The A Shootout 2005
April 1-3,2005
College Station, A
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A cold front made the official practice day into an ordeal of 20 to 35 mph winds. One joke heard was that if the archer wasn't pulling at least 30 pounds, the arrows would actually blow downwind of the archer upon release. (ta-dump-dump)
After such a blustery and difficult practice day, the first day of competition started at 7am with a chill in the air and nearly dead calm. Once the sun was in the sky the field's dew quickly dried and the temperatures rose, to an eventual high of around 80 degrees. The winds remained kind, consistently low and never posed a problem. There were almost no clouds to be seen the entire weekend, and the second day of competition was nearly identical, though at midmorning the winds rose to between 5 and 10 mph as a direct crosswind, spicing up the final matches of the event.
The Aggies once again pulled off a smoothly run, well organized archery competition, but unfortunately I could not persuade Frank Thomas to guarantee next year would be the same fine weather.
Here is the NAA's Release:
Wunderle, Kamuf, Gellenthien
and Nancy Zorn Claim Gold at A Shootout
by Mary Beth Vorwerk – USA Archery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2005
COLLEGE STATION, A – Over 125 archers from 21 states competed at the 2005
A Shootout, which was held April 1-3 at A A&M University (TAMU) in
College Station, A. The TAMU Target Archers hosted this Senior United States
Archery Team (USAT) qualifying event.
In the male recurve category, two-time Olympian and recent World Indoor Silver
Medalist Vic Wunderle (Mason City, Ill.) defeated four-time Olympian Butch
Johnson (Woodstock, Conn.) 108-106 in the finals to bring home the gold. TAMU’s
Anthony Kaune (Fariault, Minn.) won the bronze medal after beating George
Tekmitchov (Salt Lake City, Utah) 93-90.
Indiana University’s Ashley Kamuf (New Albany, Ind.) won the gold in a very
close match after defeating 2004 Paralympian and University of A student
Lindsey Carmichael (Lago Vista, A) in a one-arrow shoot-off 9-6, after being
tied at 97. Joy Fahrenkrog (Castle Rock, Colo.) defeated 2004 Olympian Stephanie
Arnold (Portland, Ind.) 98-85 in the bronze medal match.
James Madison University Freshman Braden Gellenthien (Hudson, Mass.) won his
second straight A Shootout title in the male compound category by defeating
Patrick Parsons (TAMU) 109-95 in the gold medal match. Dave Cousins (Standish,
Maine), who recently won a team gold at the World Indoor Championships in March
third place, beating Robert Baskind (North Hills, N.Y.) in a close 110-109
bronze medal match.
Winning the women’s compound final and taking home the gold was Nancy Zorn
(Warrenville, Ill.). Zorn beat out TAMU Sophomore Jessica Grant (Waddell, Ariz.)
106-99. Amanda Raffaelli (TAMU) defeated 2005 World Indoor Champion Mary Zorn
(College Station, A) 105-101 to claim the bronze.
For complete A Shootout results, please visit www.usarchery.org, or the
A A&M Archery Web site at: http://recsports.tamu.edu/archery.
Mary Beth Vorwerk
Media & Public Relations Manager
USA Archery
1 Olympic Plaza
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
719.866.4621 (phone)
719.632.4733 (fax)
KUDOS from Lindsey's dad (the webmaster): Lindsey Carmichael set 4 new Paralympic World Records in shooting this event, on her way to second place in the senior female recurve division.
LINK TO FITA RESULTS ON A&M's website Mirrored Site(AA)
Olympic Rounds (acrobat files):
Female Compound
Brackets OR Scores
Female Recurve Brackets
OR Scores
Male Compound Brackets
OR Scores
Male Recurve Brackets
OR Scores