commitment of the school district and strong sponsors and supporters interested in promoting the program. “When we were planning the class, we had to find a space that would allow practice for archery, bait-casting and other activities. I knew we had the old Agriculture Education Building available, but it was being used for storage and hadn’t been cleaned in years,” he added. After a lot of hard work and cleaning, the building between Lowery and Coach Dennis Bruton oversees a test during an Outdoor Adventures class. Eagle stadium was restored to usefulness. The end result is a new PE program around the state competed in the While securing a site for the that was started at a minimal cost to program. One Allen Eagle, junior classes, Anderson also faced the Allen ISD taxpayers. Brook Cooper actually tied for the challenge of finding a way to pay for For Anderson, one of the best individual state championship in the curriculum and providing the unexpected benefits of the Outdoor points, but fell to second place based proper equipment to meet course Adventures class is the creation of the on his number of bullseyes. requirements. “We applied for and first Allen High School Archery team. With the third-place finish, the received a $4,000 grant from the “In February, we took the first AHS team qualified to attend the national Foundation For Allen Schools, which team to compete in the state archery archery tournament May 12-13 in was a huge kick-start to the program,” Louisville, Kentucky. tournament in Belton,” Anderson v he stated. “Cabela’s (the outdoors enthused. “We placed third in state! sporting store) donated 24 fishing rigs How’s that for a first-year program?” Keith Taylor is a public relations specialist for and bows and the Foundation donation More than 330 archers from Allen ISD. helped us double the equipment.”
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