Posted August 3, 2015 1:56 pm by Comments

By Justin Stakes

National Archery in the Schools Program

By: Brittany J. Jones

National Archery in the Schools Program

Nashville, TN -(AmmoLand.com)- Try on these shoes: Imagine you are shooting five arrows for $20,000. You aren’t an adult professional archer, but a high school student.

Nearly 3,000 friends, family, and strangers are looking on. Some are rooting for you and some are for the archer standing five feet to your left or right. This is the scenario faced by the top five boys and top five girls each year, during the awards ceremony at the NASP National Tournament in Louisville, Kentucky.

For more than 10 years, NASP has been affording student archers opportunity to pay for post high school, college, university, or trade school education expenses. Scholarship winners are determined during the awards ceremony as the top 5 boys and top 5 girls each shoot another 5 arrows for score, at 15 meters. These ten archers were chosen from among the 12,045 participants at the 2015 NASP Nationals. After the 2015 shoot-off, each boy and girl in 1st place was awarded $20,000 in cash scholarship, the 2nd place pair each received $15,000, 3rd place earned $10,000, 4th place $5,000, and the 5th place boy and girl were awarded $2,500. This amounted to …read more

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