My Trip To Tennessee :)

Hello everyone!! My name is Kylee Brookover and I have shot archery for basically my whole life. I thought it might be time that I start a blog and start documenting what I have experienced and teaching others what I have learned over the years!! There are a lot of people out there who are not willing to teach others because they are too scared that their position on the podium will be stolen from them. In my opinion, if you are a good archer, you should not be scared to spread your knowledge because obviously, you got to your position from hard work and a lot of learning. One tip I can give is not to give up when the going gets tough. Most people end up quitting archery because once they get into a slump and find themselves not getting out of it, rather than working through it and getting even better, they quit when it gets tough. However, I can say that this sport is the most frustrating sport you can ever get into, but I can also say it feels pretty good when you win because you now know that all of your hard work finally paid off. 

I want to take a quick trip down memory lane and point out where hard work paid off. Back when I shot high school archery, I had this dream of becoming a world champion, but I did not think I would ever achieve it. Man was I wrong. I practiced every day up until the big tournament and I shot bad the night before and I thought that I was not going to do very good at the tournament. My dad said to keep my head up high and that everyone shoots bad rounds, but that does not mean that the next one was going to be bad. This shoot was in Nashville, Tennessee. I went into this shoot with an open mind not expecting to win and this mindset turned out to be the best way to go into this shoot. I ended up shooting 4 points from perfect and ended up being the top overall female at the tournament. I brought home this really cool big cup trophy that actually had some weight to it. I won't forget this trip because when I was carrying my big trophy down the sidewalk, all of the people in the backs of pickup trucks were cheering. Overall the moral of this story is to not give up because good things like this happen with time.