Louisiana School Program Gets New Targets, With Help From Lancaster Archery Foundation

A Louisiana school-based archery program is getting help from the Lancaster Archery Foundation as it works to upgrade its range equipment.

Benton Intermediate School, of Benton, La., was awarded $5,000 by the foundation under its Growing Youth Archery Together program, to put toward targets, arrows and other gear.

The school offers NASP Bullseye and 3D competition training for its members, and then hosts and travels to tournaments under those disciplines.

The current equipment used on the school’s ranges is in bad shape, program organizers said.

“The current archery program at Benton Intermediate School is in jeopardy of closing,” officials wrote in their grant application to the Lancaster Archery Foundation.

“We are beginning our fourth year and have been unable to afford new equipment for both 3D and Bullseye archery. At this point, our targets are in terrible condition…”

With the foundation grant, Benton officials said, the school can buy all six targets used in NASP 3D competitions and multiple new Block targets used for NASP Bullseye events.

Rob Kaufhold, President of the Lancaster Archery Foundation’s board of directors, knows how important it is for a youth archery program to have quality equipment.

“When you have good range equipment, kids are going to keep coming back to shoot,” he said. “And the more they shoot, the more of them that will get hooked for life.”

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.