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LINCOLN, Neb. – The final outing of the fall saw Concordia University, Nebraska Shooting Sports take positive steps forward. When the bullets stopped flying at the Southeast Community College Bobcat Invitational over the weekend (Oct. 25-26), high overall (HOA) individual championships were claimed by Bulldogs Devin Harris on the men’s side and Katie Welker on the women’s side. Their efforts led Concordia to a second-place team finish out of the six four-year institutions represented at Lincoln Trap & Skeet Club in Lincoln, Neb., where conditions were overcast and chilly.
Head Coach Dylan Owens’ Bulldogs knocked out 1,382 targets towards the HOA team leaderboard. The SCC Invitational tested athletes in the disciplines of trap, skeet and sporting clays over two days of competition.
“I’m pretty happy with everybody. We had some good scores and multiple personal bests,” Owens said. “It was a pretty fun shoot. They put on a good shoot. It was definitely a positive finish to the fall. We’re seeing things we worked on start to click. We have some people doing better in certain sports than they thought they could. Katie is doing an absolutely fantastic job, trap scores especially. I really hope it carries over to next year. Same thing, Devin has had a good fall season and Kaylee is right there. Their development over the years is taking off.”
In addition to the overall titles won at the SCC Invite by Harris and Welker, first-place honors by discipline were earned by Harris in sporting clays (89), Kaylee Hinton (84) in sporting clays, Sam Blevins in skeet (perfect 100) and Welker in trap (99). In addition, Hinton placed second in skeet (96) and Clayton Gellerman emerged as the men’s runner up in sporting clays (88). The HOA winning scores (out of a possible 300) were 282 for Harris and 276 for Welker. A native of Hamill, S.D., Welker held off Hinton (273; second best HOA among females) for the women’s championship.
From a team perspective, the Bulldogs posted scores of 475 in trap, 484 in skeet and 423 in sporting. Skeet and sporting were contested on day one with action carrying on into darkness. The invite resumed with trap on the morning of day two. On the HOA team leaderboard, Concordia placed behind only Midland University (1,409) among four-year institutions. The Bulldogs defeated Wichita State University (1,357), the University of Nebraska (1,356), Hastings College (1,275) and Oklahoma Panhandle State University (1,221).
In addition to Harris (282), Concordia’s top HOA shooters were Gellerman (278), Welker (276), Hinton (273) and Blevins (271). Eight Bulldogs cracked at least 250 targets. Gellerman wound up tying for the sixth best HOA total among men’s athletes in the field.
Welker put together an impressive fall that also saw her win an HOA women’s title at the Midland Invite and place as the HOA women’s runner up at the Prairie Circuit Conference Championships. Welker and her teammates now have a chance to decompress and gear up for the spring portion of the 2025-26 season.
Said Owens, “We’re excited to get a little bit of a rest. We’ve been doing this for eight weeks straight. We’ll have some individual meetings and plan for the spring … We have wonderful parents. Their support and care throughout the year really makes a difference. One of our parents has a trailer that’s used for our team meals. I’m really happy the team notices it too. Not all schools have that support. That love is felt and really appreciated.”
The next event on the schedule is the annual Concordia Bulldog Sporting Invitational. The home shoot is set for Feb. 27-28 at Oak Creek Sporting Club in Brainard, Neb. There will be two events in the spring semester prior to the 2026 ACUI Collegiate Clay Target National Championships (March 15-21) in San Antonio, Texas.