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| USA Archery Board Elections For 2007 There is good news and bad news. The USOC and the NArchival Archery (now let's call us/them by the right name:) USA Archery are moving quickly towards resolving the crisis in the organizational operations. There has been a problem revealed regarding the possible embezzlement of funds, the elections have NOT been on track for the national target's annual meeting (they were suspended till October at the soonest to allow for a new nominations process), and there are a lot of personal emotions and politics in play. Some might say that the "old guard" and the "new guard" are in outright feud, at just the wrong time for the olympiad cycle. But is there ever a wrong time for getting things "straight"? READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK. Also, thank you very much to Texan Jennifer Comedy-Holmes (see the AOTY awards below) for volunteering to serve on the nominating committee. There are several interesting threads on the Archery Talk website: Link 1 Link 2. that speak to current issues. |
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| AOTY? YAOTY? The Archival Archery identifies and honors the "Archer of the Year" for adult compound and recurve, male and female archers each year, based on their performance in Archival Archery tournaments. This year the board has added a YOUTH Archer of the Year honor as well. The AOTY and YAOTY honorees will receive a plaque and the youth archers will also receive a $25 gift certificate to Lancaster Archery. Congratulations to ALL! The A State Archery Association (AA) Archer Of The Year (AOTY) for 2007 are: Compound Ladies - Megan Lesak (corrected 8/8/2007)
Compound Gentlemen - Joseph Human The Archival Archery AOTY is determined by results from the three state championships: indoor, field and outdoor. Any member of the Archival Archery can compete for this prize as long as they shoot the adult distances. The four divisions are: compound ladies, compound men, recurve ladies and recurve gentlemen. Ranking: The winner of each division gets 25 ranking points. Each point below the winner gets 1/10 of a point deduction from 25. For example: if John shoots 1000 and Smiddy shoots 995, then John gets 25 ranking points and Smiddy gets 24.5 ranking points. You only need to rank at two of the three state championships. You may compete in all three if you wish but your lowest ranking gets thrown out. Thanks go again to Rick Stonebraker for compiling all of the stats and identifying the AOTYs. The A State Archery Association (AA) Youth Archers Of The Year (YAOTY) for 2007 are:Bowman Compound Ladies - Jessica TomlinsonBowman Compound Gentlemen- Hunter Barthels Bowman Recurve Ladies - Miriam Trafford Bowman Recurve Gentlemen - Shawn Faidly Cub Compound Ladies - No award * Cub Compound Gentlemen- Thomas Human Cub Recurve Ladies - Rachel Trafford Cub Recurve Gentlemen - No award * Cadet Compound Ladies - Coral McMinn Cadet Compound Gentlemen- Benjamin Human Cadet Recurve Ladies - Megan Knowlton Cadet Recurve Gentlemen - Tyler Janota Junior Compound Ladies - Meagan Lesak Junior Compound Gentlemen- Joseph Human Junior Recurve Ladies - Simone Petrosky Junior Recurve Gentlemen - Jordan Brown * There were no archers that shot the required three events. The Archival Archery YAOTY is determined by results from the five Archival Archery state championships; indoor JOAD, indoor, field, JOAD target and target. Any member of a Archival Archery JOAD club can compete for this prize as long as they shoot the entire event and compete in the minimum three events. Ranking is performed in the same manner as the AOTY. To view the actual numerical rankings, you can use these links to the pages on the Archival Archery website: AOTY YAOTY |
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| 4-H Indoor Championships for 2007 The schedule for the upcoming 4-H Indoor Archery Season have been posted on the AA's 4-H main page. Each year in south A a total of well, a humongous number, of archers take part in the many indoor events that are held weekend after weekend throughout south east A. For the calendar and for future result pages as well as access to all the prior 4-H Indoor Events, go to the 4-H Primary Page on the Archival Archery website by clicking ON THIS LINK RAHT HYAR.  |
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| Olympic Trials Announced The beginning of the selection process for the USA Archery Olympic Team (For Beijing in September, 2008) has been announced: 2008 USA Archery Olympic Trials First Nomination Shoot Thanks to Bob Pian for sending us the heads up on this. For more information follow this link to the Georgia Archery Website. |
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| Hosford Funds Are Avaliable to A Archers Does your A archery program need seed capital to get things going? Archival Archery can help. The A State Archery Association (AA) is pleased to offer its member organizations the opportunity to submit grant application proposals for consideration. Grant proposals are due to the Archival Archery secretary by December 31. Announcement of successful applications will be done at the Archival Archery state indoor tournament. By submitting a grant application to the AA, the leader of the organization (Grantee) that will propose and sponsor the program must attest that the proposal has credibility and that the organization will comply with all expectations of the AA. More information can be found in the invitation at this link... |
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| 25th Annual A State Archery Association Target Championship The results for the Archival Archery Target Championship have been posted at this link... The event was held at the huge Town and Country Optimist Sport Complex , owned by the Austin Town and Country Optimist Club, on July 21 & 22, 2007. The original venue in Lago Vista was flooded by Lake Travis so a switch at the last minute was necessary. It rained a lot on Friday PM and Saturday morning, and periodically throughout the Saturday shooting (A is having heavy rains and frequent flooding all over, in some cases 15 inches+ falling in just 10 hours). Sunday was calm and foggy to begin with but blue skies appeared around the start of the final distance, and the variable winds that were blowing into the archers' faces on Saturday were completely calm for most of the day on Sunday. As witnessed by the number of state records (Thirty-three!) and Star FITA National records (12) the conditions were decent enough for the archers to have a good time, although soggy feet and shoes were the rule. Many photos are also posted, use the same link above... |
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| View Archery Video Over The Net There has been some Excellent! video available, often in real-time during tournaments, at this link. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you have broad band.. |
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| Great Archery Items On This Website Target Archery by Kleanthes Koniaris * Angles and Archery.We attempt to model archers of various disciplines and compare them, head to head, despite the fact that they don't shoot upon common targets. (We also study the scoring benefits of "fat" target arrows.) * Mechanical Release Devices and the Compound Bow. The literature that describes the release devices used with compound bows is usually very poor, non-general, and filled with mystical nonsense in many cases ("back tension"); however, release devices are simple if properly explained. * Aiming with Both Eyes Open. Ideally, one should aim an Olympic target bow (or air pistol, air rifle, etc.) with both eyes open. The resulting "ghost" images seen by many people (including me) can be confusing, but they are easy to understand (and ultimately ignore). * Free Archery Targets. Everybody likes free archery targets that can be printed on a nearby color printer. The novel thing about my free targets is that they contain an overlay of grid lines spaced by 1moa. These targets can only be used correctly at their rated distance, but provide a very powerful tool for the analysis of groups of arrows. * Matching Arrow Weights. If one fires arrows with differing weights, they will land at different heights upon the target. Given reasonable vertical tolerances, weight matching turns out to be extremely important, to a degree that seems excessive (at first). * What's a "1300-level" FITA shooter? Shooting 1300 (out of 1440) is an incredible milestone for any archer, but exactly what does it mean? |
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| Update for BowBuddy BowBuddy, the next generation of archery software, is a comprehensive software suite designed to assist you with recording and analyzing all aspects of your game. Use it to track performance, record scores, calculate sight marks, inventory your equipment, detail those myriad of settings, work out your classification, and even find those suspect arrows in your group. It brings together all those scraps of paper and spreadsheets into one integrated archery software package. Show me sample screen shots. BowBuddy was developed with the latest Microsoft tools utilizing .Net and XML storage technology to ensure it's compatibility and portability with a wide range of devices. BowBuddy is now supported on Microsoft 2000, XP, Vista and for the mobile devices such as PDA's and smartphone's, we support Windows CE, PocketPC 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. For more information, check the BowBuddy website. |
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| Jager BowGrips There is a new after-market option for those wanting to modify their bowgrips to support the BEST method of archery. These are unique bowgrips, in that they embed a rubber pad for a good, tacky feel and an elevated or higher grip than most stock grips provided with your riser. Check out the grips and photos at this link on the Jager Custom Archery Products website.  |
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Archival Archery Tshirts and more.... The marketplace for our T-shirts, sweatshirts, and assorted imprinted stuff has been updated. For a limited time ONLY, the image is our commemorative 25th anniversary logo. You can easily check it out and shop at this link.  If you like showing the world you are an archer, and like stylin' it in A wayyyyy then order your shirt today. This logo will not be around long! In addition, all participants of the Archival Archery Championship events in 2007 (The State Indoor, Field, JOAD Target, and Target championships) will receive one of these pins, up to a total of two pins (for two different events). Additional pins can be purchased from the Board Members (Rick Stonebraker, Tom Barker, Gina Carmichael) at these events for $2.00 each - they make a great quiver pin. Quantities are limited. See Ron Carmichael at the National Target Championships in Colorado Springs August 4 - 11th if you would like to buy a couple! |
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