Winging the outdoor season though hasn’t totally hindered her career as she currently sits in the world rankings at number 23, but this is largely due to the Santiago 2022 Pan American Champion’s record in the indoor season, nearly as equally impressive as her field endeavours.
Pearce currently has 10 international indoor medals to her name and nearly added an eleventh recently in the Swiss Open Lausanne, the opening stage of the 2025 Indoor World Series, but narrowly lost to Dane Tanja Gellenthien in the compound women’s bronze final.
“I pulled back from the World Cups, but at indoor, I really never slowed down. If anything, I kind of picked up on that,” last year’s GT Open gold medallist responded when asked about her indoor career. “It is nice to be able to jump back in and show that on the World Archery side of things, that’s what I’m looking to do.”
“I put more focus on these individual events because it has all of my attention instead of being at Vegas and then just one evening getting thrown into a different type of event with a different sight, different arrows. That’s challenging,” she added.
So far, the challenge of Vegas, which happens on 8 March next year, hasn’t bothered Pearce’s career having podiumed in the 2020 (gold), 2021 (silver) and 2024 (bronze) Indoor Series Finals and a respectable start in Lausanne bodes well for the rest of her indoor season.
It may not be in the glamour divisions of outdoor World Cups or World Championships, but Pearce has dedicated her time to an area of archery lesser known on the global scale, creating a niche for herself that has propelled to having over 30,000 followers on Instagram and over 15,000 subscribers on YouTube, where she creates short videos, offering advice on bow set ups and other tips much like her compatriot Jake Kaminski.
Making the USA compound team has never been an issue for Pearce having won numerous national titles, but she chooses to use her position on it sparingly at least on the world outdoor stage to fulfil her potential in field.
She is a living vindication that highly successful careers can be made in compound archery without the lights, camera and action that the outdoor season is often perceived to bringing.
