Cascade High School recently won the Archery state championship, with a truly amazing performance!
Oregon has about 9000 students from 150 schools with an archery program, grades 4 through 12. There are two contests: the bullseye competition, around for over a decade, and the 3D competition, added last year for the first time.
The Cascade program started 3 years ago, and has won the 3D tournament both years (as well as bullseye the last two years) with our boys and girls combined team.
Cascade boys have been 1st in state for the 3 years we have been competing (the 1st year we didn't have enough girl students for a full team.)
This year we swept the overall (all ages, both genders) archery bullseye competition with the best 1st -3rd place scores - Zander Medlock 1st, Dominick Medlock 2nd, and Justin Clare 3rd.
At the high school level in 3D, the girls also took home 1st as a team, and Amy Miller was our 1st indvidual girl state champion and Reegan Bills was 3rd.
In the girls high school bullseye competition, Jade Lindermann was 2nd and Reegan Bills was third. Not only that, but for the the combined 3D and bullseye over all ages, Amy Miller was 2nd overall girl!
All state placers qualify for the Western Regional division in Salt Lake City, and 1st through 3rd traditionally get scholarships from the National Archery Organization.
So far, Zander Medlock is the only student in the state of Oregon that has been a dual 3D and bullseye champion, and best overall (boys and girls, all ages) archer in all competing areas in Oregon!