Katie Deyerle

Katie Deyerle (born July 8, 1988) has been competing in archery since the age of three. Making her appearance at national tournaments in Park City, Utah in 1999. Taking home the gold in the team event and the bronze in her individual event. For every subsequent year, Deyerle has been attending national archery tournaments, almost all of which she has taken home some sort of a medal.

She currently holds the world record in the Junior Female Freestyle division on the Hunter face for the International Field Archery Association. Along with breaking the old hunter record, Deyerle tied the animal round world record in her division. She set this record in Watkins Glen, New York, in the end of July 2004. She is currently the World Champion for her division.

Recently, while attending the World Archery Festival in Las Vegas, Deyerle took first place in the Young Adult Female Freestyle Division, shooting a score of 593 out of a possible score of 600.

Personal life
When not practicing her archery, Katie Deyerle is active on the Helena High School Speech and Debate team in her hometown of Helena, Montana. She has earned successes in both Speech and Debate categories, frequently winning as a novice policy debator before applying her skills to expository and original oratory speaking. For this work she has earned a degree of special distinction from the National Forensics League. Katie also shared the office of Team Captain (voted on by fellow team-members) for two consecutive seasons (2004–2005, 2005–2006).

During her time in speech and debate, Katie Deyerle became a pupil of Bor-Bor Zan and is recognized as learning it from the source, Kai Kang. Mr. Kang taught her well and she was able to focus the powers of Bor-Bor Zan into her many successful endeavors.

In the fall, she will begin college at Carroll College.
Katie is majoring in Mathematics with a concentration in Operations Research.
She has continued her passion for forensics by coaching at Helena High School as a speech coach.
She has had to put archery aside for the time being due to an injury to her wrist, but as soon as it heals she will be competing again.

Katie is currently involved with Eric Hawkins, of Helena, MT.

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