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The Third Annual HSO World Finals is scheduled at Wilderness Lodge at Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin again this year. This tournament invites top competitors from all HSO tournaments held during the 2009 calendar year to compete for the HSO title, prizes & money. Associates from across the continent offer HSO qualifying tournaments to anyone who wants to compete. The excitement is addictive and made for the hunter! Check for qualifying tournaments in your area now and don’t miss the opportunity to be invited to compete this year.
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This has been a fabulous summer. In fact, we had to hold some reports until next issue due to economics. I took the opportunity to shoot in the National Senior Games Association (NSGA) Archery Championships in San Jose, California. They were very well run games headed up by CEO NSGA Phil Godfrey, Director of National Games & Relations Roy Hoyt and our own Director of Shooting Tim Austin. Tim must have ordered in the mid 70’s weather and no rain. We have a picture report starting with faithful Senior Corner writer, Gold Medalist Joe Bauernfeind on page 28. It was just fantastic to see so many seniors in attendance. A total of 39 new records were set. As one senior gold medalist, Joe Stella, said, “Give God the glory for all our accomplishments, the benefits of which are internal bliss.” Our next issue will cany coverage on the Huntsman Senior Games in St. George, Utah. The National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) is gearing up for their first World Team Competition at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Josten’s Center in Orlando, Florida on October 8-11, 2009. See page 26 for more information. USA Archeiy which is a member of the world body FITA, has expanded their Olympic competitions to include the Junior archers. Our archers have many new competitions open to them. Please check out the websites below for your favorite style of archery. We would like to thank the volunteers and organizers of all these events worldwide. It is a great time to be involved in this wonderful sport. See you on the range,
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Local Archers Shine at Junior Olympic National Championships By Teresa laconia July 14, 2009 - Manchester, CT - Young archers from Manchester, West Hartford, Glastonbury, Middletown, South Windsor, and other Connecticut towns recently competed in the 2009 Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) Outdoor National Championships, returning from the tournament with three firstplace National Championship titles, and numerous top-five and top-ten national finishes. The archers, who are part of the JOAD program at Hall’s Arrow Archery Range in Manchester, are part of one of the nation’s largest programs of its kind, and often practice three to five days each week to prepare for local, regional and national competitions. The Hall’s Arrow JOAD club is part of the national JOAD program overseen by USA Archery, which is the national governing body for the Olympic sport of archery in the United States. USA Archery sponsored and conducted this three-day National tournament, which required that each archer shoot a total of 144 arrows for competition, at four different distances, to determine the National Champions in each division, and then compete in an Olympic Round (OR) at the longest distance for that archer’s age division, for which the top archers were awarded medals. For the youngest archers, who are not eligible for the OR, a special competitive event was conducted, called the “Wand Shoot.” Hall’s Arrow sent both recurve and compound archers to the competition, and recurve archers Joshua Moskow of Glastonbury, and Samuel Wunder of West Hartford, and compound archer Alexander Sahi of Willington, all won the title of September-October 2009
“JOAD National Champion” in their divisions. At this National tournament, which had over 270 competitors, archers were categorized by their discipline (compound or recurve bow), age (four different divisions spanning ages 8-18) and gender. The Hall’s Arrow JOAD program entered 28 competitors, the largest team of its kind at this event. “We are exceptionally proud of the accomplishments of these incredibly disciplined young athletes,” stated Hall’s Arrow JOAD Coach Teresa laconi. “During indoor competition season and outdoors, these archers display amazing focus, self discipline and outstanding sportsmanship. I could not be prouder of all of them, regardless of how they finished, because they all put tremendous time and effort into preparation, and displayed excellent sportsmanship throughout the event.”
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Megan Resnik, Ellington, CT - 10,h Place. Bowman Female Recurve Cheyenne Gibilaro, North Branford, CT. 12lh Place, Bowman Female Recurve Dylan Johnson, Granby, CT, S'*1 Place, Cub Male Compound Jared Hall, North Granby, CT - 8lh Place, Cub Male Compound, Bronze Medal. Olympic Round Sam Wunder, West Hartford. CT - 1” Place National Champion, Cub Male Recurve, Silver Medal, Olympic Round Daniel Neish, Glastonbury, CT - 5,h Place. Cub Male Recurve Aaron O’Neill. Orange, CT - 19lh Place, Cub Male Recurve Colin Burke, Plantsville, CT - 20d' Place. Cub Male Recurve Alexander Sahi, Willington, CT - Is' Place National Champion, Cadet Male Compound Kyle Bielanos, Southbury, CT - 8d' Place, Cadet Male Recurve Tom DiBenedetto. Middletown, CT - 9,h Place, Cadet Male Recurve Ethan Avery. Storrs. CT - 17th Place. Cadet Male Recurve Ariel Gibilaro. North Branford, CT -I0’h Place. Cadet Female Recurve Amber Phelps, Vernon, CT - lllh Place, Cadet Female Recurve Caleigh Tierney, South Windsor, CT - 17,h Place. Junior Female Recurve Leah Moelling, Simsbury. CT - 18th Place, Junior Female Recurve Sarah Komacki, Wallingford, CT - 21” Place. Junior Female Recurve Mary Alice Laramie, Bolton, CT - 22nd Place, Junior Female Recurve Luke Orfitelli, Manchester, CT - 10lh Place. Junior Male Recurve
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125th Annual National Target Championships a Success Hamilton, Ohio Welcomes Over 400 Archers from Across USA and Other Countries by Teresa laconi The 125"* Annual Target National Championships, hosted by USA Archery with the help of Tournament Director Steven Cornell, Darrel! Pace and the Cincinnati Junior Olympians, took place August l-8lh, and was a great success, with over 400 registered archers participating. Shooters from all over the country, as well as teams from Canada and Chinese Taipei. enjoyed excellent facilities, a beautifully groomed field and (with the exception of one day) near-perfect shooting conditions as younger and older archers, and everyone in between, enjoyed individual competition as well as team and clout rounds. The tournament kicked off with the Traditional Championships taking place on Saturday and Sunday, August Is' and 2nd, followed by official practice for recurve and compound competitors on Monday, August 3rd. Tuesday was the scheduled start of competition but was pre-empted due to severe lightning storms. However, tournament organizers, not missing a beat. quickly had the field back in top shape, and archers shot a halfF1TA round (short distances) on Wednesday, followed by a full F1TA round that took place Thursday and Friday. Team rounds in both compound and recurve divisions took place between Thursday and Friday also, while youth competitors shot in the mornings on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. (A complete list of winners in all divisions follows this article). USA Archery held their annual meeting on Thursday evening, which was attended by several members along with its board; on Friday evening, a banquet was held to celebrate the event and give awards to the winners of each division (determined by the total scores of the one and a half FITA rounds shot). The banquet was also an occasion to recognize the winners of the Easton and Shenk awards, which are given to the compound (Easton Award)
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respectively, with Nicely winning the bronze. For the men, Dave Cousins, Jesse Broadwater, Adam Gallant and Braden Gellenthien were the medal round competitors. Broadwater shot well enough to take the gold medal, with Gellenthien winning the silver and Cousins the bronze. In an announcement on their website immediately following the conclusion of the tournament, USA Archery expressed congratulations to all of the winners, and its gratitude to those who assisted with the tournament, as well as announcing the location and tentative dates of next year’s tournament. From USA Archery’s website: “USA Archery would like to thank the USOC and Comcast for their coverage of the U.S. Open event for the new Olympic Network set to launch following the Vancouver games this next year. We will provide more information regarding times for airing and website links for viewing as we acquire the information. For more information on the Olympic Network, visit httn://teamusa. org/news/article/14101. Thank you to Tournament Director, Steve Cornell and Darrell Pace and all the members of their crew, including the Cincinnati JOAD club, for a job well done. The field looked amazing and the event was run on-time. Special thanks go to all our judges working the event: Marty Swanson, Jane Johnson, Jim Coombe, Lance VanNatta, Jake Veit, Linda Cockrell, James Lamoin, Jerry Pylypchuk, Gary Yamaguchi, Rich Kochert, Brandon Aylward and Alex Cornell. USA Archery would like to thank our USAA sponsors, Easton Foundation, Easton, Hoyt, TaxMasters, United and Nike for their support of USA Archery. We would also like to thank event sponsors and vendors Bass Pro Shops, Courtyard by Marriott, Costco, BCY Fibers, Proline Bowstrings, Archery House Crafts, Toxofil, Lancaster Archery Supply and the Cincinnati Jr. Olympians. A big thanks goes to the city of Hamilton and Butler County as the community really stepped up to help bring the event back to Ohio.
Women Recurve Medals (l-r) Jennifer Nichols and Heather Koehl take the podium at the U.S. Open. Bronze medal winner Khatuna Lorig is not pictured USA Archery is also pleased to announce, based on the successful event this year, the 126,h U.S. National Target Championshipswill be back in Hamilton, OH with tentative dates of July 19-24, 2010 as not to conflict with the NFAA Nationals occurring the last week of July and the World Cup Stage 3 being held in Ogden, UT the first week of August.”
Compound Women’s Medal Match: The Compound Women's semifinals at the U.S. Open: (l-r) Kendall Nicely, Erika Anschutz, Mackenzie Kieborz and Jamie VanNatta. September-October 2009
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USA Wins Team and Individual Gold, Silver, and Bronze at World University Games Compound, Recurve Athletes Face the World’s Best College Archers in Serbia
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July 12, 2009 - Belgrade, SERBIAThe USA College Archery Program proudly announces that the team of archers which represented the United States at the World University Games has won team gold and silver medals, and individual gold and bronze medals, at this international event in Belgrade, Serbia. After top-notch performances throughout this event, the United States team rose to the challenge in the finals to take a silver medal in the Mixed Team, Compound event; gold in the Mens' Team, Compound category; a bronze medal in the Women’s Individual, Compound division and a gold medal in the Men’s Individual, Compound category. The team that represented the United States at the World University Games faced the best college competitors in the world, with teams hailing from 41 countries, including Korea, Italy and the Russian Federation. On the compound side, Erika Anschutz (University of Nebraska) was seeded fifth following the ranking round, and shot consistently throughout her eliminations to advance to the medal matches, where she defeated Albina Longinova (RUS) for the bronze medal. Teammate Brittany Lorenti (James Madison University), ranked
fourth, shot well but was eliminated by Li-Ju Chen (TPE) in the l/8,h eliminations. Elissa Falconer (Miami University of Ohio), retired after the 1/16'h eliminations. For the men, seventh-ranked Steve Gatto (Atlantic Cape Community College), successfully advanced to the semi-finals, where he shot a 115 to advance to the gold medal match against Italy’s Pettanazzo. Gatto then secured the gold medal for the United States with a 118. Teammates Zachary Plannick (Penn College) and Steven Schwade (University of South Carolina) both shot well in the 1Z32nd round, and retired after the 1/16*h eliminations. For the recurve archers, United States Olympic Team member Jennifer Nichols (Texas A&M University) advanced to the quarterfinals, and teammates Erin Mickelberry (University of Washington) and Amanda Nichols (Texas A&M University) completed the 1/16,h and I/32"d rounds, respectively. For the men, 2008 Olympic Team Alternate Jacob Wukie (James Madison University) and Glen Thomas (Pennsylvania College of Technology) retired following the l/32nd elimination round, while teammate Timothy Meyers (Texas A&M University) successfully advanced, only to face 2008 14
Olympic Gold Medalist Viktor Ruban (RUS) in the 1/16d', a match which Meyers lost by just two points. The team events for this competition were shot on the “Hit and Miss” target, and the archers seemed to welcome the challenge. The second-ranked U.S. compound women’s team shot well, advancing past Italy in the quarterfinals, before being eliminated in the semifinal matches. For the compound men's team event, Gatto, Plannick and Schwade advanced past host nation Serbia, then Canada, to face Mexico in the medal matches. The United States claimed the gold medal with a decisive 23-19 victory. The recurve women’s team, ranked eighth going into the event, defeated Mexico in the l/8lh, and were eliminated in the quarterfinals. The recurve men’s team also advanced past Mexico in the I/8lh elimination, only to face top-seeded Korea, who moved forward to the semi-finals. In the mixed team events, which featured a male and female archer of the same discipline, recurve teammates Jennifer Nichols and Jacob Wukie retired after the quarterfinal matches; compound archers Steve Gatto and Erika Anschutz advanced to the final matches and defeated Korea to
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Erika Anschutz and Steve Gatto Individual Winners, center Gold (USA) winners of the Silver Mdal Medal winner Steve Gatto (USA) in the Mixed Team Event win the silver medal. About USA College Archery Program The USA College Archery Program (CAP)’s central purpose and role is to develop and maintain the resources and infrastructure that will support and grow college archery’ programs across the nation, and serve as an information clearinghouse for college athletes and coaches. The CAP is the primary facilitator of United States Intercollegiate Archery’ Championships (USIAC) and is also responsible for selecting collegiate archery teams to represent the U.S. at international events. For more information, please contact Publicist Teresa laconi or visit www.uscollegiatearchery.org. ®
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world archery CHEN celebrates home victory! Shanghai - 9 August 2009 Stage 4 of the Archery World Cup ended in the Yuan Chen Stadium with four very special gold medal matches. CHEN Wenyuan (CHN) had a home victory. YUN OK-Hee (KOR) and Sergio PAGN1 (1TA) became the first archers to win four World Cup stages. Camilla SOEMOD (DEN) won the compound women and qualified for a World Cup Final at home, in Copenhagen!
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Recurve Men Gold Medal - OH Jin-Hyek (KOR) vs CHEN Wenyuan (CHN) OH must absolutely win to go to the World Cup Final in Copenhagen. If he loses the 2004 Olympic Champion Marco GALIAZZO (ITA) will stay 4th in the ranking. CHEN was an early talent, ranking 2nd at the 2004 European Grand Prix in Whyl (GER) when he was only 16. CHEN had a great start with 9-X10-10, while OH had 9-9-8. Then OH put pressure with a 10. CHEN answered with a 10. OH had an 8 and shook his head in despair. CHEN scored a 9. OH scored a 9 and CHEN earned another 10 to build a great lead 58-53! OH was shooting too much on the left. He adjusted to scored a XI0-10, but also an 8 low on the target. CHEN started to get a bit nervous but he managed 8-9-9 and still led by 3-points, 8481.
Then both archers traded 9s. OH had another 9 but CHEN had a 10. OH finished with a 10 for 109 points. CHEN concluded with a 10 and clinched gold at home, 113-109! Today we had the top archer Crispin DUENAS (CAN) joining us for the commentary. He gave us his opinions on the matches. “The Crispin Corner”: OH was a little tentative. He usually shoots quickly but in this match he was slower than usual. CHEN kept his cool under the pressure of the home crowd and clinched the match with six 10s. He missed the yellow only once and had a well-deserved victory! Bronze Medal - CHENG Chu Sian (MAS) vs IM DongHyun (KOR) The 23 year-old IM is an amazing talent. He is the double team Olympic gold medallist in 2004 and 2008, the 2007 individual and team world champion, the 2008 world cup final winner, among a long list of other titles in such a young career! CHENG is also only 23 and has also been competing at a high level for many years! He has already had some success. including a 2nd place at the Olympic Test Event Beijing 2007. IM started with a dead centre X10, an 8 and a 9 for 27 points, while CHENG had 8-10-7 for 25 points. Then both archers traded a 25 and IM led 52-50. Then CHENG brought up the heat with 9-X10-X10 to tie the match at 79-79! Then IM had 10. CHENG had X10. IM had X10. CHENG had 9. IM scored 10 and clinched the match! CHENG had a last 10 that did not change the outcome. IM had the bronze 109-108. Crispin’s Corner: Both guys were really strong. They shot really well under pressure and IM won-again! Recurve women Gold Medal - YUN Ok-Hee (KOR) vs Berengere SCHUH (FRA) YUN is one of the most successful archers since 2006, when she actually won the Shanghai stage! She won two World Cup stages (Porec and Antalya) and two Olympic medals in Beijing last year. SCHUH has also had a successful career, including an indoor individual world championships title in 2003 and a team bronze at the last Olympic Games. Tied score after the first end: 8-9-X10 for YUN and 8-10-9 for SCHUH. However the Korean turned it up in the second end with 9-10-10! The French competitor had 8-9-9 and trailed 53-56. Then SCHUH had an 8. YUN waited before preparing her shot. When she wanted to go, a strong gust of wind came up and she fell into time trouble. With two seconds left, she shot a 6. SCHUH took advantage of it with a quick 10, but YUN was quick to react, too: another 10! Then both archers traded 9s and the Korean had still a 1-point lead, 81-80. SCHUH was consistent in the last end with 9-9-9 but YUN finished even better with 10-9-9 and clinched victory 109-107. YUN joined PAGNI as the most winning archer in the World Cup: four victories! Crispin’s corner: Both archers looked consistent as they always do. YUN was clearly caught by the wind when she shot a 6, but she had enough skill to recover and keep on top of the match. Bronze Medal - ZHAO Ling (CHN) vs KWAK Ye-JI (KOR) ZHAO won the Porec stage and KWAK was victorious at the last stage in Antalya. 16
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KWAK had the best start with 8-X10-9 and 8-9-9 for 53 points. ZHAO dropped a 6 with her sixth arrow and had only 50 points. The wind was still strong but KWAK showed what the Koreans are made of and kept shooting strongly. She had 7-10-9 to lead 79-75. The Chinese put a lot of pressure at the end with 10-10 while the Korean had 9-8. She now only held a 1-point margin. However, ZHAO finished with a 7, while KWAK had 8. Bronze medal for the Korean 104-102. Crispin’s corner: Tough match for both archers. ZHAO showed some nervousness with a 6 and a 7. KWAK was maybe not as consistent as usual but she still managed to come out on top. You need to know how to win in challenging conditions. Compound Men Gold Medal - Jorge JIMENEZ (ESA) vs Sergio PAGNI (ITA) This was the revenge match of the final at the Porec World Cup where PAGNI won. JIMENEZ was 2nd in Shanghai in 2006 and won two stages and the World Cup Final in 2007. Both are assured to go to the Copenhagen Final. These are two of the very best archer in the world in the last few years. They had both a bit of shy start however. JIMENEZ had 9-8-9, while PAGNI scored 8-9-10 to lead, 27-26. They raised their level in the second end while the rain was decreasing. The Salvadorian had 10-9-10, while the Italian shot 9-X10-9. Score was tied at 55-55. JIMENEZ shot a triple 9 in the third end, while PAGNI shot XI0-9-10. He took the lead back, 84-82. JIMENEZ put the pressure in the last end. He started with a 10. PAGNI had a 10. Then, the Salvadorian had another 10, so did the Italian. JIMENEZ finished with a 10, but PAGNI had the same answer: a 10. Victory 114-112.
PAGNI has now won four of the last eight World Cup stages in 2007 and 2008! He was only 4th in the Lausanne World Cup Final last year. He will have a second chance, like JIMENEZ, at the World Cup Final in Copenhagen in a little more than month. Crispin’s comer: The conditions were still challenging and it was a game of who could hold it together. PAGNI shot 59 points in the last six arrows and truly deserved to win. Bronze Medal - Vladimir FEDOSOV (RUS) vs Patrizio HOFER (SUI) HOFER was a grand finalist in Lausanne last year and he will go to Copenhagen, while FEDOSOV is a talented newcomer. HOFER brought up the heat with 10-10-10 and 10-10-9 in the first two ends. FEDOSOV was not as clean. He had 9-9-10 and 9-9-9 to trail, 55-59. The Russian did not do better at the beginning of the third end with two 8s and finally got an X10 after that. HOFER kept being solid with 9-9-10 to lead 86-81. HOFER concluded with 10-9-10 to clinch the bronze 115108.
Crispin’s corner: FEDOSOV looked tense on the field. It was his first appearance in a final. HOFER showed his experience: he has now shot in many special fields of play for finals. Compound Women Gold Medal - ANASTASIO Anastasia (ITA) vs Camilla SOEMOD(DEN) A big stake! The winner of this match will go to the Copenhagen Final, while the loser will simply stay home. The ranking is so tight at the top of the compound women. SOEMOD was 3rd at the last World Cup in Antalya. ANASTASIO was Junior World Champion in Izmir in 2007. The rain started to come down harder at the beginning of the match.
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ANASTASIO started with 10-9-9. while SOEMOD had 9-9-9. SOEMOD brought up the heat with 10-X10-10 in the second, while ANASTASIO had 10-8-10. the Dane took the lead, 57-56. It got more even more complicated in the third end. ANASTASIO had XI0-7-8 and was a bit astonished by her last two arrows. SOEMOD was also a bit surprised to get 9-8-9, but she led 83-81. The Italian finished with 9-9-10 but that was not enough. The Dane had 9-9-9 to clinch the gold and a final berth at a home World Cup Final in Copenhagen on 26 September, 110-109! She joins Nicky HUNT. Ivana BUDEN and LUZMARY GUEDEZ! The last two have the same World Cup points as Olga BOSCH (VEN), but they will have a better FITA World Ranking after the Shanghai World Cup.
Crispin’s corner: it is never a good sign to have shots that surprise you, because it means you don’t know exactly what happened. ANASTASIO had two shots like this in a row and that was the difference in this match. Hats off to both archers for shooting in this rain. Bronze Medal - Linda OCHOA (MEX) vs Albina LOGINOVA (RUS) OCHOA was 2nd in Shanghai in 2006. while LOGINOVA was silver medallist at the world championships in 2007. The Russian beat the Mexican in this morning at the team final. The wind dropped a bit this morning, but a fairly hard rain welcomed the archers for the individual finals this afternoon. Both archers shot a bit too much on the right this time and also a bit low for LOGINOVA. She trailed 28-29. Both archers then shot exactly XI0-9-10 in the second end. OCHOA led 58-57. The wind picked up in the third end and LOGINOVA had to fight really hard with the wind to clinch a 10 with her 7th arrow. She continued with 9 and 10 in this end, while OCHOA had 1010-9. Still a 1-point game, 87-86. LOGINOVA finished with 10-9-10. OCHOA seemed to clinch it with a strong group and two 10s exactly on the same spot, but the Mexican concluded the match with an 8! The score was tied at 115-115! Shoot-off! OCHOA shot another 10 first in the same exact spot, but LOGINOVA scored an X10. Shoot-off continued! OCHOA then scored a 9, and LOGINOVA had another 10 to clinch the bronze! What a match to start the individual finals! Today we had the top archer Crispin DUENAS (CAN) joining us for the commentary. He gave us his opinions on the matches, “The Crispin Corner”: Given the weather conditions, this is great shooting from both archers! LOGINOVA kept believing in herself and she won at the end.
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Korea three times as well as Mexico, Russia and Denmark! Shanghai - 9 August 2009 world archery
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The team finals of Stage 4 of the Archery World Cup 2009 took place this morning in the modern Yuan Chen Stadium. The Mixed Team finals were also shot in the session. Korea took the three recurve gold, while Mexico. Russia and Denmark took respectively the compound men, women and mixed team titles. The weather conditions were still good this morning and fans came in high numbers, again showing their support for the Chinese teams as they did during the Olympic Games! The show was shown on live television in Shanghai.
Recurve Men Gold Medal - Korea vs. France Korea shot 229 yesterday but France was not far behind on 226. This match was promising. Both teams shot a bit too much on the left in the first end. GIROUILLE caught a liner 10 with one second to go but France trailed 53-55. Then France shot X-8-8-9-8 and GIROUILLE again caught a 10 in the last second! Korea was steady with 10-10-8-9-9-9 and increased their lead to 110-106. Although the weather is still quite calm this morning, the wind is picking up from time to time. This created some trouble for both teams in the third end. France had 4-7-9-9-9 and X 10 for GIROUILLE with. well, one second to go! Korea shot 8-XI0-79-9-8, increasing their lead to 161-154. GIROUILLE had a little more time in the last end. He shot the last arrow for France with two seconds left but only caught an 8 this time. Not enough to put pressure on the Koreans. They did not miss the gold in the last end and clinched it, 216-207 Today we had the top archer Crispin DUENAS (CAN) joining us for the commentary. He gave us his opinions on the matches. “The Crispin Comer": The wind affected both teams but obviously France a bit more than Korea. VALLADON and AUBERT are not fast shooters and this did not give much lime for GIROUILLE. The advantage of that actually is that he focused on his shot and didn’t secondguess the wind. Al the same time, this leaves very little margin for errors. On the other hand, the Koreans seemed very much in control of their shots and their time. Bronze Medal Spain vs. Mexico Mexico has more experience on final fields, especially Juan Rene SERRANO who was 4th at the last Olympic Games and is shot first in the line-up. The Mexican had the best start and led 51-47. SERRANO shot a 6 to start the second end and his teammate VELEZ SANCHEZ could not do any better right after him! MARIN COELLO compensated a bit with a 10. Then they shot
9-8-10 in the same order. Spain took advantage of it to cut the deficit to one point. 99-100. Both teams had to go deep in the clock in the third end. Spain shot 9-9-9-9-8-7 and finished with two seconds left. Mexico had 9-8-8-8-9 and a 10 with one second left! They still led 152-150. The Spanish archers could not put much pressure on the last end. starting with 8-8-8. Although they finished with 10-9-10. the Mexicans were solid with 9-9-7-XI0-XI0-8 to clinch bronze 205-203. Crispin’s corner: Both teams had mistakes, but Mexico was a bit more consistent. They had a better group and that was just enough to win the match.
Recurve Women Gold Medal - Korea (KOR) vs. Russia (RUS) Same final as in Antalya and it was a very' close match won by Korea! Russia again put pressure on Korea and led 54-52. Korea shot a bit too much on the right side of the target. However the Koreans turned up the heat with 10-10-9-9XI0-10 in the second end. while Russia had some trouble with their last shooters scoring a 7 and an 8. Korea completely reversed the situation 110-105. Korea continued strongly with 10-9-9-8-9-9 and increased the lead to 165-158. Korea concluded 10-9-10-X10-8-9 to cruise to an easy victory this time. 221-210. Crispin’s comer: Korea kept their form very well with only three arrows out of the gold (the 9 or 10 ring). Russia had some good shots but were not as consistent than the Koreans. Bronze Medal China vs. Italy China is No. 2 in the FITA World Ranking and Italy is No. 3. However, the Chinese team is composed of new archers, while Italy has been shooting together for three seasons now. China had a strong start with 9-9 and a 10 dead centre! Like the other two teams this morning Italy shot a bit left on the target. China however shot a 4 with the last arrow of the end. Italy could not really take advantage and trailed 53-51. Italy' turned it up in the second end. finding the yellow: 9-99-10-9-9. China lost a bit of consistency shooting X10-9-9-7-9-8. Italy led at the half, 106-105. China ran into time trouble at the end of the third end. OU YANG had a very long hold at full draw (about 12 seconds). trying to figure out the wind. She scored an 8 and let only 10 seconds to shoot for her teammate ZHAO. She did not have the time to aim properly and shot a 5 with three seconds remaining.
In the meantime Italy has nice group with four arrows within a few millimetres of each other (four 9s at 12 o’clock on the target. plus a 9 and a 7). Italy led 158-155 China scored another 5 to start the last end and Italy cruised to an easy victory with 9-8-10-9-9-9. 210-203. Crispin's corner: China usually has fast shooters but not today. The wind did not help and maybe they had some nerves playing in front of a big home crowd. They definitely lost their chance at the end of the third end with time trouble. Italy is an experienced team that managed the match very well. It’s an advantage to shoot together for three years.
The New Zealand women won the last World Cup in Antalya and now it was the turn of the men to shoot for gold! They had a good start and led 57-54. Mexico tried to come back in the second end with 9-10-109-8-10 with 56 points and came back to 110-112. The Mexicans continued their efforts with 8-9-10-10-10-9 for 56 points, while the New Zealanders were shooting a bit too much on the left of the target with 9-9-9-10-8-X10. They held a 1-point lead. 167-166. Mexico kept shooting first in the last end and kept putting pressure with 9-X10-X 10. New Zealand had 9-9-9 and were now trailing by one point! The Mexicans finished with 9-9 and the experienced Ruben OCHOA shot a final 9. The Kiwis had to keep it almost perfect to clinch gold. They shot an 8 and a 9 however and the last arrow could not change anything. CLIFTON shot a 10. but Mexico won 222-221!
Crispin’s corner: A very high intensity match. Both teams shot very well and the score stayed closed for the whole time. Too bad for them, the New Zealanders cracked at the end. It was a tough match for them because Mexico is always a strong, experience team.
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Recurve Mixed Team Gold Medal - Korea vs. China This was the same mixed recurve final as in Antalya where China won. Mixed teams have one woman and one man. They alternate with each arrow to shoot four ends of four arrows. YUN Ok-Hee and OH Jin-Hyek (KOR) wanted revenge and started really well with 10-10-9-8 for 37 points. ZHAO Ling and CHEN Wenyuan (CHN) shot 7-8-10-8 for 33 points. It is worth noting that all of these archers will also shoot in the individual finals in the afternoon. Korea increased its lead with ends of 37 and a perfect 40. while China shot 36 and 37. The Koreans led 114-106 and concluded with an impressive X10-X10-10-9 to clinch gold. 153141! Crispin’s corner: The Koreans were pounding the 10-ring! China had some faults, but when the Koreans shoot like that it’s very difficult to beat them.
Compound Women Gold Medal - Mexico vs. Russia No surprise with the teams represented in this match. The No. 1 seed Mexico shot against the no. 2 seed Russia, which is also the No. 1 in the FITA World Ranking. Mexico had the two OCHOA sisters and CRISANTO, while Russia fielded a younger team than usual with LOGINOVA. BALZHANOVA and KOROBEYNIKOVA who was 2nd in the recent Youth World Championships. It seems to be a swirling wind in the Yuan Chen Stadium today, especially on the shooting line and not so much on the targets. Both teams started to shoot a bit left on the target. Russia figured it out a bit quicker though, scoring three 10s in the first end to take the lead 53-50. However, Mexico turned up the heat in the second end 10-8X10-10-9-X10 to reverse the situation, 107-105 The wind picked up a bit in the third end causing some troubles to the archers and Mexico ran into time difficulty. They had to rush to shoot their last three arrows and only scored 5-7-8. Russia completely turned the situation around to take the lead 157-152. The last end did not change anything. Mexico shot a 54. while Russia had 55. Final score 212-205. Today we had the top archer Crispin DUENAS (CAN) joining us for the commentary. He gave us his opinions on the matches, “The Crispin Corner”: The second end was deadly for Mexico. The wind picked up and their archers took too much time for their first three arrows of this end, trying to make a perfect shot. They had too much time
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Crispin’s corner: Again a very close match with some really good shooting. When you take the best women and the best man of a country. the level is really high!
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Youth Olympic Qualifications Ogden (USA) - 17 July 2009 Article compliment of FITA and Didier Mieville
world archery A total of S5 boys and 61 girls from 42 countries entered the field on Friday morning with one dream in mind. Earn one of the 17 spots per category for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games at stake here in Ogden. The athletes must have been bom between 1 January 1992 and 31 December 1993 and they must shoot a recurve bow in order to participate at these qualifications. The boys had targets at 70 metres and the girls at 60 metres. There will be other qualifiers in the next month's to allocate a total of 32 spots per category available for the Youth Olympic Games. A country could only obtain a maximum of one place for a boy and one place for a girl. The archers earned places for their countries, not for themselves.
Youth Olympic Qualifications Recurve Boys The No. 65 seed Viliam NORDSTROM (FIN) defeated the No. 64 LIU Wei-Ching (TPE) in the 1/64 round. Then in the 1/32 round NORDSTROM faced JANG Chaehwan (KOR). seeded No. 1. The Finnish archer challenged the Korean as they both scored an impressive 57 points in the first end! This score would be good enough to compete at the real Olympic Games! However NORDSTROM could not quite keep this level in the second end. He shot 51 points for a total of 108. JANG had 56 and moved on with his 113 score. Gasper CEHNER (SLO) and Jonathan JIMENEZ (PUR) had to go to a shoot-off. JIMENEZ had a 52-49 lead but CEHNER tied it at 100-100. The Slovenian won it with his first extra arrow, 10-8. CHU Weiyang (CHN) and Marco MORELLO (ITA) was tied at 54-54 after the first end, but the Chinese athlete scored a superb 58 points to advance to the next round with a score of 112-101. The next round, the 1/16, decided the archers'Youth Olympic qualification! No. 1 JANG was again challenged by his opponent Tedor TODOROV (BUL). The Korean started really well with 10-10-10 and finished the end with 9-8-9 to reach 56 points. The Bulgarian was not so consistent with 8-10-8-10-8-10, but his 54 points were still a threat to JANG. In the second end, the Korean was solid with another 56 points (9-10-10-8-9-10) and clinched the match 112-107. Other notable results included a close win of Julien ROSSIGNOL (FRA) over CEHNER, 53-53, 106-105. The No. 69 Axel MULLER (SU1) had a comeback victory against H. E. SANSORES (MEX). The Swiss competitor trailed 50-52 after six arrows but won the match 104-100. The No. 42 seed Mitch DIELEMANS (NED) also created an upset. He took a 5552 lead over Heorhiy IVANYTSKYY (UKR) after six arrows and he managed to preserved a 2-poind victory, 109-107. Another favourite, the No. 3 Atanu DAS (IND), trailed CHU Weiyang (CHN) 51-52. However the Indian reversed the situation to clinch the match 104-101. From this round, the 16 winners could win a maximum of one place for their country. This means that there were also some lucky losers who also earned a place thanks to their high scores. A total of 17 countries earned a place1
The competition nevertheless continued for glory and to judge each competitor one year before the Youth Olympic Games. JANG (KOR) perpetuated the Korean tradition in a nice fashion. He scored 10-10-9-7-9-10 for 55 points. He had a 3-point lead over ROSSIGNOL and the Korean strengthened the gap in the second end. 113-106. WANG Hou-Chieh (TPE) had 10-8-8-9-8-9 for 52 points, while Anton KAROUKIN (BLR) had 9-9-9-8-7-9 for 51 points. At the end, WANG prevailed 108-105! The Swiss athlete MULLER trailed 52-54 against GUO Kaiqiang (CHN) and lost the match 107-109. However, the No. 69 seed must be happy. He obtained a place for Switzerland in Singapore. In the quarterfinals. JANG, his teammate KIM Woojin and the Indian DAS won. The last match was impressive. SUNG Wookyeong (KOR) built a good lead over Jafet FARJAT (MEX) 58-53. However the score in the second half was the exact opposite 53-58! The score was tied at 111-111. In the shoot-off, both archers started with two 10s. They had to shoot a third arrow and the Mexican won the match with a 10 while the Korean had an 8! The Korean dual turned at the advantage of KIM in the semifinal. He dominated JANG all the way: 29-27, 58-55, 86-84 and 116-111. In the other semifinal, DAS had the upper hand over FARJAT. The Indian took a 2-point lead after three arrows, 2927. He increased the gap at three points (57-54, 84-81) and kept a 2-point victory 109-107. JANG beat FARJAT for the bronze, 28-27, 58-55. 85-82 and 111-108. The match for the honorary first place was dominated by KIM. He led DAS 28-24, 57-52, 85-80 and 114-109. Recurve Girls Mariana AVITIA is already a hero in her country as she was the youngest member of the Mexican delegation at the Beijing Olympic Games. However, she could not help her country gain a spot in the Youth Olympic Games today. Site lost in the 1/32 elimination round 48-50, 97-105 against Gloria FILIPPI (ITA). As for the men, the 1/16 round was decisive for the 17 spots at the Youth Games. The No. 9 seed Lidia SICH ENIKOVA (UKR) was challenged by the No. 24 Ozge TOZER (TUR). They were tied at 56-56 after six arrows but the Ukrainian prevailed 1 IQ107. The No. 1 HAN Gyeonghee (KOR) also shot a high-scoring match against Joanna GORCZYCA (POL). The Korean led 56-51. The Polish competitor closed the gap in the second half, although she lost 107-109. The No. 28 seed Maud CUSTERS (NED) was on her way to an upset of the No. 5 OH Damee (KOR). The Dutch athlete led 56-55 after six arrows but the Korean struck back with 58 points in the second end. She won 113-107. Finally, there was a breathtaking shoot-off. Mizuki HAYASHI (JPN) and Alma CHAVARRIA (MEX) were tied at 51-51 and then at 100-100. In the shoot-off, the Mexican prevailed 8-5. This single arrow was the difference in the Olympic dream of both girls. In the 1/8 round. HAN trailed Anna BOMBOEVA (RUS) 55-56. However the favourite came back in the second half to clinch the match 110-107. SICHENIKOVA was stopped by her teammate Iryna DUBAS. The later led 56-55 and kept shooting strong in the second end and won 112-109. OH and YU Jangmi (KOR) had the highest scores of the end with 114 points. HAN was consistent in the quarterfinals. She shot another 109-point match to beat DUBAS who had 104. CHEN Szu-Yu (TPE) and OH offered a superb quarterfinal. They were tied at 28-28. Then CHEN scored X10-10-10 to build a 2-point lead, 58-56. Then both archers had 10-10-9. The score was 87-85 in favour of CH EN and she managed to keep a 2-point victory at the end. 115-113! ZHU Jiani (CHN) beat Tatiana SEGINA (RUS). The score evolved 29-28, 59-57, 86-84 and 114-112. Finally, YU beat Miranda LEEK (USA). In the semifinal, HAN beat CHEN 109-102. The match between ZHU and YU was much closer. Both archers were tied at 29-29. Then ZHU build an advantage 57-55, 85-82. Although YU tried hard in the last end, ZHU held a 1-point victory 111-110. YU led 27-26 in the bronze medal match and then scored a perfect 30 to increase the gap to 57-54. She even increased her advantage by one more point at the end and beat CHEN 114HAN took the lead 29-26 in the gold medal match; however, ZHU completely reversed the situation in the second end and took the lead 55-52. At the end, she kept a 2-point victory 109-107!© 22
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India joins the list of winners! Today was the last day in Ogden with the individual final matches. The cadets shot in the morning. The Indian Deepika KUMAR! won the recurve women title, while KIM Joo-Wan (KOR) was crownedfor the boys. It was another doublefor USA in compound with Alexander SAHI and Paige PEARCE. The latter even broke the world record on the way!
Recurve Cadet Men Gold medal match: KIM Joo Wan (KOR) vs MIN Taehong (KOR) A Korean duel with two well-developed athletes! KIM was in the final last year in Antalya but he only got silver, meaning he surely wanted to do better this time and he took a 1 -point lead in the first end. 28-27. MIN took the second end 28-27 and the scores were tied at 55-55. Then both archers turned it up in the third end with two perfect 30s! Suspense until the end! Then both archers had another 10. a 9 just outside the I Oring and then KIM shot a 9 but MIN only managed an 8. With a score of I 13-1 12. KIM became the cadet world champion!
Compound Cadet Men Gold medal match: van BARBIERI Jaime (AUS) vs SAHI Alexander (USA) Van BARBIERI shot another perfect 30 this morning (there were a lot of them). He took a 1-point lead. Then both archers shot 28. Then SAHI scored 9-9-10. while van BARBIERI could not hit the 10 in the third end. Scores were tied but the Australian kept the advantage of shootinti last. SAHI had 9. Van BARBIERI had an X10. SAHI had a 9. Van BARBIERI had a 9. The American had an X10! The Australian needed a 10 to win. but his arrow just out in the 9 for a 113-113 score, shoot-off! A 10 for SAHI and the crowd went crazy! It did calm down to let Van BARBIERI shoot. It was a 9 for the Australian. Gold medal for USA!
Bronze medal match: SMITH Hector Antonio (MEN) vs BORO San jay (IND) Mexico was back on the field again this morning with SMITH. He shot a bit high on the target and caught 9s. an 8 and a 7. BORO was more levelled and more consistent in the yellow. End after end the Indian built a lead and led 81 -78. SMITH kept looking for solutions but he could not get his rhythm. BORO finished well with a 10-10-9 and won bronze, 110-105. Recurve Cadet Women Gold medal match: KUMARI Deepika (IND) vs TSYREMPILOVA Sayana (RUS) KUMARI put in an impressive performance with ends of 29, 29 and 28. She took a 6-point lead 86-60. TSYREMPILOVA finished with a nice 10-10-9. but KUMARI stayed great 9-10-10. This was an excellent performance for KUMARI to clinch the gold medal 115-109!
Bronze medal match: CARDOSO Mario (MEX) vs WHITING Riley (USA) Another Mexican-American duel! CARDOSO took a 2-point advantage early on thanks to a perfect 30. WHITTING comes from Logan, just 30 miles away from Ogden and had a lot of supporters but that was not enough today. He could not pull the Mexican, who did not have a single arrow out of the gold. back. Victory for CARDOSO. 115-111! Compound Cadet Women Gold medal match: SARAI SALINAS Stephanie (.MEN) vs PEARCE Paige (USA) Like yesterday, the fans were cheering loudly for "Mexico" and "USA". Mexico was actually winning the cheering battle on the stand, but on the field the American was dominant. PEARCE had 10-10-10. 10-10-9 and 10-10-1 Oto lead 89-82. The American was just shy of another perfect end to break the individual match world record. She shot a 10 just inside, another 10 just inside and it came down to the last arrow. PEARCE shot a 9 just high off the 10-ring. With a 118. PEARCE put in a great performance to beat SALINAS and take the gold medal!
Bronze medal match: JEON Hunvoung (KOR) vs CHOI Youri (KOR) A Korean duel for bronze and worth noting that no Korean
Bronze medal match: VERMEULEN Jodv (NED) vs NIETO TALADRIZ Clara (ESP) There was not much wind this morning on Ogden's baseball stadium Lindquist Field, the stage for the finals of these World Archcry Youth Championships. NIETO TALADRIZ had a fantastic start: 10-10-9 in the first end and 10-10-10 in the second end to take a commanding lead 59-56! The Spanish archer then controlled to the match to keep a 2-point victory, 113-111.
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Korea earned both titles in recurve with SUNG H'ookyeong and LEE Yujin. Cody THOMPSON gave a title to the American hosts and Inge VAN CASPEL (NED) defeated a strong field to clinch the title in compoundjunior women. Recurve Junior Men Gold medal match: VAN DER VEN Rick (NED) vs SUNG Wookyeong (KOR) What a final in the recurve junior men! VAN DER VEN took the lead at the beginning, 28-26. However SUNG came back with 10-9-10. while VAN DER VEN had 10-8-9. Scores were lied at 55-55. The Dutchman retook the lead in the third end. He shot 8-910. while the Korean had 9-8-9. The score was 82-81. IN the last end, SUNG shot a 10 and VAN DER VEN a 9. Tied scores at 91-91! Then both archers shot a 9. It came down to the last arrow. The Korean had a perfect 10. while the Dutchman dropped an 8. Score was 110-108 in favour of SUNG. He is the new junior world champion! Bronze medal match: XING Yu (CHN) vs IVANYTSKYY Heorhiy (UKR) IVANYTSKYY is the match world record holder in cadets with 117 points. He now shoots in juniors with some success. He took the lead at 28-27 but XING reversed the situation in the second end and led 55-53. CHEN continued to shoot well in the third end with 10-9-10 and led 84-81. The fourth end was dramatic. IVANYTSKYY put pressure with 10-10. while XING had 9-7. The Ukrainian actually led 101-100 at that point! However he scored a 7 with his last arrow. XING needed a 9 to win. He got a 9 liner to clinch the bronze medal. 109-108!
Recurve Junior Women Gold medal match: CHEN Yeqing (CHN) vs LEE Yujin (KOR) As for the bronze medal match, CHEN and LEE had some trouble at the beginning. The Korean found her rhythm from the
second end with 10-10-9 and 9-10-9. She took the lead 83-75. CHEN finished with 10-8-8 to get to 101. Too little to put pressure on LEE! The Korean had another 10-8-9 to reach the very respectable score of 110. LEE is the new world champion! Bronze medal match: BARDARY Marion (FRA) vs YU Jangmi (KOR) It’s not an easy task to shoot on a final field with fans cheering, television and the special environment. Even more so when one is junior! Both athletes had some trouble at the beginning of the match. At the end. YU shot a nice match and beat BARDARY. 107-94. Compound Junior Men Gold medal match: THOMPSON Cody (USA) vs PIZARRO Jean (PUR) THOMPSON started with two strong 10s but then dropped an 8. Scores were tied at 28-28 and then at 56-56. The American had scores of 119 to get to this final and he turned it up a notch in the third end with 10-10-10 with a great group! Scores were at 86-84. PIZARRO came back at a 1-point deficit after 11 arrows. Anything was still possible. However the Puerto Rican scored a 9 with his last arrow while the American shot a 10. Gold medal for THOMPSON. 115-113! Bronze medal match: CLELAND Ben (USA) vs VALVERDE Francisco Javier (ESP) There was almost no wind on the field and these two young athletes displayed a world class level of shooting. CLELAND started with 10-10-10 and 10-9-10 to build a two point lead 5957. CLELAND is recent world record holder for a FITA Round and a 12-arrow match. He had a perfect score no less than 5 July with 120 points and seven X10. He was not perfect today but he led 88-86 after three ends. VALVERDE challenged him hard in the last end. The Spanish competitor scored 10-10-10. CLELAND had a 9 and therefore needed to finish perfectly to preserve his victory. He did! Bronze medal. 117-116! Compound Junior Women Gold medal match: EKATERINA KOROBEYNIKOVA (RUS) vs Inge VAN CASPEL (NED) VAN CASPEL had the better start, but KOROBEYNIKOVA turned up the heat in the second end with 10-10-10 to tie the score 57-57. The Russian could not keep it up in the third end with 8-9-8. The door was opened for VAN CASPEL. She scored 109-9 to take a 3-point lead 85-82. VAN CASPEL did not allow any chances in the last end with 10-10-10 fora final score of 115-108. She is the new junior World Champion! Bronze medal match: Svetlana CHERKASHNEVA (RUS) vs Kendal NICELY (USA) These two ladies started the last session of the World Archery Youth Championships: the junior’s finals. They started equally at 27-27, 56-56. Then CHERKASHNEVA took a 1-point lead. Then both archers shot a 10. NICELY finished with two 9s! The American won the world title last year but her performance today was not enough to give her a medal. CHERKASHNEVA finished with a 10 and 9 to clinch bronze, 115-113.
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Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:12 ESV) America needs quality leaders today. Our nation lacks leadership in the House and Senate. Most of our congressmen and women are about themselves. It is no longer a nation of “We the people...” Rather we have become a nation of us and them—a divided nation. Our nation has quit being a nation that takes care of the working man and woman; rather, our nation now awards the man or woman who won’t work. Understand, I am not politically inclined. We can not point the finger at any particular party or individual because we have three fingers pointing back at ourselves. We the people have contributed to the devastation of our nation as surely as the politicians have. Our cun ent President is try ing to fix the problem; however, history has proven that you can't buy your way out of something you have behaved yourself into. We have allowed Congress and the White House (past and present administrations) to bankrupt our nation. Our nation reminds you of Israel and its ultimate ruin. Fortunately for Israel, God raised up a great leader, Nehemiah, the builder of Jerusalem’s walls. Nehemiah was a nobody. He was a servant that risked his life fora king. His job was to taste-test all food and drink that the king would later consume. If the food or drink was poisoned, Nehemiah died, not the valuable king. From his office of nobody, Nehemiah rose to a leader of people who had been sitting idle for many years (786-744 B.C.). They were content to let someone else do the work. They had a good home, food on the table and it didn’t matter if the king fixed their city or not. (Sound like any peoples you know?) Not only
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Whether it’s national titles or just the keys to its very own building, the Henderson County archery team keeps hitting one target after another. And while the new structure that will be celebrated on Saturday may have taken two years to complete, it seems the effort only seemed to expand the community that has come to support it.
"I just thank God that we live in Henderson,” said Chase Fulcher, a longtime archery fan who was instrumental in raising the roughly $150,000 necessary to construct the 90-by-120 foot building across from the Henderson County Fairgrounds. In fact, because of the archery team’s national and state successes over the years, more schools are joining in the excitement. Along with South Middle and Henderson County High schools, which already have champion archery teams, next year’s tournaments will also include teams at North Middle, Cairo Elementary and Holy Name of Jesus School. Some other schools are also reportedly in talks to start teams as well. “There’s been a lot of interest created here in Henderson, and I’m sure it’s because of the success that the teams had last year,” Father Ed Bradley of Holy Name Church said. “We just try to get all our students involved in extracurricular activities because we feel that is part of education. “There are kids who may be able to participate in this that may not be able to participate in another sport,” he added. Bradley thanked Superintendent Thomas Richey and the Henderson County school district for allowing Holy Name to use its facility. In fact, the building will be owned by the local school district, according to Lisa Baird, a school board member who has long been active in the archery team. She said she and others who strived to make the practice building a reality worked closely with the Henderson September-October 2009
County Board of Education, which helped the organizers with paperwork and in moving through the many steps in the process. No local school funds were involved in the project. The building, which is located on Garden Mile Road, will be used by the fair board for various events as well. The building also has space which can be used to store archery equipment when necessary. That storage space will also give coaches and drivers a meeting room. As for why the structure was built, Baird said there were at least a couple of big reasons going back several years. The archery club had been practicing at the gym in the old Seventh Street School. But at the time, that space was going to be converted to a new central office space for the local school district. (Those plans were changed, however; now the site will be used as a childcare center.) Meanwhile, the team was growing and it was difficult to find gym space to set up an archery range, which includes targets, arrows and safety lines that cannot be set up and taken down quickly every day. Last year, the club was able to practice in an empty warehouse off of South Green after a friend of an archery club member offered his facility. “However, for business reasons, he needed that building back to use,” Baird said. “He was gracious enough to let us use it for a whole season.” As the teams continued to win national and state titles, the adults on the team continued to do their best to raise money for the new building. That meant lots of talking to people and writing grants. Fulcher was
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also very helpful in getting support from some national organizations. All of the donors, both in cash and in kind, will be recognized in advertising banners and plaques at the new building. While Baird estimated the value of the facility to be in the range of $150,000, she said the facility is probably worth twice that because so many things were donated, such as concrete, steelwork, electrical work and plumbing. “They just came through.” Fulcher said, praising all the people who got involved and donated their time and money. “I’ve had tears in my eyes a couple of times thinking about it. We got it done, and I guess I feel like I’m the most blessed person because ... you are the happiest when you are helping other people.” Baird added that, given the timing of the economic recession, she and others are very thankful that the building was constructed and is now ready for use. As for the students, she said they are very excited. That will translate to continued good grades and school attendance, both of which are required to be on the team. “We’ve seen good academic success come out of this,” Baird said.
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From the Senior CorneR Story and Photos by Joe Bauernfeind Editor's Note: Joe Bauernfeind. founder of Zenith Archery Products (see ad on page 55 for more information), began competitive archery in 1968. he has won many local shoots and several stale and sectional championships in the freestyle division of the NFA A. both in the open class and later as a Senior. He won the gold medal for archery in the 1997 Senior Olympics and the bronze medal in the 1999 Senior Olympics.
Welcome once again to the Senior Comer. This is edition #63 according to my records and 1 think 1 have enough material now to publish a book. I could call it ‘‘Travels with Mr. Joe”. Probably not a good idea, since it would just keep repeating itself year after year. Gainesville, Vegas, NFAA Indoor, etc., etc. I'm stuck in a rut like Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day” but luckily each year the stories change even though the settings are the same. In the last issue I promised you a report on the NFAA Outdoor Nationals and the NSGA Senior Olympics, now 1 can add to that the I BO Worlds. These three shoots were stacked so closely together that in order to do them all I had to spend three weeks away from home and resort to a drive/fly/drive mode of travel. It took some planning since my wife didn't want to be away from home for that long but she did want to visit a childhood girlfriend who now lives near San Francisco, close to where the Senior Games were being held. 1 worked it out so that she could skip the first stop, the NFAA and do the Sr. Games and IBO with me. She didn't see it that way, even though I had the tickets all booked and you know who w'on that argument.
Thanks to Southwest Airline’s liberal cancellation and flight change policies, 1 was able to change things so that she could go home after the first two events and I’d go on to the IBO alone. It all worked out in the end but with an unexpected twist I’ll fill you in on later. The NFAA Outdoor Nationals at Mechanicsburg, PA more than lived up to the expectations of those looking forward to a return to the East of the outdoor field championship. The 3/5 day format, with the animal round being shot on Friday, was the original concept by the NFAA and was being used for the first time at this shoot. This format allows those with limited vacation time to be able to shoot the Nationals as a 3 day weekend tournament by shooting Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There were a number of ways to configure the way you wanted to shoot the tournament with one bottom line; you must post one field score, one hunter score and one animal score. Or you could shoot all 5 days and count only your highest field and hunter scores, along with the animal round score, which had to be shot on Friday. Based on the 530+ attendance at this years shoot, the format appears to hold some promise for the future growth of the
Nationals. Once the word gets spread about how great this shoot was, I think 700+ is a number which could be reached when the shoot rotates back to the East. The host club, the Mechanicsburg Sportsmen, has an outstanding archery facility for the shoot and the people who know how to run it right. The ranges are beyond belief, with wide, grassy shooting lanes open to the light and permanent target butts which stood up to the weeks shooting without leaking arrows at all. The flat, hard surface of these butts also kept the target faces from getting shot out quickly and most lasted for a whole round without replacement. The downside to these butts was the residue which had to be scraped of your arrows on some of the newer butts, which hadn’t had time to weather in. I’d much rather scrape a little stuff of my arrows than continuously have to push arrow's back through the target to score them. This was the first Nationals in my memory, where 1 didn’t have to re-fletch my shafts after the shoot. Even the bags. which were used on the new range the club installed, stood up for the week. They were really huge and the targets could be moved around quite a bit, which was not the case with the smaller bags used in the past. This
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If you are not familiar with Lydia, she has a cooking show on PBS which my wife loves to watch and has places in NY, KC and Pittsburgh. The food was great and the woman in at the table behind us was Lydia herself. When she got up to leave, I waved and she talked to us for about 5 minutes. This made the trip worthwhile for my wife, right off the bat. The flight to San Jose included a missed connection but SW Airlines handles those well with very little delay. It was 115 degrees in Phoenix when we changed planes. All together now, “But it’s a dry heat”. Yeah, when you die from a heat stroke you’ll mummify on the spot. San Jose and the surrounding “silicon valley” towns are beautiful, but to a fault. There are no signs for motels and restaurants above tree level and what signs they do allow are hidden by all the trees. You can’t find a darn thing in the area without a navigation system in the car. Luckily I had Microsoft “Streets and Trips” on my laptop and it has a GPS sensor which plugs into the USB port. 1 needed a small inverter in the car to allow me to run on AC but a trip to Frye’s Electronics and S50 solved that problem. 1 found out later that the Dodge Caliber we had rented had a built in inverter under the center armrest but I can use the one I bought when I travel with my own car. The archery event was held in the Stanford stadium, where the football games are played. What a great setting to shoot target archery in. For those who think that a stadium setting should be wind free, think again. Everyday at the start of the 50 yard distance, the wind started to swirl and was very tricky to try to read. I’ve shot in worse though and it did keep us cooled off nicely. The grouping was by age groups this year and allowed for a better distribution of numbers for the three 2 day segments of the archery event. This was the first time in years I've shot along side recurve shooters and I’d forgotten how different the arrow flight path looks. You have to appreciate the beauty of the recurves and what it takes to shoot them but I’m sticking to my cams and cables. There are too many highlights to be able to get them into one article but here are a few that stand out to me. Tim Austin's well deserved award from NSGA for all he does in handling the National Games. Tim devotes a very large part of his life serving archery and 1 hope he knows how much he’s appreciated. Our favorite editor, Arlyne Rhode, resumed her archery career after a 10 year rest and took a silver medal home for her trophy case. You go girl. 1 think the thing 1 was most impressed with though was the courage of all the seniors who continue to compete, even though Father Time is catching up to us. Pacemakers. new hips and knees, and cancer surgery are just a few of the problems these guys shoot through. Becky Pearson is right back
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new range. I’ve been told, was built almost entirely by just two club members and was better than most of the new ranges I’ve shot, which were built for the Nationals. All five of the clubs ranges can be shot 4 across, with just a few exceptions and 4 hour rounds were common all week, with most archers adjusting well to this faster pace of shooting. Once you get the right binocular set up, spotting for yourself is no problem at all. The competition on these gently sloping ranges with their well lit targets was really intense. The Pro Division was led from the start by Jesse Broadwater who turned in the first clean field round ever shot, followed by a clean hunter round and a near perfect 1 down on the very small spots on the animal round. The pros who came in to shoot the weekend rounds, never had a chance to do anything but tie him. That is amazing shooting. I saw a comment on Archerytalk that the ranges were too easy. Give me a break. It’s the first clean field round since the target face change was made maybe 30 years ago and they blame it on easy ranges. Field archery is hard, period, and Jesse’s scores are a near miracle to those of us struggling to keep our shafts in the dot. If I remember correctly he shot a 59 on one of the original Yankton ranges. Badlands I think, which were some of the toughest ranges ever shot for the Nationals. The Master Senior Division, which 1 compete in, was also very tough this year with the return to the scene of former pro Ron Walker and former two time Freestyle winner Don Confer. Both are from PA and have not been on the scene for a number of years and it was great to be able to shoot with them. Don was shooting his old Hoyt bow with round wheels on it and proving those bows could shoot when in the hands of a good archer. Watch out for Don when he upgrades his gear, he will be tough. For the second year in a row, Larry Hix was the class of the masters, followed by another Marylander, Ray May, who jumped into second over Dean Pridgen by shooting a 548 on the final day. In my eyes, this was a Nationals that had it all. A great club with a wonderful facility for archery, an easy area to travel to, lots of motels and restaurants nearby and plenty of nearby attractions for the non-shooting family members. Do not. repeat, do not miss this shoot if and when it returns here again. For the first time in several years, I was able to drive my own car to the Nationals, which leads me in to the rest of my tale. The scheduling this year allowed me to do both the Nats and the Sr. Games but without returning home before flying to California, so I booked us on a flight from Pittsburg to San Jose on Tuesday following the Nationals. That left us all day Saturday to do some sightseeing in Pittsburgh, yes, there are things to see there for those of you who are snickering, and a visit to Lydia’s Pittsburgh restaurant.
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Director ofshooting Tint Austin (center) receives a plaque for his outstanding work in the NSGA Archery Gaines from Phil Godfrey (left) and Ray Hoyt (right). Mr. Godfrey and Mr. Hoyt are two of the key people who make the National Senior Games happen and the program continue successfully. up there after her surgery a few years ago and a gal named Myra Dudley, just a few months after a mastectomy and still on chemo therapy, won a gold medal in her age group. Congratulations to those who won medals and to all who shot the games. See all the scores on page 38. We did about five sightseeing days before the games in the Monterey area, seeing some redwood trees. Big Sur. the Hearst Castle and the famous 17 mile drive through Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, etc. Great place to visit but if you ever go, bring warm cloths since the Pacific air is very cool. We picnicked in the Big Basin Redwoods grove and I was lucky enough to grab a bite of my sandwich at the same time as a yellow jacket was taking a bite. He stung me on the tongue for being so rude but he failed to survive being mauled by my molars. After the games we were able to spend three days in San Francisco seeing some of the many, many sights of the City by the Bay. A two day pass on one of the hop on/ hop off. open top bus tours is a great way to avoid the terrible traffic. Would you believe the Golden Gate Bridge has no Interstate access. You have to drive right through the streets of SF to get to it. so if you’re just passing through, the Bay Bridge and Route 80 would be a better way north. The Golden Gate is spectacular though, when you can see it through the fog and crossing it on top of an open double-decker bus will rearrange your hairdo. The wind if fierce and cold. so bundle up if you get to do it. We stayed south of the SF Airport in San Mateo and from there we were able to spend a pleasant evening with my wife’s friend Ramona in Pacifica, which is right on the ocean. I’m not sure I could bear all the fog and cool winds they get from the
Pacific. The ride to the airport on Monday for an early flight was easy and short but here’s where the twist 1 mentioned before comes in. 1 forgot to gas up the car the night before and by the time I found a station, got rid of the luggage, went through security and walked to the furthest gate we missed our flight. It was still sitting there but the door was closed. We ’’missed it by that much’’ as Max used to say on Get Smart (only you older folks will remember that). Once again Southwest came to the rescue and rebooked us onto different flights. We were supposed to go to Chicago together where we would split up. the wife going back home and me going back to Pittsburgh to pick up my car and head for the I BO but she wound up going home by way of Vegas and me to Pittsburgh via Phoenix and Chicago. I have learned not to freak out like I used to when things go bad. As long as you get where you’re going it all works out and in this case our luggage was there when we arrived. Just a shuttle ride back to the La Quinta where I'd done a park and fly with my car and it was off to the 1BO in Ellicottville for me in the morning. I had a condo rented at the 1BO for a week and it turned out to be really nice. It was on the ground floor of a multi-unit building and was very quiet and well equipped. At a cost of $500 for a week, 1 thought it was a good value, even though my stay was only five days. I only slept and relaxed there however, since I’m too lazy to cook for myself. I ate mostly at the restaurant at the golf course, which was very reasonable and had great food. Nobody seemed to know about it though, since I was almost alone most evenings. Some of the issues the vendors had last year were handled better this time. The signage
directing people to the indoor vendors upstairs was much more prominent and the traffic at the booth was good. They also installed some better lighting for us too which helped a lot for the older eyes of some of us. The parking issue was also resolved, at least for the vendors. The upper lot at the Tannenbaum Lodge was reserved for permit parking and the long walks from the car to the lodge we had to deal with last year were now much shorter. The shoot itself was the typical I BO Worlds. There were lots of archers and their families milling around, always some kind of shoot off going on to hold peoples interest and overall, an archery carnival. The resort hosted an outdoor barbecued chicken dinner every night which 1 enjoyed very much and once again the beer stand was kept busy from the time the shooting ended until things wound up in the evening. The weather was good the whole week except for a shower or two on the first couple of days but it was muddy after the heavy rains the week before the shoot. There’s been lots of talk about next year's venue which could be Holiday Valley again or a return to Snowshoe. Either one would suit me fine, as both are great places to spend some time at. That’s it for this issue. I've got my state field shoot coming up, followed by the annual family Labor Day pig roast and then I’m going to rest up from all the travel and get ready for the NAFAC shoot in December and a new round of travel next year.
Joe Baucrnfeind Zenith Archery Products www.zenitharchery.com
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2009 Summer National Senior Games by Glenn Campbell It's the middle of May here in Michigan, with snow still on the ground and I’m getting ready for the outdoor archery season. Time to start field testing arrows and working on the season ahead! My how time flies . . . and before I knew it, I was going to the airport to fly to California to shoot in the 2009 Summer National Senior Games. The games were held in Palo Alto, at Stanford University Stadium, August l-6,h. Flying into San Jose, we landed in a big valley that was surrounded by a beautiful mountain range. The weather was a pleasant 75 degrees with low humidity— perfect for outdoor competition! It took about 20 minutes to drive to the University. The tournament was spread about the massive University grounds with a set up for a large variety of sporting events. I saw at least 5 Olympic swimming pools as I walked through the area. Vendors were located across the street from the stadium and crowds of people were gathered all over to see the various archery products on display. The sweet aroma of grilled chicken hung in the air over it all. In order to compete in this competition, you must have won 1st - 3rd place in the Senior Olympics in your state. State tournaments are held yearly, but the National tournaments are held every 2 years. Shooters here were placed into classes depending upon their age range as well as equipment, although everyone was required to be over 50 years of age. Each group of archers competed for 2 days. Competition consisted of shooting 30 arrows at 60 yards, 30 arrows at 50 yards and 30 arrows at 40 yards each day. A perfect game is 900 points, and a perfect total score is 1800 points. I was there early for the first two days of shooting to watch Lynne Phelps, a student (and friend) of mine shoot for the gold. After 2 days of shooting, Lynne won 2nd place and received a silver medal. She was very happy and I was happy for her too! Now it was time for my age bracket to compete over the next two days. We were lucky because we got a little bit of wind at the 40 yard target just as we finished up our first day. At that point, I was only one point behind the leader, Ron West. It kind of reminded me of the “old days" when he would always be one or two points ahead of me. On the second day of shooting. Ron and I went back and forth for that I” place position. It went on throughout the competition, all the way up until that last shot! The very last arrow would tell us who had won our class! Ron took his last shot. 1 took my last shot . . . then Ron
congratulated me, and I knew it! I had won 1" place . . . won the Gold! It took me 13 years to get this far! As my friend. Randy Ulmer used to say. “All I want to do is be a little better tomorrow than I am today and sooner or later it will be MY day!” There are a number of sponsors and friends whom I would like to thank for helping me get to this level... I have been shooting Mathews bows for 17 years and I think they are the best in the world! I’ve used just about every bow product they have made. Never had a bow failure and have always been extremely happy with their equipment. They have a lot of other great archery products and accessories as well. Their website www.mathewsinc. com is outstanding! Bert Cooley and all the guys at Feather Visions have been supplying me with crystal clear lenses for at least 12 years. Can always see what I'm shooting at with their products. My Copper John sight is great because of the way it moves up and down. Adjusts to whatever angle I may need. My Carbon Express arrows perform excellent for me! I shot with their 530 nanos in this event (and use their 27’s for indoor events). Always shot great scores over the past years with Carbon Express. Bob Eastman has a great variety of products for hunting and recreation too! 1 want to thank all my sponsors listed here, and all the others I haven’t listed here! Last, but not least, I want to thank Bernie and Jan Pellerite and the NFAA Shooter’s School for getting me on the right track back in 1996. I got the coaching I needed to help me come this far, and since have also become a Certified Master Coach myself. I’ve made many observations along the way. As a student. I learned to ask lots of questions and always look for more information to satisfy my curiosity and help me to better my shooting skills. As a coach. I've learned that it’s great to know that I have taught someone to shoot. But even greater to know that I have inspired a hungry mind to want to get more information so that they can go on to become the best shooter that they can be. And if I don't have the information they ask about, then as a good coach I get it for them, or direct them to someone who has it. After all, no “one” coach knows everything! This was an exciting tournament and Tim Austin (NFAA Fla. Rep.) did a great job of directing things. The next National Senior Olympic Summer Games will be held in Houston. Texas in 2011! See you there!
Glenn Camnhell Glenn Campbell was bom in Dayton. Ohio but grew up in Kentucky near Cumberland Lake. At age 10 he was shooting a Fred Bear “Kodiak" recurve bow. In the early 1990’s he began to shoot the new bows designed by Matt McPherson of Mathews Archery. They included the Standard and the Vapor. After winning many tournaments at local and state level. he attended the l.B.O. Outdoor Triple Crown event in Erie, PA in 1992. Friend, Steve Bragg, suggested he go “and see if he would like it.” Nearly always placing near the top of the leader board, he has been competing on the national level ever since! Glenn’s equipment includes:
Bow: Mathews Conquest 4 (58", 28" draw) Arrows: Carbon Express (530 nanos, 27’s indoors) Sight: Copper John (1'A Apex housing) Lens: Feather Visions (4 power, black dot) Release: Carter “Just B-Cuz” (outdoor) and Zenith (indoor) Rest: Tuner (.008 blade) Stabilizer: Super Stick by Specialty Archery Rear Weights: Bernie's "Hand Grenade” rear weights Peep Sight: Specialty Archcry Products Optics: Swarovski Optik 8x50 indoors)
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2009 National Archery Senior Games Champions San Jose, California Photos by Sharon Ruhl and Alia Ruhl
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2009 National Archery Senior Games Champions San Jose, California Photos by Sharon Ruhl and Alia Ruhl
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2009 National Archery Senior Games Champions San Jose, California Photos by Sharon Ruhl and Alia Ruhl
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Congratulations Senior Champions!
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By Ryan Phelps in Palo Alto, California. After Glenn had introduced her to the Editors note: Author Ryan Phelps is Lynne's son. Lynne Phelps has already solidified herself as one of the Michigan Senior Olympic Games which were a qualifier for the top female archers in the country. Having only shot for eight nationals, she kept at it. And two years in a row she captured years starting out with just a recurve bow with no stabilizer or the Gold at the Michigan Games and qualified for the nationals. sight, she has already accomplished so much in just a short time. However there was an indoor tournament that was a monkey on her back that she wanted badly to shrug Before archery she was an expert in Tae off. The NFAA Indoor Nationals, in Kwon Doe karate, which gave her the Louisville, Kentucky. Unfortunately she discipline and mental focus to strive had trouble placing good in that, which for the best. Let's turn the clock back she wanted to rectify. And after day one to when the only time Lynne had ever at Louisville this year she had a chance at shot a bow was a woodchucks in her third, which made her ecstatic. To finally backyard. I had just gotten my first bow place with the National Senior Games on in August of 2000 as a birthday present the horizon would shoot her confidence from my father and signed up for the sky hi. And that it did, she told me how JOAD which started that December. she was more nervous then when she won She never knew that in just eight the NAA Nationals two years in a row, and short years she would be a multi-time became shooter of the year for the state of national champion and hold three state Michigan in 2005. I could tell she wanted records. this so bad and nothing would take it from Lynne accompanied me to many of her. She got third at Louisville, and after my JOAD classes and saw how much she received her award on the way home fun I had shooting and how great I took she told me she would return to win that to the sport. So naturally after she had tournament someday. Now Palo Alto was been finished with karate for years she in her sights but first a chance at a threewanted another hobby to have fun with, and archery seemed the best bet for her. peat. We both started in archery because we With already two back-to-back gold were avid gun hunters and wanted to medals at the Michigan Senior Olympics have more time in the woods. Little she had a chance for three. With a month did either one of us know that archery left before she left for California the would become much more than a Michigan Senior Games had arrived again. Lynne with her Coach Glenn just hobby, or how far the sport would take She and Glenn shot again and nobody after winning her Silver medal. each one of us, especially her. After she was even close. They both three-peated bought her first recurve bow she signed as Gold Medal winners and Lynne set a up for an adult archery class that took new State record for her age group which place at the same club as my JOAD was set back in 2003. Now all that was left classes. Immediately she climbed the ladder and was shooting was the National Games. Many times before she wondered if she some of he best recurve scores the class had seen. So she wanted should go. I kept telling her don't worry about having to get gold. to take her scores to tournaments, especially outdoors, however This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and she should take it in she didn’t have the strength to put more poundage on her recurve stride, have fun and shoot your best. After a few lectures of that to shoot the distances outdoors. Also she wasn’t competing great she boarded the plane for California and an unforgettable week with her recurve indoors and 1 was shooting compound, so she of shooting. got her first compound bow, a Martin Cougar. And that was her She told me when she arrived there she was overwhelmed by first stepping stone to greatness. the size of the venue and never saw anything like it before, not Right off the bat from buying her compound she was shooting even Vegas compared to her, which she has shot four times. She great scores both indoors and out.. She was right on the pedestal later told me that the best experience she had there was shooting of getting the wins she wanted and she wanted to keep getting on the line every time with tons of cameras in her face every shot, better as did I. However, we both hit a wall at that point and also flash bulbs were out at the targets as well. I always joked with couldn’t figure out how to get past it. And it was at the NAA her that 1 envied her because she was shooting in front of ESPN. Indoor Nationals in 2003 that we both met the man who would She said it was so nerve racking, never had she felt pressure like become our coach to this day and one of our greatest friends, this, and she performed brilliantly, receiving the silver medal for Glenn Campbell. After the Nationals I started getting lessons her shooting, she couldn’t be happier. She was thrilled that she from Glenn and immediately started shooting better and better got what she came for and was able to watch a dramatic dogfight scores than years before at tournaments. My mom Lynne would between Glenn Campbell and his friend and fellow competitor later tell me that she listened intently to what Glenn was saying, Ron West. Every end they shot Glenn would be either one point and just by listening she got past that wall and started shooting ahead or behind. And on the final end, after nineteen years of long better scores and got a few tournament wins in the process. And in hard work, Glenn won by two Points and achieved his longtime 2004 the country was introduced to Lynne Phelps after she bought goal. He was a National Champion. Lynne Hasn’t stopped since her first Mathews bow and won the NAA Indoor Nationals, and she got back, shooting great scores and having fun with the sport place second in the NAA Outdoor Nationals. Soon after that she which she and I both love passionately. She wants to give all her was taking personal lessons from Glenn and kept getting better, thanks to me, Glenn, and her loving husband of twenty two years Ken. Lynne is a shining example to show people that no matter though her best was yet ahead. This Year of 2009 has been extremely fortunate for Lynne, how old you are, or if you doubt you can give enough time to the again, both indoor and outdoor tournaments Lynne has chalked sport, you can become great in archery. Ifyou have lots offun up wins under her belt. In the last two years Lynne had been and keep trying to get better. It’s Never Too Late To Win. Way to © practicing for the National Senior Olympic Games that took place go Mom, I love you. Ryan in the beginning of August at the Stanford University Stadium
Grandson Andy Gray (I) accompanied Fred Glover at the Nationals 10'h Senior National Games winner with 3 golds, 3 silver and 3 bronze. Fred comes from a long line of ancestors that were active into their 90’s. The San Jose win makes it his 10lh. As a young man Fred was a World War II pilot. Using his skills as a pilot he as able to fly to different locations and work as an environmentalist to do rehab work for mining and ski companies. Fred shot his 30# Hoyt bow and acc Easton arrows with fingers. This win at 91 years young will be his last until 2013 because he says the August heat in Houston, TX site of the 2011 Games is too much for him.
If you watched the Senior Games you may have seen Fred using a prosthesis on his left arm. This was necessary because he had 3 serious skiing accidents in 8889-90 while ski racing in the Rockies. Just last January he fell again while skiing in Colorado. 1 am really impressed with his active life style. Before we finished our phone conversation, Fred commented that 1 needed to talk to Winston Parkinson from the 85-89 age division because he was according to Fred, the “Most decorated archer in the Games.” 1 called Winston to check up on his archery career. He said, “I really came up on some stiff competition with John Horwath who set 2 new records. So this made my 5'h silver medal to add to my 5 gold medals. I have just missed one Senior Games and that was the Kentucky games when my wife of 69 years was ill. I believe archery has kept me going after I had prostate cancer 17 years ago. Also I a wonderful support system with my son who came with me from Missouri plus friends from Argentina who were in the state, my daughter who is living in Saudi Arabia but was in Minnesota for business, my niece came from Idaho and a grandson from New York. 1 wanted to shoot my best for them but 1 also have a great interest in living now at 89.
Winston Parkinson (I) and Fred Glover after winning their medals
Of course coming from Missouri, Earl and Ann Hoyt country, Winston shoots a Hoyt compound with fingers. To put a little more excitement in his life, Winston has harvested a world record Nilgai antelope taken with his bow in Texas, 5 Pope & Young deer, and a Grand Slam on Sheep. Needless to day Winston has an interest in living! See you in 2011, Arlyne Rhode
Lori Buenger’s family who came from across the US to cheer for all of us! Front (l-r) Gina & Valerie Back (I-r)Sue, Lori, Jordan, Mary & Jami.
Lori's comments: “I had the honor ofparticipating in the 2009 National Senior Games with two wonderful ladies, Arlyne and Wanda. It was such an awesome experience. It was myfirst time ever and one I will forever remember. The camaraderie between athletes was very inspiring. It was so wonderful having 10 family members cheering, not only for me, but for all the other archers participating. How amazing to see Seniors being able to participate in so many different sports and show that they still can be healthy, strong and active."
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Fred Glover and Winston Parkinson have competed in 10 Senior National Games
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New FlatLine™ Carbon Arrow Fills The Need For Speed
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New Flatline Arrows combine SuperLite™ carbon construction with MicroLite™ components to deliver all-out quickness for deadly results on big game. High-velocity FlatLine carbon arrows come in at only 8.2 grains per inch (gpi). The key to FlatLine"s speed is the patent-pending MicroLite Speed System combined with Easton’s SuperLite carbon construction. The MicroLite Super Nock and CB Insert are 45% lighter than their counterparts, boosting velocity up to five feet-per-second. MicroLite components shave weight while delivering increased accuracy to the precision-engineered carbon construction of FlatLine. Increased arrow speed produces a flatter trajectory for deadly results where conditions may require a longer shot. Now those looking for speed can tap the full potential of their setup with the lightweight carbon and MicroLite components of FlatLine. MicroLite Speed System, also available as an accessory, can instantly boost speed up five feet-per-second for most standard diameter S-Nock compatible shaft.
MicroLite Speed System Component Comparison: Gain arrow speed instantly with Easton FlatLine Carbon arrows featuring MicroLite Speed System components included. Rush to your local Dealer or visit www.eastonarcherv.com.
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December 5th & 6th, 2009 This is the 24th year, that Easton Technical Products has sponsored the UTAH OPEN Archcry' Tournament. This Tournament will be one of the first opportunities for you to see the latest in Easton and Beman arrows. Hoyt and Fuse have been invited to exhibit their newest products. The tournament will be held at Salt Lake Archery, December 5th & 6lh, 2009. THE CHAMPIONSHIP, BOWHUNTER, COMPOUND NO SIGHT, MASTERS 60+, & OPEN DIVISIONS COMPETE FOR CASH Open Men & Open Women compete separately in flights of approximately 15 for cash. Money divisions will payback 60% of registration on a 1 to 5 ratio. Any Archer competing for cash will be awarded a bonus of $50.00 for EACH game of 295 for finger shooters or 300 for release shooters. ALL Championship, Bowhuntcr, No Sight (compound). Open, Trophy & Collegiate Divisions will shoot a 30 arrow 300 Round both Saturday & Sunday, December Sth 8c 6th. The distance will be 18m and the target will be either the FITA single spot or the Vegas 3 spot. JOAD archers will shoot an official indoor JOAD round each day. There will be no arrow restriction this year. The inner ring will be a tic breaker ring only. All Archers competing for Money must compete with their competition the second day. No exceptions.
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The main point in fletching arrows is that the fletching sticks. The first step in ensuring your vanes and feathers stay where you put them is the proper cleaning of the arrow shaft and this is where the new GOAT TUFF ‘Arrow Shaft Cleaner Kit’ comes in. Jerry Smith, President of GOAT TUFF Products made the announcement from the corporate offices in Tucson. AZ. “One of the main reasons fletching doesn't maintain a solid hold on the arrow shaft is due to the shaft not being properly cleaned. This is why we have introduced our new GOAT TUFF Arrow Shaft Cleaning Kit.” Smith continued, “Every arrow shaft must be cleaned well to ensure the fletching sticks regardless of the conditions and the last place you want to have failure is in the field. The Arrow Shaft Cleaner Kit is a convenient package that provides the quality products necessary to make sure your fletching stays where you put it - on the arrow shaft.” Each kit contains a 2 oz bottle of concentrated cleaner for cleaning and degreasing arrow shafts, a 16 oz plastic bottle for mixing the concentrate with 14 oz of water and two microfiber cleaning towels for completely removing particles from shaft. The cleaner is pH balanced for maximum performance with GOAT TUFF Glue, is economic to use, safe and easy on the hands, environmentally friendly and biodegradable. GOAT TUFF, making sure your fletching stays put. GOAT TUFF Products offers a full line of cleaning and gluing products for the professional and home arrow maker.
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GOAT TUFF™ GOES WITH HAWK ASSOCIATES Jerry Smith, President ofGOATTUFF Products, maker ofcleaning and glue products for the archery industry announced he had retained Rich Walton of Hawk Associates to handle his company’s adv/PR duties. ‘Tve known Rich for over 30 years since our early days at PSE and appreciate his knowledge and hard work. At GOAT TUFF we have reached the point that we need some assistance in the areas of marketing to increase exposure and help us as we grow our company with new products and move in new directions.” For more information please contact: GOA T TUFF Products Rich Walton 93 75 N Hampshire Dr Hawk Associates Marketing, inc Tucson, AZ 85742 520-742-4862 (520) 742-1701 goattuff@msn. com Rich Walton HAWK ASSOCIATES Marketing Inc 2322 W. Labriego Dr. Tucson, AZ 85741 520-742-4862 hawk60@comcast.net September-October 2009
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Team Hoyt: Topping a Podium Near You!
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From World Cup victories to NFAA, NAA, ASA and I BO success. Team Hoyt has owned the podium in 2009. This year’s indoor and outdoor tournament circuits all have one thing in common: their podiums have been consistently painted Hoyt red. Powered by Hoyt’s industry-leading, accuracy-boosting technologies, Team Hoyt shooters have made short work of the competition. For starters, Team Hoyt has won every medal in Men’s Compound and every gold medal in Women’s Compound during the first two stages of the 2009 F1TA Archery World Cup. No other tournament in the world holds such prestige as the World Cup, and no other bow company can claim a clean sweep of the World Cup podium! And in another display of Hoyt’s World Cup dominance, nine Hoyt shooters notched FITA scores of 1400 or better during the qualifying round in Porec, Croatia, at Stage Two of the World Cup! The following is a breakdown of Team’s Hoyt’s podium-topping run at the first three stages of the 2009 FITA Archery World Cup: Men's Compound Stage One: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: 1. Braden Gellenthien (USA), 2. Patrizio Hofer (SUI), 3. Peter Elzinga (NED) Stage Two: Porec, Croatia: 1. Sergio Pagni (ITA), 2. Jorge Jiminez (ESA), 3. Paul Titscher (GER) Stage Three: Antalya, Turkey: 1. Dominique Genet (FRA), 2. Braden Gellenthien (USA), 3. Pat Coghlan (AUS) Women’s Compound Stage One: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: I. Brittany Lorenti (USA), 2. Jamie Fan Natta (USA), 3. Diane Watson (USA) Stage Two: Porec, Croatia: I. Nicky Hunt (GBR) and 3. Andrea Weihe (GER) Stage Three: Antalya, Turkey: 1. Luzmary Guedez (VEN) and 2. Olga Bosch (VE Stay tuned to www.hovt.com - as well as www.archerv.orit. the official FITA Website - to track Team Hoyt’s success throughout the remainder of the 2009 FITA Archery World Cup. Back in the U.S.. Team Hoyt’s success has been equally impressive. Hoyt shooters have dominated every NFAA tournament so far this season, winning every' first place position in the NFAA Men’s and Women’s Compound Pro Divisions. In February. Hoyt's Reo Wilde (USA), Nichola Simpson (GBR) and Jeff Fabry (USA) won their respective divisions at the 2009 NFAA World Archery Festival in Las
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Vegas. Wilde held his ground and emerged victorious in the Men's Compound Division after a grueling 18-man, 12-end shoot-off. Talk about Hoyt outlasting the competition. Simpson's victory was her second consecutive gold in the Women's Compound Division, and Fabry's win in the Freestyle Limited Compound Division marked an amazing seventh career Vegas victory. Team Hoyt also took center stage at Louisville, Redding and Yankton. Hoyt's Russell Payne and Mary' Hamm crushed the competition - and a host of other Hoyt shooters sealed top 10 finishes - at the NFAA Indoor National Championship in Louisville, further adding to Team Hoyt's NFAA prowess. Payne launched five perfect, inside-out arrows to win the Professional Male Freestyle Division and Hamm - fresh off her first-place finish at the F1TA World Indoor Championships in Poland - won the Professional Female Freestyle Division with a perfect 60X. At Redding, cold temps, tricky winds and heavy rain proved little threat to
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Team Hoyt at the NFAA National Marked 3-D Championship. Team Hoyt took the top five spots in the Pro Male Freestyle division, with Shane Wills finishing first with a course record 1535. Jesse Broadwater finished second, and Dan McCarthy - the 2007 and 2008 Redding champ - finished third. Dave Cousins and Josh Schaff finished fourth and fifth, respectively, for Team Hoyt. Over the past four years, Hoyt shooters have dominated the Pro Male Freestyle Division, winning 11/12 of the top three positions. Hoyt’s Erika Anschutz took the top spot in the Pro Female Freestyle Division, and Jeff Fabry won the Pro Male Freestyle Limited Division. Team Hoyt’s NFAA domination continued at the the Yankton NFAA Classic and Unmarked 3D. Father-son duo Reo Wilde and Dee Wilde took first place in the Men’s Pro Division and the Senior Pro Division, respectively. Hoyt’s Jesse Broadwater. Shane Wills and Braden Gellenthien placed in the top five in the Men’s Pro Division. Team Hoyt also swept
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Bohning Team X2 Takes IBO National Championship For Second Consecutive Year! Team X2 are the IBO National Champions in the SHC class for the second consecutive year. Left to right, it is: Larry Burkhart, Larry Van, Bill Epeards & Mike Parker. All team members shoot the Blazer® X2. The team won in Bedford, Pennsylvania and Nelsonville. That made them overall champions in total points. Team member, Bill Epeards stated, “Winning a national championship is extremely hard, but to have attained this level twice is an amazing accomplishment.” 42
the podium in the Women’s Pro Division, with Jamie Van Natta finishing first, and Erika Anschutz and Tiffany Reeves finishing second and third, respectively. Topping off Team Hoyt’s gold medal pro division sweep was Jeff Fabry winning the Men's Pro Freestyle Limited Division. Also of note for Team Hoyt at Yankton. the NFAA Unmarked 3D was held in conjunction with the Classic. Hoyt legend Dave Cousins crushed the competition and cruised to a first-place victory. The Yankton Classic also featured an exciting "Three-Star” shoot-off that yielded a huge prize for one Team Hoyt member. Shooters who competed in Vegas. Louisville and Yankton shot headto-head for a brand new car. At each end the distance got further and further. With a line packed full of Hoyt shooters, Jesse Broadwater and his Hoyt dead-centered his last arrow to clinch the win and drive away in a brand new car! It’s been a record-shattering run for Team Hoyt in 2009, no doubt. The number of team and individual accomplishments is staggering. But wait, there’s more... Hoyt’s Peter Elzinga and his Hoyt Vantage Elite crushed the 144-arrow FITA round world record with an amazing 1419. Elzinga also set new 50-meter and 70meter world records, with near-perfect scores of 358 at both distances. South Africa’s Seppie Cilliers and his Hoyt shattered the 30-meter world record with a perfect 360 (33 Xs). Team Hoyt swept the U.S. Compound World Team Trials and will proudly compete as the 2009 FITA Outdoor Target Championship Men’s and Women’s Compound Teams. With over one million live television viewers scrutinizing their every shot. Hoyt’s Mary Hamm won the women’s compound gold medal at the FITA World Indoor Championships in Rzeszow, Poland, and a string of other Hoyt shooters also claimed podium finishes. Alicia McHenry stole the show at Gainesville and Hattiesburg, once again asserting her dominance on the ASA circuit. At the NAA Field in Tippecanoe, Ohio, Hoyt legend and past World Field Champion Dave Cousins finished in first place, with Hoyt Pro Staff Coordinator Kevin Wilkey and reigning World Field Champion Rod Menzer finishing second and third, respectively. Wilkey posted the highest score ever on the unmarked course. Hoyt’s Jamie Van Natta won the Women’s Compound Pro Division. The list of Team Hoyt’s unbelievable 2009 accomplishments goes on and on. Results like this don’t happen by accident. See your Hoyt dealer to learn why the world’s most accurate shooters trust their success - and their livelihood - to Hoyt’s tournament-tested technologies. And be sure to stay tuned to www.hovt.com to keep up with Team Hoyt’s worldwide tournament domination!
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Specialty Archery Acquires Bodoodle Rest Line has a strong dealer network domestically and works with most of the leading foreign distributors to sell its products world-wide. Specialty Archery. LLC also has a track record of introducing successful new products, like the Verifier lenses that screw into its peeps to sharpen the view of pins for aging hunters and the Clarifier lenses used to sharpen target faces viewed through scopes by competitive archers. Michael Anderson, general manager of Specialty Archery, said their firm worked closely with Earlywine to insure another sale wouldn’t disrupt existing orders at a time when dealers were stocking up for the summer and fall peak sales season. “Both Specialty Archery customers and Bodoodle customers can be assured that great preparation has gone into the acquisition, so that the transition would be smooth and seamless for customers of both companies,” Anderson said. “Specialty Archery took over control of all operations including ordering, invoicing, customer service, and production starting on July 1,2009.”
John Rapp holds Bodoodle’s most popular rest, the Pro Lite, which is also shown at right. Rapp works in production for Specialty Archery, LLC and also helps promote the product line at shoots. Careful planning meant he had inventory ready to ship to customers immediately after the July 1 changeover date. "The acquisition of Bodoodle allows us to pursue a different product line than what we currently offer,” Anderson said. “The Bodoodle name has a solid reputation in arrow rests, and Blaine Earlywine has done an excellent job in maintaining the company’s current status in the marketplace. Specialty Archery is looking forward to the venture with a great deaf of enthusiasm ano excitement. We plan to apply the same principles and practices that have made Specialty Archery successful so that Bodoodle can offer more shooters an alternative to the full capture style fixed rests and the cord-driven fall-away rests that dominate the market today.”
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Specialty Archery. LLC of Spencer, IA is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Bodoodle arrow rests from Blaine Earlywine. who had acquired the line a few years ago that had been founded by S.G. Christian in the 1970s. Bodoodle was one of the premier names in arrow rests for more than 25 years, a favorite of both competitive archers and discriminating bowhunters who admired its quality construction and ability to launch arrows with a high degree of accuracy. Models like the Timberdoodle. Game-Dropper and Pro-Lite all preceded the current crop of drop-away rests yet provided total fletching clearance thanks to Christian's elegant design. BoSoodle rests based on that innovative design use a cradle that pivots on fine bearings, so that the speed fins that support the shaft for part of the power stroke sweep down and out of the way before they can contact conventional fletching. In the early years of the brand Bodoodle rests were among the most expensive on the market, but modem manufacturing techniques helped lower the cost at a time when other well-known rests were gaining in sophistication and price. By the late 1990s Bodoodle was considered one of the top arrow rest brands on the market. In 2004 its owner was inducted into the Bowhunting Hall of Fame. After the death of S.G. Christian. Blaine Earlywine purchased Bodoodle from his estate and moved the firm from Coleman, Texas to Carlisle. Bodoodle Pro Lite Rest Kentucky. Earlywine kept the Bodoodle name alive with the aid of dedicated employees, his wife Danita and young sons Braxton and Aiden. marketing several different models. They continued the Bodoodle tradition of offering rugged, perfectly machined arrow rests that were capable of providing flawless arrow flight, right along with excellent customer service. Early in 2009 Specialty Archery, LLC and Earlywine began talking about a transfer of ownership that could take advantage of the Iowa firm's strengths as a way to expand Bodoodle’s market share. Specialty Archery. LLC is known throughout the archery industry as a brand with a strong following among the type of precision archers who so often chose a Bodoodle rest in the past. The manufacturer of high quality scopes, peeps, and stabilizers
Specialty Archery 1211 38"' Ave. Wz Spencer, IA 51301 The toll-free number is (800) 555-2856. You can contact Mike Anderson by email ar mnnderson(a>snecialtvarch.com or Jmd out more on-line at www.speciaitarch.com
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Whisper Peep™ - The Quickest, Quietest, No Serving Peep Sight™ Dealer inquiries welcomed or contact: LOC-A-PEEP™ 560 County Road 579 Hampton. NJ 08827 908-735-6111 Email: sales@locaDeeD.com www.locapeeD.com Rich Walton HAWK ASSOCIATES Marketing Inc 2322 W. Labriego Dr. Tucson, AZ 85741 * 520-7424862 * hawk60@comcast.net
Probably one of the most productive innovations in the last 8 to 10 years in the archery industry has been in the area of vibration and sound reduction. The one product area these innovations have neglected however is also one of the most important, the peep sight. That has all changed now with the introduction of the first vibration/sound dampening Peep Sight, the Whisper Peep by LOC-A-PEEP. John Giambrone of LOC-A-PEEP made the introduction: “This amazing Peep Sight combines advanced design features with a new Elastomeric material with amazing vibration dampening nodules. The Whisper Peep reduces the string oscillation, vibration and the string noise present when a bow is shot. This product will make every shot quieter with less vibration. Another great feature every archer will appreciate is, due to the design and materials, once the Whisper Peep is installed in the bow string it will not move, eliminating the need for serving the Peep in to the string. The Whisper Peep is a dynamic new design with advanced materials with the result being greater accuracy and pleasure from every shot. ”
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The following is an excerpt from Bernie’s book, “IDIOT PROOF ARCHERY” (now available in paperback.). See ad on page 57. This “tell-it-like-it-is, no-holds-barred” approach is what makes Bernie so popular with his students. This 300+ page book, illustrated with over 350 photos and diagrams, promises to be the best and most comprehensive ever written for the competitive archer!
How the Pros Do It HOLDING STEADY PART 2 Due to the length of this subject, the first half of this article appeared in the previous issue, where we covered incorrect draw length and bad form.
Draw Weight The average shooter shoots ten to thirty pounds too much draw weight at full draw, “helping” them to have a shaky sight picture. In recent years, bows with high let-offs have claimed to change that somewhat, but because of their huge cam(s) and the fact that they stay at peak weight much longer through the draw cycle, they have actually made it worse for most archers. After muscling past the peak weight, they have all the wrong muscles completely flexed by the time they’ve gotten to full draw. They do not, and cannot, effectively relax those muscles at this point, thus causing their sight pictures to be extremely shaky. Now that you understand about muscular involvement, it should be easy to grasp why most people don’t have much of a chance trying to hold a 60 to 90 pound bow steady. Give yourself a chance to win! Crank it down to a reasonable poundage, something that your body can handle comfortably, all day! If, when you draw your bow, you have to hold your bow anywhere but on the target, such as pulling into your chest, grunt or change the expression on your face, you are pulling too much weight.
Mass Weight of the Bow
This brings us to another weight problem — mass weight of the bow. Most of the top shooters in target and 3-D have discovered that adding heavier stabilizers, front and/or rear, helps a great deal in holding the bow steady. I’ve picked up several of their bows at major shoots and while doing their videos. Most weigh twice to three times as much as the standard three or four pound factory bow. When I was shooting competitively, I shot a nine to ten pound bow for target and 3-D. and about an eight pound hunting bow. It helped steady my sight picture by at least 25%, especially when shooting in the wind. This should not surprise anyone. Rifle and pistol experts have been doing this for years. Everyone knows that competition target pistols and rifles with heavy frames and bull barrels hold much steadier than standard-issue weapons. A word of caution here. You can’t change from a four pound bow to an eight pound bow overnight (yes, you do need to use some muscles ... even with boneto-bone form). You must build up your muscles, your endurance, and increase the amount of mass weight slowly, or you
will make things worse and find your bow shoulder aching, your elbow quivering, and your sight wanting to “drop out the bottom." Go slow! An inexpensive way to build your muscles is to use a milk jug. One gallon of water weighs approximately eight pounds, so calculate how much water to add to make the jug weigh what your bow does ... then add one cup ('/a pound). Practice lifting and holding it 30-50 times per day. Add one cup once or twice a week ... mix in 3 egg whites, 1/4 cup of butter, 2 cups of flour. Place in a pre-heated 350 degree oven ... Ah! sorry, that’s from my next book! Anyway, do this until you have arrived at the total bow weight you want.
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The Mental Side of Holding Steady All of the above changes along with good muscle tone will add up to a much steadier sight picture, but it evolves into something even more important. This will calm your mind and give you confidence that you do not have to rush the execution or have to hold perfectly steady or wrestle the sight into the exact center of the target, for the arrow to go in the center. (More on that in a later article!) There is no problem then, with concentrating on the center of the target and squeezing the draw side back muscles until the release happens. At this level, your good days and your bad days are also much closer to being the same. When you haven’t shot for some time, or are extremely tired, nervous, or
anxious about a shot or series of shots. your sight picture always gets worse, regardless of which aiming method you use. The difference is that if your holding or aiming ability depends entirely on muscular involvement, underdeveloped, tired, nervous, or adrenaline-charged muscles will always cause a shakier sight picture. This more rapid movement of the sight increases anxiety, frustration, and panic in the shooter’s mind. This moves the shooter’s concentration from the target (where it should be)... to the pin or scope dot, then back to the trigger or fingers ... then back to the target ... and then the conscious mind tells you, ... “Hurry up! I can’t hold it much longer! I'm going to miss! Hit the trigger. SHOOT! ... SHOOT! NOW!” Sound familiar?
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Stabilization Secrets Range of Motion “Where was your sight when the release went off?” You know... It is astonishing how many people don’t have a good answer to that question. Knowing where your sight is and the shape, speed, and size of its motion on the target gives important clues as to what needs to be done. Does your form need attention? Is your draw length right? What kind of stabilizer configuration do you need? Do you need to tune? All these questions can be answered by keeping track of your sight's range of motion. When I say, “range of motion” 1 am referring to the amount of space your sight ranges on the target. Your body alignment, stabilizer configuration, and general bow tune can have dramatic effects on your range of motion size. The size of the range is depending on tune and form factors but it is also is affected by your physical conditioning and your skill level. Keep in mind while w>e are going through these tips and techniques that if you are new, or if you don’t shoot a significant amount, you won’t see a range of motion the size of the Vegas X. Many people start shooting target archery by just screwing a long stabilizer on their bow because everyone else has one. As the years have gone by it has become standard equipment that is fixed to the bow before an arrow has been shot. Stabilizers by nature conceal movement. In order to know how to set up your stabilizers you have to know what kind of movement you are dealing with and how your bow works without stabilizers. The best way to start is to shoot your bow without stabilizers for a significant amount of time in order to familiarize yourself with the feel and flow of your bow. You can do this indoors or outdoors depending on what game you are playing, but you will shoot full games at your chosen distance to become familiar with your sight movement. Many of you may not have ever shot a bow without stabilizers before, so it may take some getting used to. Many people may notice that the bowstring may start ticking your
arm a little during the reverb after the shot. Don’t get too excited about that right now, just put on a good hard plastic armguard. Hard plastic armguards like the skinny Beiter guards are best because they offer the most consistent contact and won’t drag your string. You will begin to notice one or two of several different aiming patterns emerge while you are shooting. Many of these are form based and are easily cured now that you can see the movement more clearly. Take a look at the diagrams below. These are representative of common patterns and the particular form issue that causes it.
is straight and stiff you have to use more of the shoulder muscles to hold the bow' steady. Soften your elbow and unlock it. Just before you move in to address your anchor consciously soften your shoulder tops and let them
[bow yaw - Without stabilization you may notice a sharp side to side, swimming motion. The bow is sort of teetering on your thumb pad. Hard hands cause this condition. If your bow hand is too lense, it causes the yawing motion. Also, you may notice the arrow chattering and falling off'the rest as you draw’. This is also another dead giveaway to soften your hands on the bow and the release. | [Circular You may notice a round and round motion that never really settles. It seemingly circles the center of the target is rapid loops and never gets in the middle much. Leaning back at full draw', and raising your bow shoulder, or a stiff bow' arm elbow' with a high shoulder causes the rapid circular float. When your arm 48
settle into a natural position. Tty not to force them down. J [Waggle - the waggle is a wideranging unsettled conflition that is relatively slow' but it is hard to contain the size. This is caused by a long draw'. Try shortening the draw in small increments and look for improvement. You should see a pretty clear change as you shorten the draw'. [
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[Choppy -Choppy sight movement that is sort of tight in the middle but sharp and unpredictable is a signal of a short draw, let the draw out in slight increments while keeping watch on the aiming pattern. You sTiould see it becoming more soft and predictable as you near the correct draw length. ]
[The football group - This one is less aiming but more point of impact oriented. iT'at distance you are seeing football shaped groups that straddle the center of the target, you have excessive face contact with the string. Too deep of an anchor and too much contact causes inconsistent deflection of the string around the face. Ifyou are soft in the lace on one shot, it hits more right. If you have more chin towards the string on the next shot, it impacts more left. I f you are seeing the football group, work on getting minimal face contact with the string by changing draw, head position, peen height, or target alignment. Any of tnese may fix the problem, but everyone is different, so you may have to work out your own solution here. | Keeping an eye out for these patterns and taking care of each issue individually while shooting without stabilization will help you clean up your form and get yourself ready to begin evaluating stabilization choices. Defined patterns like left/right yaw or circular twisting signals definite form September-October 2009
and alignment issues. You are looking for a sight pattern that figure eights on the target in a round and predicable pattern. After a week or so of solid shooting you should have a fairly tame sight pattern that occupies a round space and has no defined pattern. Now you can begin slowly adding stabilization choices and slowly work your way up through a series of improvements. I have a couple favorite rods that I like the best, but my general advice for a rod is make sure the rod itself is light as air, slim, and super stiff. The real purpose of the stabilizer is not damping vibration. All the extra weight modules that are close to the bow for vibration damping are nice and they make the bow feel great as well, but they are extra weight m an area that isn’t doing you much good. Moreover, rods that are made out of a heavy material overall and heavy over their entire length may weigh the bow down, but you don’t get the most torsional stability for the least amount of weight. A basic idea for a stabilizer is to get the weight as far from the bow as possible so you can use less of it. If your bow is too heavy, you can use longer rods and lighten the load. If your bow is too light you can use shorter more manageable rods and add weight. My outdoor shot is more active, controlled, and with a higher tempo; so slender rods are better outdoors and you may want to use a shorter rod if you can manage. It is less surface area out there in the wind getting pushed around. Indoors, you can use super fat ultra stiff rods. My shot indoors is more along the lines of soft aiming finesse; so large diameter stiff stabilizers work very well for that. 1 suggest adding your long rod first with one tiny weight on the tip, and shoot that for a while to see what kind of improvement you see. At this stage pay attention to your bow and how easy it stays vertical. You want your stabilizers to make the bow work with you not against you. Next you can try a side rod or V-bars with light weights. You should be seeing improvement along the way as you make these slight changes. Be sure to shoot the bow for more that a couple shots before making changes. Shoot each change for a while to get used to the new balance point before making changes. Any change after a couple shots will just be arbitrary and won’t help you at all. With a little experimentation, you can carefully dial your stabilization in to suit your shooting style while learning to glean clues from your range of motion to know what to do next. As you learn and shoot, you should see improvement in your range of motion and the improvement in score it produces. This little bit is only a small part of stabilization tuning, but
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2009 McKenzie ASA Pro/Am Tour Story and Photos by Brian Dansby
Brian Dansby Standing on the floor of the Columbus Civic Center at the ASA Classic on July 25, 2009 a couple of unexcited shooters were having a conversation. “You made every shootdown of the year except this one," Darrin Christenberry said to Levi Morgan in an attempt to be encouraging. “Well 1 can think of several I would trade for this one,” Morgan answered showing the importance placed on an ASA Classic title. After all. prior to the Classic Morgan and Christenberry were the only two shooters in Men’s Open Pro to have won a Pro/Am title in 2009. Morgan won four shoots on his way to his third Shooter of the Year title and Christenberry' won the two Morgan didn't. But this time Morgan finished the forty target event in sixth place one spot out of the final five that made the Pro Pressure Point Shootdown. Christenberry tied Jeff Hopkins for seventh place, two spots out of the shootdown. But the story of this event was Dan McCarthy of Wisconsin. McCarthy entered the shootdown with a 15 point lead over Nathan Brooks of Arkansas even after McCarthy shot a 5 and an 8 on his last two shots at the Uchee Creek Campground on Ft. Benning, Georgia. Saturday on McCarthy’s 19th target his group began to laugh at his twenty-two point lead. In the middle of the kidding McCarthy miss set his sight and shot a five. “I am lucky I hit it,” McCarthy said. “I hit it way up in the back. I wasn’t expecting to hit there.” On his final target McCarthy shot just below the 12 for an 8 for a 449 score entering the Shootdown. McCarthy made no such mistakes in the shootdown and won without a sixth arrow as no one was able to pull within ten points of him. Brooks finished in second followed by Richard Leftwich of Virginia in third, Evan Baize of Kentucky in fourth and Joseph Goza of Alabama in fifth. “You need everything to come together to have a weekend like this,” McCarthy said. “I did well and 1 got lucky. Everyone I went for I hit.”
Goza also of Alabama and Chris Stachler of Ohio by seven points. Gene Cuny of Texas and Kerry Klund of Missouri took up the final two spots tied at twelve points behind Larry.
Dan McCarthy on his 5th & final shot in the Shootdown McCarthy shot the following equipment: Hoyt Vantage Pro with XT2000 limbs and spiral cams 27 3/16 draw length, 71 pounds Doinker Stabilizer Axcel sight Classic Scope (no lens) America’s Best bow strings (452X cable- 8125 string) Easton 2512 (390 grains total weight) Alpen binoculars T.R.U. Ball Absolute release (first tournament shooting this release) Trophy Taker Spring Steel rest Larry Goza (391) of Alabama entered the Shootdown leading brother Brian
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Larry Goza Limited Champion Larry took the suspense out of the shootdown by shooting six straight 10s. The order of the top three did not change. Klund hopped Curry for fourth. The victory was Larry’s first ASA Classic win. He has won three 1BO World Championships. “Stay in the middle of the ten,” Larry said of his strategy. “Wait and see what they did. Unless they started pushing me I wasn’t going to try for nothing else.” The strategy worked well all weekend as Larry had only one eight on Saturday and an 8 and a 5 on Sunday. Larry Goza shot the following equipment: Mathews Conquest 4 bow, 61 pounds, 80% letoff, 30” draw length AEP Stabilizer Easton Fat Boy arrows, 100 grain point, 350 grain total arrow weight Sure Loc sight Sure Loc Scope (6X lens and clarifier) Bodoodle arrow rest Nikon binoculars The closest shooter of the year race entering the Classic was in Women’s Pro where Alicia McHenry of Pennsylvania was leading Samantha Morgan of North Carolina by only three points. Morgan
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tied up the race after Friday’s shooting. McHenry regained her lead and went on to win her seventh SOY title by shooting a 401 to Morgan’s 398 for the weekend. “I was thinking more about the Shooter of the Year as this would have made seven times for me in ten years of shooting pro,” McHenry said. “In the first four targets (on Saturday) I was six points ahead of (Morgan). I figured 1 could hold it.” With the SOY out of the way the ladies had to decide the Classic winner. Aime Whittington of North Carolina entered the shootdown in first with a 404 followed by McHenry and Kaitlyn Price at 401. Morgan entered in fourth with a 398 and Jeanna Albrittan took the final spot with a 397. A fter five shots Morgan had pulled into third only one point behind Whittington in second place. McHenry had vaulted to a four point lead by shooting four 10s and a 12. Albrittan finished in fourth and Price in fifth. Both were more than ten points behind McHenry and did not take the final shot. Morgan shot first on the sixth shot and nailed a 14. Whittington shot a 12 meaning Morgan had taken over second and put the pressure on McHenry who now needed a 10 to win. McHenry knocked down the 10 and took the one point Classic victory. “I shot for center 10 on about 32 yards," McHenry said about the last shot. “I was still a little worried. I needed a 10 on the last arrow.”
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Darrin Christenberry and Grant Elsley ofA ustralia chat in the tournament village Easton Fatboy arrows, 328 total arrow weight, 80 grain point. Trophy Taker rest Scott Longhorn release CBE sight CBE scope 3X lens Brunton The Senior Pro shooters must have been upset about being overlooked as everyone usually wants to know how the younger Open Pro shooters are doing. Whatever the reason for the showmanship the crowd in Columbus, Georgia definitely was appreciative because these fellows put on quite a show. Let's start with Dan Renner of South Carolina who entered the shootdown in fourth a full twelve points behind leader Tom Crowe of Oregon. Renner stepped up and nailed a 14 on http://www.trueflightfeathers.com ”
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one more arrow to determine a winner. “I thought it may be just out,” Renner said of the scoring. “It was a good shot.” This time Crowe led off and hit the 12-ring. Sennick once again shot for the 14-ring but got an eight. It was up to Renner, twelve to tie, fourteen to win. Renner tried for the twelve but fell just low for an eight and Crowe was able to add Classic Champion to his Shooter of the Year title. “It got kind of nerve racking right there at the end," Crowe said of the victory. “Dan went from fourth to first in what three shots. Yeah it was exciting.” As always the Pro Pressure Point Shootdown at the Classic was an exciting event and put a fitting cap to a very successful 2009 McKenzie ASA Pro/Am Tour.
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Salute by Men’s champions (1-r) Dave Cousins, Matt Bassett, Tom Adjutant, Bob Borges, Dick Smith and Randy Brabec. Two for the money, three for the show -— but in this case it’s Three For The Money, two for the show when three Hoyt Pro Shooters swept the Big Sky Open for overall cash awards at the Big Sky Open, Grand Junction, Colorado DoubleTree Hotel, June 5, 6 and 7. Dave Cousins of Maine, managed to keep focus, control his emotions and harness his skills to secure the score that would make this his third Big Sky Open title (at this particular location) in over half a decade. Cousins, who once made the statement “This is an important tournament to win”, overcame his adversaries and demons from the past and managed to control his arrow placement in the center of the target. “I shot pretty well”, he commented, “but there are a lot of good archers who come to this tournament”, so he picked each shot - even in the wind and came out on top! In fact, Dave Cousins has had a pretty good year in tournament archery.
The “GoForlt” clay pigeon event had a change in venue this year, giving all the archers an opportunity to shoot individually instead of forming teams. The change went over quite well even though Friday evening turned out to be a bit blustery. There were some with second thoughts (including Cousins) that resisted entering, but the majority signed up with a descriptive attitude of “I’m doing this anyway and I’m not going to let the weather beat me!” The opening event was not for the faint-hearted! Dark skies and high winds didn’t stop Dick Smith/CO, Rob Morgan/MT and Benton Christensen/ ID from shooting perfect 50’s on the clay pigeons. THEY SHOT AWSOME!! Following the perfects with only two points off were Shawn Greathouse/CO and Kevin Shaw/IL! The faint-hearted don’t know what they’re missing! For every perfect 50 shot, in the clay pigeon event, the Big Sky Open awarded a “Perfect 50 Club” pin - past, present
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and future. Dave Cousins received three from 2001, 2002 and 2009. Benton Christensen received two, 2007 and 2009. Two more were awarded Perfect 50 Club pins this year, Smith and Morgan. Three of the perfects were shot in horrible rainy, blustery winds on Friday evening! Cousins opted not to shoot on Friday and shot his third perfect on Saturday. Becky Pearson is the only woman to score a perfect 50 and that was in 2002. As the story goes, Saturday’s first scores put Cousins in a solid lead in the Mens Championship FS competition followed by Josh SchafI7MT and Rio Wilde/ID with the same scores in second. Third placement was Jeremy Terhune/WY followed by Roger Hoyle/UT. When the competition was over, Hoyle and Wilde had a shoot-off for third place. And that’s the rest of the story. It was Schaff and Hoyle joining Cousins for the top three. The Senior FS Men have such a good time shooting together they expressed
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Matt Bassett gets a hug from Seniors scoring their arrows Nichole after winning shoot-off they would like to see more of their colleges join their ranks so it Bob Borges shot against each other and this hasn’t happened since was decided to put them all together and let them qualify for the 1977. Both these Gents love the style they shoot and challenge Championship and Flight the others, then they would be shooting anyone who would like to shoot with them and do as well as they for Senior money and not with the younger guys. did! So when the shooting started and ended on the first day, Dick Top winners of the Mens Flights were (1) Jim Marshall/NV; Smith/CO was barely leading the group of Seniors as Dee Wilde/ (2) Tony Mansfield/CO; (3) Darin Wold/MT; (4) Robert Hancock/ ID was right behind him with one point difference. Tim Smith/AZ CO; (5) Toby Dellamano/CO. Womens Flights were (1) Amber and Don Snipes/NV were bringing up the rear and respectively Christensen/ID; (2) Jeanne Swaeby/CO. Great Shooting Amber they remained in the same positions. and Jim! In the Senior Mens Flights, LeRoy Dukes/OR and Ed Marten/ CO were tied for first with Jim Law/CO and Doug George/CO rounding out the top group for Sunday's marathon. If one could read a crystal ball, things were about to change as the next day, Jim Law won his first money ever by sticking to the old adage, tomorrow will be a different story cause I ‘m gonna shoot better! Gary Cowart/UT, past Champion in the Mens FSBH division, was also ahead of the bowhunters by two points. Eyeing Cowart’s score was Kurt Geist/CO and Matt Bassett/ID. Both were silently trying to plan the next day’s strategy that would bring them closer to winning the cash. As it turned out, Basset and Geist tied in the event and a shoot-off was mandatory. When by it was over, Nicole Basset whooped for joy and gave hubby Matt a grand hug for being able to suppress his nerves and place his arrows where it counted most... in the middle! Nicole said, “It’s more nerve racking watching Matt shoot than it is for me to be No more uneven 120 degee spacing on the line.” Rhonda Calhoun/TX (FS), Randy Brabec/CO (FSL) were Fletches all arrows before nock installation both solid in their respective divisions. While Brabec had several Uni & Super Uni, pin nocks, X nocks, H nocks competitors shooting against him, Calhoun was the lone lady in her class. This has never been the case before at the Big Sky Open, but Rhonda, being the good sport and lady that she is, forged on and represented Mathews well. Look at it this way, if you’re not shooting a Mathews, you’re not shooting and if you’re not shooting, you’re not representing your sponsors! Anyone who takes on the targets, the weather, the competition outdoors, is a winner to begin with! With or without competitors, this lady is a winner in many ways and she proves it every time she steps up to the line. Kudos, Rhonda! The other side of the Geist family is Anne and Kaylee. Unafraid of the targets, weather, outdoor shooting in general. Mother and Daughter both shot well in their respective divisions and together, along with Kurt, are the epitome of family shared sports. Melanie DeBusk/WY (Classic), Bob Borges/NM (BB), Ann Geist/CO (BHFS), and Tom Adjutant/CO (Classic) were “out in front” of their closest competition and were working hard to stay that way. When the shooting was all over, it was a delight to see a champion like Melanie DeBusk win in her division. Her upbeat enthusiasm for the sport of archery and the joy of winning is like a ray of sunshine experienced by all. Thank you Melanie, for being such a delightful winner! For the second year, the Big Sky Open recorded Bare Bow archers registered in the tournament. Richard Lucangioli/CO and Shooters scoring their arrows
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Mother and Daughter Champions! In the Youth Amateur Divisions are as follows: Keegan DePriest/CO (Int-FS); Katie DeMunbrun/WY (Int-FS); Jake Zadori/AZ (Jr-FS); Kaylee Geist/CO (Cadet-FS); and Evan Munoz/CO (Cadet-FS). Thanks to the young amateurs who compete in this tournament. There are several crazy stories attached to the Big Sky Open such as Thomas Hunn/CO who eagerly loaned his grandson his bow to shoot the tournament. Nick’s bow was too short (Grandpa
Tom loves shooting) so they traded bows for the weekend. Never at full draw, Grandpa Tom shot anyway and did the best he could throughout. Even on Sunday when the bow rest simply fell off from fatigue. Tom just laughed and said, “I love shooting archery!” Last in Sr. Flights, but first in good sportsmanship, it’s a bet that either Nick or Tom will have a new bow to shoot next year. Dave Cousins brought two archers from England to shoot the Big Sky Open - Liam Grimwood and Chris Bell. The Big Sky Open has had archers from Canada and Puerto Rico, but this is a first from England. We were honored they joined us and give a big thanks to Dave Cousins for enticing them to shoot this tournament. It is our hope they enjoyed the Big Sky Open in Grand Junction. Mathews, Inc., our major sponsor, had a great showing of black & white shirts wom by competing archers everywhere you looked! Bill Pellegrino/CO, last years champion was back to defend his title along with Duane Price/WI, a hopeful to win the Big Sky Open this year in the individual competition on the traditional colored target as well as Jeremiah McConnell/CO. Derek Phillips/CO, we’re told, rarely shoots in competition, but he made the Big Sky Open an exception this year and also competed for the cash awards. Rhonda Calhoun of course represents Mathews in the Ladies Champ Competition. Thank you, to all the above-mentioned as well as those who were not. The Big Sky Open was wild (that is spelled w-i-l-d) this year with the color ... red, red everywhere! Like in the name of H-oy-t. Of Course, the Winning Trio and so many more, it was like the “flow and glow" energy of the Red Sea! No parting there, just unity and power. Records broken on this round of colored targets came from Dave Cousins, Melanie DeBusk, Bob Borges and Anne Geist. As far as any perfects go, there still has never been one shot at the Big Sky Open. The colored targets still own this tournament!
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It was a family affair at the Sunrise Ski Park July 3-5, 2009 White Mountains, Arizona. Kids and dogs, Mom and Dad, Gramma and Grampa; all came for the fine weather, famous fried bread, finding friendships and maybe a little or lot of flinging arrows. McKenzie animal targets lined the paths up and down the hills of the Ski Resort. Laughter and fireworks rang through the hills on this 4th of July weekend. As the sun went down on Sunday evening, door prizes, raffle prizes and awards were given out numbering more than the registered shooters. Everyone had a great 4th! Major sponsors were as follows: Alpine Archery, Easton, Hoyt USA, Fuse Accessories, Martin Archery, Precision Shooting Equipment, McKenzie Targets, Ross Outdoors, Bone Addiction, Cactuflage Camo, Pepsi, Desert Pheasant Recreation, Leica Sports Optics, Bear Mountain, Doctor Hoy’s Natural, Get Shafted, U.S. Archer Magazine, Powderhorn Designs, Z-Coil Footwear, Desert Archers, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Lonesome Pine Archery, KBA Outdoors, UniDaptor Tripods, White Mountain Snow Shaved Ice, Pacific Archery Sales, Bull Basin Archery, Broken Arrow Archery, Cup O’Joe, Payson Outfitters and Perrault Antler Medal Art. Complete contact information can be found on the website, www. sunriseskipark.com. See you next year!
PEE WEE (Age 8 & UNDER) FEMALE 1st Caitlin Evans 181 2nd Pauliina Leon 113 3rd Seanna Roland 94 MALE 1st Casey Myers 202 2nd Uriah Zengerly 200 3rd Nathaniel Youngblood 198 CUB (Ages 9-12) FEMALE 1st Stephanie Schasteen 146 2nd Natalie Leon 87 3rd Lilliam Niccum 78 MALE 1st Juan Sedillo 206 2nd Jeffery Miller 191 3rd Tate Turner 171 YOUTH (Ages 13-15) FEMALE 1st Ashley Herndon 259 2nd Emily Sedillo 203 3rd Victoria Sanchez 174 MALE 1st Dean Hartman 336 2nd Paxton Scarborough 317 3rd Justin Trewern 310 YOUNG ADULT (Ages 16-17) FEMALE 1st Shannon Gorman 273 2nd Ashlee Nolte 224 3rd Samantha Corwin 224 MALE 1st Cody Merrick 410 2nd Tyler Zawacky 333 3rd Patrick Burgoyne 198 TRADITIONAL (Recurve/Longbow) FEMALE 1st Peggy McDonald 295 2nd Kim Young 275 3rd Jane Eddy 262 MALE 1st Charles McDonald 361 2nd Tad Earl 316 3rd Craig Young 311 BOWHUNTER (Bare Bow) MALE 1st Ron Izzo Jr 267 2nd Frank Vicente 255
3rd Sonny J. Leon 252 LIMITED BOWHUNTER (Fixed Pins/ No Release) FEMALE 1st Suzy Head 184 2nd Amanda Scarsella 146 MALE 1st Mariano Vicente 238 2nd Dwayne Yellowhair 216 UNLIMITED (Release/Fixed Pins) FEMALE 1st Lisa Tenbrook 320 2nd Ann Marie Hull 289 3rd Lauri Scarsella 257 MALE 1st Stoney Amerine 388 2nd John Trewern 377 3rd Cory Esparza 356 OPEN (Scope/Moveable Sight) FEMALE 1st Melanie Darnell 249 2nd Dawn Germain 234 3rd Lisa Hancock 193 MALE 1st Cody Mexicano 380 2nd Mike Scarsella 364 3rd Jesse Lim 350 SENIORS (Age 50+ — Any Equipment) MALE 1st Mike Hooser 368 2nd Frank Ortiz 343 3rd Luis Gomez 337 MASTERS (Age 60+ — Any Equipment) 1st Gene Bates 366 2nd Frank Pearson 358 3rd Tim Smith 353 MONEY SHOOT OPEN-FEMALE 1st Kristi Pacheco 318 OPEN-MALE 1st Rudy Apodaca 400 2nd David Teran 398 3rd Dean Linne 397 UNLIMITED-MALE 1st Ross Trujillo 389 2nd Charley Swarts 373 3rd Mark Hanson 372 SENIORS (50+) 1st Randy Spray 381
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Every champion received an embroidered jacket DISTANCE SHOOT WINNER Clay Cordova SPLIT THE POT John Adams RAFFLE WINNERS TROPHY BULL ELK HUNT Ross Trujillo ADULT RAGHORN HUNT Ian Wilkey COW TAG R. Chris Wolf VENDOR COW TAG Ed Hightower PEE WEE/CUB BOW John Michael Cleland SPRING TURKEY Eric Frey RIFLE YOUTH RAGHORN Dean Hartman CHRISTMAS TREE FISH CAMP Dylan Eck ADULT HOYT SUPERHA WK Bryce Redden ADULT HOYT ALPHAMAX 32 BONE COLLECTOR Dawn Germain ADULT HOYT POWERHA WK Jack Herndon ADULT SUPERHAWK PACKAGE Joey Chavez DESERT PHEASANT GUIDED HUNT Wayne Morgan DMA ARCHERS SMOKER ROUND Matt Lillenquest DMA ARCHERS GROUND BLIND WINNER Dan Youngblood
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BRITISH COLUMBIA WORLD POLICE & FIRE GAMES
Three Gold Medals for Chris Berry at the World Police and Fire Games And. then on to the Buckmasters World Indoor Championships! Champion Chris Berry I also want to thank all of my great sponsors for making great products that helped me win my events: Alpine Archery Burt Coyote - Lumenok Lighted Arrow Nock Nikon Optics Copper John B-Stinger Specialty Archery Products Gold Tip Arrows Stone Mt Bowstrings Woods Wise Products Montana Decoy PDP Points Delta Sports Products Arrowspeed Sport Sensors Muzzy Products B-Stinger Tru-Fire Corporation Sims Vibrations Lab. Gateway Feathers Predator Cam After the World Police and Fire Games I was home for a few days and then off to Buckmasters World Indoor Championships in Montgomery AL. Here were my odds going into the weekend: 1-48 to win S25,000.00 1 -48 to win a 4 Wheeler 1-8 to win a 4 Wheeler and some SSSS After the first round my odds of the first 2 chances basically went out the window (I shot really poorly). So I bought some raffle tickets to win some door prizes and a chance of possibly getting paired with the one of the final 4 archers of the weekend. Needless to say they sell 1000s of tickets for each of these give always. On the first drawing to be paired with the final 4 archers for the World Championship, my ticket was drawn out of the hopper as one of the four. Wahoo! So I had a 1-4 chance of winning a 4 Wheeler..... I shot in the Qualifier finals and won 7th place which was a S700.00 paycheck.... Another whaooooo! As the weekend progressed I was down to my 1-4 chance to win a 4 Wheeler. As luck would have it I got drawn to be partnered up with a friend who I shoot with often Randy Hendricks of NC. Randy had never won Buckmasters but has shot the event for many years and was due to win for sure. When the shoot off began Randy won the first round and then I had a 1-2 chance for winning a 4-Wheeler. Boy, was I getting excited now. In the final round Randy shot first and only missed one target and we were waiting on the next shooter to shoot. Randy’s R 17’s opponent shot and missed 2 targets out of the first 6 and I knew then that Randy had won me a brand new Yamaha Big Bear 400 4 wheeler.......
I found out in July 2008 that the World Police and Fire Games were going to be in British Columbia, Canada and had Archery events. Given my love for the Sport of Archery, I decided this was one event 1 wanted to tackle. I talked it over with my wife April and Sheriff Brad Delay with both saying “Go for it”; so we started to make plans. After much preparation for an “out of the country event”, passports and such, followed with lots of practice. I was on my way to Canada with my wife in toe for support. Going into the World Police and Fire Games, I really had no idea who was going to be there. I was aware there would be 55 countries represented for the 10 days of the Games. On the first day we went to Burnaby Lake Archery Complex in Burnaby BC. We shot an Archery 900 round in meters. At the end of the event, I was able to secure the gold medal by a margin of 11 points. Just after my first Gold Metal, on day two we went to Semiahmoo Archery Club located in Surrey, BC. Here we shot a 56 arrow 3-D Shoot located in some absolutely beautiful old growth timber. Shots ranged from 18 yards to 50 yards with only counting center 10s ,8s and 5s for scoring. With a possible score of 560 points I shot a 546 winning my second gold metal in as many days and setting a new record for the World Police and Fire Games in the 3-D Archery event. Having already surpassed all expectations I had prior to arriving at the World Police and Fire Games, I found myself at the most challenging of the three events offered. It was 24 target field course on top of a mountain located at Port Coquitlam District Hunting & Fishing Club in Coquitlam, BC. The breathtaking views made it considerable harder to focus on the task at hand! I was able to win this event with my greatest margin of victory of 19 points and being only 1 point of the record. Now I am back at home and back to work. This event definitely exceeded all of my expectations and I am honored to have it “under my belt” and honored to have fared so well in my representation for Lawrence County MO Sheriffs Department. I want to thank my wife for her support and putting up with all of my practice and Sheriff Brad Delay for allowing me to go and represent our department in the World Police and Fire Games.
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