Lititz Area Mennonite School

A Lancaster County school that received a grant from the Lancaster Archery Foundation in 2024 already is seeing the investment pay off in 2025.

Lititz Area Mennonite School was awarded a $1,000 grant from the foundation to buy targets, arrows and various other archery gear related to the NASP format of competitions.

And while in previous years the school only ever had two students at most qualify for the NASP Eastern Nationals tournament, in 2025 the school had seven qualify.

Justin Zimmerman, Lititz Area Mennonite’s head archery coach for the middle and high school teams, said he only expects his team’s success to continue going forward.

“These funds will be tremendously helpful in helping our program grow,” he said of the grant.

Lititz Area Mennonite School started elementary, middle school and high school NASP teams in 2017.

The school applied for a grant from the Lancaster Archery Foundation in 2024 “to update our equipment to provide better quality equipment supplies for our archers,” the school’s grant application states.

The quality of the team’s gear was a chief complaint from students who participated since 2017, according to the application.

Helping a program such as the Lititz Area Mennonite School’s NASP team upgrade its equipment in order to attract more students and to increase their chances for success is at the core of Lancaster Archery Foundation’s mission.

Based in Lancaster, Pa., the Lancaster Archery Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to expand, develop and promote 3D and target archery to help people improve their confidence, discipline and leadership skills through participation in competitive archery.