Mark Zauhar
Lakeville, MN
Elected: 2010
Shooting Member
Supporting Member
 Mark
is being inducted into our Hall of Fame in both the shooting and
contributor categories. Mark’s ATA record began in 1988 when he
registered 200 targets at the Minneapolis gun club. From that
first experience, the hook was set. To date, Mark has registered
over 100,000 singles, 91,000 handicap, and 75,000 doubles. Mark
reached the 27 yard line in 1996 at Eau Clair, Wisconsin; he
became a AA singles shooter in 2000, earned his AA27AA pin in
2002, and became AAA shooter in 2005. Mark was our state handicap
champion in 2005. In 2007, he earned his Grand Slam when he broke
100 doubles at the Nebraska State shoot. In 2008, Mark earned a
spot on the men’s All American team.
Mark was first
elected to the MTA Board in 2005 as Vice-President. He was elected
President in 2006 and has served in that capacity for the last
five years, the longest consecutive term in our history. During
Mark’s years on the board, our association has seen significant
changes. We have a mission statement, goals and objectives, and
have aggressively pursued additional forms of funding. As a
result, our bank account has grown ten fold, our youth shooting
program has experienced an annual ten percent a year growth, and
we have sponsored the first and second annual high school state
championships. We are in the process of establishing a tax exempt
non-profit organization for our youth program that will greatly
enhance our fund raising. A new membership dues program was
initiated to help increase our new member rate. We have seen our
relationship with the Alexandria Shooting Park stabilized and we
have rewritten our by-laws. Mark initiated the concept and then
teamed with Representative Dave Dill to begin the work of
developing a new, metro area, all purpose shooting facility. We
have twice yearly member newsletters to improve our membership
communication. Mark also wrote regular TRAP and FIELD articles for
several years to further the communication within our association.
Besides
trapshooting, Mark enjoys hunting and has harvested nineteen of
the North American twenty-eight big game animals, including all
four of the mountain sheep, hunting’s “Grand Slam.” Mark’s
favorite memory in trap shooting was the year his daughter Kelsey
won a shootoff against Nora Martin at the Grand American, under
the lights, and earned her twenty-seven yard pin in the process.
Second would be his perfect hundred from twenty-seven yards during
the Florida State shoot.
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