Archive for the 'Olympic News' Category

NZ Archery Machines Own Bow in Bid For Olympics 2012

Stephen, who lives in Glen Eden, is one of seven machining apprentices at Buckley Systems Ltd in Mt Wellington, producing a range of steel objects that require high concentration and precision to give exact, smooth and flat finishes.

He uses the same skills to design and make his own archery equipment. A new bow costs about $5500 but isn’t always a good fit.
Stephen, 20, started developing his own gear to overcome the problem and gain a more competitive edge.

Read more here:
Stephen eyes up Olympics

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USA Archer Hopeful to appear on Jay Leno show!

2009 USA Archery World Championship team member Kristin Braun (Palos Verdes, Calif.) is slated to appear on the NBC’s Jay Leno Show on Thursday, Nov. 5. Braun, a U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete in Chula Vista, Calif., will travel to Los Angeles on Thursday to tape her piece.

Set your DVRs right now. We’ll have to follow Ms. Braun’s path to the Olympics closely. Good luck Kristin!

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Lloyd Brown heading to GBR to head Archery Team

This story has been bouncing around the Intertubes for a day or so now, but former USA Olympic Archery coach is heading to Great Britain to replace Peter Suk.

Brown will replace Peter Suk, who led Great Britain to the Beijing Olympics, where Team GB failed to collect a medal, after Alison Williamson had taken bronze at Athens 2004.

What struck me is the pressure that the British paper is already placing on the coach. Amazing. Perhaps unhealthy.

American Lloyd Brown has been handed the reins at Archery GB, charged with ensuring Great Britain do not leave the London 2012 Olympics empty-handed.

“Ensuring”? Really?!? There’s nothing assured in sports. Is this the tabloid mentality of Great Britain (and Europe) ? I like what Archery GB Performance Director Sara Symington says in this quote:

“We have hired a top class coach with a fantastic track record in Olympic success,” said Symington. “I am confident that Lloyd can bring out the very best in our elite archers, and make them very competitive at the London Olympics.
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“We have some great talent, and with the right coach, the right environment and the right sports science support, then anything is possible.”

I wish the best of luck to Lloyd Brown. GBR without a doubt has many, many talented archers and combined with their new coach I wish them the best of luck. I want all archers to shoot to the very best of their ability and talents, no matter the country. The best of the best of the best for that particular week will prevail.

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Sasha and Malia Obama become honorary JOAD members

On behalf of USA Archery, Claudia Stevenson of Watching Arrows Fly presented President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama with two JOAD Gold Olympian pins and a certificate naming Sasha and Malia Obama honorary JOAD members.

“I was delighted that Archery was selected as one of the highlighted sports by World Sport Chicago,” said Stevenson. “Meeting the President and First Lady was an exhilarating, humbling and never-to-be-forgotten experience.”

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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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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: Brady Ellison

Let’s take a minute to learn more about Bardy Ellison, USA Olympic Archer.

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Archer Profile: Blake Eagan

Egan, a 2006 La Crosse Central graduate and senior marketing major at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, is trying to “live the dream” of becoming an Olympic archer.

But it’s not easy. Flash back to the early 1990s when Egan was growing up in La Crosse. Egan became interested in archery at age 7 or 8 and he wasn’t the only one in the Egan family to enjoy archery.

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Sinclair lays out CAP blueprints and reflects on its history

We are at a critical point in the history of the College Archery program and it’s time for all college athletes, coaches, advisors, and leaders to look ahead to the future of our program.

With the interest and support from many organizations around the country, there are questions being asked about the structure and governance of the program as well as what the leadership envisions for the program.

Read more here:
The US College Archery Program

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USA Archery Comments On The Future Direction of JOAD

USA Archery recently made a posting about the coming plans of the JOAD program, and I was very glad to see it. The USA Archery has been undergoing some major changes and they have been coming in a top-down approach. With changes in the Olympic and Elite levels well underway, we’ve been seeing changes flowing down to the Collegiate level with CAP and the push to expand club participation in archery. All welcome changes.

As a community and club level coach, I must admit to feeling a little left out. It appears as if the changes are now flowing down to the JOAD level now, and I welcome them with open arms.

Two very important things are taking place in May that I would like to share with you. The first is that we are hiring a JOAD Coordinator. As with everything, it is difficult to ask a lot of time from our volunteers. The JOAD Committee does its best, but when it comes to the administrative and promotional legwork, we need a dedicated, paid leader. This hiring is expected to occur late May or early June.

The second important event taking place is a meeting of the JOAD Committee, along with me, scheduled for May 27-29th in Salt Lake City.

I must admit that our club just recently joined JOAD as we’re attempting to become much more efficient as a club. Up to this time, it has been 4-H that has taken care of our training and been providing us with funding and attention to grow our club.

I look forward to hearing what will be coming out of the JOAD meeting in May, and I look forward to working with whomever is hired as the JOAD coordinator. Of course, I shouldn’t be passive in this relationship. I should reach out to our regional JOAD representative, and introduce our club. We’re a young club and attempting to grow in the number of coaches which in turn will increase the number of kids that we can coach, train, and share this great sport of archery.

Well done USA Archery. I look forward to more news in regards to JOAD. We’ll do our part from the bottom up, especially if you continue to do great works from the top down.

Read more here:
JOAD – Where are we headed?

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