Tuesday, November 22, 2016

S3DA To Offer Outdoor Target Archery

Louisville, KY - In order to completely align the Scholastic 3-D Archery tournament series with USCA, S3DA will now be offering students the opportunity to compete in Outdoor Target archery. The S3DA format will be a combination of NFAA/USCA/S3DA and will be a half round of 30 arrows at NFAA distances with a USCA-style "head-to-head" competition for the championship.

"This year is an exciting one for University of the Cumberlands," said Kris Strebeck, Head Archery Coach at the University of the Cumberlands. "We will be hosting a Collegiate Outdoor Regional in April and then the S3DA Outdoor Nationals in July. This is great opportunity for Scholastic 3-D Archery to continue growing and helping young archers to pursue a different styles of archery. S3DA added an indoor element last year and now is adding an outdoor element this year. All of the styles are the same offered by collegiate archery programs. This will allow students to get a feel for what it's like at the next level."

Adding this competition style to the S3DA program completes the trio of tournaments that will help to prepare S3DA students for collegiate archery. This addition connects the final dot for S3DA students with professional archery organizations and extends the archery season further into the summer allowing more time and opportunity for young archers to continue shooting throughout the year.

"Adding outdoor target archery effectively rounds-out Scholastic 3-D Archery's competitive genres." said Cody Kirby, Head Archery Coach at Union College. "This will expose S3DA students to a critical part of competitive college archery that they may have never participated in before. This will only make S3DA students more attractive recruits to collegiate programs across the United States."

Started in December 2012 by the Scholastic Archery Association, S3DA has grown exponentially as a next step program to follow introductory programs offered as part of 4-H or the National Archery in Schools Program. S3DA addresses the need for a program to bridge beginning target archery experience and more advanced activities such as 3-D shooting and bowhunting. The program currently operates across the United States with hundreds of certified coaches serving thousands of young
archers, grades 3–12.
For more information on S3DA membership go to: WWW.S3DA.ORG or email: S3DArchery@gmail.com
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