Annually, more than 200 students from across Carrollton-Farmers Branch participate in the Elks Hoop Shoot Free Throw Contest at R. L. Turner High School. This event has been sponsored for over twenty years in Carrollton-Farmers Branch by the Irving Elks Lodge in conjunction with their Drug Awareness program. Students are selected at their campuses from over 5,200 students participating at twenty-six CFBISD elementary and six middle schools.
In this annual contest, students in all age groups (8-9-year-old boys/girls, 10-11-year-old boys/girls, and 12-13-year-old boys/girls) take twenty-five free throws to see who can make the most baskets, all the while following a very stringent protocol for shooting. The top student in each category continues on from the local level to the district (lodge) level. From there, students can earn the right to compete at the state, regional and national levels.
The National Hoop Shoot Competition is held in Chicago each year in May. Winners from across the country and all fifty states vie to have their name inscribed on the Elks Plaque that is found inside the Basketball Hall of Fame.