Just Ducky: A Scholarship for Duck Calls

If it sounds like a duck, it just might land a scholarship.

Forget all those monetary awards for star athletes, gifted musicians and honor roll students. There is cash out there for young sportsmen and women with well-developed hunting and calling skills.

For more than 30 years, teens from all over the United States have flocked to Stuttgart, Ark., a tiny town of 9,000 just a stone’s throw from Little Rock, to compete for scholastic money. Their expertise: duck calling.

The top prize in the Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest is a $2,000 scholarship.

The Stuttgart contest has handed out more than $60,000 over three decades to young duck callers who went on to attend 32 different colleges and universities scattered across 13 states.

This year’s feather ruffling contest will take place on Nov. 23.

Diane E. Alter

I am a freelance and contributing writer to a variety of publications as well as a factoid and trivia writer for a synidacted news feed. I am also the co-founder of the non-profit Wings for Injured Athletes, www.wingsforinjuredathletes.com.