At the World Archery Festival in Las Vegas, Feb 2009, the College Archery Program has announced something new. They are going to have the “Vegas Challenge” which is a new team challenge.

Travel to the World Archery Festival in Las Vegas; compete individually and as part of a CAP team. The 900 round scores will be used determining the team and individual championships.

It looks like participating in the team tournament is free. Nice. Contact Lorretta Sinclair for more information.

Read more here:
CAP Vegas Challenge

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The College Archery Program will be holding several athlete training camps for CAP eligible athletes in 2009. The elite training camp will be held for the top 4 athletes in each CAP division at Salt Lake City, Utah in July 2009.

Regional camps will be held in June and July 2009 at Universities throughout the US. For 2009, the hosts will be UC Berkeley (West), Michigan State (North), and the University of Connecticut (East). The leadership of the South region chose to not host a camp in 2009.

Read more here:
Athlete Camps Begin in Summer 2009

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USA Archery was hinting that change was coming, and now the votes are in. While they accomplished their goals which were to make the competitions closer and more exciting, I’m now wondering if the “hit or miss” competition might be too simplistic to keep archery exciting to watch. Does what I said even make sense? People used to be able to move up the ranks by getting 4s, then 6s, then 7s and 8s. We’ll see. I’m all for change and I’m more than willing to see how this affects collegiate and USA archery as a whole.

James Madison University submitted two proposals to change the format of the USIAC/WUG team trials beginning in May 2009. Proposal 1 was to change the qualifying round from a FITA to a Double 70m round. Proposal 2 was to change from using the FITA target face to using the Academic target face (aka “hit/miss”) for the team round.

A motion was made to accept the proposed changes. After discussion, the Executive council requested input and comments from the CAP clubs.

Read more here:
USIAC Format Change

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It is good to see that a couple of Georgian archers have made the team.

  • Aaron Henslin – Screven, GA – 2009 Junior USAT Recurve Men
  • Samantha Pruitte – Harlem, GA – 2009 Junior USAT Compound Women

USA Archery has officially announced, later than expected due to incorrect National Target results, the 2009 United States Archery Team (USAT) and Junior USAT. The Senior USAT consists of the top eight male and top eight female recurve and compound archers in the country. Junior USAT consists of the top five male and top five female recurve archers and the top five male and top five female compound archers in the Junior division (including the year of their 18th birthday), as well as the top-ranked Cadet (including the year of their 16th birthday) archers in each of the four divisions.

Read more here:
2009 United States Archery Team and Junior USAT Announced

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It seems like Denise Parker is making big changes in USA Archery, and I must say that I like the changes that I have heard about so far. Of course, with changes, can bring new life, new energy, and new direction. While USA Archery is looking for a new CEO, Ms. Parker is moving forward in an energetic way to reach out to new recourses in funding and resources. The key example so far is the grant from the Easton Foundation. It is also interesting to hear that Coach Lee is staying on as coach for the USA team. It was my impression that he’d be moving on to another country, as he had in the past, and I believe had also stated was his intention.

Perhaps the single most encouraging news from USA Archery, is the willingness to reach out to the community via the web. Bottom line, is that we have a great flow of news from USA Archery, and I’m encouraged by it so far.

It has been nearly four weeks since the Board of Directors initiated significant organizational changes for USA Archery and I wanted to update you on our progress.

The Transition Task Force (Lloyd Brown, Derek Davis, Sheri Rhodes) and I met this past week with Coach Lee and Guy Krueger. The purpose of our meeting was to review the coach development programs and athlete pipeline with an eye toward blending new programs implemented by Coach Lee with USA Archery’s existing certification structure. The group evaluated programs such as the Regional High Performance Coaching program and Champs as well as partner organization’s programs like the Community Coaching Course. The ultimate goal was to develop a unified path that our organization can support.

Read more here:
Acting CEO Denise Parker Discusses Organizational Changes within USA Archery

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Wow, that’s a lot of archery! Unfortunately there’s only one date here in Georgia, and that’s the World Team Target Trials in May at Conyers.

Check out the entire calendar here:
2009 Tournament Schedule

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The Easton Sports Development Foundation (ESDF) has awarded the US College Archery Program a grant for the next three years to support the advancement of college archery across the country. The grant will benefit athletes throughout the program by way of scholarships, World University Team funding, regional and elite athlete training camps, and advanced coach training, just to name a few.

Read more here:
EDSF Awards Grant to CAP
Easton Sports Development Foundation
EASTON SPORTS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION PROVIDES USA ARCHERY WITH $307,000 IN GRANTS

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Here are some pictures from the NAA Intermediate Coaches training, held at the Lake Oconee Shooting club, August 25th-26th, 2008. Instructor Jim Pruitte.

I’ll put together my notes and make sure to share what I’ve learned with our club. Stay tuned!

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