Tad Dean, freshman-heavy Connors State team win ACUI Collegiate Clay Target national title

  • Tad Dean helped lead Connors State College to a shotgun sports championship as a freshman.
    Tad Dean helped lead Connors State College to a shotgun sports championship as a freshman.

    WARNER - Tad Dean didn’t know what to expect, but he knew what others expected out of him and his team.

    Connors State College’s shotgun shooting sports team entered the 2023 ACUI Collegiate Clay Target Championships in San Antonio without much experience at the event. Of the junior college’s 18 team members, 14 were freshmen. Even for a Division 4 program, which consists of two-year colleges, that’…