Alburnett archery team celebrates successful season

ALBURNETT — The Alburnett Middle School archery team is celebrating a successful season after placing at the Western Nationals last month.

Several students also placed individually in the competition in Sandy, Utah, on Saturday, April 29.

The middle school team took third place in 3D archery — aiming at three-dimensional, foam animal targets — scoring 1,629 points. The team placed fifth in bullseye archery — aiming for the center of a target — scoring 3,291 points.

Alburnett sixth-grader Jack Frey tied for first place in the overall male archer category with a score of 296 out of 300 in bullseye archery.

Evan Burns, an eighth-grader, finished second in the middle school division in both 3D and bullseye archery, scoring 291 in both tournaments.

Other individuals who placed were Trenton Abel, a sophomore at Alburnett High School, who scored 288 points, taking ninth place in the overall tournament. Alburnett fifth-grader Natalia Zerba took 10th place overall in the tournament.

"This is a tremendous achievement for our team and we are so proud,“ Alburnett archery coach Aaron Ford said in an email to The Gazette.

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