Students from four schools throughout the Carbon District participated in the National Archery in School Program’s (NASP) World Championships that were held in Daytona Beach, Florida June 6-8. Students from Castle Heights Elementary, Creekview Elementary, Mont Harmon Middle School, and Carbon High School.
The season for archery starts in October and runs till June. In recent years archery has taken off at local schools and that can be attributed to the great “feeder” programs that start at the elementary level. Coach Tom Lasslo of Mont Harmon and assistant coach Cheyenne Slaughter from Carbon High were guests on KOAL’s Drive Time Sports and talked about the support they have from coaches in the area and what it took to get a Carbon team together for the competition at Worlds.
“It starts in the elementaries, there are some great elementary coaches, and you’ve got Kyle Hanson over at Castle Heights who really feeds it, and then you have Miss Jackie over at Creekview and Jeff Christensen has helped out a lot at Creekview. They feed us really well with good shooters to start and we just try to work with them and fine-tune them.” Lasslo said.
Slaughter talked about putting a team together for the first time to attend Worlds.
“We had 15 archers in total, we had 14 shoot 3D and 15 shoot in bullseye, and I asked the kids earlier in the season if any of them would be interested in going to Worlds and I had a little bit of interest, and then all of a sudden I had tons of kids and I said okay we’re going as a team. They qualified as individuals because we weren’t allowed to take them as a team, so once we had 12 individuals, they represented a team because we needed 12 kids to be a team basically.”
The archers from Mont Harmon earned a pair of second-place finishes in both the bullseye and 3D competitions, finishing second out of 47 items in 3D, and second out of 36 teams in bullseye.
In the 3D shoot, Joe Christensen scored 290 points to earn 21 place out of 927 archers. Layna Pitcher scored 285 ranking 29 out of 823 and Jantz Greenhalgh scored 284 to finish 62 out of 927 competitors.
Joel Seeley earned 285 points to finish 107 out of 1431 archers in the bullseye competition. Pitcher scored 282 putting her at 103 out of 1265 archers, and Greenhalgh earned 281 points ranking him 184 out of 1431.
For the Carbon Dinos, they earned a second-place finish in the 3D competition with Lexi Cowley shooting a 290 to place 12 out of 823 participants. Maggie Truman was close behind with 288 putting herself in 22 place, Spencer Pitcher collected 285 points putting him in 57 place out of 927 archers in the boy’s category.
In the bullseye shoot, Carbon finished 13 out of 41 teams. Pitcher scored 294 points finishing in ninth out of 1431. Bayleigh Sinclair earned 291 points on her way to 15 place out of 1265 archers in the girl’s division, and Bracken Hansen scored 286 finishing 91 out of 1431.
Castle Heights had a great showing as well earning 13 place out of 34 in bullseye and 12 out of 26 in 3D.
Creekview earned 14 out of 26 in the 3D shoot.
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