The middle school archery team at Cataylst Christian School earned a second-place finish at the 2026 Pennsylvania State NASP 3D Tournament in March while setting a new school team record of 1,571. This was the first team award received by the Catalyst archery team. Individual awards were also won in the tournament by eighth-grader Danika Martin, who took third place with a personal best score of 280/300, improving upon her fifth-place finish in 2025. Sixth-grader Lily Fry also had a personal best score of 277/300 and took the award for fourth place in the tournament.

The middle school team also went to Louisville, Ky., in May to compete in the NASP Eastern National Championship. Fellow high school archer Kaylee Zimmerman also attended, competing in her fifth national tournament with NASP. The team found success at the tournament by posting a qualifying 3D team score for the NASP Championship Tournament, which took place in Daytona Beach, Fla., in June. Danika and Kaylee posted individual qualifying scores. Kaylee Zimmerman was the only Catalyst archer who attended the championship tournament.

Catalyst Christian School, formerly Lititz Area Mennonite School, has participated in the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) for nine years. The first individual state award was won in 2022 in the team's fifth year. Since then, Catalyst has had at least one individual award winner each year in either the 3D or the Bullseye state tournaments, including a two-time state 3D champion. This year, the team accomplished two firsts in the school archery program history: first, winning a team award in the 3D tournament by shooting a national-qualifying score in 3D for the third year in a row; and second, posting a Bullseye national-qualifying score for the first time in the school's history.

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