My Senior Year Of High School

 Hey everyone!! It’s Kylee back at it again with another blog post. This post really is going to mean a lot to me because it is about my senior year of high school. My senior year of high school archery did not go how I planned It to go. During my senior year, I worked so hard and just was not getting the results I was hoping for. I often found myself getting very frustrated with how I was performing because I could not figure out why I was having such a hard time shooting good scores at tournaments. Now that I have graduated high school, I believe that I have figured out why I shot like I did during that year. Most kids during their senior year of high school end up quitting because they never perform how they want to. I of course wasn’t about to quit, but I did not have as much fun that year. I now know that I was in my head bad during my senior year of high school because I knew that I was done after that year, so I really wanted to win. This caused me to think way too much, and it often hurt my score. 

 

Most people do not realize that archery is a mental sport. If you go into a tournament in a bad mental state, it often leads to a poor performance. Bad shots are going to happen, you have to be able to come back from a bad shot and don’t let it ruin your whole tournament. I know it gets hard to keep your head up when you start shooting bad. You have just got to try your best to stay positive because honestly, you could be doing a lot worse than what you are. And I am sure that there are people at the same tournament that are shooting way worse. At that point, you just have to make the best of the situation and just move on. There is always a next time, the sun will rise the next day. The moral of the story is, try to stay positive, there are going to be tournaments where you just shoot off. You can’t win every single tournament, you are going to mess up, you are human.