HR742: HR742 Georgia Southern University Clay Target Team; winning the 2024 and 2025 ACUI/SCTP Collegiate Clay Target Championships; commend

This is a commendation resolution, not a law that changes anyone's rights or duties. It formally congratulates the Georgia Southern University Clay Target Team for capturing back-to-back national titles in 2024 and 2025 at the ACUI/SCTP Collegiate Clay Target Championship. The resolution recounts the team's 2024 performance at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas, where it topped 106 collegiate teams, and highlights individual results from athletes including Tate Skipper, Andrew Cohen, Cheyenne Anderson, Blake Reed, and Landon DeLoach, along with Head Coach Marty Fischer. It also notes the team's 2025 High Overall Division National Championship win. The House resolves to congratulate the team and directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to send a copy of the resolution to the team.

• Congratulates the Georgia Southern University Clay Target Team for winning the 2024 and 2025 ACUI/SCTP Collegiate Clay Target Championships.
• Recounts specific 2024 competition results, including a team score of 497 out of 500 targets among 106 collegiate teams.
• Names individual student athletes and the head coach and credits their specific performances and titles.
• Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to prepare and send a copy of the resolution to the team.

The resolution directly names and honors the Georgia Southern University Clay Target Team, its individual student athletes, and Head Coach Marty Fischer. It also involves the Clerk of the House of Representatives, who must distribute a copy of the resolution to the team.

The resolution carries no legal or financial effect and changes no Georgia law. Its practical outcome is a formal, on-the-record recognition from the state legislature that the team and its members receive as a keepsake copy from the Clerk of the House.

• Recites the team's 2024 Division II championship performance, including scores from Tate Skipper, Andrew Cohen, Cheyenne Anderson, Blake Reed, and Landon DeLoach.
• Notes the team's 2025 High Overall Division National Championship win, its fourth such title.
• Credits Head Coach Marty Fischer, a Georgia Southern alumnus, for leading the team.
• Resolves that the House congratulates the team and wishes it continued success.
• Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a copy available for distribution to the team.

1. 2025-03-25House Read and Adopted (House)
2. 2025-03-25House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-03-25House Hopper (House)

• James Burchett (R, HD-176)Primary sponsor
• Lehman Franklin (R, HD-160)
• Brad Thomas (R, HD-021)
• Jon Burns (R, HD-159)

• Georgia Southern University
• college sports
• clay target shooting
• legislative commendation