05/09/17 – KHSAA Bass Fishing Championship Begins Friday at Kentucky Dam Marina

May 9, 2017

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2017

The fifth-annual KHSAA State Bass Fishing Championship gets underway Friday morning at the Kentucky Dam Marina when 64 teams vie for the 2017 state title. The two-day KHSAA State Bass Fishing Championship (May 12-13), with Calvert City serving as official host city, begins each morning with the boat launch from Kentucky Dam Marina at 7 a.m. The teams will launch in two flights, with 32 teams in each grouping, with the order reversed for day two.

Teams will start returning to the marina at 3 p.m. each day, with the weigh-ins scheduled to begin at approximately 3:30 p.m. Awards will be presented following day two’s weigh-in to the top four teams along with the big bass award and the Midway University/KHSAA Female Student-Athlete of the Year award for Bass Fishing.

More information on this year’s event can be found through the links below:

2017 KHSAA State Bass Fishing Championship
Schedule – http://khsaa.org/bassfishing/2017/timetable.pdf
Random Boat Launch Order – http://khsaa.org/bassfishing/2017/state/randomboatassignments.pdf
Championship program – http://khsaa.org/Publications/Programs/20162017/BassFishing/issue1/index.html

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About the Kentucky High School Athletic Association
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association was organized in 1917 and is the agency designated by the Kentucky Department of Education to manage high school athletics in the Commonwealth. The Association is a voluntary nonprofit 501(c)3 organization made up of 278 member schools both public and private. The KHSAA sanctions 43 state championships in 13 sports and 4 sport-activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides catastrophic insurance for its more than 70,000 member school student-athletes, as well as overseeing coaching education and sports safety programs.

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