ALC Archery Competes in Blizzard Bow Bash
On Saturday, December 6th, Alice Lloyd Archers traveled to Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, to compete in the Blizzard Bow Bash tournament.
The Eagles started their indoor archery season strong this year, and have continued the trend during practice and this outing. In Lawrenceburg, each ALC archer placed in the top three in his/her respective discipline. The group brought home several bronze and silver medals, and a gold medal.
Each Eagle archer that competed set a new personal best, and two school records were set as well. Second year archer, Peyton Dudleson now holds ALC's record for traditional archery, and brought home a gold medal for his efforts at the tournament. Freshman Zachary Caudill now holds the school record for recurve archery and brought home a silver medal.
This season so far, the Eagles have set personal bests at a rate of 82%. They have set/broken 5 school records. Coach Ty Reagan says "this group is demonstrating enormous progress. Last year's archers have developed exponentially from last year and our newcomers started strong and are quickly catching up to the veterans. Almost every archer has set a personal best at each chance to compete, and we've rewritten our school record book in a dramatic way this semester. This group is capable of having the most successful season in our brief history, and I can't wait to watch them achieve great things and push each other and their individual boundaries. They're off to a hot start, I'm excited to watch them continue."
Age Classes:
- Senior: any age
- U21: through the calendar year of an archer's 20th birthday.
Divisions:
- Traditional (Modern Longbow): Recurve or similar bow with a wood riser. Risers must be primarily wood. Limbs may include other materials. Arrow rests are permitted. Stabilizers, sights, plungers, and weights are not permitted. Arrows must be fletched with feathers. Rests may be leather pads attached to the riser. Binoculars, spotting scopes, and coaching are not permitted at the shooting line.
- Barebow: Archers compete with a recurve bow. Archers competing in this discipline may not have a sight or any aiming aid. Archers may not have a stabilizer. Archers may have barebow weights, a plunger, and arrow rest.
- Archers in this discipline rely on the arrow as a sight to aim.
- Recurve: Archers compete with a recurve bow. In addition to plungers and rests, archers competing in this division may have stabilizers of any length, a sight, a clicker, and dampeners and weights. Sights must not be magnified or clarified, and no other marker may be used to assist the archer in aiming (such as nose/kisser buttons). Electronics/lights are not allowed.
- Fixed Pins: Archers competing in this division use a compound bow with a draw weight under 60 pounds. Bows may have a sight with fixed pins. Bows may not have lights, electronics, magnified sights, or clarified peeps. Stabilizers may be no longer than 12 inches in length.
- Compound: Archers competing in this division use a compound bow with a draw weight of under 60 pounds. Bows may be fitted with sights, including magnification and clarification (lights/electronics are not permitted). There is no stabilizer length restriction.