AUBURNDALE, Fla. – World Cup archery is coming to the United States, with Stage 1 taking place in central Florida from April 8-13.

This is a great opportunity to get behind the top compound and recurve archers representing the red, white and blue of the United States. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.

Olympic medalists Brady Ellison and Casey Kaufhold return to the World Cup spotlight in 2025. Recurve archer Ellison has this month returned to number one in the world, a position he has held numerous times, including from August 2011 to April 2013, the longest continuous period in history. Kaufhold is world number two in recurve women, having last year become the first female American archer to be ranked number one.

Making the World Cup team for the first time will be Curtis Broadnax, Christian Stoddard and Abigail Winterton. Broadnax is a two-time gold medalist at the World Archery Youth Championships, in 2017 and 2019. Teenagers Stoddard and Winterton were silver medalists at Gator Cup and Arizona Cup respectively in 2024.

Alex Zuleta-Visser made the team in 2020, but the global Covid pandemic prevented her from being able to attend World Cup events. Zuleta-Visser was the recipient of the Shenk Award last year, presented to the senior male and female archer in the recurve division with the highest combined scores in the U.S. National Indoor, Field and Target Nationals.

The USA has a history of medaling at the World Cup. Last year, Sawyer Sullivan claimed triple gold at Stage 2 held in Korea, while James Lutz won gold at the World Cup Final in Mexico. Lutz and Sullivan are currently ranked number four and five in the world respectively.

Others to return home with medals in 2024 included Carson Krahe, Olivia Dean, Nick Kappers, world number seven Alexis Ruiz and Kris Schaff.

This will be the first time since Salt Lake City in 2018 that the USA has hosted a Hyundai Archery World Cup stage. World Cup Stage 3 was hosted by Salt Lake City in 2017 and 2018. Prior to that, the same stage was held in Ogden, Utah from 2010-2012.

Yankton, S.D. was home to the 2021 Archery World Cup Final, where Jack Williams and Brady Ellison took gold and silver in the recurve men’s event, with Braden Gellenthien and Kris Schaff claiming silver and bronze in the compound men.