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3 WOMEN SHOT OFF FOR THE INDOOR TITLE WITH CLEAN 600 120X SCORES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NFAA HISTORY!

For the first time in the history of the NFAA Indoor Nationals, the winner of the Freestyle Professional Female division was decided in a perfect shoot off.

Liko Arreola, Paige Pearce and Tanja Gellenthien each shot perfect scores of 600 points with 120Xs to make history. These are the very same three women who also tied on perfect scores at the Vegas Shoot in February, with Liko eventually taking the win.

At Indoor Nationals, archers shoot two rounds over two days. Each round consists of 30 arrows, split into 12 ends of five, for a total of 300 points per day. A combined score of 600 points is the maximum and only those who shoot 120Xs automatically move into the final shoot offs on Saturday night. No woman had ever achieved that feat before this weekend.

Pearce added before the shoot off: “It means a lot. There’s three of us going out there tonight: myself, Tanja and Liko. All of us kind of made history in Vegas for being the 900 girls that repeated it, and then we’re also now the first three to do it [here in Louisville], so it’s pretty neat. We were all down there joking saying like ‘here we go, it’s a repeat of the Vegas shoot off’, which is pretty cool.”

Tanja Gellenthien beat Paige Pearce and Liko Arreola in the historic finale.

“It feels amazing. It’s the title I’ve been trying to get for many, many years and I’ve had my shots but there’s been bad days or shot the wrong target, so this feels amazing,” said Tanja.

The women started with an end of practice followed by inside-out scoring rounds.

Tanja, Paige and Liko tied two ends, first with 25 and then with 24 as the pressure ramped up. In the third, back-to-back Vegas Shoot Champion Arreola dropped a point and was eliminated in third. Tanja and Paige continued to decide the winner.

With her fourth arrow of the fourth end, Pearce landed a four. Tanja Gellenthien needed two more perfect arrows to claim victory – and she delivered.

“Fast is not really my go to shot, so when you see me out there and I’m slow, that’s not what I want, I want that fast shot. I was actually slower than I wanted to be today.”