Being Goal Driven Leads Hartland Archery To a Top 5 Finish At Nationals

Bu Rob Jellison

The Hartland Archery Program traveled to Louisville, KY this past weekend once again to compete in the National Archery in the Schools Program’s 2013 National Tournament. 

This year I took down 107 archers from Hartland, which led to well over 500 Hartlanders invading the town of Louisville. 

The 107 archers from Hartland made up 5 teams (1 ES, 2 MS, and 2 HS).  These archers were just a “small sample” of the 9,426 archers from all over the United States that came to the event.  These nearly 10,000 archers made up 421 teams competitive teams that showed up to represent their state.  (MI had 9 different schools at the event – Hartland High, St. Mary High, Northwoods High, Grand Ledge High, Laker High, Hartland MS, St. Mary MS, Bark River MS, and Hartland ES).

Two years ago, Hartland Archery set a goal of finishing in the Top 20 and they came in 14.  Last year Hartland’s goal was to be the first team to hit the Top 10 at Nationals and the team came in ninth. 

This year we set our sights on finishing in the Top 5, and set that as our goal.

Looking at team scores you need to understand how these are calculated.  They take the top 12 scores from the archers on a team (4 have to be of opposite gender).  Each archer has the potential to shoot a perfect 300 with 30 arrows, so 12 archers could possibly shoot a 3600.

Going into the last flight the top two team scores were 3425 and 3411 out of 3600 points possible.  After all of the dust settled our HS team came in with a 3423 good enough for a Top 3 podium appearance.  Unfortunately we shot in the last flight with two other teams that posted scores of 3453, and 3440.  These scores bumped us off the podium by 2 points, but still allowed us to hit our goal of a top 5 by finishing in 4^th place.  The other HS team finished in 108^th, the MS A team finished in 11^th, the MS B team finished in 97^th and the ES team finished in 75 - again there were 421 teams and nearly 10,000 archers at this event – so ALL of the Hartland Teams did a GREAT job.

The individual scores can be looked at 3 ways:  Overall – meaning were an archer ranks out of all 9,426 archers.  Division – meaning where and archers ranks by his/her school division (ES, MS, or HS).  And lastly, Grade – meaning were and archer ranks amongst all other archers from that specific grade (4^th – 12^th grade).

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 100 Overall:

• Collin Pajot
• Kara Micallef
• Nicole Tschirret
• Katey Machala
• Sydney Vivian 

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 50 Overall:

• Chad Cooper 

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 5 Overall:

• Chris Bee (Tied for 4^th)

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 100 Division:

• Jake Kantola
• Katey Machala

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 50 Division:

• Derrick Loruss
• Michael Tiano
• Chad Cooper
• Kara Micallef
• Nichole Tschirret
• Sawyer Bulloch
• Grace Allen
• Ellen Harper

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 25 Division:

• Collin Pajot
• Sydney Vivian

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 5 Division:

• Chris Bee (Tied for 4^th)

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 100 Grade:

• Griffin Neuer
• Nicolette Sexton
• Betty Jellison
• Emily Bee
• Sarah Portelli
• Kari Kantola

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 50 Grade:

• Ellen Harper
• Michael Tiano
• David Salerno
• Derrick Loruss

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 25 Grade:

• Chad Cooper
• Nicole Tschirret
• Sawyer Bulloch
• Grace Allen
• Katey Machala
• Jake Kantola

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 10 Grade:

• Kara Micallef
• Sydney Vivian

Hartland Archers that finished in the Top 5 Grade:

• Chris Bee (2^nd)
• Collin Pajot (5^th)

Chris Bee finished in a four way tie for fourth place males. He had to shoot in a shoot out from 15 meters, shooting 5 arrows.  He shot 3 10’s and 2 9’s for a score of 48. Two of the other boys beat him with a 49 and a 50. 

Chris was still brought to the stage a one of the top 16 archers at this year’s event. These 16 archers make up the 2013 All-American Team.  This team has won the opportunity to travel to Africa with their coach and family in July this summer to compete in an “All-Star Olympic like” version of NASP where each Country will build the best possible team it can and then go head to head in an archery event.

Hartland did reach the podium a second time as the Middle School team was awarded the 2013 School Spirit Award for bringing “by far” the loudest group of fans to the event.

We take pride in this award as we have won in now for five consecutive years.