Kentucky student speaks out after Biden withholds shooting sports funds: 'Archery means everything to me'

National Archery in the Schools Program's Tommy Floyd and 8th-grade NASP student Kimber Collins on the need to protect archery programs in schools and how these programs benefit students.

A Kentucky eighth-grader and a national scholastic archery organization leader spoke out after Fox News confirmed the Biden administration will withhold funding for elementary and high school shooting sports, which it considers the proper interpretation of a 2022 gun safety law.

Following the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in the wake of mass shootings in Florida, New York and Texas, the Biden administration confirmed it has interpreted the law to prohibit such funding.

The Education Department, under Secretary Miguel Cardona, said it believes the law means funding earmarked for scholastic shooting sports under a 1965 public education law should be blocked nationwide.

The development was met by concern from National Archery in Schools Program President Tommy Floyd, as well as a young archer from rural Kentucky.

BIDEN ADMIN WITHHOLDING KEY FUNDING FOR SCHOOL HUNTING, ARCHERY PROGRAMS

Tommy Floyd, Kimber Collins, and Fox News correspondent Rich Edson (Fox News Channel)

"I started in fourth grade around four years ago, and archery means everything to me," Kimber Collins told Fox News' America Reports' on Wednesday.

"I love it. I shoot every day," said Collins, who hails from Jenkins, a town on the other side of Pine Mountain from Wise, Va.

Collins was recently named the "top female archer" in the National Archery Schools Program competitions, according to the Hazard, Ky., CBS affiliate.

"It's the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about when I fall asleep," she told "America Reports."

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