Gilman crew attends NASP Open shoots
PIRATE ARCHERY CLUB
Casey Grunseth and Dalton Wisocky earned scores of 289 out of a possible 300, Colton Lang finished fourth in his bullseye division and the Gilman Pirates placed 16th as a team in 3-D competition at the 2022 National Archery in the Schools Program Open Championships.
The event was held June 23-25 in Louisville, Ky. Eight members of the Pirate Archery Club made the trip and competed in both the bullseye and 3-D shoots.
In bullseye competition, Gilman did not have enough archers to field a complete team, but the Pirates did well individually.
Grunseth and Wisocky both got 289s to rank 37th and 38th out of 397 high school boys. Grunseth hit the 10-point ring on 21 of 30 shots, while Wisocky hit it 20 times.
Lang, who just completed fifth grade, added another honor to his outstanding 2021-22 school year with his score of 283. He received the fourth-place plaque in the boys elementary division (grades 4-5) and was fourth among 168 boys in his grade. The only archers above him in the division were Kevan Pollei of Arizona’s Wickenburg Christian Academy (288), Logan Rhinevault of Pennsylvania’s Lathrop Street Elementary School (287) and Weston Clancy of Sparta, Mo. Middle School (286). Lang hit 16 10-point shots.
Tatum Weir was 136th out of 393 high school girls with a score of 273 and Olivia Buske was 205th with her score of 266. In middle school girls competition, Reece Weir was 291st out of 432 archers with a score of 249, Rayanna Romig was 311th with a 247 and Kennedy Buske was 370th with her 232.
Grunseth recorded another 289 in the 3-D shoot, which put him 17th out of 175 high school boys and fifth out of 39 juniors. Grunseth had 21 10-point shots.
Wisocky was 70th in the division with his 274. Lang was 14th out of 171 elementary boys by shooting a 272. Olivia Buske was 57th out of 152 high school girls with her 271, while Tatum Weir was 105th at 256.
Reece Weir was 118th out of 233 middle school girls with her score of 254, Romig was 186th with a 228 and Kennedy Buske was 189th at 227.
Using the top three girls and boys scores, Gilman’s team score was 1,616 to place 16th out of 24 high school teams. Liberty Christian Academy of Virginia won the team title with 1,727 points, eight more than Wynnbrook Christian School of Georgia and Sarcoxie High School from Missouri. Gilman was the only Wisconsin team in the competition.
