Henry Clay Archery
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Head Coach
Jennifer Varble
hchsarchery@gmail.com
Assistant Coaches
Daren Varble
Mike Zimmerman
Season (2024-25)
Information meeting –September 26, 2024
1st Practice – New members Only – Week of October 22, 2024
All others - Regular season practice begins October 29, 2024
Regular Season Tournaments – December – March
Post Season – mid March – Mid May
NASP State Tournament – March 15th
KHSAA Regional Tournament – TBA
KHSAA State Tournament – must qualify
NASP National Tournament – May 9 or 10th
Banquet – May 17, 2025
Basic Information
The HC archery team is a co-ed varsity sport activity open to anyone in the school. You must have the appropriate GPA and conduct as in any other school sport or activity. You must have a current sports physical form on file by the 1st practice to participate.
12-24 archers make up a team; we can have multiple teams compete in NASP tournaments. The top 12 scores are used to determine the team score. The team must include at least 4 members of the opposite sex.
Each archer shoots 15 arrows from 10 meters and 15 arrows from 15 meters and the combined score make up the archer’s individual score. There are 2 archers at each target; they shoot 5 arrows at a time with three rounds from each distance for a total of 30 arrows. A perfect score is 300.
Tournaments
The team participates in NASP (National Archery in the School Program) tournaments as well as KHSAA tournaments from December – May. The time slot we shoot in is called a “flight”, each flight last about 1 hour; you need to arrive 30 minutes before your flight. Time commitment would be approximately 1 ½ hours for a tournament plus travel time.
NASP regular season tournaments are on the weekends in Lexington and surrounding counties beginning in December - March. Post season consists of the NASP State tournament in Louisville in March, and the National tournament also in Louisville in May. The state and national teams are made up of the top 24 male/females from the team (based on scores and attendance at practice and tournaments).
KHSAA Regional 8 tournament – Date and location TBA
KHSAA State Tournament is in Lexington, KY in April.
The KHSAA teams are NOT co-ed
Top 12 boys and top 12 girls make up each KHSAA team
The top 2 teams from the region advance to the KHSAA state tournament
The top 3 individual male and top 3 individual females not on an advancing team will advance to the state tournament as an individual
Regional tournament is held sometime between mid-March – mid April.
Practice
The team will have a total of 4 weekday practices, Tuesday - Friday. You are required to be at a minimum of 2 practices a week. A practice schedule will be set before the beginning of the season to assure everyone has equal practice time.
Practice is from 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. before school.
Equipment
Most team members own their own bow and arrows, but the school does have bows and arrows that may be used at practice and tournaments.
If you are interested in buying a used bow, Coach Varble has several available for sale from archery alumni ready to sell their bows.
NASP ® Original Genesis compound bow is the only approved bow.
NASP® Easton Full Length Aluminum 1820 Arrows version 2 is the only approved arrow for NASP archery.
Fees
$50 Team Fee
$25 Insurance Fee
Lessons
Lessons are available at In Range Archery in Richmond
1682 Four Mile Road, Richmond, KY 40475
859-623-6982
Instructors:
Shane & Tammy Webb
Semper Fi Firearms in Brannon
No instructors on site, but a place to practice archery (for range fee)