CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Kristyn Duncan was selected as the Co-Female Shooter of the Year after the Mid-South Conference Outdoor Championships to cap off the MSC slate, the conference office announced on Sunday.
Duncan was joined by University of the Cumberlands' Tara Currie in earning MSC Female Shooter of the Year accolades.
Over the three conference tournaments, Duncan won five medals, which included a medal in each 3D, indoor and outdoor, highlighted with a pair of silver medals.
At the MSC 3D Championships in September, she was on the second-place finishing Women's Bowhunter team with
Ariel Emberton and
Madison Myatt. The trio won their opening round match, 170-139, over University of Pikeville, but lost in the final in a narrow, 151-143, contest against Cumberlands.
Finishing off the 3D championships, Duncan competed with
Conner Campbell in the Mixed Bowhunter division and the pair finished third. The duo first lost to Bethel University, 105-99, but rebounded in the bronze medal match against Pikeville and won, 106-92.
Starting the 2018 portion the season at the indoor conference event, Duncan finished second in the Women's Bowhunter team event and placed sixth in the individual portion of the discipline. Duncan, Emberton and Myatt teamed up once again in the team Bowhunter and started with a 200-184 victory over Pikeville, but fell in the gold medal match to Cumberlands, 231-191.
Individually, she qualified for the bracket portion of the tournament in seventh place, where she won in the opening round over Cumberlands' Sarah Perkins, 138-135, but lost in the next round to second-seeded Samantha Rayburn of Cumberlands, 143-124.
Rounding out the season this past weekend at the Mid-South Conference Outdoor Championships, Duncan captured a pair of bronze medals to highlight the meet. Duncan's first bronze came in the team Women's Bowhunter, where she Emberton and Myatt dropped a 174-149 contest to Pikeville to finish third. Then in the Mixed Bowhunter team event, Duncan and Campbell lost in the first round to Pikeville, 131-119, but rebounded in the third-place match against Georgetown College and won, 130-112.
In her lone individual event, Duncan finished tied for eighth in the Women's Bowhunter division. She qualified in sixth place and edged her teammate and 11th-seeded Emberton, 124-108. However, Rayburn got in Duncan's way once again in the quarterfinals, where Duncan suffered a 137-102 defeat to finish eighth.
Cumberlands had a near sweep of the individual accolades to closeout the conference season as Kris Strebeck was named MSC Coach of the Year, Jayson Byrd earned MSC Male Shooter of the Year honors and Aaron Adams was selected as the MSC Male Newcomer of the Year. Cumberlands' Rayburn and Caleb Dixon also swept the MSC Champions of Character award. The lone individual accolade that Cumberlands did not have a hand in was MSC Female Newcomer of the Year, where McKenzie Tompkins of Kentucky Christian University won the award.
Campbellsville placed fourth overall in the team standings to finish out the conference season after compiling 10.5 total team points, while Cumberlands won all three conference events to win the overall title with 18 points.
