Beech Tree News Network

Sixteen Morgantown Elementary students and their families traveled to Myrtle Beach this past week to participate in the NASP World Tournament!  Tournament action began on Thursday, June 23 and ended Sunday, June 25; the MES team had their flight at 12:15(ET) on Friday the 24th.
The team earned a total of 3,070 points which earned them 15th place ranking of the 54 elementary schools participating.  Because this was a WORLD tournament, there were elementary, middle and high school students there from 6 different countries.  In the elementary division, there were 1,246 children competing in this one competition.  (Note: this number does not include the middle and high school participants)
To ensure the scoring is consistent team scores are calculated by using the top 12 scores of the team (top 4 boy scores; top 4 girl scores; plus the next four highest scores).  Our team had sixteen students participating and listed below this article are the individual students score and ranking.
As an added bonus, twelve of the MES team members were able to get registered to participate in the NASP World 3D tournament – something these students have only participated in one time at a previous tournament.  A 3-D tournament is one where the archers shoot at 3-dimensional targets set at a variety of distances between the 10 and 15-meter mark.  As a team, they score 1,285 points earning them a 7th place ranking of the 16 elementary schools that participated.
While this didn’t earn the school a top three awards, it did earn the following title:
The first elementary team from Butler County to participate in state, national and world archery tournaments!

The team was treated to pizza at the beach with MES Principal Chad Flener, and  they enjoyed a fun time as a group of leaders who led the MES Archery Team to the World!

Note:  The NASP website outlines scores by team and individuals and also provides information on individuals by grade/gender.  www.nasptournaments.org
Individual scores and rankings are listed below.
Morgan McKinney, 4th grade, 274 points
Brayden Tomes, 3rd grade, 270 points
Andrew Gill, 5th grade, 267 points
Emma Givens, 4th grade, 264 points
Sally Butler, 4th grade, 260 points
Hailey Pierson, 4th grade, 258 points
Ryleigh White, 3rd grade, 253 points
Triton Morris, 5th grade, 249 points
Case Hooten, 3rd grade, 248 points
Lydia Wilcox, 4th grade, 246 points
Connor Thompson, 4th grade, 242 points
Ian Givens, 4th grade, 239 points
Maelynn Bilicki, 4th grade, 231 points
Olivia Johnson, 4th grade, 230 points
Ryn Taylor, 5th grade, 223 points
Cayden Southerland, 3rd grade, 170 points