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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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Ms. Cassandra reports from the Texas Shootout

Our club has been following the career of Ms. Cassandra and she strives to become the best archer that she possibly can be. We’re thankful that she’s sharing her story and journey with us on her blog.

This weekend she was in College Station, Texas competing in the Texas Shootout competition. Evidently it was very windy with an on set of nerves.

t was my time to shoot and I cant believe I’m actually saying this,but I got nervous in my legs, yep legs, my quads started to tingle and sort of shake, absoultly crazy. I dont get nervous anymore I said to myself, it didn’t mater though it was there. My first 2 arrows were uck, but I pulled myself together and said to myself “you HAVE to shoot good shots here, keep your bow arm strong and follow through on that shot no matter what, you have to do this” and I DID.

I’m thankful that she openly and honestly shared that with us. Our club and team archers struggle with the same nerves, and many times the same windy conditions. It’s great to read about an elite archer struggling with the same situations and how they overcome them.

Robby Beyer hired as High Performance Manager

Please join me in welcoming Mr. Robby Beyer as the new High Performance Manager for USA Archery. Although I may never get to meet Mr. Beyer since I move in the club level, I’m hoping that his efforts and input will help not only the world class USA archers, but those effects will filter down to the regional and club levels.

“Elite athlete support is my number one priority,” explains Beyer. “My desire is to provide the support services necessary to compete and succeed internationally for recurve and compound archers alike. I want to maintain open communication with athletes, the athlete advisory council and coaches in an effort to galvanize everyone together to accomplish our organizational goals for London 2012.”

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USA Archery Hiring JOAD Coordinator

USA Archery is looking to hire a contractor to fill a part-time JOAD Coordinator role. This position would be contracted for approximately 20 hours per week. Ideally this position would be filled by a person that is familiar with the JOAD program and is motivated to help grow the program by providing the energy, enthusiasm, determination, oversight and attention to detail that will make JOAD a competently managed program. It is USA Archery’s hope that this position grows into a full time JOAD coordinator position as funds increase.

Read more here:
USA Archery Hiring JOAD Coordinator

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Archer Profile: Miranda Leek

Miranda Leek aims to be there representing the United States in archery.

The Dowling Catholic High School sophomore travels across the country to compete nationally and has competed outside of the U.S. since taking up archery at age 5.

She most recently took home a first-place prize in the National Field Archery Association’s National Indoor Championships. She won the young adult female freestyle limited recurve/longbow division in Louisville, Ky., in mid-March, beating the record in her division by 32 points.

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