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J.E.B. hosts first archery summer school program

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This summer, Joel E. Barber offered a summer school program to students called the NASP (National Archery in the Schools Program). A total of 50 students were a part of the first archery program held in the Lebanon C-5 School District.

According to instructor Melissa Willoughby, the NASP’s mission is to promote outdoor skills, education, and participation in the lifelong sport of archery as part of the in-school curriculum. It began in Kentucky in 2002, and as of 2018, more than 2 million students in 14,000 schools, 47 states, and 11 countries participate in NASP.

“It (NASP) is a very structured program,” Willoughby said. “There is a system for every task. The students learn the rules of the archery range and the proper way to handle a bow before learning the eleven steps to archery success.


For more on this story see Wednesday's LCR.