West Palm Beach, FL – Happy Day Creations and Quail Creek Plantation have joined together with Susan G. Komen South Florida to present the 2015 Think Pink Fun Shoot and needs one hundred women to join them in the fight against breast cancer. The inaugural event, scheduled for Saturday, October 17, 2015, at Quail Creek Plantation in Okeechobee, will be the first of its kind in Florida. This fun, fund-raising clay shooting event, benefitting Susan G. Komen South Florida, encourages women of all shooting skill levels to enjoy a day together, celebrating all things pink!
From the special pink clay stations to the lunch meal, this event has been in the planning stages since the Blazing Berretta Babes shooting team started attending events together three years ago. The foursome has entered and attended many fun shoots over the years that were “manly” in design and featured raffle prizes, trophies, prize categories and sponsors primarily for men.
“It makes perfect sense that most clay shooting events have focused on men, as the majority of shooters are men, but times are changing. Bettina, Connie, Carole and I kept talking about the fact that we were competing against mostly men; men that had been shooting for decades, and often times, were professional instructors. We envisioned an event that would recognize and celebrate women involved in sporting clays” said Lyn Cacella, Chairman of the 2015 Event. “The sport is certainly male-dominated, and we love shooting with the guys. This is an event for both. The 2015 Think Pink Fun Shoot event is designed to encourage women to come out and have some fun with her gal pals and the men in her life. A fun, female-focused fundraiser… it’s a guns and roses kind of thing.”
Sporting Clays originated in the 1920’s in Great Britain for the purpose of teaching wing shooting skills to wealthy sportsmen. In the last seventy years, it has expanded worldwide and is recognized not only as a system for teaching shooting skills, but also as a tournament sport and one of the major recreational target shooting sports.
Female participation in sporting clays tournaments is growing faster than any other competitive shooting sport in America. Research by the National Sporting Goods Association shows female participation in target shooting grew by 46.5% between 2001 and 2010. An October 2011 Gallup Poll found 23 percent of women own a gun, and according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, female participation in hunting has grown by almost 37 percent.
For more information, or to register for the event, visit HappyDayCreations.com or contact Lyn Cacella – 561.628.4824/Lyn.Cacella@gmail.com.
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