Easterly travels to regional free-throw competition

 

Photo Submitted by Jeannie Easterly

Kaylyn Easterly recently traveled to the regional Hoop Shoot competition in Washington State, after being named the Alaska Hoop Shoot champion late last year among all eight to nine-year old female contestants.

Wrangell fourth-grader Kaylyn Easterly traveled to Washington state earlier this month to participate in the Hoop Shoot regional competition.

The Hoop Shoot is an annual contest put on by the National Elks Foundation. Participants - boys and girls ages 8 to 13 - have to shoot 25 free throws. Those who sink the most baskets win and move on from a local contest, to regionals and onto the national competition.

Easterly won Wrangell’s Hoop Shoot late last year among the eight-and nine-year-old girl contestants. She sank 14 out of the 25 free throws, making her the top scorer in the state o...



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