04/24/19 – KHSAA State Archery Championships Head to Bowling Green Tuesday

April 24, 2019 2018-2019 News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 24, 2019

The KHSAA State Archery Championships will be contested in a new venue in 2019, with the event moving to Ephram White Park in Bowling Green. The state championship gets underway Tuesday, April 30th with the first of six flights slated for 9:30 a.m. (CT). Advance tickets to the event are available for purchase at https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA.

The last flight of the day is set for 2:30 p.m., with awards presentations to begin immediately afterward. Team trophies will be presented to the top four boys’ and top four girls’ teams, with medallions presented to the top five individuals for each gender.

At last year’s state championship, Bullitt Central posted a team score of 2,030 to capture the boys’ team title and hold off state runner-up Madison Central (2,023). Henderson County’s Dalton Hinkle defeated Anderson County’s Henry Thompson in a tiebreaker to claim the individual state championship, after both players posted matching 299 scores.

Simon Kenton captured the first-ever girls’ team championship at last year’s event, the sport-activity was previously contested as a coed event, as the Pioneers’ team score of 1,992 held off Muhlenberg County (1,985) and Pulaski County (1,984). Eastern’s Emmaline Kleinman took home the girls’ individual state championship with a 297.

Official championship photos will be available at KHSAA.org following the event.

2019 KHSAA State Archery Championships
Tickets – https://gofan.co/app/school/KHSAA
Schedule – https://khsaa.org/2019-state-archery-schedule/
Championship Program – https://khsaa.org/Publications/Programs/20182019/Archery/issue1/index.html
Boys’ Lane Assignments – https://khsaa.org/archery/2019/boyslaneassignments.pdf
Girls’ Lane Assignments – https://khsaa.org/archery/2019/girlslaneassignments.pdf
Boys’ Results – https://nasptournaments.org/TournamentDetail.aspx?tid=4692
Girls’ Results – https://nasptournaments.org/TournamentDetail.aspx?tid=4693

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