Thousands Make Archery Music in Nashville, Tennessee

By Justin Stakes

By: Brittany Jones

Nashville, TN -(AmmoLand.com)- Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee was the place to be July 22-25 as the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) conducted its 2015 world tournament.

Nearly 5,000 student archers from all over the world including; USA, Canada, United Kingdom (UK), South Africa, and Namibia were in town. Archers from these countries got to experience first hand what Nashville country was all about with some cowboy boots, barbecue, country music, and most importantly, archery, as they waited their turn to shoot in the highly contested competition.

The archery tournament started on Wednesday evening and continued through Saturday afternoon. In all, 29 flights of nearly 190 archers per flight competed at NASP distances of 10 and 15 meters. The kids in NASP destroyed the NASP world tournament record as 4,871 actually shot in this year’s world – a 99% increase over the 2,907 archers who attended the event in St. Louis in 2013.

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Source:: AmmoLand