Student Spotlight with Kiersten Sues!

 

We're back for another student spotlight with Kiersten Sues, a 6th grader with the amazing ability of archery. Archery is a sport where people shoot with a bow and arrow at a target. It's a challenging sport in more ways than one, and Kiersten manages to keep up with every single challenge.

About a year ago, Kiersten started to develop an interest in archery due to the fact that most of the people in her family compete in the sport. From there, Kiersten found she had a talent in archery and decided to pursue it. Now, she travels around the country and competes in competitions.

Occasionally, Kiersten misses school for a week at a time for these competitions. Of course, she goes to school and has homework like everyone else. When Kiersten's gone, she takes her work with her to stay caught up with the rest of the class.  "Education is first because without education I can't do archery in the first place. So, I have to put my schoolwork first, and if I'm traveling, I get all my assignments early and just travel and [work on] school at the same time."

Although there is the downside of having to keep up with school while traveling or competing, Kiersten sticks with archery because of her passion for the sport. She told us that she loves, "the challenge of it. Archery isn't really something I guess anybody can do, and it never runs out of challenges. You can always find something else to do."

Even though archery presents many challenges, Kiersten loves the challenges, and is fearless in facing them. Kiersten truly has an amazing talent, and it's one that she won't give up.