Seven Arizona archers competed in the National Outdoor JOAD Championships in Lebanon, Ohio June 30th thru July 2nd.

The temperatures were in the low 90’s with no rain. Light winds (the fans wanted more, the archers less), morning dew and blue skies let everyone have a great time.

The event also included an evening presentation by Tom Parrish, USA Archery High Performance Manager and National Coach Kisik Lee who presented the Best Technique.

The Cincinnati Junior Olympians put on a wonderful tournament with NAA president and past Olympic medal winner Darrell Pace adding humor to the commentary from the DOS stand.

Neil Foster, the official DOS, added commentary as many records fell.

The FITA qualifying round was held on Friday and Saturday, while the Jr. US Open was held on Sunday afternoon. The Open is archer vs. archer in a 12 arrow match. Winner moves on and the loser is eliminated. Matches continue until there is one archer standing.

 

Arizona JOADs Results:

• Brady Ellison, Junior Male Recurve was 1st in the JOAD FITA with a score of 1311.  He has unofficially set three JOAD National Outdoor records. 335 at 50 meters, 313 at 90 meters and the FITA record of 1311. The old record was 1283 in 2004. He also won the Gold in the Junior US Open winning 4 matches.

• Maggie Huff, Junior Female Recurve was 1st in the JOAD FITA with a score of 1290. She came real close to several national records too. She, also, won gold in the Junior US Open.

• Tony Don, Cadet Male Recurve finished 3rd in the FITA with a score of 1245. With a strong finish on Saturday, he passed two archers and was 4 points away from second. In the Junior US Open, Tony won his first three matches by 66, 19 and 22 points. He then came real close to beating the eventual gold medalist, losing by 4 points.

• Annette Gorelik, Junior Female Recurve was 6th in the FITA with a score of 1168 and finished 6th in the Junior US Open winning one match. Only four archers scored better than Annette on the second day.

• Maku Wood, Junior Female Recurve was 10th in both the FITA and Junior US Open. She shot a 1084 in the FITA. Maku, also passed up one archer on Saturday morning to finish strong.

• Tyler Monahan, Cadet Male Compound finished 19th in the FITA with a score of 1150, his personal best and 20th in the Junior US Open. He picked up one place by outscoring a competitor by 43 points in the final distance.

• Mack Huff, Cub Male Compound finished 4th in the FITA with a score of 1350 and 6th in the Junior US Open. Mack was just 2 points behind the 3rd place finisher in the FITA and was in 5th place by 18 going into the final distance.

Team Rounds:  Mack Huff, Maggie Huff and Brady Ellison also took part in the three archers per team competition and won team gold in their respective divisions.

 

What’s coming up?

 

Many of these archers will take part in the Nationals Target Championship and US Jr World Team Trials July 31-August 6, 2006.

The tournament(s) take place in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

 

The 2007 JOAD Nationals Championship is tentatively scheduled to take place at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista (San Deigo) California.

June 28- July 1, 2007. Visit www.usarchery.org for updates.

 

In state, Arizona will host the Duel in the Desert Trials September 30-October 1, 2006 and the Duel in the Desert, Arizona vs California October 28-29, 2006.

 

To find out more about Arizona Junior Olympic Archery contact Arizona JOAD co coordinators Amy Monahan agmonahan@cox.net and Pat Monahan patmonahan1@cox.net .