Archery News and Tournament Results
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Welcome to the Archery News and Tournament Results page. We will attempt to bring you different articles that deal with Archery. Tournament results featuring our own club members, Archery articles, Member news, unique web sites and much more. We hope you enjoy this page. If you have some news or a review of a new Archery book or product please send it to us at;    mcullumber@papagoarchery

Archery News  Field Archery What is Field Archery? A simple explanation would be to say that Field Archery is a series of targets set upon a path with varying distances and angles. But there is a little more more to it than that. Both the NAA and the NFAA hold Field Archery tournaments. Both are very different. Papago FITA Archers club member Dave Twigg is our source of knowledge when it comes to Field Archery. Dave has written two very good articles on Field Archery which we are listing here. Also, FITA has a very good article on FITA Field. The PFA encourages each Archer out there to try their hand at Field Archery when they can. You will find that it is a challenging, yet fun part of our sport. Dave Twigg's Article NAA Field Dave Twigg's Article NFAA Field FITA Field Buying Your First Bow Many of our new members who have been shooting with us for some time have asked about buying a bow. We have put together some info that hopefully will help. First, take the time to read a couple of articles. Buying Your First Bow and  Starting Out from the Arizona State JOAD web page. Then when your ready, Go to Archery Headquarters or to any other Archery Shop and have them help you. See you at the range! Archery Book Reviews The Following books were reviewed by club member Richard Doria.    Archery Fundamentals, A Better Way to Learn the Basics by Douglas  Engh.   Archery: Steps to Success by Katheen Heywood and Catherine Lewis.  Percision Archery: Target shooting, Field Competition, Bow Hunting by Steve Ruis and Claudia Stevenson. The Simple Art of Winning by Rick McKinney If you have read a book on archery that our members might like, please write up a short review and tell us why you like it. Email it to us at mcullumber@papagoarchery.com

Club News The 2008 PFA Tournament Schedule Saturday, January 5 – Papago FITA Archers NAA Field at Usery Mountain Sunday, January 6 – Papago FITA Archers NAA Field at Usery Mountain Saturday, January 12 – Papago FITA Archers Indoor Tune-up, Outdoors Saturday, March 1 – Arizona State Senior Olympics American 900 (50 years +) Saturday, March 15 – Grand Canyon State Games FITA 900 – Seniors & Masters Sunday, March 16 – Grand Canyon State Games FITA 900 – JOAD (Youth) Saturday, April 19 – Arizona JOAD State Championships (Youth) Saturday, May 17 – Papago FITA Archers 1/2 FITA Saturday, August 16 – Papago FITA Archers JOAD/Adult Club Series #1 – 1/2 FITA Saturday, September 13 – Papago FITA Archers JOAD/Adult Club Series #2 – 1/2 FITA Saturday, September 20 – ASU Sun Devil Archery Shut-up & Shoot Fun FITA Sunday, September 21 – ASU Sun Devil Archery Shut-up & Shoot Fun FITA Saturday, October 11 – Papago FITA Archers JOAD/Adult Club Series Final – 1/2 FITA Saturday, October 18 – ASU Sun Devil Archery Fall Fling Saturday, November 15 – Robin Hood Senior Olympics American 900 (50 years +) Saturday, December 13 – Papago FITA Archers Arctic Challenge FITA 900 To register for PFA events go to www.compete-at.com/papago   (Arizona Senior Olympic Events and The Grand Canyon State Games have their own registraion sites) All Dates and events are subject to change. Always check web site for changes. All Archers must pre-register for each event to avoid late fees.

Links of Interest Our link of interest is KSL International Archery. This is the web site of USA coach Kisik Lee and the B.E.S.T.  method of shooting. A very informative site that shows the B.E.S.T. method and training techniques. B.E.S.T. Method JOAD Information Some of you have ask about JOAD and what it is. Please visit our JOAD page for club news. The Texas State Archery Association has a great site with some good information for parents and young archers. Many thanks to The TSAA for allowing us to link to their page. JOAD FAQ

Tournament News 2008 Arizona Senior Olympics State Championships  The 2008 Tournament was once again held at the Papago Park Archery Range. We had a record turn-out with 71 Archers. Tournament Results Arizona Senior Olympics Robin Hood American 900 -  November 17, 2007 The 2007 Robin Hood Tournament was the best yet. 41 Archers, which was double the turnout from 2006, came out to play in weather that makes more people move here. Special thanks to Roxi and Lori from the Arizona Senior Olympics and all of the PFA members who helped make this a great event. Photos are up at the gallery and the results are here. JOAD/Adult Club Series Go to the Series page for info Summer 1/2 FITA The Papago Summer 1/2 FITA was held on May 19th,2007. All that can be said was it was fun and HOT! 18 Archers came out for this event. Did we say that it was HOT! Here are the results. 2007 Arizona State JOAD Outdoor Target Archery Championship The Papago FITA Archers hosted the 2007 Arizona Sate JOAD Outdoor Target Championship on Saturday, April 21. The Tournament was sponsored by Archery Headquarters in Chandler, AZ. The day started off windy and cold with the possibility of rain, but it held off until the sun broke through about 1:00pm.  We had 25 JOAD Archers participate. We had a JOAD Team from Mexico signed up but unfortunately they had car problems in Yuma and had to withdraw. We hope to see more of their team in future tournaments. The tournament went well because of all of the volunteers and parents. Special thanks to our Officials, Barbara Noblet and Ed Votruba. Bob Pian stepped in with technical advice and Mike Cullumber was tournament Director/DOS. Our volunteers from the club were Richard Doria, Angi Lopez, Mary Jo Dhein, Jim Mulvany, Jim Cantillo, Bill, Will and Anette Golz, Sue McGee, Glenn Liptack and Michelle Gibbs. A great big thanks to all of the parents. Without your dedication and support of the JOAD program, Archery's future might be pretty dark. Here are the results  and pictures are on the photo gallery. Results for Recurve Results for Compound Guest                       2007 Grand Canyon State Games 900 Tournament For the first time the Grand Canyon State Games were held over two days. The Seniors and Masters divisions on Saturday, March 17 and the JOAD/Collegiate were on Sunday, March 18. This format proved to be a great success, giving the Games room for more Archers. Saturday's event saw 37 Archers participating. 27 Compound Archers and 10 Recurve all competed on one of the hottest days in March. Here are the results. Sunday's event saw 28 JOAD/Collegiate Archers participating. Three Compound and 25 Recurve Archers shot on a day that was a little cooler than Saturday. JOAD's from Straight-N-Arrow, Straight-N-Arrow North, Mesa Targeteers and Papago FITA Archers shot along side Collegiate Archers from Dine' and ASU. Three JOAD Archers had scores over 800. Way to go. Here are the results 2007 Senior Olympics The 2007 Senior Olympics Target Archery Tournament was held on March 3, 2007 at the Papago Park Archery Range. The PFA hosted the event with Barbara Noblet has the TD and Comissioner. Special thanks to Barbara and to all the PFA members who volunteered their time to help out. There were 52 archers shooting on a windy day that produced some great shooting. Results 2007 AZ. State JOAD Indoor Championship The 2007 AZ. State JOAD Indoor Championship was held on Friday, Jan 26th at Embry-Riddle Aeronuatical University in Prescott, AZ. 17 Archers were shooting in 12 divisions. The Papago FITA Archers had 4 club members entered. All 4 were shooting in their first State Tournament and all did very well. Patrick Mulvany was in the Bowman Male Recurve Division, Lindsay Komlos was in the Cadet Female Recurve Division, Anna Gualt was in the Cub Female Recurve Division and Daniel Komlos was in the Cub Male Recurve Division. All of our archers have only been shooting for about one year and based on what they did at the tournament, we should see their names in a lot more events. Thanks to Coach Ed Votruba for all of his work. Special thanks to all of the parents. Your support is very valuable.Photo's in the Gallery.  Results