Archery Initiation at AGASSI Prep School


  Following the visit of Longines Ambassador Andre AGASSI at the World Archery Indoor Championships finals last Thursday, where he presented the new champions with Longines watches, a strong delegation of archers went to the Andre AGASSI College Preparatory Academy of Las Vegas to give an initiation.   The No. 1 recurve men archer in the world and favourite for the Olympic gold medal next July in London, Brady ELLISON, made a demonstration of his skills. Rather than shooting the bull’s eye of the target like in competition, Brady had to blow up balloons placed on targets about 20 yards away. Four arrows, four blown balloons, and the kids were all excited. Then Brady could tell the kids all about why he picked up archery and how he became so successful at it.   Later on several classes from the school, for a total of about 200 students, had the chance to shoot some arrows under the guidance of a team of certified instructors/coaches from USA Archery. They also received the support of  three times Olympic champions KIM Soo-Nyung (KOR) -photo-, the 1992 team Olympic champion Juan Carlos HOLGADO (ESP) and the 1988 Olympic medallist Denise PARKER (USA). All of them occupy now various functions in archery management and were present at the world championships in Las Vegas. They kindly came to enjoy this afternoon where the cheers of the kids were responding to each blown-up balloon!   AGASSI is an Olympic gold medallist and eight time Grand Slam singles champion, but continued his efforts in the public sector after his 2006 retirement by founding the Andre AGASSI Foundation for Education, which has raised over 177 million for underserved youth in the greater Las Vegas area. The Andre AGASSI College Preparatory Academy of Las Vegas is a tuition free public charter school for children in the historical West Las Vegas community.   World Archery would like to thank Longines, who is an official archery sponsor and supports AGASSI’s foundation. Both on the field of play and in the school yard, archery and Longines combined once again precision and elegance as an attitude.   World Archery Communication
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