Okay, I had a bit of trouble for the title of this posting. A great article by Lori Riley about Olympic hopeful Shayna Jenkins. It is always interesting to learn how America’s up and coming archers learn about the sport, and how they come to become one of the best. It’s great that Olympic archer Butch Johnson is helping in coaching her along with her JOAD coach.

Shayna Jenkins

A few years ago, her father promised her a target for her room at their home in Litchfield if she won a tournament.

She won.

Her mother, Gayle Carr, had a few reservations.

“I knew she wasn’t going to miss,” Carr said. “And it’s just for form. You don’t shoot from that far away. But I didn’t realize she had shot the center out of the target.”

Shayna, 15, a Litchfield High sophomore, is one of the top young female archers in the state, and according to her Junior Olympic Archery Development coach Walter Moore, one of the top 10 in her age group in the country.

Read more here:
Litchfield Archer, 15, Takes Aim At Nationals