Tom Ruck will help launch Drury's Shooting Sports program by serving as head coach as the team launches in the 2017-18 school year. Ruck is from Chesterfield, Missouri, and has more than 40 years experience as an instructor and competitor. He was a member of USA Shooting's international skeet shooting team and been a medalist at the state, regional and national level in several disciplines of shooting competitions.
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"The opportunity to start at the ground-floor and build this program is one of the things that made this an attractive opportunity," said Ruck. "With the support of Drury's athletics department, it has the chance to be very successful. I've always enjoyed working with young people and I'm looking forward to teaching people the things that have taken me 40 years to learn in this sport."
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Ruck has earned multiple All-American honors in skeet shooting, and sporting clays and is a certified instructor with the National Sporting Clays Association, the National Skeet Shooting Association and FITACS, the international form of sporting clays. Ruck has spent his professional career in the printing industry and is currently the president of Office Systems, Inc., in the St. Louis area.
