Williamsburg, KY – Daviess County Gun Club located in Maceo, Kentucky, minutes from Downtown Owensboro, recently hosted the Kentucky S3DA Owensboro Archery Club 3D Regional Tournament. Over two-hundred archers representing 18 S3DA Teams from across the state of Kentucky met to compete and qualify for the Kentucky S3DA 3D State Championship coming up in June in London, Kentucky. Archers definitely brought their best game as there were two shoot-offs to determine podium placement. This was Daviess County Gun Club’s second year hosting the 3D regional qualifier and the largest attendance to date. Cedarstix Archery and Outdoors donated a Mathews V3X for a raffle.

Kentucky S3DA Regional Coordinator and Owensboro Archery Club Coach, Adam Logsdon stated, “We had the largest turnout to date - post covid and it was great to see everyone come out. We had a few archers that shot from a new team that just joined the program, Ohio County Archery Club. I love seeing the archery community grow throughout the state and it makes me excited for the future of the program.”

Stella Dowdy, an archer from Western Kentucky Bowhunters has been participating in S3DA for two years now. Stella began shooting between 6 to 7 years old in the program at her church. Stella said, “I really enjoyed the course this weekend and I want to shoot it again. A few of the shots were hard, especially target #20. The shot was twenty yards, and the deer was located over a little rise in a hill. You couldn’t see the legs of the deer, which made the target appear more difficult. I felt confident with my range finder, and though the target made me nervous, it didn’t affect my overall score. I did well enough to take first place within my division.”

“I loved how the course was set-up. I liked how we had uphill and downhill shots and how the yardages were spread out. Having the targets spread out like they were provides not only a tough competition but prepares us for 3D events on down the road,” stated Annabell Jackson, a youth archer from Owensboro Archery Club.

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About Scholastic 3-D Archery

Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) is a unique, family-oriented youth archery program which has grown exponentially across the United States as a next-step initiative to follow introductory archery programs. The mission of the Scholastic

3-D Archery program is to foster, educate and guide youth in the areas of 3D, indoor target, and outdoor target archery as well as safe, ethical bowhunting practices. The goal of the S3DA program is to provide archery and bowhunting opportunities to youth in after-school settings, as well as with archery-affiliated clubs and businesses in the community. S3DA youth participate in 3-D and target archery using compound and traditional archery equipment. Youth members can participate at regional, state and national archery events and earn college scholarships from colleges and universities across the United States. 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 youth archers.

Contact the Scholastic 3-D Archery National Office at:

www.s3da.org or 410 Sycamore Street, Williamsburg, KY 40769, Ph: 606.524.3685

Media contact Kayla Bolton at kayla@s3da.org, Ph: 423.494.2204