LONE STAR SELECT SHOOTING TEAM
MEET THE COACHES
Ron Ingels, Head Coach
Head Coach Ron Ingels founded LSSST in July 2020. Ron has coached for Ridge Point High School, taught karate and has coached other youth sporting teams throughout his career. Ron is a master class NSCA shooter, Certified NSCA Level III instructor, and also on the board of Texas Sporting Clay Association (TSCA) and chairs the youth shooting committee.
Shyuemin Pang, Skeet Coach
Shyuemin joined the Lone Star Select Shooting Team in 2021 and has been actively coaching normal practices and doing private lessons for the team. He started coaching in 2015 and became a level III NSSA (skeet) coach in 2023. He is now working on his NSCA (sporting) coaching certifications and completed his level I coaching certificate in 2024. Outside of LSSST, Shyuemin also serves as a SCTP State Advisor and a Range Day trainer. He has been certifying Texas SCTP coaches in Houston, Austin, and Dallas since 2021. Shyuemin really enjoys being part of the LSSST family and he is excited to continue his coaching journey with the Lone Star team!
Wade Berger, 4-H Coach
Wade has been coaching youth shooting sports athletes since 2018. The first team he coached with was the Katy Dusters. In 2019, he became the head coach for the Greater Houston Katy Dusters team. His goals as a coach are to teach young athletes how to safely handle and respect firearms, learn to be competent in the shooting sports, and help them understand that with discipline and practice there are no boundaries to what they can attain in both shooting sports and more importantly, life.
Austin Kiemsteadt, Assistant Coach
Austin began shooting sporting clays in 2016 for Coach Ron on the Ridge Point High School FFA team. Since then, Austin has earned many accolades in the NSCA, including 4x Open All-American status, 2x Team USA Sporting Clays, and 2020 Team USA FITASC. Austin became certified as a NSCA Level I Instructor in 2021, and is excited for the opportunity to help LSSST team members improve their abilities in the sport.
Dominic Grossi, Assistant Coach
Dominic has been a member of the U.S. Sporting Clays Team for eight consecutive years and has won over a dozen medals in international competition, including six World Sporting Clays Championship medals and eight World FITASC Championship medals. He’s also recently served as the President of the Texas A&M Trap & Skeet Team and helped lead them to their first Division I National Championship. Dominic attributes his success to his approach and technique and is excited to share his knowledge with the Lone Star Select Shooting Team.
RJ Mehnert, Assistant Coach
RJ started shooting in 2002 and has been a member of Greater Houston Sports Club since 2005. RJ competed in Skeet in 2005-2006. In 2012-2013, and after a five-year layoff, he switched from shooting skeet to shooting sporting clays. RJ has competed in sporting clays for the past 5 years and is a master class shooter as well as being a NSCA Level I Instructor. He will be conducting monthly lessons as well as assisting at practices!
Grace Mabry, Assistant Coach
Grace began shooting in 2018 for Coach Ron on the Ridge Point High School FFA team. Since then, she has become a Master Class shooter, been named to the NSCA Lady All-American Team 3 consecutive years, and become a certified NSCA Level I Instructor. Some of her other accomplishments include being a 2-time member of the Texas A&M Trap and Skeet National Champion Team, several podium finishes in NSCA Championship Tour events in the Lady concurrent, earning the 2021 and 2022 GHSC Lady Club Champion titles, as well as the 2022 GHSC HOA Skeet Club Champion title. Grace looks forward to supporting Coach Ron's teaching style and passing her knowledge along to LSSST members!
Ron and the LSSST assistant coaches Dominic Grossi, Shyuemin Pang, Wade Berger, RJ Mehnert, Grace Mabry, Savanna Barks, Blake Bajjali, Cam Dickinson, Connor Smock, and Lane Picklo work diligently helping each student individually to develop and build confident, responsible, and skillful young athletes--building some of the foundations and structures needed in preparing them for life’s challenges. Even though LSSST is only just beginning, we have seen students move up classes in NSCA, win regional and national titles, and win scholarships. Plus, some have moved on to collegiate sporting clay and trap teams and overall are exhibiting an increase in confidence, both in the athletic arena and in their lives outside the sport, and in being responsible young adults within their communities.