Eagles build premier program, take home SCISA state title again

WINNSBORO – Richard Winn Academy’s sporting clay team once again beat the odds and raised the bar(rel) higher, this time at the Governor’s Cup Youth Sporting Clay Open in Edgefield. The Governor’s Cup not only is the Department of Natural Resources (DNR)’s final event of the year, but it also serves as the state championship […]

Back on the Podium

GEORGETOWN – Eagle shooters Dani Goings, left, Abby Lewis and Ella Grace Harrison returned to the podium at Backwoods Quail Club. The Senior 1st Year team finished in third place with a score of 219. Harrison shot 83, Lewis shot 78 and Goings shot 58. Harrison’s score was third highest overall in her division. Eagle […]

Back on Target

LANCASTER – Shooting in the Senior First Year division, the Richard Winn team of Abby Lewis, Dani Goings and Ella Grace Harrison pulled a third place podium finish on Saturday in Lancaster. Harrison shot 86, which tied her for second overall; Lewis finished individually in 6th place with an 82 and Goings, a senior rookie, […]

Eagle girls clinch first state title, program’s second in 2 years

SOCIETY HILL – In just five short years, the Richard Winn Shooting Team has boomed, both literally and figuratively. On Sat., April 2, the twenty-five member team, ten coaches, parents, friends and family members traveled to Moree’s Sportsman’s Preserve and Sporting Clays in Society Hill for the SCISA State Championship competition. There were 19 schools […]

Eagles pull 1st, 3rd place in Edgefield

EDGEFIELD – Richard Winn’s shooting team competed in the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Sporting Clay Championship in Edgefield on March 13. Two varsity teams stood atop the podium at the end of the day. The Senior Ladies team of Abby Lewis, Mikaela Miller and Ella Grace Harrison placed first out of ten teams. […]

Eagles end season with hardware

GEORGETOWN – Richard Winn’s JV Advanced team (above) of Miller Stuck, left, Connor Little and Brice Clowney placed third in last week’s Back Woods Quail Club State Championship in Georgetown. Clowney and Little both shot 95 and Stuck shot 92 for a team score of 282, just five out of first place. Pictured below, TJ […]

Clyburn signs with Clemson

WINNSBORO – Last week, Richard Winn student Sam Clyburn, center, signed with Clemson University’s shotgun team. Clyburn is a part of the three-man team that clinched the Eagle program’s first state title in April. Clyburn, pictured with his parents Cindi and Scott, will join Eagle alumni Carson Stuck and Ansley Parker on the Clemson Shotgun […]

Eagles clinch first state title

SOCIETY HILL, SC – Moree’s Sportsman’s Preserve in Society Hill, SC, was the site of the SCISA Sporting Clay State Championship on April 17. It was then and there that the Richard Winn Shooting Team literally hit their mark of excellence. In four short years from the time Head Coach Scott Clyburn established Richard Winn’s […]

Eagles Honor Seniors

WINNSBORO – Richard Winn honored senior athletes on their clay shooting team before Tuesday night’s baseball game. Pictured on the front row, from left, are Austin Robinson, Johnson Hagood, Ethan Dean, Sam Clyburn, Sam Cathcart, Joey Banister, Sammy Banister and Mason Adams. Not pictured: Meredith Pope.

Eagles Look Sharp

RICHBURG – Richard Winn shooters Berry Bonds, Sam Clyburn and Matt Tate finished second of 46 teams in the Senior Advanced division at Rocky Creek Sporting Clays over the weekend. Bonds scored 99, Clyburn 94, and Tate 93 for a team score of 286, just two spots out of first place. Bonds was the highest […]