One day when Skye Hoyer was about 10 years old, his dad took him into the backyard and began flinging clay pigeons for him to shoot. Hoyer thought it was pretty fun, and when he made it to middle school he fell in love with trap shooting.

Hoyer is a force to be reckoned with on the SCC shooting sports team. At the Tiger 450 at Fort Hays State, he broke 90 targets in Super Sporting to claim High Male honors, as well as 89 targets to tie teammate Drew Cunningham for High Male in Sporting Clays. He finished the shoot with a total of 406/450 to claim High Male overall for the Bobcats. At the Tech Tiger Shootout the following weekend, Hoyer finished as top shooter in Doubles Skeet (95) and Sporting Clays (83), and claimed a second-straight High Male overall with 358 targets broken.

Hoyer also shot at two USA Shooting events this year. He traveled to Michigan for a shoot in July, and traveled to Colorado Springs three weeks ago for the fall qualifying match.

At the Colorado Springs event, he broke 227 targets out of 250, good enough for a ninth place finish. If he had finished in eighth, he would have gone into a shoot-off for a spot in the finals for a chance to be on the USA Shooting Team.

"I just try to completely turn my brain off and just focus," Hoer said. "I just try to always be positive. I think that's the biggest thing is a positive mental attitude, or PMA as I like to call it."

The second year student from Crete studies Welding, and hopes to continue working as a welder and millwright after graduation. His main goal, however, is to keep shooting and make the Team USA international shotgun team someday. He's even considering trying out for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Hoyer likes talking to his teammates and even his competitors, and enjoys how shooting sports is a social sport. He says that the sport has positively affected his mental health in several ways, including his positive mindset.

"Bobcats Do More tells me that at SCC we do more than just the bare minimum," Hoyer said. "We go above and beyond and make our two years at this school mean something, either by working hard in the classroom, lab, or while you're competing in your sport."

His biggest inspiration is Vincent Hancock, a four-time Olympic gold medalist in skeet shooting.