Posted in Club News, Tournaments on October 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Hello Friends of the Forsyth County Archery Club!

Just a reminder that we will be holding a Halloween Mini Tournament this weekend. We’ll be having targets at 30, 20, and 10 meter distances to match varying age levels and skill levels. There will be a couple of standard target faces, but we’ve got something special planned for the other target faces as well. Yes, it’ll be (almost) standard scoring for the tournament. There will be 9 ends of 3 arrows per end, or 27 arrows in total.

In addition to the mini-tournament, we’ll also have a pumpkin shoot. We’ll be providing fiberglass arrows for the shoot so you’re not gunking up your nice arrows. We’ll be providing the recurve bows for this shoot. The fiberglass arrows won’t be able to handle any high power bows.

Come on out for a great time this Saturday, October 25th. Setup starts at 2:30pm and we will have a short warm up session, and then the tournament will start at approximately 3:15pm.

We hope to see you there!
-Coach Kevin

http://forsytharchery.com

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Posted in Archery Stories, World Championships on October 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

Hunt faced that pressure earlier this month at the Junior World Archery Championships in Turkey. Hunt won gold both individually and as a team. During the elimination round, he had to win a shoot-off to advance.

“I was behind him by two points at the beginning of the match and at the end, we were tied,” said Hunt. “We had a one-arrow-at-a-time shoot off. We had to get to the third arrow before I beat him on the last arrow.”

That might have meant the downfall for many, but Hunt relishes that moment. In a sport that he says is 90 percent mental, he’s shown he’s mentally tougher than much of his competition.

“A lot of kids don’t understand how mental it is,” said Hunt. “You can be in practice and shoot good but when you get to a tournament, you have to be able to keep yourself together and shoot good.

“You may be able to shoot a perfect shot but shooting a perfect shot everytime is what’s going to take you to the next level.”

Congratulations to Joey Hunt and to Team USA!

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Straight shooter Minot archer Joey Hunt is right on target

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News, World Championships on October 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

FORMER men’s compound World Field Champion Chris White (Rugby Bowmen) has topped the end of season UK rankings for the tenth consecutive year.

Naomi Folkard (Leamington) has topped the ladies’ recurve rankings for the eighth time; and a number of other Warwickshire archers feature in the top 20.

White, aged 30, and 25-year-old Folkard both started archery at a very young age and have been shooting for GB since they were juniors. Both are also all-round archers competing internationally in outdoor target, indoor target and field archery.

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Archery – County of Warwick Association latest

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News, World Championships on October 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

In Iowa, those [1972] games were also remembered for Wilber, who finished ahead of archers from Poland and Russia on the medal podium in a sport reintroduced to the Olympics for the first time in more than a half-century.

“If you saw the movie, ‘The Natural’ — she was a natural archer,” Paul Wilber said. “She was physically strong and she had an amazing concentration. She could shut things out and focus on a target.”

What is the measure of ones life? The ability to help and hopefully inspire others. It sounds like the Wilber family did just that, and more.

The Wilbers did not raise children of their own, but worked extensively with area kids through a junior Olympic development program for 12 years.

“We didn’t have any of our own — so we had to claim everyone else’s,” Paul Wilber said.

Doreen Wilber enjoyed the more than 20 kids in her backyard shooting at targets — with a simple but important rule.

“They always shoot away from the house,” Wilber told the Register in 1991.

Mrs. Wilber sounds like a true Olympian to me.

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Wilber, first woman from Iowa to win Olympic gold, dies at 78
Ron Maly writes about his interviews with Doreen Wilber

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Posted in Archery Stories, World Championships on October 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

Archery is more than just a hobby for Janice Williams of Shawville. She is also the two-time defending world champion of the Archery Shooters Association. For the last two years, she has won the ASA World Classic Shoot in the Senior Division, held at Fort Benning, Ga.

She was also named the ASA Shooter of the Year in 2008, and during the past seven years, she has won seven first-place, nine second-place and four third-place rankings at ASA competitions, as well as a number of local and regional tournaments and the 1996 International Bowhunters Association Indoor World Championship in 1996.

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Shawville woman is world archery champion

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Posted in Archery Stories, World Championships on October 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

A 16-year-old archer is back from the Junior World Championships in Turkey, and she brought home a gold medal.

Tristan Skarvan and her two teammates smashed the old world record team qualification score by more than 140 points.

She lead the team, shooting a 78 out of 80, which was the highest individual score shot by any female in any division during the team round.

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Teen Brings Home Gold For Archery At Junior World Championships

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Posted in Archery Stories, Field Archery on October 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on October 17th, 2008 | No Comments »

They proceeded to turn the first round against France into a turkey shoot, before taking out the US.

But Tyack, 17, who arrived back in Australia on Wednesday from helping win the nation’s first junior world archery teams event, said their moment of truth was in the semifinal.

“They (the Italians) were the world record holders – but we just seemed to intimidate everyone else,” Tyack said yesterday. “All the teams we met seemed to shoot their worst when they came up against us.

“Being an AIS team seemed to help us – in the individual competition I just never felt comfortable, but in the teams we just fed off one another’s confidence.”

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Coast archer steels focus

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on October 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

LEAMINGTON archer Naomi Folkard has been honoured with the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sportswoman of the Year Award.

Naomi, who has now been shooting continuously at international level for nine years, has had yet another successful year winning individual medals in three archery disciplines, indoor target, outdoor target and field.

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Archery – Naomi Folkard wins award

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Posted in Archery Stories, Olympic News on October 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

Kailey Johnston was one of 33 girls from 11 different countries in her division aiming for a gold medal in archery. In the end, she was the one on top of the podium holding the United States flag with the gold medal around her neck.

Kailey, 14, won the Compound Women’s Individual by beating Ekaterina Korobeynikova from Russia by three points at the Jr. Outdoor World Championship in Antalya, Turkey on Sunday.

Congratulations Kailey from the Forsyth County Archery Club! I’m hoping that stories like this one will inspire our young men and women in our club.

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Local Archer Wins World Title

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