Paralympic Sport Clarksville to host Archery and Shooting Event

Clarksville, TN – Paralympic Sport Clarksville is excited to announce the first Paralympic Archery and Shooting Event to be held at 10:00am Friday, October 12th at the Montgomery County Shooting Complex, located at 4201 Southside Road in Southside, TN.

This event is open to youth and adults at least 8-years-old, including active duty service members and veterans, with physical and visual disabilities, regardless of skill level.

Paralympic Archery and Shooting will feature contests in archery, skeet and trap shooting. Participants must provide their own rifle for the shooting contests, while some equipment will be provided for the archery portion of the day.

The day will also feature an auction to benefit Paralympic Sport Clarksville as well as the North Central Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.

U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the City of Clarksville’s Parks and Recreation department partnered in May 2012 to create Paralympic Sport Clarksville. This is the first in a line of events to be hosted by Parlympic Sport Club Clarksville.

All programs and activities will be based in Clarksville and run by Clarksville’s Parks and Recreation department.

For more information on the Paralympic Archery and Shooting Event, please visit www.cityofclarksville.com or call 931.645.7476.