Matt Stutzman

Archery is already hard as it is, trying to shoot 70 meters with 44 to 56 pounds of draw weight.  How about you try to shoot this just as accurately as any Olympic archer but with no arms.  Matt using his compound has just broken his own record of farthest most accurate shot.  His new record of 283.047 meters or about 930.04 feet.  Matt shoots by holding his bow up with his leg and pulls back the string with his mouth.  Matt is on the US Paralympic Archery Team and in 2012 went to win a silver medal.  This was all told to my grandpa when last year in 2015 SoCal Showdown he volunteered as a helper.  He was assigned to go get and pull Matt's arrows 60 meters away at the Paralympic trials.   This was also my first time shooting up a division into the Cadet category and since my grandpa wasn't at my back checking my arrow flight, form, and arrow position on the target this made me even more nervous.  IT was a good experience for me, my grandpa, and grandma.  Congrats to Matt's new record and his performance at the Paralympic games.