Press Release

March 13, 2013

NASP® Announces On-Line Charity Tournament to Benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

By: Kevin Dixon, Vice President NASP®

Kids Helping Kids

 In NASP® we are “Changing Lives one arrow at a time”. NASP® and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are joining forces to expand our influence to “Saving Lives one arrow at a time”.

Since 2002 parents and teachers have reported how participation in NASP® has helped youth become better students, not just better archers. This new charity tournament will be another great lesson - about helping others.

NASP® is offering weekly online virtual tournaments through May 3rd, 2013. The registration fee is a donation of $5.00 per participant per week. Proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.  All NASP® students are eligible to participate. Students may be registered for one or more of the 9 weeks of this event.

Weekly prizes will be randomly presented to one participating student and a prize package will also be awarded to that student’s school. One lucky archer will be invited to present the donation check to St. Jude representatives at our NASP® National Tournament on May 11th in Louisville, Kentucky.

In the first week, students from 9 different States participated in this event. Haley Sappe from Springfield Middle School, South Carolina won a Genesis bow and Springfield Middle School won a Genesis bow, a box of arrows and a Morrell target for their school program.

Schools that would like to be involved in the tournament should visit www.nasptournaments.org to sign up.

In addition to the NASP® Charity Virtual Tournament, NASP® Students can also help St. Jude though peer fundraising or direct donations by visiting this link www.stjude.org/nasp

St. Jude will be giving away commemorative t-shirts to anyone that raises $35.00 or more through their site. This is completely separate from the Charity Virtual Tournament.

Together we can help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continue “Finding Cures. Saving Children.”   

For more information about St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: www.stjude.org