Slippery Rock resident Heather Stewart, who won two state archery championships earlier in the year, recently won a national title in the animal round during the National Field Archery Association Championships in Mechanicsburg.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Having competed in archery for 28 years, Heather Stewart had won championships before.

But never like this.

Stewart, 40, of Slippery Rock recently returned from the National Field Archery Association Championships in Mechanicsburg, where she shot perfect scores on consecutive days in the animal round to win a national title.

She also placed second nationally in the field and hunter divisions and wound up being named Pennsylvania State Archery Association Female Archer of the Year.

“I had won state titles in the intermediate youth division back in the day and won some adult state championships,” Stewart said. “This was the first year I've competed in pretty much everything.

“To have this kind of success? No, I never imagined it.”

Read the full story in Friday's Butler Eagle.