Past "What's New" items

As of September 1, 2015 Straight Arrow Archery Learning Center will be accepting Annual Subscriptions for both youth and adults.
Benefits: * 24-hour access to the facility
* If you choose to shoot for Victoria County 4-H, start up shooting fee waived
* If you choose to shoot for South A JOAD annual club dues will be waived.

Annual Subscription (September 1 - August 31):
Family $300 (maximum 6 household members) after 6th $50 per person,
Individual $175

Youth under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Any of the following board members can sign you up:

Jimmy Genzer 361-571-1618 Leanne Hempel +1 (361) 550-9644
Gene or Margie Kacir
Walter Dixon +1 (361) 571-0820
Tammi Dixon 1 (361) 571-0824
Nikki Genzer 361-571-6694

Questions? Please contact any board member via phone, text, email or Facebook.
Facebook: Straight Arrow Archery Learning Center

We are also looking for private or business sponsors and we have plenty of room to advertise your sponsorship.
Straight Arrow Archery Learning Center thanks you in advance for supporting our surrounding communities youth.

We have begun an honor target for Coach Steve Overbeck. Target #1 at this weeken'd TOTS was dedicated to him, and the archers signed the target. It will be present at the Target and TOTS Championship.

August 22, 2015: A seminar for Level III-NTS and Level IV-NTS coaches (only). This one-day seminar to be conducted by Level V Coach Guy Krueger at A A&M Campus.

For more information, and to register for this limited-seating course, please refer to this link.

7/21/2015: Official Scores Posted for State Field

Photo Albums are uploaded now - Hints: Load one of the pages, then hit Ctrl-F and type part of an archer's name to find them. Click on their first image, then use the right-arrow key to scroll through the shot sequences. Or, just let the whole page play as a slide show, full screen. You can use the sprocket to control speed, even... :) Ron

7/8/2015: Do you need to be a member of the USAA/AA/NFAA to play in the State Field Championship? NO. You need to be a member (and we encourage you to join the USAA!) if you wanna win a trophy, or to be able to claim a state/national/world record. BUT! If you just want to have fun and compare your score to all the others, you may shoot as a GUEST. We have independent insurance coverage for non-members! So Sign Up, and pay the DISCOUNTED price of $30 for adults and $20 for all archers in the youth categories (anyone who is 20 years old as of 12/31/2015).

7/6/2015: DATE CHANGE NOTICE: USA Archery Level 2 Certification Clinic with Coach Lynda Lecompte,

Saturday, August 29th: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & Sunday, August 30th: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.. For Information, see the Training Operations Page.

Back-of-the-envelope counts(NOT OFFICIAL!) : For the just concluded National Target Championships and Easton JOAD Nationals there were some 850+ competitors. I reckon there were 66 archers from A (Includes 1 from LA by request) which consisted of:11 Barebow, 26 Compound, and 29 Recurve, 28 women & 38 Men. A tied with Georgia (the host state, which always will have a good turnout) at 66 attending, and the next higher state contingent was number one with 144 (!) Californians competing. Wow.

6/20/2015: The Archival Archery State Field event will be in Austin, at the Emma Long Park's AAC facility. For Info, photos of the venue, a Google Earth map of the venue, and of course, to register online for this event, use this link to Archival Archery State Field! and MAP TO THE VENUE

The FITA Field event hosted by the Austin Archery Club for Archival Archery members is an introduction for Archival Archery to the venue, which is excellent, very nice central A hill country. This will likely be the location of the Archival Archery State Field Championship as well, later in the summer. Registration is available for the event. I realized belatedly that there is no need for a deadline on the 2nd, as we do not have to order trophies. REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. MAP TO THE VENUE

the TEXAS SHOOTOUT is an Olympic Trials event this year!
USA Archery has an overview of the process!

JUNE 20th/21st - Archival Archery JOAD STATE TARGET CHAMPIONSHIP

Registration information is now posted for this tournament. It is being hosted by T.H.E. JOAD club in Columbus and will be held at the Columbus Fairgrounds. Due to the dramatic increase in youth archers in A, we do not plan room for adults to play this time.

3/29/2015: Results are posted for the FIRST of the 2015 TOTS events. Also, the results for the FITA II indoor (25 meter) events have been posted.

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Daryl Ramnarace, as the first adult archer to exceed 1000 (a 1010) in a TOTS round, joining Justin Dixon who exceeded 1000 several times last year as a cadet!

There were many A archers (at least 37!) that placed at the just released preliminary results for USA Archery’s indoor national archery tournament.  With thousands of archers shooting over dozens of venues for about 6 weeks getting all the results submitted has been a huge task for the American Archers staff!  The early results show the following A archers placing in the FITA unless otherwise designated in the concurrent JOAD event:

First Place

• Rick Stonebraker - Male Master Barebow
• Wanda Newsom - Female Master Compound Fingers
• Collin Klimitchek - Male Senior Recurve
• Heather Koehl (adopted Texan at A&M) - Female Collegiate Recurve
• Emily Fischer - Female Junior Compound
• Inga Pever - Female Cub Recurve 
• Inga Pever - Female Cub Recurve JOAD
• Kelli Heusi - Female Cadet Recurve JOAD

Second Place

• Mike Frizzell - Male Master Barebow
• Michelle Gilbert (adopted Texan at A&M) -  Female Senior Recurve
• Kelli Heusi - Female Cadet Recurve 
• Conner Sears - Male Cub Compound

3rd Place

• Hunter Teel - Male Collegiate Bowhunter
• Gus Braendle - Male Cadet Recurve

A very special shout out to two JOAD barebow archers whose scores were put in with the olympic recurve (ie, bows with clickers and sights) results since there is no barebow JOAD divisions yet in USA Archery. (Barebows, remember, have no clicker, no sights, and no stabilizers!) We note that Ryland Hartman finished 30th with his BAREBOW out of 52 recurves with sights(!) in the Male Junior Recurve and Bryce Wilfert finished 5th with his barebow out of 48 in the male bowman recurve division, again proving that shooting barebow does not mean you cannot hit what you want!

Other Texans among the top 10 finishers in their divisions include 

• Vic Wunderle, Matthew Requa and Ryan Fortenberry, Male Senior Recurve;
• Gary Wood, Male Master Barebow; 
• John Magera, Barry Watson, and Wilson Watson, Senior Male Barebow; 
• Megan Tan, Senior Female Barebow;
• MIriam Trafford, Female Junior Recurve;
• Herbert Powers, Jr., Male Master 70+ Recurve;
• Ethel Strother, Female Master 50+ Compound;
• Hardy Trafford, Male Cadet Recurve
• Savannah Vanderweir, Female Cadet Compound & JOAD Female Cadet Compound;
• Andrew Mantle, Male Cub Recurve & JOAD Male Cub Recurve;
• John Jordan Jeffries, JOAD Male Junior Recurve;
• Paige Hill, JOAD Female Recurve;
• Emily Fischer, JOAD Female Junior Compound (in addition to a non-JOAD first place);
• Gwendolynn Murphy, JOAD Female Cadet Recurve;
• Rishika Ann Kumar, JOAD Female Cub Recurve;
• Connor Sears, JOAD Male Cub Compound;
• Brooke Vandenbergh, JOAD Female Cub Compound;
• Kemper Clamon & Shelby Smith, JOAD Female Bowman Recurve;
• Don Ferguson, Male Senior Modern Longbow;

If we have overlooked any other placers, please do let the webmaster know and we'll insure we include you on the website summary, and thanks to Tom Barker for sifting through all the pages of results!  TO ALL the Texans shooting, congratulations on competing and we hope for your continued improvement in archery!

3/6/2015: We have CHANGED TO a 1pm line for the FITA II indoor 25 meter shoot in Columbus March 14, and ALSO ADDED A 1PM LINE for the TOTS event in Houston.

The 9am line in Houston makes it easy for local archers, while the 1pm line takes the pressure for "dawn patrol" starts to the day for those archers that might be driving a bit of a distance for the event. After all, they don't sing about "miles and miles of A" for nuthin'... :)

Archers who have shot in three or more regular season TOTS events are eligible to shoot for the TOTS championship. Their top three scores will be carried into the finals. Archers can check their scores and standings *here* to see where they rank. Those that haven't shot three or more season TOTS events are still welcome to come shoot on a space available basis against A' best for bragging rights and to give notice for next years TOTS season.

8/4/2014:POSTPONED! LABOR DAY CLOUT TOURNAMENT! Why is clout suddenly so popular? Because you get to shoot arrows way up in the sky, ON PURPOSE! Check this event out, hosted by Archival Archery and Straight Arrow Archery, sponsored by Victoria Regional Airport Commission. If you've never tried clout, no worries, Rick Stonebraker will be running the event and will be providing tips and hints. Flyer for the event. Register using the TOTS form to let Rick know how many to plan for. (Pay at the door).

5/1/2014: Photos from the Archival Archery State Field event have been posted to this link. and Additional photos by Michael Hojnacki

9/14/2013: WADA has added to the banned substance list, which will be published online around October 1. Did you know that getting an IV of D5W in the ER or hospital *might* be problematic for an athlete unless proper paperwork is filed? From the press release regarding the new list: "Stimulants bupropion, caffeine, nicotine, phenylephrine, phenylpropanolamine, pipradrol, pseudoephedrine (< 150 micrograms per milliliter), synephrine, and narcotics hydrocodone, mitragynine, morphine/codeine ratio, tapentadol and tramadol have all been added to the 2014 Monitoring Programme for possible in-competition abuse. In addition, glucocorticosteroids have been added to the Programme for possible out-of-competition abuse. "

Vicodin is no longer an ok drug for archers, and "glucocorticosteroids" means drugs like prednisone and medrol dospaks...

SHORT NOTICE BUT WORTH IT!
Coach Mickey Estep out in west A is going to host a TOT’s Match provided we can generate some interest!

West A TOT’s will be held on August 3rd, 2013 in Gardendale A (Just North of Odessa and Midland, A)
Map link: http://goo.gl/maps/5z7Vs

Same Format as Prior TOT’s events
Practice starts at 9 am and scoring starts at 10 am.
Please email Mickey Estep or call at 432-425-5175 to register or for more detailed information and directions. $20 per shooter, Field will be limited to first 36 archers.

Please spread the word - talk to folks in your local archery shops if you are in the region - let the kids shoot!

5/31/2013: USA Archery Level One Instructor Class
June 9, 2013 held at Archery on Fire near The Woodlands, TX from 9-5. No previous experience necessary. Please email: Coach Overbeck to RSVP or with questions.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by webmaster for beginning archers and parents of same.

Results from the TOTS series have been posted.

4/2/2013(STICKY): The information for the USA Archery U.S. National Field Championships for 2013 (includes the World Games Team Trial for Recurve and Barebow) is now released to the public. Check this link for full information and for online registration.

3/26/2013: Due to conflicts with a World Cup event, the dates for the USA Archery National Field event have changed to one day earlier: June 6, 7, & 8 (Thurs/Fri/Sat).
June 6 Thursday Official Practice
June 7 Friday Practice followed by 24 unmarked targets
June 8 Saturday Practice followed by 24 marked targets

Austin-area Level 3 Coaching Certification/Education course will be held the weekend of January 25, 26, and 27, 2013 in multimedia lecture room 22 of the Anna Hiss Gym Archery Range on the University of A Campus.

Check the Training Opportunity Page (link in the left menu column)

10/29/2012: Information and registration for the UT Longhorn Indoor can be found at this link.

The Aggie Indoor has information at this link.

9/14/2012: The scorecards for the Archival Archery State Target have been added up, arrow by arrow, and all records identified. Twenty-one records were set by 11 Archival Archery archers. The final version of the results has been posted. David Morring has shot video footage and edited together a short film of the 30th State Target event. Really well done! Here is the link to the video on vimeo.

8/3/2012: NBC is making every archery match available for online (internet) viewing in high definition! If you get your NBC through a cable or a satellite, chances are you can sign on at NBCOlympics.com and choose to REPLAY videos of entire days of shooting. This is the most coverage ever, the best thing for archers around the US and the world to see. Check it out!

TO get into the mood...

7/19/2012: Who among us Texan archers remember how to write a letter?

If you have ever met or just admired from afar the Trafford family of archers, it would be a good thing if you were to write a couple of good old-fashioned letters.

TWO of the Traffords have begun serving the USA through military service. Both Rachel and Heather are in the depths of the most taxing and harsh levels of training and are doing very well. But.

In this time, they are isolated in many ways and don't have much opportunity to hear about the outside world. No Facebook (no electronics at all, OMG) . No news. No newspapers, magazines, virtually nothing except....personal letters mailed through the US Mail.

They have both given the next few years of their lives to serve us. Can you take the next few minutes, and a single postage stamp, to simply write them, tell them a little bit about what's going on in say, your neck of the woods and archery? It doesn't have to be long, just something informative and interesting, that will help them to feel linked to our community. Heather has been appointed to the Naval Academy and Rachel, to the US Air Force Academy where she is currently undergoing Survival/Escape/Evasion training.

Please take a moment to write each of these archers. Heather will still be allowed to represent the US on the team she won a place to, in France in the World Field Championships very shortly (the admiral in charge of her training has granted her unique permission to do this which is a wonderful and unusal thing), though currently she is allowed only a rubber bungy to practice with. I am sure with her lifetime of shooting that she will be competitive, but if you, reading this, could be persuaded to write letters to her and her sister, you would be doing a profoundly great thing!

Please write letters, include something good & interesting (the Olympics, for example - positive things) from the newspaper or your favorite magazine, that young ladies might enjoy perhaps, and then next week, write again. Set a reminder on your smart phone so you remember to do it again in a week, and over the next month, please write as often as you can. Mail call in the military is a BIG thing, and sending letters to Heather and to Rachael can give them a lift that helps them suceed. Write, please, and do it often!

MIDN Heather Trafford  
US Naval Academy  
L Company 22 Platoon  
Annapolis‎ MD‎ 21412  United States    

  

  Rachaels address is;    
Cadet Rachael Trafford  
PO Box 4439  
USAF Academy‎ CO‎ 80841  United States

7/11/2012: From Cindy Bevilacqua: "For everyone who wants to follow Team USA Archers in London. If your cable or satellite package includes CNBC or MSNBC you can live stream the Olympics for FREE. Just follow the directions, it's pretty simple. You will need a username and password from your provider, which is easy enough to do on most providers websites. They have the schedule and replays will be available. Sign up to watch and cheer! Look out London here come Team USA! http://www.nbcolympics.com/ liveextra/help/index.html"

ARCHERY TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND:
PERSONAL COACHING EXCELLENCE: 2008 Beijing Bronze medalist, Lindsey Carmichael, is a USA Archery level 3 coach and world class competitor. She is well versed in the National Training System (NTS) method of bow shooting and conducts private one-on-one archery classes in the North Austin/Leander/Cedar Park/Lago Vista area near North Austin in Central A. For more information on her career in archery please refer to Wikipedia. Ages 7 and up, no equipment or experience is necessary. Email Lindsey with "archery lesson" in the subject, for information and to inquire about a personal class.

in the South Austin area, exists the Austin Archers JOAD. In Victoria the go-to school is Straight Arrow Archery. All three provide training to excellence in archery following the USA Archery's National Training System (NTS), and supply gear for students to use..

Fans excited about seeing archery live from the Olympic Games can get alerts for viewing schedules, and will also be able to watch from their mobile device, taking the Olympic experience with them on the go. Tablet and mobile apps will be available from NBCOlympics.com. For complete information, visit http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/index.html.

5/25/2012: You should know by now that A is fortunate to have a boatload of archers representing the United States in the World Archery Championships. USA Archery does not fund the archers' expenses - they get the right to represent, but they have to find the money to make the trip. Can you help with a donation (of any amount)?

Here is a summary by Brandi Brannan-Barthels:

South A - Archery World Field Championships France

5/13/2012: This news just in, via Facebook and Tom Barker:

So proud of the current members and alumni of South A Archery JOAD club. Hunter Barthels, Allison Williams, Emily Fischer! Katie Fischer, Hardy Trafford, Miriam Trafford, Rachael Trafford, and Li Ping Trafford as well as Jory Schroeder will be representing in France after making the USA world field team. Special shout out too to Jeremy Minor and Heather Barthels for competing even though they got beat. They shot up an age division for the experience and no one should bet against them in two years when they apply the lessons learned this week. Also, a special recognition on how to compete to Skip Trafford who basically shot blind. No Quit doesn't even to begin to describe that mans approach. Inspiration to all of our archers. For the story on the Trafford Family, see below, and for the academy of archery excellence that these archers shoot from (mentored by Gene Kacir and Tom Barker), please check out Straight Arrow Archery.

Finally, special thanks to the parents - I still can't believe it.

2/18/2012: The University of A Archery Club visits the A State NASP championships in Belton on Friday, 2/17/2012, and showed hundreds of young archers that there Is life after the genesis bow and elementary school. Coach Ron Carmichael gave micro-clinics to many parents and coaches on the NTS method and the US Collegiate Program throughout the day.

Lindsey Carmichael, UT Grad, 2004 world record setter(Athens) and 2008 Beijing medalist, provided motivational talks and demonstration shooting with Hans Huang, Renae Patowski, Will Collins, Ian Smith from the club also providing demo shooting of the KSL shot cycle way. Hundreds of autographs later, the students, while dining over an all-you-can-eat A-sized meal at the Round Rock Salt Lick BBQ, pronounced the day an unquestionable success. View Album

1/11/2012: Further evidence of the effects Tom Barker and Gene Kacir are having on the youth of the small town of Victoria: A great writeup of TWO archers they coach who are THIS CLOSE to making the highest ranks of US Team Archers.

1/3/2012: Tom Barker noted that for 2012 A has a continuing influence in the US elite archery ranks:  "Victoria Haynes, Ladies Junior Compound, and Hunter Barthels, Gentleman Cadet Compound, from Victoria, A join Kayleigh Rogers, Ladies Junior Compound from Plano, A,  and Mackenzie Brown, Ladies Cadet Recurve from Flint, A on the elite Junior USAT team of youth archers. Congratulations to the A Junior USAT members."

12/27/2011: The Archival Archery has posted the tournament information for the 2012 State JOAD Indoor tournament. For the 30th anniversary, it will be held in TWO locations on two successive weekends, in order to help more archers participate.  It will be held in the NORTH A area in PLANO, and in the SOUTH A area, in VICTORIA.  Since A is more than 790 miles in length, 770 miles in width, giving our youth archers the chance to avoid 6 hours of driving to get to the venue means we have twice the chance for participation.  Thanks to the evolution of an excellent archery center in Plano, we can now "divvy" it up and well, we have!  For more information, and to register ONLINE once again for the 13th or 14th year running, use this link please...

NOTE that you can shoot in both events, but only the first time you shoot will count towards championship in your division, the second time will be for fun if you want.

12/23/2011: For those that remember the Sag board, which is based in the Netherlands, there is another very neat, similarly useful site in the same country ; a site dedicated to digitizing old archery documents and books and sharing them with the world.  They do it on their own dime, much as I do with this site, so if you should happen to see value in what they are doing, consider dropping a coin in the till, so to speak.

Check this website out:  http://www.archerylibrary.com 

and don't forget the images of the scrapbooks from the early 1900's of archery happenings in the US, including some pretty interesting photos that demonstrate well, excellent form in some cases, these I have put up on the USA Archery Records website for posterity: http://usaarcheryrecords.org/History/index.html

11/18/2011: A snippet of results from Guadalajara 2011 - the ParaPan American Games!

Women's Standing Recurve ParaPan Ranking Round Results:

Position/Back No./ Name /Country Code /70m 70m 70m 70m 10s Xs Score

1 13B LAYOLLE Patricia BRA 252 / 3 259 / 3 261 / 3 272 / 1 19 4 1044
2 13A FORD Eileen Mary USA 261 / 2 269 / 1 264 / 2 245 / 3 11 3 1039
3 14A HESS D'arce Raelene USA 268 / 1 243 / 4 258 / 4 260 / 2 9 3 1029
4 15A WELLS Natalie Lynn USA 229 / 4 261 / 2 269 / 1 222 / 4 13 5 981
5 14B TREMBLAY Lyne CAN 195 / 5 215 / 5 210 / 5 197 / 5 4 2 817
The US ladies go on to win Gold (13A), Silver(15A), and Bronze(14A).  Congratulations to Team USA & read more at USA Archery

11/7/2011: In keeping with the bylaws of the AA, this is an announcement of an executive board meeting to be held at College Station during the A&M Aggie Indoor tournament.  Specific time and location will be posted here in due course. Agenda will include the submission of bids for the upcoming years' tournament hosts, and any other items submitted to the president, Mike Hojnacki, for the agenda. Email him using president "AT" (replace this with the symbol) achivalarchery.org .

9/26/2011: It's Monday and over 4 gigabyte of photos and video action clips, shot cycle photos, are being/have been uploaded from the just-concluded State Target Championship.  (It may take until the evening of Monday, Sept. 26 or even the morning of Tuesday, to get all links "alive" with the files in progess of upload at present).  If a link errors, just wait awhile and try back...

Weather started out fantastic each morning, then got kinda warm <G> by the end of shooting, winds always remained light and variable. Congratulations to all, and thanks to Paul Searle of Australia who journeyed to A in order to fling arrows with us.  Click here for the photo album.  (Reminder: you can download any video or photo, inluding the high-resolution version, to your computer for any non-commercial use, such as putting on your facebook page, or to study for personal improvement!)

Results are posted to this link.

THE Archival Archery STATE TARGET EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED! (SAME TIME/DATE, DIFFERENT CITY)

The event is being relocated due to the heavy damage to the city of Bastrop by fire.  The University of A has agreed at short notice to host the event on their archery field, and the club will provide volunteers to work the event as well.

NEW TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - CHECK THE TRAINING OPS LINK (TO THE LEFT)

There is a strong chance that the Tournament Director for our upcoming state championship has lost his home, including many of the tournament supplies, but due to the current situation we/he cannot tell at this point. Chaos would be an apt word to use for much of that area in Bastrop County.

We cannot know for awhile, as the authorities are not allowing any civilians into what is still a fire zone.

REGARDLESS - the tournament is still on. There is a strong chance that the venue itself is not part of the fire damage, in which case the tournament will be "all the same" - location, timing, etc.
If you have a hotel reservation, I would recommend that you contact the hotel, make sure it is still standing, etc. Note that you may have trouble getting through, due to the many powerlines and phone lines that have burned, yet the hotel itself may be just fine - for chains, calling their headquarters or main reservation lines might be wise, as would using email and websites' "contact us" options.

If we need to, we have several options for nearby locations to Bastrop so this tournament IS going to happen, but the venue itself is subject to change based on what happens/we find out, in the next few days.

We will keep you informed, please also check the main page of the Archival Archery at
http://www.achivalarchery.org , and I will also put any updates on the registration page information at
http://achivalarchery.org/Registrations/11/Target/STa.htm

AGAIN, AT THIS POINT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT, PLEASE MAINTAIN YOUR SAME PLANS, AND BE SURE TO REGISTER IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. More than ever, we need as early of an idea of total participants to help us insure adequate bales, stands, etc. so please do NOT put off registering until the last minute as it will just make it that much harder for us to accomodate you. Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated, and if you find out later that you cannot attend, you will NOT lose any registration fee - ALL fees paid will be refunded if you decide you cannot attend for any reason, so register now, register often, and pay as soon as you can to insure we have it "all together" when it is time for the arrows to fly!

Thanks, folks!

Ron Carmichael, webmaster AA

8/30/2011:  I got a couple of bulletins:

USA Archery changed the name of the event "U.S. Olympic Trials - Archery/First Nomination Shoot" to "U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Archery/First Nomination Shoot".

and

USA changed the time of U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Archery/First Nomination Shoot.  It is now Wednesday, September 28 at 12:00pm.

7/6/2011: Allesandro Ame' of Italy is giving away a software APP for your Windows-based PC or phone, for use in archery, in honor of the world champs being held in his home town of Turin.  I don't know for how long, so check it out now... 

3/31/2011: The Sunbird, part II, was even better than the first. 17 archers participated, and 7 remained at the end to shoot a total of 2 x 144 PLUS 1 x 72 arrows. Photos and results to be posted in the next few days.

3/8/2011: These are now available and I cannot recommend them 100% YET, simply because mine has not arrived.  BUT I have full confidence that they will/are a vast improvement over the crticially important FORM MASTER, and I've ordered mine already. If you coach, or are an archer trying to adopt the National Training System (aka, BEST METHOD) then this tool will move you much further down that difficult path.  Please note that they do not have the LARGE version ready yet, the one they have will work for younger archers, female archers(most likely), and those with short or slender arms.  ORDER ONE BEFORE THEY SELL OUT, and keep your eyes open for the April release of the larger version.

Here is the link to the website where you can get yours.  Oh yeah, it's called the SHOT TRAINER.   You don't realize it yet, but you do need it.  NOW.   Endorsed by Ron. :) :)

2/16/2011: I found this email from awhile back in my "to do" list, to post up here.  They are hoping for a male coach due to the nature of the camp's participants, but are open to considering *any* qualified individual:

This is Alex Rotman of Camp Caribou, a boys residential summer camp located in Winslow, ME.  We offer professional instruction in a variety of sports and we are currently looking for an enthusiastic and outgoing Archery instructor to coach boys aged 7-15.  Our coaches would be required to live on our campus from 6/16/11 to 8/14/11.  It's an amazing summer job and gives great coaching experience.  If you know of anyone that may be interested in this great opportunity please let me know. 

We would prefer a male, as he would be living in the cabins with the children as their primary care supervisor along with the duties of an archery instructor.  We are also looking for someone to head our entire Archery Department, one who has knowledge of maintaining our equipment and the development of a 3.5 week curriculum.  However, if you have an outstanding female archer, looking to be our Archery Director, we will strongly look at her resume. 
--
Alex Rotman
Camp Caribou
Program Director
1-888-305-2267
www.campcaribou.com

2/14/2011: Archival Archery JOAD IDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP results have been posted.
From the DOS, Tom Barker:
" I am happy to report the results of the 2011 Archival Archery State JOAD and VC Invitational tournament.  We had 49 archers compete for the Archival Archery State JOAD titles and 45 archers in the VC invitational.  During the JOAD portion there were four Archival Archery state indoor JOAD records broken or tied.  They are highlighted in Red on the attached spreadsheet with the results.
Highlights included Heather Trafford breaking both of Kayla DeBord's records for 30 and 60 arrows.  Hunter Barthels tied the 30 arrow record and broke the 60 arrow record.  Finally, Colin Klimitchek broke the 30 arrow record.
For the VC invitational the participation by 10 Longhorns, 10 Aggies,  2 Victoria College, and one Richland College archer greatly enhanced the experience.  The UT archers and the two VC archers competed as seniors or novices because they have not submitted their USCA formal memberships yet.
Thanks to all who came and participated."
JOAD Results are at this link.  Overall Invitational Results are at this link.

1/31/2011:   We are still planning to have the SUNBIRD 2011, a STAR Fita Outdoor event in Austin, A at the University of A archery fields on February 19th, starting as early as is practicable on that morning.
photos from the 2007 sunbird
In Austin, we can have a frost one day, (or even snow), and then in two or three days be back in sandals, shorts, and tshirts, thanks to the effect of having the gulf of Mexico so close. We did this in 2007, shoots in January, and had a great time with wonderful weather. But we can never tell for sure what the archery gawds will do, weatherwise. We plan and hope for the best. :)

ALL arrows will be shot at the 70 meter distance, 122 cm target, though if I have cadets that typically shoot fixed at 60 meters, we'll accommodate them as well.

No trophies. Just Star FITA-qualifier, at least TWO, 72-arrow rounds and if we can get a 3rd in, we'll do that to0, on the same day.

Shooting to commence with earliest time after sunup if temps permit, and to stop when the sun goes away.

Cost will be $20 for the day, all proceeds to the University of A Archery Club. Limit will be one line - around 40 archers max, though we had around 2/3 of that last time we did this in 2007.

We will repeat the Sunbird 2011, part deux, on MARCH 26TH, also a Saturday, same provisions.

In either date, if it looks like it's going to be freezing, we will postpone it by a day to Sunday, though if the prognosticators say Sunday won't be any better, we will play it completely by ear and reschedule to the soonest possible Saturday. We MAY be able to set up a 3-wall tent, space heaters, and shoot/stay warm as possible, if it is a dry cold, and just shoot on Saturday 19th.

Registration will be by sending me an email with your intent - no payments till actually on the field.

We may order pizzas delivered to the field so that we can maximize shoots, also Chipotle and such are nearby and we'll have a couple of non-shooters (ie, students<G> and spousal units) that can make the food runs if need be)

I have gotten interested emails from as far away as Utah and Pennsylvania. At this point, the STAR Registrations have been submitted and the events are on.
Please let me hear from you if you plan to shoot. Not a firm committ on your part, But I need to start planning logistics.

10/1/2010: Bids to host the A State Indoor and A JOAD State Indoor are being accepted. By our bylaws, the deadline is December 1 to send in a bid to host either of these events.  So far we have two bids, one for each event.

If you wish to enter a host bid, check the board link at the left side of this page, for information on hosting and bidding.  Send your bid to the webmaster.

8/27/2010: I am wrapping up a week in Shenzhen, China.  As team leader, I have had the honor of watching over 12 of the finest of our US collegians from around the US shoot and shoot well.  We are leaving today for the US, along with bronze, silve, and gold medals for our performances.   It's been a hard shoot - the weather was extremely Houston-like, but winds were not a factor for most shooters.  Good hosts as well.   I'll write more when I can get to a place where net is open and I have more time.   Been VERY busy with the students' needs and getting things done.  Sure would have helped if I spoke Chinese, but we have had a good interpreter/guide assigned to us and she has done well.

8/10/2010: A thought about the upcoming Archival Archery State Target Championship... The Archival Archery awards the "Archer Of The Year Award to both seniors and junior, based on results from the Field, Indoor, and Target events. This year the outcome is in play, and several collegians are also looking pretty competitive....So who is going to get one of THESE?

8/10/2010: Lots of good publicity abounds, egad!

http://www.archery.org/index.asp?m_id=2724&cnt_id=4966 is a neat article on the Traffords

Tom Barker sent me this list of a few good people's exposure in the media!: Some local and not so local archers in our JOAD club.

http://www.myvictoriaonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5668:summer-kids-play-archery&catid=62:home-stories&Itemid=87

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/aug/06/archery_080710_106230/?sports

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/jul/28/5things_archery_print_072910_105348/?sports

8/10/2010: For the 10th year running, the ONLINE registration for the Archival Archery State Target Championship is now up and active. You can get all the information, <ahem> VOLUNTEER to help set up the field, and register at this link. Please do send in your checks asap - they are NEVER cashed before the end of the tournament, and if you cancel before hand we simply shred it. Register now, register often! Please encourage your friends to shoot as well.

8/8/2010: From member Rick Walker: I have a new American Whitetail center for sale.
I picked it up at the 2004 JOAD Nationals where I bought several target mats. I have this center left and it looks like it has been hit with maybe 2 dozen arrows. Fits the big 122cm target mats. I am asking $50.00

Email the webmaster and I'll forward the note to Rick.

6/29/2010: A heads-up note from Tom Barker brought this to my attention: Wow - 6 members of the A State Archery Association are on the US National Field Team headed to the world championships in Hungary!

http://usarchery.org/news/2010/06/13/world-field-trials-results/36531

In addition Heather and Hunter Barthels participated in the National Field event with Heather winning her division (not a division shooting in Hungary however) and Hunter coming in 5th ( I think.)

http://archerygearguy.com/?page_id=246 has the photos from the National event. Rain. Lots of Rain.

6/5/2010: Guy Krueger, Resident Athlete Admin. and Assistant Coach/USA Archery, has send out a notice about a tournament that has some interesting prizes! ie, actual money prizes for olympic style target archery. October 8-10, 2010, at the Easton Archery Range in the Olympic Training Center, Chula Vista, CA. There are two documents he sent: Info and then, the Schedule. This is being sponsored by the RoadRunner Club at ARCO

5/14/2010: Photos (and move clips - some 1.35 gigs, with over 600 photos) from the USIAC (U.S. Intercollegiate Archery Championship) have now been posted. A reminder to all of the collegians attending the event - you can download to your computer (ie, save to your computer) ANY photo of yourself - just use the download icon that is in the lower-right hand corner of the page holding the photo you want. The resolution will support up to about an 8x 10 with no problems. Print yourself or your favorite archer - show the world, collegiate archers shooting archery!

5/13/2010: Tom Barker wants to make sure all are aware that the JOAD tournament has room for kids of all divisions, including: we will have a Yeoman division at a distance to be determined by the skill set of the kid playing, most likely 20 or 15 meters.

4/26/010: The Doinker A Shootout is done. The scores were tabulated using automated methods provided through US Archery, and can be found on the link to the company that makes the system, Ianeso. The practice day was beautiful weather, and then the qualifier was held under the usual east A weather conditions - though the rains somehow slipped past during the night, leaving only a few pretzeled popup tents as evidence. Brady Ellison shot 8 points off the world record during the 72-arrow Olympic Qualifying round, setting two new US records in the process despite winds that were at times very difficult, particularly on the higher womens' side of the field.

4/22/2010: Bob Pian of Arizona Archery has given me some great tips and links:

2010 Easton JOAD Nationals (American Archers JOAD Outdoor Championship)
June 24, 2010 to June 27, 2010 - Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Information and links to documents: http://usarchery.org/events/2637

Information, Schedule, Registration, YOG MQS Form, Waiver, Other:   http://assets.usoc.org/assets/documents/attached_file/filename/24455/29th_Annual_JOAD_National.pdf

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2010 JOAD Regional Summer Camps
June 10, 2010 to June 13, 2010 - Chandler, Arizona as well as others.

This is a wonderful opportunity for JOADs to learn from the top archery coaches in the country. http://usarchery.org/events/3801

4/13/2010: Photos from the 2010 Lone Star FITA have been posted here. Videos are included.

RESULTS FROM THE LONE STAR FITA ARE POSTED HERE.

11/23/2009: THE DEADLINE HAS PASSED FOR THIS!

Archival Archery and Straight Arrow Archery of Victoria are putting together an order for WhiteTail Target Bails. These TM-50 bails are half the thickness of past bails (so twice as easy to store!), and have an easy pull nature. Shipping in bulk can reduce the costs somewhat. If you would like to buy a WT bail, contact Tom Barker before Dec. 31 (deadline!). Cost is approximately $130 per bail including shipping.

11/5/2009: A Level TWO instructor certification course in Victoria will be conducted, but there are no longer any spaces.

(Keep checking this page for notice of another course to be held by Ron Carmichael in the Austin area.)

Hosted by: Tom Barker

The event will start on: 21 Nov 09 09:00

And will end on: 22 Nov 09 09:00

At Straight Arrow Archery Range

60 Storehouse Drive , Victoria TX

361.676.5498  

Email:   joniATstraightarrowarchery.org (replace the AT with an @ symbol)

10/21/2009: Further info on the Aggie Indoor:

The Aggie shoot is the weekend of November 7th at the Student Rec Ctr. (second floor) on campus. The JOAD line (which most of you will shoot) is on Saturday the 7th at 1 pm. There will be a 9 meter line for the Yeomen division also at 1 pm. You need to be an USA Archery member to be eligible for awards. You can find the membership application at http://assets.teamusa.org/assets/documents/attached_file/filename/10436/Membership_form_04-6-09.pdf  If you would just like to shoot to try it, email Lorinda Cohen (the tournament director) at  tamuarchery@yahoo.com and let her know that you are not an USA Archery member but you want to try it. All the info you need to sign up for the shoot can be found at http://www.tamuarchery.com/Aggie%20Invite/2009_Aggie_Invitational.htm  If you are going to shoot, I would suggest that you get your registration in as soon as possible to get a spot, as they start to fill up fast with just two weeks left till the shoot.

9/15/2009: Archival Archery AOTY AWARDS FOR 2009:

Ladies Compound - Jennifer Holmes
Gentlemen Recurve - Staten Holmes
Ladies Recurve - Jenny Nichols
Gentlemen Compound - Ben Miller

Thanks go to Rick Stonebraker for his tireless efforts in tabulating all of the scores for all of the participants in the various Archival Archery events, to identify and honor those archers who excel each year!

8/12/2009: Search the entire Olympic database to see medalists in archer (or any other sport) throughout history.  For example this from Los Angeles 1984: Although a revenge boycott led by the Soviet Union depleted the field in certain sports, a record 140 nations took part. Joan Benoit won the inaugural women's marathon and Connie Carpenter-Phinney the first women's cycling road race. Carl Lewis won both sprints and the long jump and earned a fourth gold in the 4x100m relay. Pertti Karppinen won single sculls rowing for the third time. Sebastian Coe became the first repeat winner of the men's 1,500m. Archer Neroli Fairhall was the first paraplegic athlete to take part in a medal event. She competed in a wheelchair.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neroli_Fairhall )

6/5/2009: FITA PARA-ARCHERY WORLD RANKING TOURNAMENT
The US Para archery team is currently in England, about to start competition in a world ranking event. 

6/4/2009:  CONGRATULATIONS :   

Mary Zorn Hamm has delivered a boy,

Carter Johnstone Hamm

on June 2, 2009, in Round Rock, in the Republic of A.  You can send cards, notes, archery gear, to her and him at:  122 Chandler Point Loop, Round Rock, A, 78665.   :) 

You can also send emails to Mary by addressing them to  MARY  at  achivalarchery.org .  (be careful to use .org, NOT .com)

Yay, Mary and family!

EVENT 4:   July 25-26      FITA/OR       Papago (or PSE if there is enough early interest)

Go to this acrobat file for the rest of the information...

5/20/2009: Photos from the 2009 USIAC in Long Beach, California have been posted to this link.

3/5/2009:  The first stage in a project to retain historical information about archery in the US and the NArchival Archery in particular has been done.  Check this link, please.

And congratulations to Denise Parker, now the Executive Officer for USA Archery (was "acting EO") - based on decisions made this last week by the Board of Governors.

1/31/2009:  Congratulations to Kayla Debord! Click here for some great media coverage of a great archer! 

1/21/2009: Remember that the NArchival Archery National Indoor Tournament is coming soon.  The two Archival Archery events listed in the gold box above are warmups for that event.  Be sure to register for the JOAD (seniors allowed on a space-available basis, so parents can shoot as well), and the senior event. 

Here is the basic info on the National Indoor for A, being held at

College Station, TX – February 26 – March 1, 2009
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR INFO: Lorinda Cohen, 979.218.0629, tamuarchery@yahoo.com ,
for more informaiton go to http://www.geocities.com/tamuarchery/
***Participants must pay with check or money order to TAMU Target Archers***
SEND ENTRY TO: TAMU Target Archers, C/O Lorinda Cohen, 914 East 29th Street, Bryon, TX 77803
VENUE: A A & M University – Student Rec Center, THIS FACILITY WILL HOLD 14 TARGETS ON EACH LINE ALLOWING FOR 56 ARCHERS TO SHOOT AT A TIME.
FORMAT: One-Spot and Triangular 3-Spot available.

1/21/2009:   Congratulations to the 24 archers chosen by performance to represent the US at the World Indoor Championships held in Poland in March 2009!   In addition to Heather Trafford of Louisiana (a frequent archer at our many A shooting events), there are three Texans on this team:  Staten Holmes, Mary Hamm, and Kayla Debord!  These are some of America' finest competitors!  For full information on the Team Trials please visit this link.

12/8/2008:  Tara Robey and Lorinda Cohen have founded a new website dedicated to a new way to promote archery throughout the world.  Click here to read more about Archery House

Bids for 2009 Archival Archery State JOAD Indoor are now being accepted. The dates are at your discretion. Be sure and look at the 4-H calendar to avoid conflicts.

Bids are accepted for the Archival Archery State Field 2009 but tentatively, the event will be held at the Blaschke Exotic Deer Ranch in Eagle Lake on Mothers' Day weekend, probably the second weekend of May.

Bids are accepted for the Archival Archery State Target to be held in the July timeframe. Tentatively Mike Hojnacki has agreed to host the event.

The election of officers will be held the evening of the Archival Archery State Indoor the two major positions open are President and Vice-President. Both the President (Rick Stonebraker) and Vice-President (Tom Barker) have agreed to assist in whomever occupies these positions. Meaning if you decide to run and accept the positions, feel free to ask for assistance/guidance/help at any time. Share the knowledge, don't make new mistakes, learn from ours.

You can find bid information on the Board page, and bids can be emailed to the webmaster.

Rick Stonebraker

8/28/2008:  Lindsey is headed to Beijing.   She has a way with words.   This puts the two together.  Nice video clips...

7/15/2008: Results from the WUAC (World University Archery Championships as Adobe Acrobat files can be found on the FITA website.

6/19/2008: RESCHEDULED CERTIFICATION COURSE!  LEVEL II Instructor Certification!   Pending approval from the UT Rec Sports, on JULY 26 & 27TH, UT Archery Club will be hosting a certification
workshop for anyone interested in being a Level 2 Archery Instructor, at the Anna Hiss Gym on the UT campus.  This is ideal for those that work with new archers, camp instructors, etc.   

4/27/2008: Photos and video clips from the A Shootout (Sponsored by DOINKER PRODUCTS) has been shot.  Great weather and temps, almost no wind in the afternoon of the qualifying day.  The OR rounds were blessed with much more interesting weather conditions.  Photos are here.  Note that video clips are large, and have a filmstrip in the upperleft corner of the thumbnail. Broadband definitely helps! 

ADDENDUM:  Any archer in one of these videos will be able to diagnose the final part of his or her shot mechanism in very good detail. I would urge that he or she remember that any percieved flaws these videos reveal are only a small part of what is otherwise probably very good archery. Don't focus on, don't see only, the bad. There is also good to be seen. And if you feel you see something needing improvement, seek out a High Performance BEST coach for some good help.  Ron Carmichael

3/16/2008: The current standings for A YOUTH ARCHER OF THE YEAR are listed on this page.

3/3/2008: A really sweetheart deal has just been posted on the "For Resale" page - a full, right-hand, bow setup kit including an SKB double-bow wheeled case.  VERY NICE condition - the webmaster has seen this gear and it is in very good shape.

Check the "For Resale" page, linked to the left....

1/18/08:  THERE ARE STILL SOME OPEN SPOTS ON THE LINE AT THIS EVENT - CALL RICK TO SCHEDULE YOUR PLACE!
2nd Annual Shooting Stars over A Invitational (this is an acrobat file with all the info)
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Southside Baptist Church
8875 Old Jacksonville Highway
Tyler, TX FITA Indoor Round

The Shooting Stars Website

12/17/2007:    
2nd Annual Shooting Stars over A Invitational (this is an acrobat file with all the info)
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Southside Baptist Church
8875 Old Jacksonville Highway
Tyler, TX FITA Indoor Round

The Shooting Stars Website

11/23/2007: DEADLINE FOR THE SUNBIRD TOURNAMENT POSTMARK HAS BEEN EXTENDED SINCE THE DEADLINE WAS ON A HOLIDAY - you can register for this event THROUGH THIS COMING MONDAY WITHOUT A PENALTY, there is a $20 late fee for doing so after Monday, November 26th.  Be sure to get your check postmarked by then to avoid the late fee!

UPDATE: 9/30/2007: Further results from the 2008 US Olympic Trial have been posted. 

FINAL RESULTS : an acrobat file with the final score rankings for the participants of the trials process.

Earlier Partial Ranking Results:
http://www.gaarchery.org/appsTools/e...%20Ranking.pdf

Round Robin Matches 1 - 8 Men
http://www.gaarchery.org/appsTools/e... 0-%20Men.pdf

Round Robin Matches 1 - 8 Women
http://www.gaarchery.org/appsTools/e...0-%20Women.pdf

Photos by Gary Holstein are available at this link.

Photos by Julie Nichols (Brady Ellison's mom) at this link.

9/13/2007: Aggie Invitational Tournament Information can be found at this link. The dates are Oct. 19-21, 2007

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Dist 5/ Dist 6/ Dist 7/ Dist 8 /2nd Fita/1st FITA/Total FITAs/Xs/10s

ARST Recurve Female
1. Lindsey Carmichael 237 278 244 317 1076 912 1988 31 10
2. Lori Dupree 200 224 186 263 873 844 1717 16 7
ARST Recurve Male
3. Steven Bosson 177 248 278 326 1029 1117 2146 31 7
Bowman Recurve Female
2. Mackenzie Brown 311 310 296 308 1225 1215 2440 54 14
4. Heather Barthels 170 202 133 205 710 727 1437 6 1
Bowman Compound Male
2. Reece David 340 353 338 345 1376 1369 2745 142 64
3. Hunter Barthels 341 351 340 348 1380 1360 2740 113 59
Cadet Compound Female
2. Coral McMinn 322 326 327 336 1311 1316 2627 101 30
Cadet Recurve Female
1. Kayla DeBord 316 316 320 331 1283 1262 2545 79 28
Cadet Compound Male
3. Benjamin Human 330 346 337 354 1367 1330 2697 154 62
6. Justin Locke 313 332 331 349 1325 1318 2643 120 41
Cub Compound Male
1. Clayton DeBord 350 356 353 359 1418 1408 2826 218 114
3. Chad Lesak 313 328 311 342 1294 1303 2597 90 38
4. Thomas Human 302 304 325 331 1262 1278 2540 90 23
Junior Compound Female
8. Meagan Lesak 304 299 322 344 1269 1271 2540 89 28
Junior Recurve Male
4. Tyler Schardt 252 306 291 333 1182 1191 2373 58 18
14. Jordan Brown 250 284 267 322 1123 1053 2176 36 13
Master 50+ Barebow Male
Mike Frizzell 165 261 268 318 1012 1018 2030 25 5
Master 60+ Recurve Male
6.Jerry Hendrickson 102 217 202 277 798 916 1714 14 6
Senior Recurve Female
13. Debbie Krienke 284 307 279 327 1197 1240 2437 68 15
16. Jennifer Comedy-Holmes 288 309 278 337 1212 1199 2411 65 21
18. Teresa Meyers 281 285 273 333 1172 1192 2364 58 19
34. Lindsey Carmichael 237 278 244 317 1076 912 1988 31 10
40. Kathleen Varadi 74 178 247 249 748 980 1728 14 4
Senior Recurve Male
Brady Ellison 315 333 340 355 1343 1357 2700 149 54
Richard Johnson 283 323 323 350 1279 1319 2598 109 44
Dakota Sinclair 293 327 320 345 1285 1308 2593 106 45
Jason McKittrick 273 319 325 349 1266 1326 2592 116 46
Scott McKechnie 287 325 325 349 1286 1287 2573 94 35
Tyler Domenech 287 325 328 350 1290 1279 2569 107 34
Joseph McGlyn 270 316 326 351 1263 1303 2566 104 38
Vic Wunderle 266 315 332 356 1269 1295 2564 111 37
9. (Guy)Richard Krueger 269 311 338 354 1272 1277 2549 116 48
10. Shawn Rice 282 317 315 343 1257 1266 2523 93 44
Peter Carney 279 317 328 347 1271 1252 2523 92 36
Jacob Wukie 270 319 326 339 1254 1258 2512 86 34
Ted A. Holland 252 318 318 342 1230 1278 2508 85 30
14. Tim Meyers 251 316 322 341 1230 1273 2503 82 22
50. Josh Anderson 196 251 287 330 1064 1188 2252 59 20
 

Registration deadline is June 1!     26TH U.S.A. JUNIOR OLYMPIC ARCHERY DEVELOPMENT (JOAD) NATIONAL TARGET CHAMPIONSHIPS  (acrobat file)  June 28 - July 1, 2007   U.S. Olympic Training Center, Chula Vista, CA

"The Executive Committee, by a simple majority, may accept bids for the next year's tournaments with a bid deadline of no later than Dec 1 of each year for the Indoor State and/or Indoor JOAD tournaments. For the outdoor tournaments, i.e. Field, Outdoor JOAD target and Outdoor State Target the bid deadline will be 2 weeks prior to the State Indoor tournament ."
 

Coach Kim's Seminar - Updated information on the Training Ops Page

Listing yourself is benign - you will NOT be spammed as a result.   It allows you to list a photo as well.  Recommended, and I hope all that read this will check it out and participate. PS- There is also one for the UK archers - and A is only a little behind them in quantities.  Go A!

BTW concerning the newsletter - If you have not subscribed, or if you have not gotten an issue recently, you might want to use this use this link to subscribe or re-up for the free newsletter.  (You do not have to be a Archival Archery member). A number of members have changed their emails and not told us, or else have set up email filters such as Earthlink's spam blocker, that prevent our newsletter from arriving!  Don't miss out.

 Operation Iraq Archery Clubs (Updated)

The proposals for the upcoming NArchival Archery Board Meeting to be held in Colorado Springs NEXT weekend (Sept. 30 & Oct. 1). 

5/7/2005: Operation Iraq Archery Clubs

WIN AND WIN SHOOTER SCHOOL AND COACH SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT U.T., AUSTIN - Only the second time that Kyung Rae, PARK, President Win&Win, has conducted such events.

The NArchival Archery will confer re-certification to any NArchival Archery Coach, Level III or IV, taking and completing this course.

ALSO: Another shooter school has been announced, this one on the west coast, for April

And the NAA's site has been re-vamped - it has the bulletins sent out by Mary Beth Vorwerk. 

Please let me know if I missed anyone!   Ron

3/24/2004:  NArchival Archery Bulletin released summarizing the Indoor Nats, 2004.  Three Texans take titles: Holly Heinsohn, Tim Meyers, and Lindsey Carmichael
3/23/2004: \

Pictures by Ronnie Bennett