HENRY CLAY

ARCHERY TEAM
Archery Coach: Assistant Coach:
Jennifer Varble Daren Varble
hchsarchery@gmail.com varbledk@gmail.com
859-619-3715 859-621-0558

The HC archery team is a co-ed varsity sport open to anyone in the

school. You must have the appropriate GPA and conduct as in any other
school sport or activity. You must have a current sports physical form
on file with HC by 1st practice to participate.

12-24 archers make up a team; we can have multiple teams compete in

NASP tournaments. The top 12 scores are used to determine the team
score. The team must include at least 4 members of the opposite sex.

Each archer shoots15 arrows from 10 meters and 15 arrows from 15

meters and the combined score make up the archers individual score.
There are 2 archers at each target; they shoot 5 arrows at a time with
three rounds from each distance for a total of 30 arrows. A perfect score
is 300.

TOURNAMENTS
The team participates in NASP (National Archery in the School Program)
tournaments as well as KHSAA tournaments from November May.
The time slot we shoot in is called a flight, each flight last about 1
hour; you need to arrive 30 minutes before your flight. Time
commitment would be approximately 1 hours for a tournament plus
travel time.

NASP tournaments are on the weekends in Lexington and surrounding

counties. The NASP Regional tournament is in February, State
tournament is in Louisville in March, National tournament is also in
Louisville in May. The team must qualify to advance beyond Regionals
by shooting a qualifying team score or higher (set by NASP). HC has
qualified for State tournament the last 4 years and qualified for Nationals
for the first time in 2016.
 KHSAA tournaments The Regional KHSAA tournament rotates sites
and Henry Clay will host the 2018 tournament. State tournament was at
KBA in April 2017. The top 2 teams from each region advance to the
state tournament.

PRACTICE
The team will have a total of 4-5 weekday practices and possibly 1
Sunday afternoon practice depending on the size of the team. You are
required to be at a minimum of 2 practices a week. A practice schedule
will be set before the beginning of the season to assure everyone has
equal practice time.
We will practice from 7:30 8:00 before school and 1:30 2:00 on
Sunday

EQUIPMENT
Most team members own their own bow and arrows but the school does
have bows and arrows that may be used at practice and tournaments.

NASP Original Genesis compound bow is the only approved bow

NASP Easton Full Length Aluminum 1820 Arrows
version 2 is the required arrows gold, blue, purple, and
green shaft arrows are the only approved colors. A 5th
color will be introduced later this year.

Please e-mail Coach Jennifer Varble at

hchsarchery@gmail.com to be added to the team e-mail
list. Text @jvarbl to 81010 to be added the team Remind
text group.