From: FCA@cyberus

From: FCA@cyberus.ca (Kathy Millar)

Subject: July 24th, 1998

July 27, 1998

Greetings! Goofed again: Alain Gravel is safely come typing on his computer. He went dea-kayaking and now he's busy translating before he leaves for Winnipeg. So, no, he is not in Austria after all. It's just me getting totally confused as usual.

1. JUNIOR WORLDS - I waited until Junior Worlds were completely over for the men before I sent this information out to everyone. The organizing committee and FITA have been just great with results every day. There have been faxes every day. Thanks goes also to Linda Savage who has been keeping us posted via e-mail. We are still waiting for the team round results and I will send them out as soon as possible. I have not received anything for women's finals results as of this writing, just what is listed. Our juniors have a lot to be proud of. Here are the highlights.

5th Junior Worlds results for Men's recurve:

1. Oh, J. Korea 1319 168 160 151 110 108 116 334

2. Jean, B Korea 1332 157 160 173 111 112 109 333

3. Park, J. Korea 1325 161 162 166 110 107 110 327

21. Dalziel, D Canada 1256 159 151

total number of competitors: 88

Men's Compound Results

1. Wheatcroft USA 1334 170 171 115 108 113 336

2. Emerstc, G Slov 1287 172 165 111 111 109 331

3. Ruchniewski USA 1327 160 167 114 103 113 330

8. Pregent, P Canada 1309 166 168 100

10. Milne, R. Canada 1326 165 166

25. Miller, S. Canada 1305 158

41. Brodie, T. Canada 1255

Total number of competitors 50.

Women's Compound

1. Kamuf, A. USA 93

2. Marcen, M SLO 87

3. Zorn, M. USA 109

Women's recurve

1. Kim Nam-Soon KOR 97

2. Heo Yo-Jeong KOR 84

3. Zhang Xiaoying KOR 99

2. Excellence 2000 - Jackie Saito and I have been getting the welcoming packages for Excellence 2000 people looked after. Jackie's initiative has been great and the English versions will be out this week. Thanks, Jackie.

3. Sport Funding: - Mike Miller in BC has been busy promoting the sport. Sometimes he has been successful. Sometimes he has not. With his permission, I am reprinting our e-mail communication on government funding so that people understand how important the next round of funding framework talks are to FCA's financial future.

Hello Kathy

In our search for funding to support Stuart going to Sweden for the Jr. Worlds I wrote to the Honorable Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage. Her response was negative, but she said, "The Department of Canadian Heritage, through Sports Canada, provides funding to national sport organizations that are eligible for funding within the Sport Funding and Accountability Framework. The Federation of Canadian Archers, however, did not meet the prescribed criteria to become eligible for funding in 1996. The organization will be able to reapply for eligibility following the 2000 Summer Olympic Games."

Could you clarify for me what prescribed criteria the FCA failed to meet? I would hope we are trying to rectify this by 2000 so that we can get funding. Is there anything small clubs can do to help the FCA reach these criteria?

Cheers Mike Miller

***Dear Mike:

I am glad you went after her. We need to let her know just how little support her little department gives our athletes.

The Sport Funding and Accountability Framework was a government-driven assessment of three aspects of sport: administrative competency (FCA scored really high); domestic organization (FCA is in good shape here with provinces, clubs all joined into the national body); and high performance. This is where we failed. Not only have Canadian OLYMPIC athletes not performed to Sport Canada's expectations, but other sports who have huge opportunities for medals each time (swimming and athletics to name a few) were given more credit since the high performance component was open-ended. In other words, you just keep giving credit for number of medals won with no regard to number of opportunities per athlete available.

Of course this was grossly unfair. There was a much fairer version of the government assessment process written by Cal Best previously. FCA would have been funded under this framework because it was more heavily scaled toward the other two components listed above. Unfortunately, it did not meet with the political thinking of the day.

To her credit, Ms. Copps is not in favour of the present funding format. Only through everyone's combined efforts can pressure be applied to see the error of their ways in the 2000 assessment. But, in the meantime, we need our Olympic archers to finish in the top 8/top half in major recognized events in order to be even looked at.

The only government funding we receive for our athletes is Wheelchair. Those athletes are also able to access carding money for training if they finish in the top 16, at for instance, Stoke-Mandeville.

I cannot tell you how this adds unfairly to the pressure already placed upon our athletes to excel. When I was Technical Director here 12 years ago, it was the same. In some aspects it was worse because Sport Canada was the funding partner, and at a greater percentage, and lorded it over FCA to produce. Actually, their direct athlete contributions kept any archer below the poverty level, but they made a big deal about how they were helping out and demanded results--even predictions of future successes.

FCA received a lot of mileage out of Linda Kazienko's 4th place finish for Olympic Women at worlds in 1983, but our showing at 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics as well as intervening World Championships has not been strong enough to change the funding. Keep in mind that the government has ALWAYS ignored field though we have been very strong in women's Olympic and compound divisions. Why? It is not an Olympic discipline. They will continue to ignore any strengths we have in the compound division for the same reason: compounds are not recognized in the Olympic Games.

But, rather than put the stress on our athletes, I hope that the volunteers will get involved with the next review process. Yes, it is extremely heavy going to wade through all the bureaucratic jargon. But the formula that the government uses for the next funding review will be ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to the future of this organization.

In closing, Mike, if you grant me permission, I would like to repint our e-mail in the FCA Information e-mail this Friday. I think other people should know:

a) that you made an effort and you ran into a wall, and

b) why that wall is there and how we need to break it down.

So, if you could answer this e-mail before Friday, I will send it out if you allow it.

Thank you for your efforts.

Now, Mike was a real keener and took on the Vancouver Sun with all the results from Championships of the Americas I sent out recently, plus this little explanatory note to the uninitiated. Great stuff, Mike. Thanks for your work.

Hello Kathy

I don't know who sends out information about archery results to the sports pages of the major newspapers, but after seeing no information in the paper I decided to do something about it. I hope I have not stepped on any toes, but I think we need to blow our own horn more. I contacted the Vancouver Sun about the Jr. Worlds and they said that they would be interested in the results and a little news release. So, I thought I would practice with the shoot in Cuba and sent the following information. I took liberties with the shoot off scores and only put in the last score to make it more understandable to the masses(I hope). If I did wrong please let me know. I will put something into the BC papers re the Jr. Worlds. You never know what they will print, but it is worth the effort I think.

Cheers Mike

Biggest Canadian Team Ever Bring Home the Medals From Cuba

Nineteen Canadian archers ranging in age down to fifteen represented their country in The Championships of the Americas held in Cuba June 22nd through 28th, 1998. Only one of the archers Lillian Meehan was from BC. the rest were mainly from Central Canada. In this event each archer must shoot a complete FITA and then participate in a shoot off. A FITA consists of 36 arrows shot at four distances, 90, 70, 50, 30 meters for men and 70, 60, 50, 30 meters for women. A perfect score with 144 arrows would be 1440 points. The scores from this are used to rank the archers for the shoot off which will give the medal winners for the championship. The archers ranked first and eighth place shoot off and the second and seventh, etc. Each archer shoots eighteen arrows at 70 meters in the shoot off giving a possible score of 180. Our archers brought home two Gold, three Silver and one Bronze medals. They had to contend with sweltering heat, about 45 degrees Celsius each day and required up to ten liters of bottled water a day to keep hydrated. The FITA scores are entered in [ ] brackets and the shoot off scores are not bracketed. The archers who had the best three scores at each length were also awarded medals at this event. Our archers brought back two Gold, five Silver and nine Bronze medals. The team event is composed of the three best archers from each country in each class. Their FITA scores are added together for the team total. Each team member shoots nine arrows giving the team a possible score of 270 which are not bracketed. The Canadians brought home three Bronze team medals.

Joan McDonald was the team manager and Gary Gillies was her assistant both of whom did excellent jobs managing the team through the international hurdles. Some parents also accompanied the team. This was a huge delegation considering there is no funding to support this team and each archer had to foot their entire bill. This is a wonderful showing of skill and determination on behalf of the archers of Canada. Here are some highlights of this very successful Canadian team: (no, I'm not sending the results)

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5. Membership cards will finally be processed this week for the provinces/territories which do not print their own: Newfoundland, Arctic Assoc., Yukon and Ontario. Accounting will be available for those provinces this week.

6. Office Schedule: I am in the office every day this week getting ready for the business meetings in Winnipeg. This is a very important set of meetings and I hope all Board members have contacted their presidents to ensure our input clearly reflects the views and opinions of the province you represent.

7. FITA Star pins: Marthe Cusson has taken on this project. If you feel you are entitled to a FITA skill award pin, fax or send a SIGNED copy of your scorecard to either the FCA Ottawa Office or to Marthe directly. Your name must be clearly visible, as well as the date, place and judges signature.

8. Pan Am Games: Volunteer Application Forms are available from this office upon request should you wish to apply to work at the Winnipeg Games next August.

9. Canadian Firearms Centre Should anyone be interested in the complete bulletin from last week, please e-mail your requests. It is bilingual.

10. New FCA Director Welcome, welcome to Janice Boucher who replaces Gib Henderson in Saskatchewan. Ken Martell from Carnduff will substitute for both Gib and Janice at the Winnipeg meetings. Her address is: R. R. #4, SITE 11, COMP. 17, PRINCE ALBERT, SASK. S6V 5R2 306-764-8686. Gib will continue as membership chairperson for SSA.

11. Coaching courses Register by July 31 to save $50.00 for the Mental Training & Excellence seminar being held at the University of Victoria Au. 22-30. The regular cost is $300. for two days. Phone 250-721-7589 for more details.

Leve 4/5 task #16, Athlete Long-term Development is being offered October 3-4 at the Ontario Sports Centre in Toronto. The cost is $215.00. Call 416-426-7052 for details. Deadline for registration is September 5.

Well, that's enough for now I think. See you next week.

Kathy

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