KY NASP Region 2

Coaches, make sure your equipment is ready to go before starting the season! Now is the perfect time and we have some great tips below!

Is it time to dust the bows off and take them off the rack yet?

Final 3D Challenge tournament of the season! Make it a family vacation and visit beautiful Berkeley Springs, WV! All NASP® archers are invited. Visit arrowscores.com or email [email protected] for more information.

Daytona Beach, Florida was home to the final 2024 national-level tournament for the National Archery in the Schools Program. The combined events included 2,970 archers from 39 states competing in the NASP® Championship Tournament held June 6-8, 2024.

Read the full press release here: https://www.naspschools.org/2024championship/

This girl was such a sweetheart and was so excited about her 50. Thanks to all of our Ky kids for showing up and doing our state proud. 2024 NASP National tournament is in the books.

Eastern National Tournament - Parking will cost $12 per entry for cars and $25 for buses. For more parking information and advanced purchasing of passes visit: https://parking.kyexpo.org/

Admission will be $10 per adult, $5 for ages 13-18, and 12 and under will be free. Remember to keep the entry wrist strap because admission covers all 3 days of the event. Registered archers & coaches are free.

Food & Beverage sold on site -- KEC does not allow carry in or coolers inside building. Facility details for Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky can be viewed @ www.kyfairexpo.org

Good Luck to all Kentucky Teams. Remember to inspect those bows and read the tournament rules. We want everyone to have an excellent tournament.

Kentucky to host largest annual school archery tournament in March
About 8,500 student archers will compete for prizes, scholarships

FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 21, 2024) — Kentucky will host the largest annual school archery tournament in the country March 28-30, 2024, when nearly 8,500 student archers from across the state compete in the Kentucky National Archery in the Schools (NASP) State Tournament. Hosted at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville since 2004, the Kentucky tournament is now one of the largest state sporting competitions held anywhere.

Beginning in Kentucky in 2002 with 21 initial schools, the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) has now been adopted by about 9,000 schools across the country. NASP is an in-school program introducing students in grades 4–12 to international-style target archery. Students learn about the sport of archery as part of their school’s curriculum and are then eligible to compete in school-hosted events for the opportunity to participate in state and national tournaments. Each year, more than one million students learn archery, and more than 80,000 compete in NASP tournaments.

One of the oldest sports in the world, humans developed archery for hunting, warfare and recreation. The first bow-shooting competitions took place in China during the Zhou dynasty (1027-256 B.C.). Featured at the Olympics in the early 20th century, archery returned as an Olympic sport in 1972. The 2024 Olympic Games at Les Invalides in Paris, France will include seven days of archery competition.

“Archery is one of the fastest growing sports in the country today with the National Archery in the Schools Program continuing to grow not just in Kentucky but most every state, and a number of other countries,” said Lisa Johnson, state NASP coordinator for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. “NASP provides schools with a sport that is core-content compliant fitting within school curriculum, is naturally inclusive of all types of students and is relatively inexpensive.”

The tournament will provide two distinct competitions – traditional bullseye shooting at a multi-ringed, flat target and 3D shooting on lifelike foam targets in the form of various North American game animals. High-scoring archers will move on to the NASP Eastern Nationals scheduled May 9-11, 2024, at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky.

The 2024 Kentucky NASP state tournament competition will be held in the North Wing, South Wing A-C, and the East Hall, and will include hourly competition flights of teams beginning at 2 p.m. (EDT) on Thursday, March 28, and 10 a.m. (EDT) both Friday and Saturday, March 29-30. Spectator admission is free with parking at $12 per vehicle and $25 per bus.

Elementary, middle and high school student-archers will compete for individual and team honors. The top 15 senior boys and top 15 senior girls will receive $1000 scholarships to the post-secondary school of their choice. Senior academic archers will be eligible for 10 random $500 scholarships drawn throughout the event.

Continuing this year, all Kentucky NASP alumni, coaches, and friends are encouraged to participate in a special “Give Back” activity where they compete with 15 arrows at 10 meters for a chance to win equipment to donate to an archer or school of their choice.

New this year, all Kentucky NASP archers and teams are encouraged to participate in the “Archers Aiming to Reduce Hunger” food drive to benefit Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry and Feeding America Heartland to help target hunger in Kentucky communities. Participating Kentucky NASP archers are asked to bring one item from the following list: any canned meat item such as canned chicken, spam, beef stew or any hamburger helper box item. Kentucky NASP archers and school teams have set a goal of collecting 8,000 food items. To help support this goal, contact [email protected].

Complete state tournament results will be available online at NASP Tournaments. For more information about NASP, visit the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife website at fw.ky.gov, the NASP Schools – National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) webpage, or call the Information Center at 1-800-858-1549, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (EDT) weekdays, excluding holidays.

Welcome Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Hello Everyone!! Can you believe it's almost Spring Break?? And State Tournament time?!!!

Congratulations to all the teams and archers that qualified! The tournament has almost 8,500 archers registered! It's going to be a great event! I just wanted to pass along tournament information and some other opportunities that will be at the event. I apologize for the length of the email, but there's A LOT of great things going on!



Spectator Information

Parking $12/car or $25/bus

Free Admission

Concessions & Vendors on site

*Food & Beverage: KEC does not allow carry in or coolers inside the building. Drink machines are located in the lobby. Food Vendors will be in the lobby outside of Northwing - with a few in the vendor area.



Qualifying Second Teams for Nationals

Schools may only register one team per division at the state tournament. After the state tournament, second team members that have a national qualifying score from a single state qualifier will have an opportunity to post scores in a virtual tournament for a chance to advance to the National Championship. There must be at least 12 second team members (not shooting at state) that can post a state qualifier score of 2500+ for elementary schools, 3000+ for middle schools, or 3100+ for high schools from a single state qualifier. The virtual tournament will post on Monday, April 1st. If you have questions to see if your second team qualified, email [email protected] or call 502-229-1861.



Archer Registration Fees - Bullseye & 3D are separate checks

Archer Bullseye Registration Fee: $35 per registered archer will apply for this event. Bring checks/payments made payable to KY NASP® and present to the registration desk before participation. Place the school name and "Kentucky" in the memo line on all checks.



Archer 3D Challenge Registration Fee: $25 per registered archer will apply for this event. Please bring checks/payments made payable to IBO and present to the registration desk before participation. Place the school name and "Kentucky" in the memo line on all checks.



After-Tournament Target Sale

We only have about 40 left to sell!

The targets used at the Kentucky NASP® State Tournament will be on sale after the tournament. The targets are the standard Morrell Youth Target that has been "beefed up" for the state tournament. They are not recommended for use by a school that is practicing with them daily. They are recommended more for home use or for use at a school-hosted tournament. The targets are able to be re-stuffed as needed. Email [email protected] and provide the name of the person paying or picking up the target, the number of targets requested, and a cell phone number.



Food Drive (can chicken, beef stew, spam, and boxes of Hamburger Helper)!

Kentucky National Archery in the Schools Program is partnering with Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry and Feeding America Heartland to help target hunger in our Kentucky communities. KyNASP® is asking each state tournament participating archer to bring one food item from the list below to donate at the 2024 KyNASP® State Tournament. Items needed: canned meat items (chicken, beef stew, spam) or any hamburger helper box item -name brand or not is fine.



Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland gathers and distributes food in 42 Kentucky counties to feed our neighbors in need through local community partnerships.



Bonus for teams and archers! For every 24 items brought in by a team, the coach will be given a ticket to enter a drawing to win a free box of arrows! A new drawing will be held after every flight. Cool Bullseye decals will be given to each donating archer as supplies last.



March - KY NASP® Coach Appreciation Month

We want to show our coaches some love, so we’ve once again declared March as this year's "KY NASP® Coach Appreciation Month"! If you’d like to recognize your coaching staff, please send a group photo of your coaches to KY NASP® through Facebook Messenger.



We are also celebrating Coach Appreciation Month at the state tournament! Every registration packet will contain tickets for the coaches. Coaches will tear off the stubs and drop them into Bullseye’s bucket at the South podium. At the end of every flight, our mascot, Bullseye, will draw two tickets. We have a bundle of gifts for the coaches with the winning tickets! KY NASP® has amazing coaches, and we want them to know we appreciate them!



Lane Official Video and Rules Document

I know it's titled Lane Official Video - but trust me - every coach should watch this video. Archers and parents should watch this video. Every issue on the range could have been prevented if coaches and archers had watched this video and applied the rules prior to competing. The video is located at Learning Center (naspschools.org). Please review the Kentucky NASP rules document and have your archers and parents review it too. You can find it at https://fw.ky.gov/nasp



Patches and Decals

We will have KY NASP® personal achievement decals available for purchase IN FRONT OF THE SOUTHWING A/B PODIUM during the state tournament! Decals will be $1 each or $5 for bundles of 10 (you create your own bundle!). These decals will have benchmark scores such as 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, and 300.



Tournament patches will also be available at the South Podium for $2 each.

Pictures of the decals and patches are posted on the KY NASP® page.



Online Student Surveys

A booth will be set up near the KY NASP® booth where students may take the online student survey and win free gifts! Please encourage your archers to visit the booth if they have not taken the survey.



We Love our Academic Archers-One per team receives a Bullseye gift!

Each registration packet at the state tournament will contain a neon green ticket. We’re asking each coach to give the ticket to his/her most deserving Academic Archer. The Academic Archer will redeem their ticket at the KyNASP® booth for a stuffed Bullseye and a cool bowcase decal!



Activities and Accommodations in the Area

There are so many things to plan with your archers in the area! Why not take this opportunity and have some additional fun?

https://reservations.arestravel.com/hotel/list/18781/i4420

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Team Photos

Every year we receive so many questions about team pictures that I wanted to share that information with you ahead of time. Starlight Photography will be at the tournament taking event pictures.

8x10s may be purchased for as little as $6 each with a free 8x10 going to the coach.

502-807-2605 or leonard@starlightphoto@gmail.com



Good Sportsmanship

I know many of my emails have mentioned good sportsmanship. I challenge you and your archers to set an example of great sportsmanship and etiquette. We are mentors to young minds and we have an influence on these archers that can last a lifetime. Let's always make sure we are remembered as a positive influence.

Integrity. Honesty. Character. Those are the characteristics NASP® strives to instill and exhibit.



Whew - I know that was a bunch of information all at once! KY NASP® Facebook and our latest KY NASP® Newsletter, found at State Newsletter February 24.cdr (ky.gov) have detailed information about each topic. Please share this information with parents and archers as well. If you need anything before the tournament, or at the tournament, your regional coordinators are available. Region 1: Dave - 270-584-5888 Christie 270-945-3351, Region 2: Tammy 270-537-1351 Danny 859-683-2571, Region 3: Dana 606-465-2730, Region 4: Emily 513-478-8821 Kia 606-307-0703. It's a busy time, best to text Lisa at 502-395-1798



BEST WISHES to everyone at the tournament!!!! See you there :)

Commonwealth of Kentucky

Archers we want to hear from you! 👂

Ask your archery instructor for their link to the 2024 Student Survey so you can anonymously share your experience with NASP®. Your instructor can find the link in their email inbox.📲

More information: https://www.naspschools.org/student-survey/

Instructors, email [email protected], if you can't find the email in your inbox or spam.

Artwork by Cyrus Davenport

State is just around the corner! How do you know if your team or archer will qualify for Nationals? Well, we've got that information for you!
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The Kentucky Exposition Center is a very large facility! Hopefully this handy map will help explain the tournament layout.

Let us know - are you participating?!

Kentucky National Archery in the Schools Program is partnering with Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry and Feeding America Heartland to help target hunger in our Kentucky communities. KyNASP® is asking each state tournament participating archer to bring one food item from the list below to donate at the 2024 KyNASP® State Tournament. Items needed: any canned meat item (chicken, beef stew, spam) or any hamburger helper box item -name brand or not is fine.
Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland gathers and distributes food in 42 Kentucky counties to feed our neighbors in need through local community partnerships.
Bonus for teams and archers! For every 24 items brought in by a team, the coach will be given a ticket to enter a drawing to win a free box of arrows! A new drawing will be held after every flight. Cool Bullseye decals will be given to each donating archer as supplies last.
https://kyhuntersforthehungry.info
https://feedingamericaky.org
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You read correctly! We will have KY NASP® personal achievement decals available for purchase IN FRONT OF THE SOUTH PODIUM during the state tournament!

Decals will be $1 each or $5 for bundles of 10 (you create your own bundle!).

Coaches may still order after the state tournament with additional shipping charges applied. Ordering details will follow after the tournament.

Did you see it?

The 2024 Student Survey is in every active NASP® Basic Archery Instructor's inbox!

Don't miss out on this chance to share archer's feedback.

Can't find the email in your inbox or spam folder? Email [email protected] and she will reply with your link!

Artwork by Megan Settles

The 2024 Student Survey opens TODAY!

The only way for students to find the survey is in the link sent directly to their BAI - archery instructor.

BAIs, didn't see the email? Check your spam folder. If it is still not there, email your BAI number to [email protected] and she will send your link as a reply!

Artwork by Kylie Rolfe

Keeping it interesting is key

We know and appreciate how hard you work. It is definitely a labor of love!