Kansas City Crushers' mission is to provide a shooting foundation focused on building fundamental skills and gun safety. The team offers a place for kids to fit in, build self-confidence, and develop the mental skills needed to be successful in life. We encourage parents to cultivate relationships with their kids through participation and involvement with the team. Our desire is to make lasting memories for families. The team continually strives to be good ambassadors for shooting sports in the community.

SCTP provides student athletes aged elementary through college with a supportive environment where shooting sports serve as catalysts for teaching life lessons and skills that emphasize positive character traits and citizenship values. Throughout all training, practice and competitions, we continue to instill in our participants a commitment to safe firearm handling, teamwork and leadership. Read more about SCTP.

In our program, we teach trap, skeet, and sporting clays shooting to all levels of athletes. Each discipline provides its own unique challenges and requires its own skill set.

In trap shooting, clay targets (also called clay pigeons) are launched into the air from a single "house" or machine.

In skeet shooting, clay targets are launched from two houses in somewhat sideways paths that intersect in front of the shooter.

Sporting clays includes a more complex course with multiple shooting stations arranged over natural terrain. This is sometimes described as "golf with guns".

Once beginning shooters become comfortable with handling their shotguns, we encourage them to try all three disciplines. Shooters typically develop a favorite discipline over time.

Our program is made up athletes with a variety of skill levels.

Some participants are interested in learning to shoot and want to try the sport. For those new to the sport, athletes will learn about safety and the basics of target shooting. They are not expected to shoot in any competitions.

Participants who want to advance their skills, shoot multiple disciplines, and compete locally and/or nationally will participate in our CrushIt! program and will compete in monthly competitions, SCTP State and Regional events, SCTP Nationals and the AIM Grand.

Our season begins on February 22, 2025, weather permitting. Practices will wrap up in late May and the competition season officially concludes in late July with the SCTP Nationals held at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, OH and AIM Grand, held in Sparta, IL.

Our practice schedule will be made up of 2 classroom sessions, 8 field practices, and 1 fun shoot. The competition schedule will have one shoot per month per discipline (not including the month of Regionals), SCTP State shoots per discipline, SCTP Regionals and Nationals, AIM Grand, and additional NSCA, NSSA, ATA and AIM events.

Team practice locations and times are as follows:

Trap Team
Friday nights from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Cedar Hill Gun Club, Baldwin City, KS

Clay Target Fundamentals, Sporting Clays, Skeet, and limited Trap Teams
Saturday mornings from 9:00 AM to Noon
Powder Creek Shooting Park, Lenexa, KS

Kansas City Crushers started in 2011 after our original head coach, Scott Moniot, moved to the Kansas City area from Iowa. Scott’s son Clay had been a member of a Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) team in Iowa and was looking for a team to join.

The family checked with Powder Creek Shooting Park to determine whether they had a youth clay target team, but the facility only had a trap team at the time. So the Moniots took matters into their own hands and started a team. Read more about our history.