Allmand earns Hill Adams Youth Service Award, inducted into NSCA Hall of Fame

By Editor | November 1, 2023

Pearsall’s Tommy Allmand has been inducted into the National Sporting Clay Association Hall of Fame as a recipient of the Hill-Adams Service Award for significant contributions to the involvement and development of youth shooters in sporting clays and the NSCA on October 26.
Tommy has served youth in sporting clays at the grassroots level for over 30 years and is best known for his work with the Texas 4-H program. He has been a coach for Frio County 4-H since 1991, state 4-H Match Director and target setter since 2020, and instructor for 4-H coaching workshops for 20 years, and a leader in 4-H Whiz-Bang. He has set sporting clays targets for the National 4-H Championships for the past three years.
In addition to his work with 4-H, Tommy has served on the San Antonio Rodeo Junior Shoot-Out Committee as Chairman of Field Operations since it started 12 years ago and assisted with the Waco Heart of Texas Fair and Rodeo youth shoot for several years. He hosts youth shooting mini-camps around the state. He’s currently a Level 1 NSCA Certified Instructor working toward Level 2.
The former trapshooter started shooting sporting clays in 1990. He had the good fortune to be a student used for instructor training in an NSCA Level 3 course taught by Roger Silcox and learned many lessons he still uses in his teaching today.

He also learned from Charlie Wilson, a former recipient of this award, working with him on TPWD Whiz-Bang and other programs for many years.
“I’ve had the pleasure to work with many coaches and shooters and have taken a little from each of them,” Allmand said. “I’ve also had the opportunity to work with many people in the 4-H program who have been a big part of me receiving this recognition.
“It takes a great team of volunteers to keep and organization successful.”
In his personal life, Tommy enjoys a career in wireless communications and surveillance systems. He is married to Cherie Allmand and has one daughter, Katie Boatright, two sons, Justin and Luke Allmand and a grandson, Anson Boatright.
“I get the most pleasure out of helping others excel in the sport and helping youth shooters learn the life lessons that can be taught through shooting,” Allmand said. “It could be in the form of coaching a young shooter or helping a group of adults get a new 4-H Club started and teaching them how to move forward and help more kids.”
The NSCA Hall of Fame Committee, appointed by the NSCA Executive Council, is charged to annually nominate those individuals the committee deems worthy of consideration for induction into the NSCA Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame consideration will come from submissions by the NSCA membership and the NSCA Hall of Fame Committee. Any member in good standing with the NSCA may submit a candidate for consideration by the NSCA Hall of Fame Committee.
Hall of Fame candidates are selected from three groups: candidates who have made impressive records shooting; persons who have made significant contributions to the NSCA and the sport (the Hal du Pont Jr. Service Award), and persons who have made significant contributions to the involvement and development of youth shooters in the sport benefiting the NSCA (the Hill-Adams Service Award).
Candidates become eligible for selection after ten years of active membership in the NSCA.

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