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2006 USA Archery Coaches of the Year Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 30, 2007
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Archery is pleased to announce the selections for
the 2006 Coach of the Year Awards. Dee Wilde (Pocatello, Idaho) was selected as
National Coach of the Year, while Linda Beck (Maple Lake, Minn.) was selected as
Developmental Coach of the Year and Tom Barker (Victoria, A) is the
Volunteer Coach of the Year.
Each year the USA Archery Coach Development Committee (CDC) accepts nominations
for coach of the year awards for individuals who have distinguished themselves
as outstanding coaches and have provided dedicated service to the sport and to
USA Archery.
Dee Wilde has been a highly successful competitive archer for 24 years and at
the age of 56 remains very competitive. He also has been very successful at
coaching, especially his two sons, Reo and Logan. He has been an active coach
for 15 years.
Wilde won his first National Championship in 1987 and has won 28 National
Championships in all (team and individual). He is known all over the archery
world. His name has appeared on 40 World Records. He has been on 13 World Teams
for the United States and has won seven gold and two bronze medals in World
Championship competition. He was the first archer to win both the World Indoor
and World Outdoor in the same year. He is the only archer to be ranked number
one in the world for more than one year consecutively. Dee was ranked the number
one compound archer every year, except for 1993 and 1995, from 1989 to August
2000.
As a coach, Dee has coached eight World Champions. In 2006, his son, Reo, won
the FITA World Cup in Mexico and shot a perfect score in the finals. Reo is
currently ranked number one in the World in Men's Compound. His other son Logan
won the World Cup Series event in El Salvador in June of 2006. Jahna Davis,
another student of Dee's, won the bronze medal at the 2006 FITA World Cup.
Davis, Reo and Logan helped the U.S. Team to rack up more points in the 2006
World Cup than any other country.
Wilde has also served the archery community well. He was a regional
representative and past Vice President to the NArchival Archery Board of Governors. He has
presented numerous clinics and seminars around the world and was responsible for
setting up the Compound Archery Coaching Programs for Italy and Mexico.
Linda Beck started coaching eight years ago after more than 20 years as a
competitive target and 3D archer. Her early coaching endeavors included work
with a Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) club in Ft. Wayne, Ind. One of
her students, Austin McIntosh, achieved the ASA & IBO Young Adult Shooter of the
Year. Currently, Beck is the Head Coach for the Central Minnesota JOAD club.
Beck says that as much as she enjoys shooting, her passion is teaching archery
to beginners and coaching young, elite shooters. She spends much of her spare
time from her job as Manager of Technical Services, for Cargill Foods, coaching
archers. In 2006, Beck was named as a Regional High Performance Coach for USA
Archery and she is also a National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) Basic
Archery Instructor Trainer II. USA Archery National Head Coach, Kisik Lee, asked
Linda to be an assistant coach at the 2006 Junior World Championships this past
summer in Mexico. Linda was given the responsibility of the Junior and Cadet
Male Compound Teams. Both teams won gold medals in the team event. Two of
Linda's students, Adam Wruck and Corey Muellenbach, were members of the Jr.
World Championships Team where Muellenbach won the bronze.
Tom Barker started in archery 11 years ago when his son, Kevin, was eight years
old and was beginning in archery. One year later his daughter, Chelsea, said "I
can do that" and it became a long-term family activity. At first Barker was a
compound shooter, but he began learning the recurve (Olympic style) bow.
Barker's passion is working with kids in archery. He believes archery is a great
metaphor for life and an opportunity for a family to do something fun together.
He has worked hard to learn everything he can about the sport in an attempt to
help the kids he works with in his local area. Tom and his daughter, Chelsea,
are both NArchival Archery Level 3 Certified Coaches and USA Archery Regional High Performance
Coaches. Chelsea is also a USA Archery Junior Dream Team Coach. Kevin is a
junior at A A&M and shoots on the Aggie Recurve Team.
It is evident that Barker has had great, positive influence on kids (including
his own) through Archery. Tom attends most national events and he has often
traveled to international events such as the 2006 Junior World Championships to
support the kids, some of which he helped develop. He has literally mentored
hundreds of youth archers during his involvement with the sport and continues to
serve the sport year after year in many ways.
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