Who is Jace Walters???
Jace grew up at motocross tracks thanks to his older brother Fin who raced pretty much every single weekend. Jace started riding at 3, but had to wait till he turned 4 to be allowed to race. During the 8 years Jace raced, he was better than average winning series championships in motocross, flat track and off-road racing.
In 2017 Jace added competitive archery to his calander and started competing in the Ohio Archers Association (Ohio NFAA Series), finishing 3rd in the shooter of the year in the 11 and under male bow hunter class. After having watched a video of Matt Stutzman 'The Armless Archer', Jace then decided that he wanted to become the best archer in the world. Well, he started off being the best in the state in 2018 by winning 3 (Ohio) State - Shooter of the Year awards as well as competing in his first National event.
Because of Jace's love of competing, in November 2018 after his dad lost his job of 15 years he started up his own yard service business called www.JaceWaltersRakingAndMORE.com with his dads help. Jace did this in order to help his parents pay for his archery competitions, that's because Jace knew there would have to be a lot of cutbacks on spending like his archery. Today Jace and his dad still work this yard service business together, and use it to fund Jace’s competitive shooting dreams.
Jace did his first leaf raking jobs borrowing a rake and tarp, did a few more jobs then bought his own. The next purchase was a leaf blower and 150 feet of extension cord to be able to do bigger leaf raking jobs. Now Jace's additional 'and MORE!' jobs include Gutter Cleaning, Grass Cutting, Trimming / Edging, Cleaning Up After Your Pets, Picking Up Sticks, Weed Pulling, Spreading Mulch, Snow Shoveling, Holiday Light Take Down & Setup and MORE!
The following year in 2019, Jace earned his first archery national podium at the First Dakota Class in Yankton, SD; and then earned another two national podiums that year. In the years to follow Jace traveled all around Ohio, the U.S.A and Canada competing and earning multiple state, national and international awards.
Because of an archery related injury that began in the early spring of 2022, Jace had more time to practice with his firearms. And what do you know, he wasn't half bad shooting a pistol. That turned out to be a good thing to know, since Jace was forced to hangup his bow at the end of 2022 to avoid long-term damage to his arm.
In 2023 (and again in 2024) Jace won the Glock GSSF - CMP National Challenge (Junior Division) at CMP Camp Perry Ohio. With Jace's continued improvement and success with firearms, the decision was made to attend the 2023 Glock Annual Challenge at CMP Talladega, Alabama. That was a wise decision as Jace finished on 5 of the 10 amateur podiums, and won the Amateur Civilian Division by finishing 1st out of 134 and became a Glock Master Class Shooter at the age of 15.
In 2024 Jace began competiting in the Scholastic Action Shooting Program, this was done so that Jace could interact with other youth competitors like he had done for years in archery. In his first year Jace proved to be the number one centerfire pistol shooter in the State of Ohio, and earned Runner-Up divisional National Champion in Centerfire Pistol Iron.
To become a more rounded competitor in firearms as he was in archery, Jace was looking for firearms related training that he could attend. At the age of 16, Jace became the youngest Glock Certified Armoror. Now Jace has the knowledge to work on his and his dad's Glocks.
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