Archive for August, 2009

Florida set for grand opening of Archery Facility

The Grand Opening will be highlighted with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon on Oct. 30 by Jim Easton and other Easton executives, along with Newberry, Fla. dignitaries. Immediately following, attendees will be able to participate in an open target shoot.

A 4-hour coaches’ symposium for any archery-certified instructor or coach will be offered the morning of Oct. 30, hosted by Doug Engh of NADA; USA Archery National Coach KiSik Lee; and Bob Romero, who was recently hired as the Easton-Newberry Archery Center resident coach. The coach symposium will focus on: USA Archery national coaching system (Lee and Romero); NADA’s role and coaching opportunities (Engh); and information on hosting regional/national specialty camps. All interested coaches must RSVP to NADA.

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Cassandra takes some shots

Our club has been fans of Cassandra for a while now, cheering her on in her journey to accomplish one of her dreams in becoming an Olympic archer for the USA. Today she announced that she’s ranked 17th in the country! wOOt!

Cassandra was also kind enough to share some video of her taking some shots. Visit her site and leave a comment encouraging her to keep up the hard work!

Read more here:
New Pictures and Video – You Tube -

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125th U.S. Target National Championships w Video

Take a look at this hour long, quality archery video. It’s of the best of the best archers in the USA competing in Ohio. Makes me want to get right out there and shoot some ends.

From the banks of the Ohio river in Hamilton, Ohio, USA Archery brings you the 125th U.S. Target National Championships featuring open recurve and compound competition.

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Archer profile: Keith Trail

In 1997, Keith Trail took two dozen arrows to an archery tournament in Gainesville, Fla. He shot so poorly that he lost or broke all his arrows.

A dozen years later, the 42-year-old from Aberdeen has qualified for the U.S. archery team. There aren’t 10 men in the country more accurate than Trail with a compound bow.

In the 13 tournaments he has entered this year, he earned three wins, eight top-three finishes and two top-10 finishes.

Read more here: Bragg soldier makes U.S. archery team

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Gainesville Archery Club’s Moonlight Madness 900 tournament!

Hello Archers!

Tonight is the Gainesville Archery Club’s Moonlight Madness 900 tournament. The tournament will be held right here in Forsyth County at Bennett Park. 5930 Burruss Mill Rd, Cumming, GA 30041 (Map: http://bit.ly/n5iV4)

Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for young adults and youth. Practice begins at 6pm and scoring begins at 7:15pm.

I spoke with Jonathan and there will be food for sale. We’re light on the details of the food sale but last year they started selling food around 5:30 or so and continued through the end of practice. There will be burgers and hot dogs, chips, and drinks.

Here is a handy list of what to bring to tournaments:

http://forsytharchery.com/club/2008/06/tournament-packing-list-check-list/

I look forward to seeing you tonight!
- Coach Kevin

http://forsytharchery.com

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2009 Summer Universiade Games – Archery Introduction

This video shows just a bit of the action at the 2009 Belgrade (SRB) Summer Universiade games and the archery competition there. It also is a great introduction to the great sport of archery as the interviewer learns more about the sport of archery.

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2009 Youth World Championships – Recurve Cadet Women Team Gold – KOR vs RUS

Tough close match. See how it all works out. Great recurve archery from both teams.

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2009 Youth World Championships – Compound Cadet Men Team Gold – MEX vs AUS

Feel the pressure as the Aussies shoot against team Mexico. Great archery, and a great match.

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Compound Cadet Women Team Medal Ceremony

Team USA receives their gold medals at the Youth World Cup 2009. Great shooting archers!

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Youth World Cup 2009 – Junior Compound USA vs IND

Time management. The audio was a bit low but in the second round of the first arrows, the India team ran out the clock without getting their last arrow off for a score of zero on that arrow. Team USA were solid the rest of the competition not allowing India to catch back up. Great compound archery from both teams.