WEYBURN - Legendary former trap shooter Rod Boll of Fillmore was inducted into the Trap Shooting Hall of Fame in Illinois in a recent ceremony.
Terry Boll and her sons Schon and Shandra, formerly of Fillmore and now of Fairview, Mont., and Kahl Boll of Regina, travelled to Sparta, Ill., for the 2023 Grand American Trap Shooting competition held at the Trap Shooting Hall of Fame.
A banquet and ceremony was held on Aug. 8 at the World Shooting Recreational Complex Event Center, to honour Rod Boll’s induction to the Hall of Fame.
There were four inductees this year, two from Canada, with Pat Lamont of Manitoba being the other Canadian. Schon and Kahl made the presentation to Terry on behalf of their father, Rod. His name will be added to the elite list of the legendary pioneers of the sport.
He had been inducted to the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 2021. Boll represented Canada at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta, Ga., where he tied for 19th with a score of 130 out of 150 in the men’s double trap competition, as the double trap made its Olympic debut.
He was a team member of the Canadian National ‘A’ team from 1993 to 2005, won a team gold and individual bronze at the Pan-American Games in Beunos Aires in 1995, and he won four gold, one silver and five bronze ISSF medals.
In the World Cup for trapshooting, Boll won an individual gold and team silver in Cuba in 1994; team bronze in Lima, Peru, in 1995; and individual bronze in Lima in 1996. In World Cup finals, he came home with bronze in Monticatini, Italy, in 1996, and at the Championships of the Americas, he won bronze in Puerto Rico in 2005.
At the Canadian International Trapshooting Championship, he won gold in double trap four times, in 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2006; four silver medals, in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998; and four bronze medals, in 1993, 1999, 2001 and 2002.
Boll won 23 major championships with the Canadian Trapshooting Association, and is one of only two shooters to win the “Big Five”, which includes singles, doubles, handicap, high all around and high overall at the CTA Championship since its inception in 1956.
