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Hello Archers!
Just a quick note about the Gainesville 900 Archery Tournament that is tonight. We welcome all team and club members to come out and join us. This tournament is very special to us as the Forsyth Archery Club has been working with the Gainesville Archery Club to arrange this tournament to be hosted here in Forsyth County. This will definitely be the closest archery tournament outside of our club mini-tournaments. Gainesville puts on a great, friendly tournament.
It looks like there may be some light rain tonight with the chance of heavier rain if there are thunderstorms. Please bring some extra clothes, perhaps some rain jackets and umbrellas in addition to the normal tournament items.
Take a look at the tournament packing list for items to bring:
http://bit.ly/tourneypacklist
The tournament will be held at Bennett Park, Forsyth County.
Directions: http://bit.ly/n5iV4
Address: Bennett Park. 5930 Burruss Mill Rd, Cumming, GA 30041
Time: Practice 6pm; Scoring 7:15pm
I hope to see you there!
- Coach Kevin
Forsyth County Archery Club
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Hello Folks,
Bad weather is heading our way. We’ve decided to cancel archery practice for tonight. We’ll be back out next Tuesday at the same scheduled time.
- Coach Kevin Cully
Forsyth Archery Club
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End of Year Party
Date: Saturday, 08/28/10 – Sunday, 08/29/10
Type: Target and Compound Target JOAD Pin Shoot with other fun events
Scope: Club
Location: Wahsega 4-H Camp in Dahlonega, Georgia
Website: http://www.wahsega4h.org
Map: Click Here for Map
Cost: $20/day* or $38 for overnight stay** per person. (*lunch, dinner and **breakfast included)
Why: | JOAD Pin Shoot | Flu Flu Arrows | Candy Shoot | Campfire | and get to know your fellow club members better |
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Hello Archers!
I wanted to post an update about archery. As you know, tonight is practice! It is also going to be a warm one with temperatures in the 90s and the heat index close to 100F. Please make sure that your archers are getting enough liquids *before* and during archery practice. If the archer arrives to practice and/or a tournament dehydrated and then gets into that heat, the chance of heat stroke is greatly increased. Make sure they drink plenty of water before practice.
For another comfort tip, feel free to bring chairs to archery practice. Resting even for the few minutes in the shade of the trees before pulling arrows can really help rejuvenate the archers.
TOURNAMENT LIST: Here are some of the upcoming tournament dates:
June 19th : GAA State JOAD (more info below)
July 3rd : Night the Lights Came ON in GA
July 11th : GA Games 3D Tournament
July 17th : GA Games Target Tournament
Aug 14th : Gainesville 900 (Held in Forsyth County!)
Aug 28,29th : Club End of Year Party
NEXT TOURNAMENT: More info on the next tournament
*** GAA State JOAD Tournament ***
This tournament is just for the youth and young adult archers. It will be held this Saturday in Conyers with practice starting at 9am. The tournament begins at 10am. There will be a 72 arrow, single distance tournament. Admission is $25 for the first archer with the second archer being $15 with a max of $50 per family. Following the target tournament is an optional Olympic head to head style target tournament. For more information, visit our page here: http://bit.ly/dyIXuJ
If you have any questions, just contact me via email.
- Coach Kevin Cully
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We had a great time with some great turnout by our club at the Gainesville 900 Target tournament. Thank you to all of the organizers of the tournament!
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Hello Archers!
We are very excited about the archery tournament tomorrow. As I was saying at the practice, this tournament is a great tournament to get started with. Low pressure, coaches can coach and help the beginners, low cost, and as close of a tournament as we’re going to get! Plus, the people at the Gainesville Archery Club are really, really nice and good friends of our club.
I have contacted the Gainesville Archery Club, and they have agreed to set up a “Beginner” class for some of our new archers. What that means is if you are a beginner and would normally be shooting 50,40, and 30 meters, you will be able to shoot at 30,20, and 10 meters! I hope that this will help make a tournament more “approachable” for those archers on the fence on whether to come to the tournament or not. Please come!
For more information, including a link for directions, check out this page. Click here.
Information:
- Practice starts: 12pm noon
- Entrance fee: $15 adults; $10 young adults; $Free – 8yo and younger
- Team members dress code: Wear white team shirts; blue shirts if you don’t have white.
- Club members dress code: Wear blue t-shirts if you have them
- Bring food and drinks and/or bring $$$ for burgers, hot dogs, and drinks for sale
- Close toed comfortable shoes. No sandals
- Bring chairs
- Sunscreen if you need it
For more on what to pack for a tournament, visit this page: Tournament Packing List
If you have any questions, please contact me. We want this to be a positive experience for all of our archers!
- Coach Kevin Cully
Forsyth County Archery Club
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We had a beautiful day in Gainesville a couple of weeks ago. Here are some of the photos. Thanks team! The archers did great!
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I’d like to thank Lori Kekel for taking the photos of the tournament.
As you can see, the sky opened up on us several times. Eventually, the tournament had to be cancelled to due lightning and heavy rains. The Cloverleaf (youngest group) of archers pretty much finished their portion of the tournament. The senior recurve archers got through their FITA (target) tournament. The senior compound archers got part way through their FITA and part way through the 3D targets. The juniors, unfortunately didn’t really get to shoot because the rain came in the afternoon and was a wash out.
My thanks goes out to all of our parents for helping make this as good as it could be of a bad situation. Thank you to all of the 4-H staff and volunteers. Rain makes everything harder for a thankless job. But, to you, the Forsyth County Archery Club thanks you!!!
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It will be a bit wet tonight, but we’re a “go” for archery practice tonight! See you there!
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