not every practice is mandatory but some are, and these days are called Red-letter days. This is when scores will be kept and given to the coaches for later placement for upcoming events. Practices are strongly recommend for the team members, shotgun skills are easily lost if not used.