2025 EVENT INFORMATION

High Female Shooter - Rachael Brown

High Youth Shooter - Colby Cartwright

Class AAA High Team - Grice Gun Shop

High Overall Shooter - Preston Keister

High Overall Team - KMI

Class A High Team - PGP in Timidators

22nd Annual Shoot for the Magic Benefits Youth Mentoring

The 22nd annual Shoot for the Magic sporting clays competition was held June 6 th at Warriors
Mark Wingshooting Lodge in Ginter, raising over $40,000 for Children’s Aid Society’s Youth Mentoring.

Throughout the competition, 19 teams of four shooters navigated a challenging clays course
and enjoyed a day filled with games of chance, a live auction, awards and great food.
KMI took home the championship with a total team score of 323. In the individual category
Preston Keister took the High Overall Shooter award with a score of 92. High Female Shooter
went to Rachael Brown of the Snappy’s team with a score of 54. Colby Cartwright of the Jr.
Land / Jr. Coal team took home the trophy for High Youth Shooter with a score of 61. The Grice
Gun Shop team came in second place with a score of 302 and took home the Class AAA High Team award.

Since its inception the annual event has raised over $650,000! We couldn’t do this every year
without the continued support of our sponsors, donors, auction item donors, and volunteers who
spend multiple hours planning and those who come out to support us the day of the event.
Many teams, sponsors and volunteers have been involved for 22 years!

2025 major sponsors included:
Gold Sponsors – Grice Gun Shop, CNB Foundation, Inc., Johnson Machine Company, JJ
Powell, Jr. Land / Jr. Coal, Soult Wholesale Company.

Silver Sponsors – Snappy’s, Lezzer Lumber Company

Plans are underway for next year’s event, scheduled for June 5, 2026.

For information on how
to get involved or to learn more about Children’s Aid Society or Youth Mentoring please email
info@childaid.org, call 814-765-2686, or visit us at www.childaid.org.

Gun Raffle winners were: Winchester SXP 12GA Pump Shotgun – Joe Benedek; Ruger Max 9
Compact 9MM – Dave Keen; Howa 1500 – Dean McGonigal; Weatherby Vanguard Obsidian – Mark
Fordyce; Mossberg Silver Reserve 28GA O/U – Frank Kutzer.

The Lottery Board winner was Sue Rose.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE 2026 REGISTRATION FORM

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ABOUT YOUTH MENTORING

Children’s Aid Society has been serving our community through mentoring for over 36 years. Youth Mentoring provides adult mentors for children in need in our community and high school mentors for elementary students through our school-based program. Mentors spend purposeful time with youth focusing on helping them grow in all aspects of their lives. Supporting this program is cost-effective for our community and yields significant positive impacts on the youth served!

We have found that youth matched in the program are:

less likely to start negative habits such as using drugs or drinking.
more likely to be more successful academically and behaviorally in school.
more likely to build trusting relationships with other people such as family members and friends.