Brady Ellison was shooting against Korea’s Im in the gold medal match. Beautiful setting and a beautiful day for the competition.
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Archive for December, 2008
I’m a fan of Samantha Pruitte, I admit. We were planning on attending the fund raising tournament a week or two back but I came down with a fever the night before. I was really wanting to see her shoot, meet her father again, and help support the team heading to Las Vegas and Poland. Oh well, next time.
“I just don’t think about it anymore,” said Pruitte. “I just set it up, look at the target, draw back, aim and just pull it through.”
She doesn’t have too far to practice either. With the help of her parents, they built a canopy in their backyard, complete with lights and heaters, allowing her to practice anytime. But she does travel for competitions. She’s been all over the country and competed in Turkey in October. And now she’s raising money to go to Poland for the World Indoor Championships in March. not bad huh?
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Local Teen Excelling In Archery
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The confidence of this tallented archer is apparent from the first arrow. Well done. Somethings messed up with the audio in this recording, but nothing is wrong with the level of archery.
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A very tight match neck and neck almost down to the last arrow. Check out who comes out on top in this great video.
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Under very windy conditions, Jamie barely noticed as she shot solidly in the women’s compound competition.
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A Kayaker, Canoer, and Nordic Skier, Emily Wright has her hands full of training. She took some time however to watch our USA Olympic archers take on the 1000 Arrow Challenge and took some great photos. Check them out.
On a normal day (over the course of 8 hours), the archers might shoot between 200-300 arrows. 1000 arrows is over three times the normal training load. To put things into perspective, that would be like us kayakers taking our normal 2-3 hours on the water daily and multiplying it into a 9-hour continuous paddle Yikes. Talk about over-distance training.
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1000- Arrow Challenge
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Before December is over all of the roughly 980 students at Stonewall Middle School will have had archery training.
Physical education teacher Eric Wagner started the class with a $5,000 grant from the state.
The money bought 60 arrows, 12 bows, bow racks, six targets and a Kevlar curtain to go behind the targets to stop any errant arrows.
“It’s really a nice set-up,” Wagner said.
To qualify for the grant the school had to send at least two teachers to training about how to teach archery.
Three of the school’s four physical education teachers took the training and the first archery class at a middle school in Prince William County was started, Wagner said.
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Stonewall Middle takes aim at phys. ed.
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Here’s a reminder on why we practice safety first and second and always. Thank goodness that this young archer escaped the most permanent injuries and we wish him a speedy recovery.
Contrary to popular belief, archery is an extremely safe sport. The injury rates fall somewhere between golf and bowling, with the most common injury being a shoulder injury from drawing a bow too heavy for the archer. On reason I attribute to archery’s low injury rate is parental involvement. We have a very good percentage of archers and parents.
This article is a reminder to myself and my club that when things go bad, the consequences can be very bad.
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Young Archer Shot Through The Eye
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This article from the Leicestershire Mercury takes a look at the impressive lineup of archers on their team, ready for the Australian Youth Olympic Festival next month.
The British team is 100-strong and is made up of competitors from canoeing, diving, equestrianism, fencing, gymnastics, rowing, shooting, triathlon and beach volleyball.
The Birstall youngster had her first taste of international action in October when she was a member of the GB cadet team which competed at the Junior World championships in Antalya, Turkey.
She shot in the women’s recurve team, while Bowmen of Rutland’s James Mortlock was a member of the junior men’s recurve squad.
Both qualified for the head-to-head rounds, Mortlock finishing with a rank of 32 and top Briton. McPherson was ranked 63rd after losing to Russia’s Tatiana Segina, who went on to take gold.
Archery: McPherson earns a call to the British squad
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