Pennsylvania Club expands Youth Equipment With Help From the Lancaster Archery Foundation

A southeast Pennsylvania archery club is expanding its youth outreach thanks to a grant from the Lancaster Archery Foundation.

Reading Archery Club S3DA last year received a $1,000 grant from the foundation, which it used to buy and build five complete, youth compound bow setups - four right-handed and one left-handed Diamond Atomic bows.

Those bows are available for use by kids attending the club’s various youth archery programs, who don’t have their own archery gear.

“We will be having an influx of new archers onto our team as we wrap up our Introduction to Archery class and begin 3D season practice in the first week of March,” said Bob Lauffer, the club’s head coach.  

“Thank you for providing these funds and encouraging these young archers as they enter into our amazing sport.”

Rob Kaufhold, president of the Lancaster Archery Foundation’s board of directors, credited Reading Archery Club S3DA for its work introducing kids to archery.

“This is exactly how you get kids into archery – at the club level,” he said. “Kids see their friends going to shoot their bows at the club and they want to go along too. Next thing you know, there are several kids finding out they love archery, and they might not ever have experienced it otherwise.”

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.