Kaylee Toller, 13, has a target in her backyard in Ripley.
Some days, she'll head outside and challenge her mother to a shooting contest; Toller with her school bow, her mom with a hunting bow.
Bragging rights are on the line.
"We're just really competitive," Toller said. "If I win, which I pretty much win every time, I get to brag."
Those bragging rights have carried over to Toller's school archery competition. On Saturday, she scored a 288 out of a possible 300 at the Archery in the Schools State Tournament at the Charleston Civic Center.
That means that she missed just 12 points in all of her shots and she'll most likely get to move on to nationals at the individual level.
Toller was among more than 1,000 shooters who participated in the tournament Saturday. Those shooters are the best in the state in a sport that now has more active participants than sanctioned Little Leagues, according to Krista Snodgrass, the coordinator of the tournament.
Archery isn't quite like other sports. It's one where the standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans, and the most physical activity comes from walking to the target to retrieve arrows.
"You can pretty much look down this line right now and see that most of these kids are not athletic," Snodgrass said.
But that's the biggest appeal of the sport, according to some of the coaches.
"The athletic kid can do it with the academic kid," said Ted Stewart, a coach and physical education teacher at Conner Street Elementary School in Hurricane.
Archery requires a different set of skills than many other sports. It relies on hand-eye coordination, aim and patience.
Barry Meadows, the coach at Peterstown Middle and Elementary schools, said there are three ways to train a kid to shoot.
One is to aim through the bow; that's the first way he teaches. But you can also aim through the arrow, or just rely on instinct.
No matter what, Meadows feels that he's helping the kids with a skill that they'll be able to use for the rest of their lives.
"It's not to teach the kids how to hunt," Meadows said. "It's to give them a life sport."
Of course, some of the kids are athletic too. Marisa Bertagnolli, 12, chose to do archery instead of track. She also played volleyball, basketball and soccer. But she likes archery the best out of all those sports.
"It's more relaxing and you get to take your time," Bertagnolli said.
But the biggest draw for many kids is that the sport allows them to connect with their families.
When asked if they had family members who hunt or shoot bows, Toller, Bertagnolli, Nicklas Parsons, 12, and Ian Roach, 13, nodded their heads.
"It's just like playing catch with your dad or shooting baskets with your mom," Stewart said.
Unlike basketball and baseball, it's a sport that relies on each individual contributing equally to the team.
That gives kids who are sometimes left on the bench in other sports a reason to get excited about archery.
"Archery can make you feel like the team really needs you," said Parsons. "In soccer and basketball, they just pull you out."
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