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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Elysian Fields archers target national title in Myrtle Beach
ELYSIAN FIELDS, Texas (KTAL/KMSS)—A group of Texas student-athletes can travel to South Carolina for a national championship, but need the community's help. For the first time in school history, members of the Elysian Fields Elementary and Middle School archery teams have earned spots in the National Archery in Schools Program (NASP) World Championship, which will be held June 5 -7 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Amanda Bellar is a parent of a middle school archery team member and contacted KTAL News to help share the team's aspiration of traveling to and hopefully capturing a national championship. A GoFundMe was started to help the team's qualifying archers travel from East Texas to South Carolina. While they represent the school, the archery team is self-funded; everything from shirts to competition fees is paid by families, which is why supporting the team through its fundraising efforts is critical. As the GoFundMe description explains, all donated funds will be split evenly between the archers who attend the world championship. Community members interested in sending these talented, hard-working, and highly skilled athletes who have 'spent countless hours perfecting their skills' to their championship destination can contact Coach Ms. Sabrina Scott or donate directly to the team's GoFundMe. The team's fundraising goal is $2.4K, and they are slightly more than 60% toward it. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Youth Archery growing in popularity
FARMERSBURG, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — One of the oldest sports in existence has been gaining traction across the nation, including right here in the Wabash Valley. In recent years, youth archery has been on the rise here in the Hoosier state. The Indiana NASP, or National Archery in the Schools Program, plays a large part in that. It began back in 2005 with ten pilot schools, but Indiana NASP coordinator Tim Beck says that number has grown to just under 500 across the state. 'The program has been attractive to both almost 50/50 male and female,' Beck said. 'It's just a program, let's face it, not everybody makes it onto the basketball court or the football field, but we have a lot of students that really excel and find their niche with the archery program, and they get to interact. The social activity of archery is very unique.' Not only can youth here in Indiana get opportunities through their high school seasons, but they can also hone their skills by trying to get an arrow like this onto one of these targets at the Farmersburg Range and Archery. The Lambert family created the range when they saw the passion that their son Oliver had developed for the sport when he was in elementary school. Owner Amy Lambert says the next step was sharing that passion with the community. 'Locally to us, there weren't a lot of places where you could go and shoot archery competitively,' Lambert said. 'The youth programs in the state for us to practice were more than a couple hours away, so we decided to start our own S3DA team, which stands for Scholastic 3-D Archery, and it kind of takes NASP to that next level to prepare kids to shoot in college or to shoot competitively or just for fun for the rest of their lives.' As the sport continues to thrive, even current archers, like Sullivan junior Jayme Adkinson, say they have noticed a change since they began. 'With archery, you travel around a lot. You meet a lot of new people, you get out of your comfort zone,' Adkinson said. 'You socialize a lot, so it helps with your social skills and you just become friends with a lot of people, like I have people from four years ago that I've met and I'm still close friends with because of archery and S3DA.' Linton sophomore Rainey McCammon says the sport has become a staple in the Wabash Valley. 'I've seen it grow a lot,' McCammon said. 'When I was in fourth grade, we had about 20 kids around my age, and then the NASP program at Sullivan now has over 200 I'd say. Then I joined S3DA and it's even bigger.' The NASP season ended in early March, but the Midwest Mavericks still have plenty of shots to take in 2025. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Associated Press
17-04-2025
- Health
- Associated Press
NASP Applauds President Trump for Efforts to Reduce Drug Pricing and Address Necessary PBM Reforms
Washington, DC, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- President Trump issued an Executive Order titled Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First on Tuesday, April 15. The Executive Order called for the Administration and Congress to continue efforts from the first Trump Administration to reduce prescription drug costs. Included in the Executive Order is a plan to address the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, including improvements in the transparency of the program and reducing negative impacts to the pharmaceutical industry. The Executive Order also calls for a review of the role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). 'NASP is appreciative of President Trump's continued effort to reduce the drug costs of American seniors. NASP encourages the Trump Administration to ensure that implementation of the Drug Price Negotiation Program does not cause harm to specialty pharmacies who serve some of the sickest Americans.' NASP President and CEO Sheila Arquette, RPh stated. 'Specifically, we encourage the Trump Administration to ensure that specialty pharmacies are not left holding the bag as they seek to support patients. Pharmacies must be paid in a timely manner for drugs they dispense through the drug price negotiation program, and must not be reimbursed below the cost to dispense.' 'NASP appreciates the White House's want to address the anticompetitive practices of some PBMs. For far too long, specialty pharmacies have faced practices by some PBMs that make it impossible for specialty pharmacies to participate in networks, eliminating patient access to the specialty pharmacy of their choice. We have long been advocating for the passage of federal legislation to address these concerns. We call on the Trump Administration to ensure reform occurs through executive action, regulation or via legislation this year. 'NASP wants to also emphasize the importance of the 340B program in supporting low-income medication access for those with specialty conditions and funding chronic disease management programs. We caution against any reforms that would negatively impact the program, participating pharmacies and the patients served.' ### NASP represents all specialty pharmacy industry stakeholders. Specialty pharmacies serve communities of patients who have complex health conditions like cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, organ transplantation and rare diseases. Specialty pharmacies are accredited by an independent, third party nationally recognized accreditation organization ensuring consistent quality of extensive drug management and clinical patient care services. Sheila M. Arquette, RPh National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) (703) 842-0122 [email protected]
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Students participate in ‘Bullseye at the Bridge' archery competition
BRIDGEPORT, (WBOY) — Saturday was the 'Bullseye at the Bridge' archery competition at the Bridge Sports Complex, where roughly 1,000 kids in grades 4-12 competed in both team and individual competitions. The tournament was sanctioned by NASP, or the National Archery in Schools Program, which advocates for archery in schools, saying that it's an activity that is accessible to students regardless of popularity, athletic skill, gender or size and that it helps students learn self-control and discipline. 12 News talked to Griffin Aldridge, one of the competitors with Ignite Heat Archery. Aldridge said that when practicing he tries to focus on the small things and moments. 'Let's say I move out after release,' Aldridge said. 'I try to focus, like not to do that so that I can slowly progress better.' He also said that his favorite part of archery is meeting new people. Diners enjoy Valentine's Day Dinner at Adaland Mansion Aldridge and Fershe's coach Annitta Robinson said that she started coaching children in archery 10 years ago. When she started, she had 10 kids, and last year she had 86. She said that as an archery coach she has seen kids learn and mature, and that she hopes the sport grows more. 'We are hoping to continue to get schools interested,' Robinson said. 'The thing about it is someone in that public school has to step up and volunteer to be a sponsor of the program, and it is time consuming. There's no doubt about that, but I think the rewards greatly outweigh the time you put in it.' The scores at the 'Bullseye at the Bridge' competition are some of the scores considered when the top 7 schools get selected for the state tournament. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
