COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Almost 500 archers will line up at the 2025 HotelPlanner USA Archery Collegiate Target Nationals later this month, including World Cup, World Field and World Youth medalists, as well as Olympians.
In partnership with the Lansing Sports Commission, the Collegiate Target Nationals will be hosted by Michigan State University. When the event was last held in the Great Lakes State, just shy of 300 student-athletes took part. Nine years on, and that number has climbed significantly.
Texas A&M University (TAMU) were winners of the Overall National Team Championship in 2024, followed by 2023 winners the University of the Cumberlands, with the University of Pikeville finishing third.
TAMU’s team will include Olympian Catalina GNoriega, plus World Cup archers Trenton Cowles, Carson Krahe and Sawyer Sullivan. Cumberlands have Landyn Cox and Isaac Sullivan, who are teammates of their TAMU rivals in China next week for the Hyundai Archery World Cup Stage 2.
Individual champions set to return in 2025 are Alyssa Artz, Sawyer Sullivan, Venugopal Kunnavakkam and Kimber Wheeler. Kunnavakkam was switched from recurve to barebow just weeks before last year’s event and went on to shoot a collegiate national record during qualification, beating the previous high by 17 points!
The 2025 World University Games U.S. Team Trials will be held in conjunction with the 2025 Collegiate Target Nationals, as part of the 72-arrow qualification round. The World University Games take place in Germany from July 16-27.
Registration remains open for a whole host of upcoming outdoor events on the USA Archery calendar.
The 2025 USA Archery Field Nationals returns to the scenic and challenging Koteewi Archery Range in Noblesville, Ind. Competition runs from June 13-15, with the USA’s most successful Olympic archer, Brady Ellison, among those already registered.
As one young archer was heard to say during the Easton Foundations Gator Cup, “Last year was my first Field Nationals and I can’t believe how much fun it was. I loved it.”
Deadline to register for Field Nationals is May 31.
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Hot on the heels of Field Nationals will be the third of four events in the USAT Qualifier Series, with the 2025 Easton Foundations SoCal Showdown in Chula Vista, Calif. This popular contest takes place from June 20-22 and also involves U.S. team trials for both the World Archery Championships and World Para Archery Championships.
Deadline to register for SoCal Showdown is June 6.
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Another venue hosting a major USA Archery event for the second year in a row is Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque, N.M., which will welcome the best young archers for the 2025 WIAWIS USA Archery JOAD Target Nationals & JOAD U.S. Open.
Carson Chan last week qualified for the USA team to compete at the World Archery Youth Championships in Canada in August. He will help prepare for that at JOAD Target Nationals & JOAD U.S. Open, where he will be joined by World Youth teammates Samantha Ensign, Isabella Kim, Jack Krengel and Ye-eun Whang.
Deadline to register for JOAD Target Nationals & JOAD U.S. Open is July 2.
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The final stop in the USAT Qualifier Series will be the Rebel Gear Buckeye Classic, from July 25-27 in Dublin, Ohio. Silver medalists from the Easton Foundations Gator Cup, Cindy Czako (barebow women), Christian Stoddard (recurve men), Jamie McCarrison (recurve 50+ women) and Ali Gungoraydinoglu (recurve 50+ men) will be in attendance, as will bronze medalist Matthew Parmenter (recurve U21 men).
There will also be at least three husband and wife pairings heading to Ohio - Johannes and Samantha Gildenhuys, Terry and Diana LaBeau, and Tom and Kathleeen Stevenson.
Deadline to register for the Buckeye Classic is July 14.
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Registration is also open for the 2025 USA Archery Target Nationals & U.S. Open. This event brings together the top adult (Senior and 50+) archers in the recurve, compound and barebow divisions and this year will unfold at the Betty & Bobby Allison Sports Town in Springfield, Mo. from August 14-17.
It takes place just weeks before the USA sends teams to compete at the World Archery and World Para Archery Championships in Korea in September, and days before the World Archery Youth Championships in Canada. Christian Stoddard is already confirmed for Target Nationals and the World Youth Championships.
Deadline to register for Target Nationals & U.S. Open is August 1.
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