Me and My Girls :)

 Hey everyone!! It’s Kylee back at it again with another blog post. This post is really going to focus on teamwork. Teamwork is very important when it comes to being on a collegiate team. I say this because sometimes you do not get an award individually and you have to work with people within your team to compete to bring home some awards. Most people think that it is all about winning individually, but sometimes this is not the case, especially in collegiate archery. When I first joined the team, I shot for I had only been shooting my compound since I first started at the university. So, I did not have that much experience when it came to shooting compounds, but I was willing to learn everything to try to get at least decent by the first shoot. I worked hard and got to a place that I thought was pretty good for only first starting. Me and my team went to Illinois for a 3D shoot. I shot the best that I could by being in my first big tournament with my team. I was a little nervous going in of course because I had never been to a shoot like that before. I did not end up winning anything individually, but there was a team shootdown that involved me and two other girls from my team going head-to-head against other girls in our division until someone took the win. It was a bracket style, so it went on until the gold medal match and my group won!!

This just goes to show that it is not all about winning individually. Sometimes you are not always going to win individually, and I am going to be honest, winning as a team feels pretty darn good. This type of win means that you have good teamwork within the team. And also when you are on a team you have to be a team player because if not, you will never go far in your archery career. People are going to beat you. You just have to be able to congratulate them and move on because there is always next time.