Just starting at five years old, junior Brooke Landry knife throws and competes with different people from all over the world with five different distances that they throw from.

The objective of the sport is to score the highest amount of points.

“You throw at three targets and in each target, you can get a maximum of five points,” Landry said. “So for each distance, you can get fifteen points total and there are four rounds. The highest score is the winner.”

Landry has been knife throwing with freshman Gillian Sittler ever since she was little and were apart of a team together for five years.

“She’s been throwing since she was like five and has just been committed to it for a really long time,” Sittler said.

She’s been throwing for almost twelve years and that’s how she’s gotten to be top-notch at the sport.

“I got into it when I was five, so it’s just the only thing I’ve ever really done,” Landry said. “I’ve done it for a while and I guess I’ve gotten pretty good at it, so it’s just something I’ve done all the time.”

Brooke’s father, Mike Landry, is the person she looks up to with her sport and it’s how they bonded.

“He’s always loved it too but cant really do it because he has problems with his legs. His knees and feet don’t work as well, so I always do it to make him proud,” Brooke said. “This is definitely our thing.”

She throws around her father when she practices and there’s about twelve inches between Mike and the edge of the board that she hits.

“She throws ten knives around me. She starts at the knees and work her way up to the head,” Mike said. “She’s done this since she was about eight-years-old, throwing around either myself or her instructor and she’s never hit us yet.”

Brooke has won first place at the world championships three times and it’s one of her biggest achievements.

“When I first started throwing, my first year I won first place at the world championships and then my second year, I won first as well. Then a few years later, I won first again,” Brooke said.

Not only is she a three time world champion, but has also achieved something many other things.

“She was the youngest person to break 200,” Sittler said. “She was for a while the highest ranked female knife thrower in the world and one of the youngest.”

In knife throwing, the highest score you can get is 300. Brooke got a score of 200 which made her at the expert level.

“200 is what gets you to what’s called ‘The Expert Level,’ and she was the first female to ever achieve a 200 score,” Mike said. “Which made her an expert in the eyes of the knife throwers and apart of The International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame.”

Landry has gotten many opportunities with her knife throwing. She got to attend an Eagle Scout ceremony as the entertainment with her knife throwing.

“There was a young man who is autistic and he’s a Boy Scout. He’s been following her on Facebook, watching her knife throw since she was really little and he’s a year younger than her. He earned his Eagle Scout and for the entertainment, he emailed Brooke,” Mike said. “The young man reached out to her and she didn’t even hesitate, she just went out and did it.”

Landry continues to play this unique sport and enjoys doing it everyday.

“It’s really unique, no one ever believes that I do it,” Landry said. “It’s a weird hobby, but it’s definitely different than anything else.”