NOBLESVILLE, Ind. – For the second year in a row, the Koteewi Archery Range will host the USA Archery Field Nationals, with competition running across this weekend.
Brady Ellison, Paige Pearce and Fawn Girard are among the big names who will be in attendance. All three were individual gold medalists at the 2024 World Archery Field Championships in Canada, in recurve men, compound women and barebow women respectively.
Also in action this weekend will be Brady’s wife Toja. She was part of Slovenia’s compound mixed team which won gold in Canada. Ryan Davis joined Girard to take barebow mixed team silver at the World Field Championships and he will be in Noblesville.
Other medalists from the World Championships on show in the coming days will be Matt Nofel (recurve men bronze), Ashton Probus (recurve U21 mixed team bronze) and Tessa Hogan (barebow U21 women bronze).
Returning to defend the title won 12 months ago will be Ellison, Pearce, Girard, David Estes (recurve 50+ men), Dan Jasa (compound men) and Roberta Kristofer (compound 50+ women).
Competing in the barebow 50+ men division will be Harold Rush. He took silver last year as a 79-year-old and returns as an octogenarian, and the oldest in the field. The youngest this weekend will be 10-year-old barebow archer, Eeshwar Kollu.
Competition takes place on Saturday and Sunday. There will be open practice on Friday afternoon, and for those new to this form of the sport, a Field Archery Tutorial will be held from 3pm.
Field archery is the discipline of shooting at stationary targets of different sizes set at varying distances, heights and angles around a course of natural terrain.
Archers will start with 24 unmarked targets on Saturday. Unmarked targets mean the distance to the target is unknown to the archer. On Sunday, they will return to shoot on 24 marked targets.
You can follow the scores and results, while there will be action and podium photos from Noblesville.
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