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She fractured her toe while dancing in the lounge room of her Sydney home in 2004.
To keep her entertained during the school holidays her mother packed her off to an Archery camp at Sydney Olympic Park.
Wearing an air boot for protection she shuffled around at the camp learning the technical skills of the sport.” At the end of the camp, the coach came up to me and said I should seriously consider encouraging my daughter to take up the sport,” her mother Karina said.
In a little over a year Barnard was the state champion. Later in 2005 she competed in her first national titles and has since won the overall junior recurve championship twice.
This year, Barnard competed at the World Youth Championships in Turkey finishing 10th in the individual and fifth in the teams event.
“It was a great experience, so much fun,” she said. “The competition was the hardest it has ever been. I was really happy with the ranking round, where I finished 10th with a personal best.
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Broken toe creates a champion
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The foundation also helped Staff Sgt. Steve Bosson win two titles in competitive archery at the National Target Championship in Colorado Springs. It wasn’t until after his lower left leg was amputated, the result of a grenade blast in Iraq, that Bosson learned the sport and began using it as an outlet for his recovery.
The foundation paid for his equipment and travel expenses. Bosson practices daily on the archery range and plans to apply for the Army’s World Class Athlete Program, so he can compete full time.
Bosson, who is 37 and has a wife and young son, said he learned breathing techniques from a mental health professional to help keep his mind and body focused on the precise movements needed to hit the inner 10 ring, or bull’s-eye.
“It puts you in a state of mind,” he said. “You’ve got to be as calm as possible.”
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Wounded troops get helping hand
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Teenage sharpshooters Lauren McPherson and Hannah Polak have the Olympic Games well within their sights with selection for a 2012 dress rehearsal.
The pair are among a 119-strong British team of youthful talent to travel to Sydney for the Australian Youth Olympic Festival next month.
The event, for 13 to 19-year-olds, is considered a stepping stone to the senior Olympic Games with 27 nations competing in 17 sports.
And the facts bear this out. Eight members of last year’s British youth team went on to appear in Beijing this summer, including medal-winning gymnast Louis Smith.
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Hannah and Lauren in British Olympic squad
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Great news for Oklahoma!
 Arcadia Lake The Commission also approved a resolution to work with the University of Central Oklahoma to develop archery facilities at the Wildlife Department’s Arcadia Lake Conservation Education Area. The facility will be part of a memorandum of understanding between the Department and UCO to work together in developing interest and participation in the sport of archery. The project will include an outdoor Olympic archery practice range for the University’s Paralympic athletes, and in the future, indoor archery training and shooting facilities at the Arcadia Lake Conservation Education Area.
“This is a great opportunity to strengthen our partnership with UCO and to work toward common goals,” said Nels Rodefeld, information and education chief for the Wildlife Department. “This Olympic-caliber facility will also be a great compliment to the Wildlife Department’s Oklahoma Archery in the Schools program.”
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Wildlife Department honored for major fisheries renovation project
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What’s it like to be an Olympic archer? How much time and training is needed? Jake Kaminski blogged about it not too long ago.
Well I basically train 6 days a week and work on my rest day. Every day we run from 7 till 730, and go into mental training from 730 till 8. Shooting is from 9 till noon and 130 till 530 week days except on Thursday afternoon. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at lunch we go to weight training for roughly an hour and 10 minutes. On the weekends, I shoot in the afternoon, I also work the archery club Thursday afternoon, Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons. Basically my entire week is consumed by archery.
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At this past weekend’s Council meeting in Lausanne, the Olympic Capital, the leaders of the International Archery Federation (FITA) made a decision to move ahead with the launch of a new brand – ‘World Archery’.
The new ‘World Archery’ brand aims at unifying all of the activities, events, and members of FITA under one brand name that will be centrally promoted by FITA and its Continental Associations. Represented by a new and dynamic logo, the ‘World Archery’ brand will be launched during the outdoor season and fully presented at FITA’s 2009 Congress.
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FITA Press Release
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 Mark Nesbit Mark Nesbitt, a member of Ballyvally Archery Club, has been selected to represent Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney from January 14-18.
Team GB comprises over 100 of our finest young athletes, aged between 13 and 19, competing in 11 Olympic sports.
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MAKING HIS MARK
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Okay, I had a bit of trouble for the title of this posting. A great article by Lori Riley about Olympic hopeful Shayna Jenkins. It is always interesting to learn how America’s up and coming archers learn about the sport, and how they come to become one of the best. It’s great that Olympic archer Butch Johnson is helping in coaching her along with her JOAD coach.
 Shayna Jenkins A few years ago, her father promised her a target for her room at their home in Litchfield if she won a tournament.
She won.
Her mother, Gayle Carr, had a few reservations.
“I knew she wasn’t going to miss,” Carr said. “And it’s just for form. You don’t shoot from that far away. But I didn’t realize she had shot the center out of the target.”
Shayna, 15, a Litchfield High sophomore, is one of the top young female archers in the state, and according to her Junior Olympic Archery Development coach Walter Moore, one of the top 10 in her age group in the country.
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Litchfield Archer, 15, Takes Aim At Nationals
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The article is short on details in specifics with the archery teams, but it looks like the world-wide financial situation is affecting certain sports in the UK. The government is looking to match monies gathered from the private sector. For certain sports, this hasn’t materialized, for others the situation is better.
The axe hangs over ten of Great Britain’s Olympic teams before a key funding decision next week that will define the country’s preparations for London 2012.
So, who could be the winners and losers in the scramble for cash?
Winners Sports that met or exceeded their targets in Beijing in August or are able to identify potential medal-winners in 2012 — archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrianism, gymnastics (artistic), judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, swimming/diving, taekwondo, triathlon.
Losers Sports that missed their Beijing targets or have little chance of a medal in 2012 — basketball, fencing, handball, hockey, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling.
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Ten Great Britain teams face the axe for London as funding gap bites
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EXMOUTH’S Olympic archery hopefuls will be forced to leave the town to train in the lead-up to London 2012 if a new all-weather archery range in Withycombe is not approved.
The club want to build a 31-metre-long, eight-target indoor archery range next to their outdoor facilities at the southern corner of Withycombe Raleigh Common.
The timber-clad design, covering 403 square metres - with an additional 52 square metres of landscaping - would be given the appearance of a ‘traditional barn’ and would be ’sympathetic’ to the surrounding area.
The building would stand a little under five metres tall, be 12 metres wide and set into the hillside ‘to minimise the visual impact’.
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Archers’ indoor range ‘essential’
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