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| Alabama Archers Win National Titles |
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| By Nick Carter |
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Posted Tuesday June 26 2012, 2:04 PM |
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Foley Intermediate School, in Baldwin County, produced the nation’s top elementary school archery team at the National Archery in the Schools National Championship in May. Foley’s top scorers were Dalton Anderson with 290 points, Shelby Anderson with 284 points, James Alexander with 277 points, Annabelle Laurendine with 275 points, Michael Killian with 283 points, Maria Owen with 274 points, Coleman Christensen with 273 points, Reagan Lewinski with 261 points, Angela Ngyuen with 266 points, Holden Shires with 267 points, Dylan Stallworth with 259 points and Sandrae Jimmerson with 258 points.
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Alabama’s coastal counties are producing some mighty fine young archers.
At the Archery in the Schools National Championship the weekend of May 12 in Louisville, Ky., Foley Intermediate School, out of Baldwin County, won a national title in the elementary school division. Wendi Thomas, a junior from Alma Bryant High School in Mobile County, was the top female archer in the nation.
Wendi, of Irvington, shot an incredible 296 points out of 300 in the olympic-style tournament to win top female honors at the enormous tournament, which set a new Guiness World Record for the world’s largest archery tournament with more than 7,800 young archers. For her performance, Wendi was awarded a $7,500 college scholarship and was named to the Army National Guard All-American Archery Team.
Foley Intermediate averaged a strong 272.25 points per shooter for its 12 archers included in the scoring. According to coach Ryan Anderson, the team set a goal to break 3,200 points for the first time in competition, and they did it, tallying 3,267 points to beat out the second-place team by about 30 points.
“I’m just really proud of the whole team,” said Ryan. “The whole team shot well.”
Foley’s scoring was led by Anderson’s son and daughter, Dalton, a fifth grader, and Shelby, a sixth grader, who both took second in the nation for their grade levels with scores of 290 and 284, respectively. They were followed up by 10 other archers who all shot better than 255 points.
The next step for both Wendi and Foley Intermediate is the NASP World Championship in Orlando this October, where Ryan thinks Foley can take a world title if they can score better than 3,300.
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