Thought this was interesting. I'm waiting for a bill to come up in the legislature for my workplace, and was checking out the Senate agenda when I saw this was coming up for a vote on the floor today:
"SJ7 Joint resolution to support shooting competition as a collegiate sport" Fuller-Kalispell
The NCAA calls it Rifle. I don't think there's a hell of a lot of schools that offer Rifle, but this feels like a natural fit in Montana. Plus it's a relatively small team of only 10 athletes. If we needed to add a women's sport this could make sense from a numbers and funding perspective. I would've never thought of this as an option. They could use the shooting range out in Bonner for practice and this really wouldn't be that hard to fund. Just thought it was interesting that this popped up today after we were having this conversation on Friday lol.
It has quite the bipartisan support too. It passed out of the Senate Education Committee on a 14-0 vote.