(June 16, 2006) — Maybe you are good at riding a bike. Maybe you are good at belching the alphabet backwards. Maybe you are good at getting straight A’s. But can you launch an arrow from a longbow whilst running parallel to a target and make perfect bulls-eye contact in the dead of night? No. But Thomas Lucero can (even on his bad days). Even as a five year old, it was clear that young Lucero’s skill in archery would be one for the record books. Children’s-sized training arrows with suction-cup-ends would only prove to be inhibitors to an already untamable and innate talent. As the years passed, this flair for archery would only grow and develop until eventually Lucero would be out-arching his peers at the Pasadena Roving Archers Archery Range. “People at the range thought I was some type of novice when they saw my technique. What I do is, is line up the string against my nose and straight with my eye…like a sight with a shotgun. They laughed until I hit a near bulls-eye from 50 feet away,” Lucero said as he cleaned his bow with a cloth. “They don’t laugh anymore.” Eventually, Lucero would choose to further develop his already expansive repertoire of archery skills. Using Clark’s senior project as the catalyst to even further refine his bow-and-arrow proficiency, Lucero once again wowed his Pasadena Roving Archers peers by demonstrating new techniques and self-taught modus operandi for getting the arrow to the target faster and more efficiently. As to where Lucero intends to go with his ability in the future, he is keeping his options open. “I love archery, there’s no doubt about that, but for now, I think I’ll just keep it as a hobby. I mean, it’s not like you can major in archery, become a professional archer and make any sort of living off of it.” Some, however, may misconstrue all of Lucero’s achievement in the field and believe it to be something totally unique; something incapable of replicating. “It’s nothing really,” he said. “Anyone can achieve the same results.”