Youth’s Shine at Archery League
By: Jenna Heil
Whale-Tales Archery Prostaff
Now that the weather is getting nicer, most kids are thinking about baseball and soccer. One sport not to forget about is archery. Get involved in leagues and shoots this summer to keep your archery skills sharp.
Whale-Tales Archery just wrapped up their spring kids league session. It consisted of about 18+ shooters. Everybody starts off at 10 yards, you shoot 3 arrows per round for 10 rounds. The target scoring goes like this: 10 is the yellow, 9 is the blue, and so on and so forth. You need a 270 out of 300 to pass to get a pin, then you can move on to the next yardage, but you also have a choice of staying at that yardage to win a tee-shirt for shooting a perfect 300. After finishing 10 yards, then you would move on to 15 yards and then 20 yards.
There were two archers that stood out from the rest who shot a perfect 300 score, at 10 yards, and were 1st to win the tee-shirts. The two archers were Cedric Hong, and a girl I interviewed in one of my other articles, Kat Vermilyea. She has come a long way in archery to shoot a perfect score after only 7 weeks. We are very proud of both of them!
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The new summer archery camp starts June 13th at 1:00 for 6 weeks. Sign up to today for lots archery fun. For more info check on: http://www.whaletalesarchery.com/kids-archery-league.asp.
For more advanced shooters you should sign up for the spot league. It starts June 4th for 7 weeks. You can come in and shoot any time during open hours and turn in your score for that week. Shooting spots is a great way to work on your form and constancy. But always remember to not let the little white spots get stuck in your head. It’s not as easy as it looks! For more info check on: http://www.whaletalesarchery.com/spot-archery-league.asp.
Archery is also a fun sport to be in! Just remember you have to stay involved and keep practicing to “shoot you way to bullsyes.”