Archery Hits the Mark in Weekend Tournament

By Rob Jellison

The Hartland Archery Teams traveled to Louisville, KY this past weekend to attend the tenth Annual National Archery in the Schools Program’s National Tournament.

There were over 8000 archers who represented over 456 schools at this years event.

The Guinness Book of World Records was there to verify this as the new record for the largest Archery Tournament in World History. So, all of the Hartland Archers are now “part of” the Guinness Book of World Records.

Notables:

Hartland Elementary finished in 25^th place and 5 in the Top 100!!

• Sawyer Bulloch finished in 22^nd place in his division and 13^th in his grade level
• Derrick Loruss finished in 62^nd in his grade level
• Collin Pajot finished in 72^nd in his grade level
• Olivia Tasich finished in 78^th in her grade level
• Dominick VanEss finished in 82^nd in his grade level

Hartland Middle School finished in 23^rd place and 6 in the Top 100!!

• Betty Jellison finished 23^rd in her grade level
• Jake Kantola finished 39^th in his grade level
• Harper Peters finished 48^th in her grade level
• Brandon Thomas finished 55^th in his grade level
• Nicole Tschirret finished 76^th in her grade level
• Devin Doyle finished 84^th in his grade level

THE BIG NEWS!!

Hartland High School finished in the TOP 10 as a TEAM and had 15 in the Top 100. 

They placed 9^th and this is the highest rank ever reached by a MI team at Nationals. (St. Mary’s from Gaylord held the record at 12^th place prior to this year.)

Hartland High was only 25 points out of 3 place, 35 points out of second place and only 60 points out of first place!  (If they had shot the same score we shot at the State Tournament they would have tied for second place!! – So close!)

Hartland placed ahead of St. Mary’s from Gaylord at Nationals and has now beaten them three events in a row.  They finished in 28^th place.  This is a team we had not been able to beat for three years prior to last year’s National Event.

Chris Bee was awarded a spot on the first ever “All-American National Team” by shooting a 296 out of 300 finishing in 7^th place in the HS division and 5^th place in his grade.

• Emily Bee finished 9^th in the division and 6^th in her grade 
• Tyler Kesterson finished 93^rd in the division and 19^th in his grade
• Jacob Popp finished 73^rd in the division and 25^th in his grade
• David Salerno finished 81^st in the division and 21^st in his grade 
• Nicolette Sexton finished 32^nd in her grade
• Shelby Simonds finished 34^th in her grade
• Kari Kantola finished 36^th in her grade
• Kara Micallef finished 47^th in her grade
• Katey Machala finished 49^th in her grade
• Sarah Portelli finished 49^th in her grade
• Gabrielle Griffith finished 70^th in her grade 
• Mitchell Smith finished 80^th in his grade 
• Jack Vivian finished 87^th in his grade 
• Alex McDonald finished 92^nd in her grade

 Hartland Archery also won two of the three spirit awards this year that are awarded to the team that shows the most spirit at the event. Hartland archers and their devoted family and fans have won this award now four years in a row and this is the second time we have won two of the three they hand out

 All in all another great year for Hartland Archery:

• World Champion (carry over from 2011 season) in Oct.
• Three State Championships – First ever sweep at all three levels
• National All American Team - single member qualifier
• TOP 10 finish at Nationals – 9^th place
• Two Spirit Awards