Lancaster Archery Foundation Provides Grant to Help Kentucky Program Entice Aspiring Olympians

The Lancaster Archery Foundation has awarded a grant to a Kentucky youth program looking to broaden the archery skills of its members.

Inside Out Archers of Kentucky of Marion, Kent., received $1,000 from the foundation to buy outdoor FITA targets.

“We have targets for 3D and indoor, but we are in need of the outdoor targets to help our kids be able to better shoot this discipline,” program organizers wrote on their grant application to the foundation.

Club officials said current members are well-versed in 3-D and very active in S3DA programs. But Inside Out Archers eventually want to launch a JOAD program, which will require members to shoot outdoor target archery.

Rob Kaufhold, president of Lancaster Archery Foundation’s board of directors, understands the importance of teaching kids outdoor target archery, which is the discipline practiced at the Olympics.

“My daughter, Casey, competed for the USA at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo,” Kaufhold said. “She started that journey in JOAD.

“You never know where future Olympians are going to come from. But to have the best possible archers ready every four years, we need as many kids as possible dreaming of competing for the United States at the Olympics.”

Based in Lancaster, Pa., the Lancaster Archery Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expand, develop and promote 3D and target archery to help people improve their confidence, discipline and leadership skills through participation in competitive archery.

For more information on how you can donate to help organizations like Inside Out Archers of Kentucky, visit lancasterarcheryfoundation.org.