Hittin' the Target

I've had a passing interest in archery for a while.  I even was shooting with a club in Cleveland for a couple of years.  I'm not very good, but I have fun, and maybe my techniques are improving a little bit over time.  So, when the local Rec Center sent flyers out to the schools announcing that they would be offering an archery class, I was very excited.  So were Beenie and Keke.  Beenie had shot before - up at the club in Cleveland for a while, but Keke was very excited to learn to shoot.

So, we've been doing this since the fall, in a series of classes that run for about five or six weeks at a time.  For this past session John, our instructor, decided that the kids would be shooting for the prize of a gold, silver, or bronze arrow.  (As I am the only adult in the class regularly, John lets me just shoot, but works with me on my technique when I ask him.  The focus of the class really is the kids.)

The idea was this, John would keep track each week of how many arrows each kid shot into the gold circle(s) in the target.  Each kid would get one point per gold, and he would make a note if the shot landed in the middle 'x' ring.  The person with the most golds would get the gold arrow, the second most would get the silver, and the third most the bronze.

Long story short: at the end of the course session John totaled up the scores and Keke came in third!!  She actually tied with someone, but she had more 'x' shots which John used as the tiebreaker.  She won an actual arrow (bronze in color) that hangs from a signed framed certificate she can hang in her room.  She is very excited!!


Nice job, Keke!