2. New Information on the Web / Les Nouvelles de notre site web

3. Update on Dave Dalziel, mise-à-jour

4. Thank you note from Bob Sheppard (uniquement en anglais)

5. Coach's Diary at Championship of the Americas (uniquement en anglais)

6. Tournament Schedule / Calendrier des tournois

7. Job Opportunities / Occasion d'Emploi

8.  FITA World Field Championships / Les championnats mondiaux tir de campagne and Report From Down Under by Greg Durward (uniquement en anglais)

9. Athlete Town Hall Meeting Delisle SK, August 15, 2002 / Réunion des Athlètes Hotel de Ville Délisle SK, 15 Août, 2002

1. Canada Winter Games

From the FCA Executive:

All archers competing in Canada Winter Games may use their qualification round scores as participation in the FCA Indoor Regional Championships. Tournament results will be forwarded automatically to Mr. Greg Durward, Programme Co-ordinator.

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1. Jeux du Canada en hiver

Du comité exécutif de la FCA:

Tous les archers/toutes les archères concurrent(e)s aux Jeux du Canada en hiver 2003 peuvent utiliser leurs scores du ronde de qualification au championnat de tir en salle en 2003. Tous les rèsultats feront parvenir automatiquement à M. Greg Durward, gestionnaire du programme.

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2. New Information on the Web

FCA is beginning an Athlete Biography page on the web site. Thank you to Julian Hatherall for preparing biographies in time for the Junior/Cadet World Championships. If you have an athlete biography for the web site, please send it to the Webmaster.

2. Les Nouvelles de notre site web

On trouve ci-dessus le lien d'un nouveau page de notre site web "Les biographies des Athletes". Merci, Julian Hatherall, pour les bio's en avance des championnats mondiaux juniors/cadets. Si vous avez un biographie pour ce page, SVP envoyez-le au maître du site web. http://www.fca.ca/ex/Bios/athletebiopage.htm

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3. Update on Dave Dalziel

Apparently, Dave was walking around for 9 days with a ruptured appendix and he is lucky to be alive. At last report, he was still on intravenous. He will be going to convalesce at his parent's home for the next two months. You could send your best wishes care of his mother, Donna at:

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3. Dave Dalziel, mise-à-jour

Apparamment, Dave avait un appendice éclaté de 9 jour avant qu'il a dû subir une chirurgie. A ce moment, il a besoin des médicament par voie intraveineuse. Il sera de retour chez ses parents pendant les deux mois prochains. Envoyez vos meilleurs voeux de prompt rétablissement à sa mère, Donna à

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4. Thank you note from Bob Sheppard (uniquement en anglais)

Hello Everyone.

I would like to extend my sincere thank you to all those people who sent get well wishes through e-mail, phone calls and cards when I was recouperating from heart surgery. It was very much appreciated. One does not realize how many friends you have until something like this happens. Some of those people who sent Sheila & I best wishes, were people we haven’t seen for years. Sheila tells me she would come home from the Hospital and find anywhere from 10 to 15 messages waiting on the phone as well as numerous e-mails. I am hoping to travel next year to attend the Championships in Victoria.

Bob & Sheila

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5. Coach's Diary at Championship of the Americas

Day 8

Lillian really enjoyed breakfast this morning - we had pancakes again and she has wanted pancakes now for 3 days. JP has on his ¨good¨ socks and Hugh.....has on his happy face boxers! It should be good day.

It was bright and sunny with a small wind blowing up the mountain. This is sometimes tricky. If you are on one end of field close to where it is carved out of the mountain, you don´t feel this breeze. But if you are on the outside of the field which drops immediately off at the edge, this breeze can make you shoot high. Some archers tell us that when the wind is coming down the mountain, it can affect arrows so much that some archers with lighter bows will have trouble making 90m!

Both JP and Hugh have byes in the round of 64. There is no round of 64 for the compound women and Lillian has a bye in the round of 32, so there is no rush and we enjoy quite a lazy breakfast. Practice for everyone goes well. Of course, there is a team captains meeting over something and the match play starts on time at 9 am. It´s obvious from the beginning that the organizers have learned from yesterday and things move along at a much faster pace.

Hugh´s first match in the round of 32 is against Ricardo Merlos of El Salvador. Hugh started
with a 54 and Carlos shot a 50 - good start. In the second end the bottom fell out for Carlos and he shot a 39 to Hugh´s second 54 and the match was all but over. Hugh won the match with a 163 to Carlos´ 133. It almost sad to beat the El Salvadorans since they cheer they archers on so enthusiastically. In fact, this score of 163 would turn out to be the second highest score of the day.

JP was on the outside edge of the field and his first arrow was high but he recovered to shoot a 52, but his competitor Jose Robiou from the Dominican Republic also shot a 52. On the second end JP shot a 51 and edged ahead by 2 points as Jose shot a 49. But on the last end, JP´s timing deserted him and shot a flock of 8´s for a 47 while Jose recovered and shot a 53, so JP
lost his match 154 to 150. JP was quite upset with himself for loosing this match that was within his grasp. However, his timing in the first two ends was a big improvement over what he was able to do early in the FITA round. This tournament marked the start into international competition after his 4-year layoff.

Hugh´s second match in the round of 16 was against Leonardo DeCarvalho of Brazil and we knew from looking at the 70 meter scores that this was an even match. Hugh first end was a less than stellar 49 while Leonardo shot a 56. Not the way you´d really like to start a match. However, in the second end Hugh recovered somewhat and shot a 51 while Leonardo shot a 46, so now Leonardo only had a 2 point lead. However, in Hugh´s last end he just could not find the gold and shot a 48 while Leonardo shot a 50 defeating Hugh 152 to 148. To say that Hugh was upset and angry with himself would be an understatement.Back to top

In the overall results, Hugh finished in 12th place and JP in 19th place. These are dicey numbers when it comes to spots for the Pan Am Games and it will depend on which teams finish in the top 5 tomorrow before we know if there will be any places for the men.

In the round of 16 Lillian met Pat de Jimenez of El Salvador - the same lady that she had shot the FITA with. This was a match that Lillian should easily win and she did. In fact, she opened the match with a 30 and continued to the win with a 55, 56 and 56 while Pat shot 52, 49 and 50.
Lillian´s 167 was the high score in the compound women of the day. In the 1/4 finals Lillian was paired with Ana Rodriguez of Venezuela and this would be a close match. The first 3 arrows for both archers were identical-27. On the second 3, they again tied with 29´s. A tied match at 56 for both archers. On the third end Lillian´s first arrow was an 8 - oh, oh. But Ana shot a 7. Lillian followed with two 9´s but Ana responded with a 10 and a 9 and the match was still tied. Ana´s last three arrows were an impressive 29 but Lillian fired a 25 and lost the match 111 to 108. The 111 was for Ana both a personal and Venezuelan record. Lillian finished the competition in 6th place.

We then watched the rest of the recurve men´s matches. Glen Myers almost got knocked out of the semi-finals when he shot a 6 on his first end with a total of only 48 while Christobal Merlos of El Salvador shot a 54. The noise level went up several notches. But Glen recovered with a 56 on his second end finishing with a 9. That meant that Christobal had to shoot a 6 to tie or a 7 or better to win. He came to full draw and put it down 3 times. Now his time was running out. He had to shoot it on the 4th try and disaster - he shot a 4! So Glen squeeked into the Gold medal match against Juan Serrano of Mexico which will be held tomorrow morning. Cristobal and
Brian Funston of the US would shoot for the bronze.

Both Brian and Cristobal shot 26´s in their first end. On the second end, problems again for Cristobal - he had a 6. But he recovered and shot a 29 on his next 3 arrows and with 3 to go was behind by 1 point. But even though Brian shot a 26 on his last 3, he couldn´t capitalize on it shooting only 25 and lost the bronze by 2 point, 105 to 103.

So the men recurve finished in this order.
1. Glen Meyers, USA
2. Juan Serrano, Mex
3. Brian Funston, USA
4. Cristobal Merlos, ESA
5. Leonardo deCarvalho, BRA
6. Chris Shull, USA
7. Miguel Soto, MEX
8. Carlos Jaimes, Ven
9. Mario Valdes, Chi
10. Ted Holland, USA

Again, I don´t have complete results for the compound women, But I believe this is how they ended up - but I could be wrong.
1. Luzmary Guedez, VEN
2. Jaime Sanatacruz, Mex
3. Ana Rodrigues, VEN
4. Yeimi Vazquez, ESA
5. Andreina Nino, Ven
6. Lillian Meehan, CAN

The matches were complete by about 2pm. A bus left at 3pm full of archers including JP, Hugh and Lillian to go to see some Inca ruins and an underground city. Unfortunately, there was a landslide on the highway and they spend about an hour stuck in traffic and then when to a shopping mall and went shopping instead. I went on a different bus to the weekend home of Ernesto Diaz Bazan, the new President of COPANARCO. We left the city and drove along the ocean for about a half-hour. Then the mountains came right down to the edge of the ocean and road climbed and turned through them with glimpses of the ocean and spectacular views. The road was excellent and not very busy with cars, but there were lots of people on bicycles and on foot along with many dogs, several cows and a number of horses.Back to top

It was a totally wonderful evening and I made many friends and also promised to learn to speak Spanish for the Continental Qualifier next year in Colombia. That should be interesting! Eventually, it was time to go and we all loaded back into the bus - that could not make it up the hill. So all the men got out and pushed and eventually we made it back to our hotel.

Day 9

We were a little lazy this morning and just made it to breakfast a few minutes before it closed at 8am. After breakfast we had our final team meeting to assess performance and make recommendations for the future.

Then we all headed out to the range to watch the team matches. For Hugh and JP to earn spots for the Pan Am Games in 2003 it will be important what teams finish in the top 5. There are 24 places for men at the Pan Am Games. The top 5 teams each earn 3 places each for a total of 15. The home team, the Dominican Republic, automatically gets 3 places for a total of 18. That
leaves 6 places for individuals. Since we only have 2 men here, we don't have a team so Hugh and JP can only earn individual spots. We figure that the top 5 teams need to be USA, Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador and Chile or Colombia to give us a chance to have two places. If Brazil replaced one of these teams, then the outcome would be more difficult.

There were some byes in the first round. Guatemala and Ecuador met in one match, but the winner would then meet the USA so we didn't think there was an upset here. We focused on the Colombia-Barbados match. After the first end the match was tied at 70 points each. But the next end sealed the match: Barbados 57, Colombia 75. While Barbados recovered with a 71 in the
last end, Colombia had a 76 and was through to the next round.

In the quarter-finals,the USA beat Ecuador as expected. El Salvador beat Chile by 3 points, which was a bit of a surprise and Venezuela beat Brazil (whew!). We weren't watching the Mexico-Colombia match but judging from the reaction of the Colombians, we assumed that they had beaten the Mexicans. That sent us scurrying back to the individual result sheet to see what
impact that would have - but after an enquiry we discovered that the Mexicans had indeed won the match and the Colombians were celebrating being the "best" loser and therefore in 5th place. So now we knew who the top 5 teams would be and again we reviewed the individual results to see if we had places. Back to top

Hugh definitely earned one and JP won the 24th place by one point over Raj Thani of Barbados. So at least one of our goals in coming here has been achieved - 2 places for men recurve at the Pan Am Games. The next hurdle will be to meet the criteria set by the Canadian Olympic Committee to be on the Pan Am team - that will be a lot harder than earning the places!!

We watched some more of the team finals but then decided to take a taxi down to the old area of the city and go to a large craft market that others had told us about. At this thought, Lillian's eyes lit up - she is the absolute queen of shopping. Before we left, I ordered a large chocolate cake to be delivered at 6pm. Today is Lillian's birthday. She doesn't know that we know that. It will be fun to surprise her tonight at the party. The taxi trip was the usual wild ride through traffic, but we arrived all in on piece at the craft market. The market is a totally amazing place.
We started down the isles with the vendors encouraging us to buy all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff. We all came away with bags of stuff but we had to help Lillian carry her stuff. Since I shared a room with her, I knew she only had one suitcase and I did wonder how it would all fit in.

By now party flags were hanging off all the lamp posts outside the indoor archery range and small brown paper bags with a layer of sand in the bottom with a candle in a metal container were sitting on the curbs and all around the fountain. We did wonder how this would work - since it seemed that the paper bag would catch fire. There was pulsing dance music in the background. The tables were decorated with white table clothes and a centre piece with a Bird of Paradise flower and little flags with the tournament logo on them. There were large white pieces of shiny vinyl hanging over the bandstand on which photos of the tournament were being displayed - projected from a computer.

Shortly a 7-member band appeared and started to play loud, raucous, wonderful dance music and soon everyone was dancing everywhere. They played two long sets and then there were the obligatory speeches. All the judges were called up and given a very nice thank-you gift. The team captains were called up and given a replica of the medals that were given out and the
official copy of the results......it's a 8 by 11 book one inch thick!!! It includes documentation of every arrow shot in match play.

After the ceremony a group of traditional dancers appeared and provided some interesting entertainment and were followed by a band which played more traditional South American music - all very dancable.

At about 10:30 we finally lined up at the buffet tables for a wonderful meal. Standing in line Hugh and I began to dance, but the people didn't think we were in line and got in front of us, so we stopped. But that didn't deter Lillian who danced away by herself trying to imitate one of the traditional dances we had seen earlier. She was joined by another archer who could actually do the dance and the two of them danced away while everyone clapped and cheered. They didn't stop until the music stopped.
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Shortly after dinner, Lillian was called to the bandstand and the cake was brought out to her - the band played happy birthday and everyone sang. She was quite surprised and suitably embarrassed. It was great. JP got some dinner plates and Lillian cut the cake and put pieces on the plates and delivered some to other tables.

Hoyt had donated one bow for each senior category. The medallists of each category were called up to the bandstand and each one selected an envelope. One of the envelopes contained the winning paper for the bow. Several people who were already supported by Hoyt donated their envelopes to the 4th or 5th place finishers in their category.

This was followed by another fireworks display. After these events the music continued and everyone danced on. At the end (about 1:30am), I am pleased to announce that all four Canadians were still on the dance floor.

Impressions
The city has it's share of poverty, but it was better maintained and cleaner than other central or South American counties I have visited. The people are intensely proud and determined to run a good event and that we should have a good time. Somehow they always managed to be happy and look unstressed. Since I have run tournaments (not nearly as big or complex
as this one), I was amazed. We were used to the "no problemo" attitude in other South American countries and then it became a problem - but not here, they said what they would do and then did it.

Soft drinks come in bags - we often saw people with bags of coke and a
straw.

Ladies carry baskets of things on their heads, often balancing it with one hand. But we often saw them walking down the street without a care with huge baskets of things perfectly balanced.

Stop signs are only suggestions.

The press coverage was phenomenal - at least 3 - 5 pages everyday in the papers.

Fig trees: like the small trees that are often in homes and offices in Canada are enormous and grow everywhere - sometimes as big as maple trees.

Lillian knows everyone - and if she doesn't at the beginning she sure does at the end. She is in the major leagues when it comes to pin trading and I've never met anyone who loves to shop more than she does. It might be that she knows everyone in Canada - she wrote nearly 40 postcards!

Mailing things isn't easy. It seems things can only be mailed at the airport and Lillian didn't get to mail her box full of cards until we were at the airport leaving, and then she had to be escorted by a guard to do it.

I made a solemn promise to learn Spanish before the continental qualifier in Colombia next year........

I need to take bird books and plant books with me. I never did find out about the little parrots and one particularly spectacular tree. It is nearly as bug as a maple tree and has very large, brilliant orange, cup shaped flowers on it. We saw them everywhere but never found out what they were.

The archery range and facilities are spectacular - it's one of and perhaps the best in the Americas.

Many South American countries have full time, paid coaches and in some countries many more than one. They are progressing very fast.

The country doesn't seem to be as tourist-ized as others. We did not encounter kids running after us all the time and felt much more relaxed out in the city.

Hugh and JP can both manage quite well in Spanish. JP I might have guess since Spanish is more similar to French than English and I knew he has spent a lot of time in Honduras and Guatemala and other places sailing, but I was pretty surprised at Hugh's skill.

If you'd like a holiday in the south - try El Salvador - it's great.
 

Joan McDonald
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6. Tournament Schedule / Calendrier des tournois
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7. Job Opportunities / Occasion d'Emploi

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8. FITA World Field Championships / Les championnats mondiaux tir de campagne

Report from Down Under by Greg Durward

I arrived in Canberra on September 6 after a 31-hour trip from home to the hotel. The hotel was located across the road from the practice field, so I was able to walk to practice the first three days.

The first competition day was Tuesday, September 10 (here) and we shot a 24-target unmarked field course over a fairly rugged and steep terrain. Everyone uses a range estimating system of some kind and most are able to estimate the distances within a yard or two. For the unmarked field, the 16th place cut was at 352. I shot 325, narrowly missing the cut by placing 31 out of 33 men compound shooters!

Interestingly, the second day’s scores on the marked field were generally similar and sometimes lower than on the unmarked field. On the marked course, I shot 333, finishing the qualification round in 30th place. In men’s compound, the top shooter dropped only four points over two days. At the time I’m writing this, I have not seen the official results list from the first two days. Results are being posted daily through a link on the FITA site.

Since I am the only Canadian competitor here, there is no Canadian team for the team competition and I am officially a spectator from this point on. This has been a real learning experience and a great pleasure to see such a high level of field archery. The organizing committee worked hard to prepare two interesting 24-target courses, and as usual the camaraderie among the competitors from 25 countries, mostly European, has been great to see.
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FCA Athlete Representative called this meeting to allow Excellence 2004 members and other FCA shooters to voice their concerns over topics pertinent to all archers. Shawn Riggs chaired the discussion on five topics.

A variety of suggestions were up for discussion. There was general agreement that the total number of days needed to be reduced. If archers wanted to shoot both championships and the FCA Open, it required more than one week's vacation. There was conflicting information regarding the new format's effect on judges and the organizing committee. There were no committee representatives present at this meeting.

There was general agreement to keep field archery in the programme. The majority agreed that Opening Ceremonies and practices should be combined in the format with competition rounds, perhaps making field 1 1/2 days instead of 2.

Many archers preferred 2 FITA's over 2 days with a single FITA ranking such as the format used at this year's Canada Cup.

Survey on FCA web site showed that most people do not like it either because of age or equipment. Most provinces do not use inner ten for their championships.

Some archers present felt that FCA has championships to decide who the best archers are. Levelling the field by making the target larger does not show who the best archer is. There is a huge separation in skill level between inner and outer ten. Internationally it is accepted that the inner ten is a better way to choose a national championship.

Some archers felt that the provinces should keep the outer 10 and that FCA should remain international, not developmental. FCA rules should stay with FITA rules. These are the rules and Canadians play by the rules. Current record is 28X so perfect score has not been achieved.

Other archers were interested in developmental archers. An archer who is pretty good does not get the reward for getting closer to the middle. The calibre of archer varies and for the lower ability archers it is discouraging. How do you progress? One suggestion was to make the whole 9 area the 10 for recurve. Others wished to use the X. The CFAA round (used in one major Ontario tournament) shows that too many ties are possible when 40 archers have the same score. Another round was suggested: 11 for x’s and round is 330. Rifle has gone to that system. An Alternative solution is to develop this round as a Canadian round.

To conclude the discussion, Shawn Riggs called for a vote:

People in favour of a bigger 10 for compounds Indoors 10

Those Opposed 20

In the past there was sufficient time to use 4 scores with as many as 2 from previous season. One of 4 has to be a major event for Gold Squad. But Worlds are in July. FITA is frustrated with countries registering late for events and is imposing penalties. If the usual 6-week registration date is utilized, July 10-17 means the FITA deadline date could be as early as the end of May.

It was pointed out that any deadlines later than 6 weeks before the event meant last minute travel arrangements costing archers a lot more money. That is not the problem this time

Options

• Allowing an archer up to a year and a half to put in scores

• Trials

• Moving major Canadian events to earlier dates

• Reduce the number of scores required

Discussion

- The trials format wipes away the scores that people have tried to shoot this year.

- Early weather is poor. It may not be possible to move tournament dates for Canada Cup and OSC before deadline. In Victoria, it is possible to shoot and train earlier in the year. Those provincial archers have an advantage.

How many scores can you use from 2002? It was agreed that some archers have spent large sums of money already attempting to shoot two top scores. Therefore, 2 scores should stay. Do you need only 1 score from next year? Discussion continued on this point for 2003.

- There was a suggestion that the criteria should be a minimum score instead of an average. The system should not penalize people who are shooting high scores in the world championship year. Does this make it fair for each equipment division?

Conclusion: Request 3 scores and 1 would have to come from 2003.

Shawn has not been able to build the provincial athlete network. He usually receives only two responses from e-mail surveys. He felt that some of this problem arose from the fact that in some provinces the athlete rep is appointed instead of elected by peers.

Volunteers were asked to come forward from each of the regions. These people would act in conjunction with the provincial reps to increase communication.

Western Angela Cramer Roger Murray Await Manitoba elections

Central Marthe Cusson

Eastern Phil Parlee

There was insufficient time to discuss the Excellence Equipment Programme. There has been general discontent with it. Shawn assured the gathering that it would become more transparent.

Shawn thanked everyone for their input and hoped that this type of meeting would be possible at future national championships. Adjourned at 19:00.

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9. Réunion des Athlètes Hotel de Ville Délisle SK, 15 Août, 2002

Le représentant des athlètes de la FCA proposa cette réunion afin que les membres de l’Excellence 2004 et autres tireurs puissent se prononcer sur des sujets pertinents aux archers. Shawn Riggs présidait les discussions sur cinq sujets différents.

Plusieurs suggestions furent discutées. Il y avait consensus général que le nombre de jours de compétition devait être réduit. Les archers désirant tirer le Championnat ainsi que le tournoi Invitation FCA doivent profiter de plus d’une semaine de vacances. Des informations contradictoires furent émises concernant l’effet qu’apporterait le nouveau format pour les juges et le Comité Organisateur. Aucun représentant du comité n’était présent.

Il y a cependant consensus général que la section parcours et 3D soit retenu au programme. La majorité sont d’accord que les cérémonies d’ouverture et pratique officielle soit combinés à des rondes de compétitions. La section parcours serait ainsi de une journée et demie au lieu de deux jours.

Plusieurs archers préfèrent tirer 2 FITA’s en deux jours (mais une seule comptera pour la classification). Format utilisé lors de l’épreuve Coupe Canada cette année.

Une étude sur le site Internet de la FCA démontre que la majorité ne sont pas en faveur pour raisons telles que l’âge ou équipement et que la plupart des provinces ne l’utilisent pas pour leurs Championnats.

Plusieurs archers présents croient que les championnats de la FCA doivent décider qui sont le meilleurs(es) archers. Uniformiser la compétition en agrandissant la valeur des cibles ne démontre pas cela. Atteindre le petit dix demande plus de précision que le gros dix. Au niveau international, on accepte que le petit dix soit la valeur qui déterminera du champion national.

Certains archers croient aussi que les provinces maintiennent le gros dix et que la FCA maintienne le niveau international et non niveau développement. La FCA devrait suivre les règlements de la FITA. Ce sont les règlements et les Canadiens observent les règlements. Le record actuel est de 28X. La perfection n’est pas encore atteinte.

Certains archers sont aussi en faveur du développement du tir à l’arc. Un bon archer n’est pas plus récompensé pour être proche du centre. Le calibre des archers varie et pour l’archer moyen, ceci est décourageant. Comment pouvons-nous progresser? Une suggestion est d’utiliser la zone du 9 valant 10 pour les arcs recourbés. D’autres veulent utiliser le X. La ronde CFAA (utilisée lors d’un tournoi majeur en Ontario) démontre que cette formule crée trop d’égalités lorsque 40 archers tirent le même pointage. Autre suggestion: valeur de 11 pour les X avec total de 330. Le tir à la carabine utilise ce système. Autre alternative est d’utiliser ce système et d’en faire une Ronde Canadienne.

Pour mettre fin à la discussion, Shawn Riggs demande le vote:

En faveur du gros dix pour arcs à poulie à l’intérieur : 10

Opposés : 20

Dans le passé, il suffisait d’avoir 4 pointages incluant 2 de la saison précédente. Pour être membre de l’Équipe Or, un devait provenir d’un événement majeur. Mais le Mondial se tient en Juillet. FITA en a marre des inscriptions tardives et impose maintenant des amendes. Le Championnat se tenant du 10-17 Juillet, si le délai d’inscription de six semaines est respecté, la date limite serait alors le début de mai.

Il est à noter que toute inscription dépassant la date limite amène aussi des préparatifs de transport plus onéreux pour les archers. Cette fois, ceci n’est pas un problème.

Options:

• 18 mois pour soumettre ses pointages

• Essais nationaux

• Avancer les événements majeurs Canadien

• Diminuer le nombre de pointage requis

Discussion

• Le format des essais annule les pointages tirés durant l’année
• Le climat de printemps étant défavorable, il serait difficile d’avancer les dates des tournois coupe Canada ou OSC. En C.B, il est possible de pratiquer ou tirer tôt. Ces archers provinciaux auraient un avantage

Combien de pointage de l’an 2002 sont-ils acceptables? Plusieurs archers ont dépensé beaucoup d’argent afin d’obtenir des deux pointages supérieurs. Donc, ces 2 pointages devraient rester. Un seul pointage de l’an dernier est-il suffisant? Pour l’an 2003, la discussion se poursuit.

Une autre suggestion: que les critères soit basés sur un pointage minimum au lieu de la moyenne. Le système ne doit pas pénaliser les bons tireurs pendant l’année d’un championnat mondial. Ceci est-il équitable pour toutes les catégories?

Conclusion : Trois pointages dont un provenant de 2003

Laisser les critères tels qu’ils le sont

Shawn fut incapable d’établir un réseau de représentants provinciaux. Il ne reçoit que quelques réponses(2) lors d’études électroniques. Selon lui, le problème provient du fait que dans certaines provinces, le représentant des athlètes est appointé au lieu d’être élu par ses confrères archers. Des volontaires furent demandés pour chaque région. Ceux-ci(celles-ci) viendront se joindre aux représentants provinciaux afin d’accroître la communication.

Ouest: Angéla Cramer Roger Murray En attente de l’élection au Manitoba

Centre: Marthe Cusson

Est: Phil Parlee

Il ne restait plus suffisamment de temps pour discuter du Programme d’Équipement de l’Excellence. Toutefois, un mécontentement général semble exister. Shawn assure que sachant ceci, une meilleure transparence sera apportée.

Shawn remercia tous ceux présents pour leur idées et espère que ce genre de réunion sera encore possible lors des futurs championnats nationaux. La réunion se termina à 19 :00 hres.

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Enfin / In Closing

Thank you to Avril Hatherell and the Junior/cadet World Team for bringing back the funky little archer made of Czech crystal. I really appreciate it. I have it on my windowsill now to catch the morning sun on the target.

The FCA national office will be open September 16-20 from 07:30 to 15:30.

See you next week!

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Je voudrais remercier à Avril Hatherell et aux autres membres de l'équipe mondiale de juniors/cadets qui m'ont envoyé un petit archer très distinctif, fabriqué en cristal de la République Tchèque. J'en suis reconnaissante. Je le garde sur ma tablette de fenêtre d'y attrape le soleil de l'aube sur le petit ballot.

Le bureau national de la FCA sera ouvert du 16 au 20 septembre de 07h30 à 15h30.