2. New Canadian Championship and Open records - Nouveaux records Championnat Canadien et Ouvert

3. Coach's Diary Joan McDonald at the Championships of the Americas (uniquement an anglais)

4. Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards/Exemption -Prix d'excellence Petro-Canada aux entraîneurs

5. 2003 3D Nationals - Information du championnat de tir sur cible animalière 2003

6. SIRC

7. Tournament Schedule / Calendrier des tournois

Enfin / In Closing

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1. FITA Star Awards updated

FITA Star pins are awarded to archers competing in internationally-registered tournaments who shoot above the required score levels. Every year, programme co-ordinator Marthe Cusson updates the list of recipients. This is list is now available on FCA's web site. Congratulations to all archers. Thank you to Marthe Cusson for this update.

1. Les Prix de Reconnaissance FITA Mis-à-jour

Les épinglettes de la FITA ont été donné aux archers qui tirent les bons scores aux tournois de niveau international. Chaque année, la gestionnaire du programme Marthe Cusson mettrait à jour la liste de gagnants. Cette liste est maintenant disponible sur notre site web. Félicitations à tous. Merci, Marthe, pour cette révision.

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2. New Canadian Championship and Open records - Nouveaux records Championnat Canadien et Ouvert
(ED: The addition of several new FCA categories has kept our Records Chairperson very busy. Thank you, Christiane Murphy, for all your work!)

(ED: Notre gestionnaire des records, Christiane Murphy s'est trèa occupée à cause de l'addition des nouveau catégories de la FCA. Merci, Christiane , pour tous tes efforts!)

Pre-cub boy recurve - Pre-cub garçon arc à recourbure: Miles Head, Hagen, SK in a FITA Star with a score of 86 at 30m (CC-CO), 117 at 25m (CC-CO), 102 at 25m (CC-CO), 130 at 20m (CC-CO) and a total of 413 (CC-CO) 2002-08-10.

Pre-cub boy compound - Pre-cub garçon arc démultiplié: Kyle Buzikievich, Pitt Meadows, BC in a FITA Star with a score of 353 at 30m (CC-CO), 344 at 25m, (CC), 343 at 25m (CC-CO), 345 at 20m (CC) & a total of 1375 (CC). 2002-08-10.

Pre-cub girl compound - Pre-cub fille arc démultiplié: Shianne Buzikievich, Pitt Meadows, BC in a FITA Star with a score of 331 at 30m (CC), 339 at 25m (CC), 331 at 25m (CC-CO), 334 at 20m (CC) and a total of 1335 (CC). 2002-08-10.

Pre-cub boy compound - Pre-cub garçon arc démultiplié: Kyle Buzikievich, Pitt Meadows, BC in a Field 24/72 round with a score of 341 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Pre-cub girl compound - Pre-cub fille arc démultiplié: Shianne Buzikievich, Pitt Meadows, BC in a Field 24/72 round with a score of 321 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub boy recurve - Cub garçon arc à recourbure: Lorne Henderson, Hagen, SK in a FITA Star with a score of 308 at 40m (CC-CO), 309 at 30m (CC-CO) and a total of 1222 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub boy recurve - Cub garçon arc à recourbure: Christopher Villarroac, Toronto, ON in a FITA Star with a score of 308 at 40m (CC-CO), 309 at 30m (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub boy compound - Cub garçon arc démultiplié: Jyles Bowland, Lacombe, AB in a FITA Star with a score of 334 at 50m (CC), 344 at 40m (CC), 349 at 30m (CC-CO), 359 at 20m (CC-CO) and a total of 1384 (CC). 2002-08-10.

Cub boy compound - Cub garçon arc démultiplié: Evan Winslow, ON in a FITA Star with a score of 334 at 50m. (CC). 2002-08-10.

Cub girl recurve - Cub Fille arc à recourbure: Jade Chipley, Estevan SK in a FITA Star with a score of 284 at 50m (CC), 308 at 40m (CC), 301 at 30m (CC), 322 at 20m (CC) and a total of 1212 (CC). 2002-08-10.

Cub girl compound - Cub fille arc démultiplié: Doris Jones, Selkirk, MB in a FITA Star with a score of 344 at 50m (CC-CO), 346 at 40m (CC-CO), 351 at 30m (CC-CO), 355 at 20m (CC-CO) and a total of 1394 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub boy recurve - Cub garçon arc à recourbure: Lorne Henderson, Hagen SK, in a Field 24/72 with a score of 303 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub boy compound - Cub garçon arc démultiplié: Jyles Bowland, Lacombe, AB in a Field 24/72 with a score of 350 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub girl recurve - Cub Fille arc à recourbure: Mandy Wicks, Mountain, ON in a Field 24/72 with a score of 284 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cub girl compound - Cub fille arc démultiplié: Doris Jones, Selkirk, MB in Filed 24/72 with a score of 354 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Cadet man compound - Cadet homme arc démultiplié: Ryan Flannigan, Prince Albert, SK in a Field 24/72 with a score of 352 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10

Cadet woman compound - Cadet femme arc démultiplié: Emerald Lemke, Port Moody, BC in a Field 24/72 with a score of 279 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Youth woman compound - Youth femme arc démultiplié: Kathryn Kennedy, Surrey, BC in a FITA Star with a score of 207 at 60m (CC-CO), 272 at 50m (CC-CO), 224 at 40m (CC-CO), 261 at 30m (CC-CO) and a total of 958 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Junior man compound - Junior homme arc démultiplié: Ryan Flannigan, Prince Albert, SK in a Field 24/72 with a score of 352 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Junior woman recurve - Junior femme arc à recourbure: Diane Wicks, Mountain, ON in a Field 24/72 with a score of 298 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Junior man barebow - Junior homme arc nu: Evan Rohr, Yorkton, SK in a Field 24/72 with a score of 62 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Senior woman compound - Sénior femme arc démultiplié: Jennifer Block, Coalhurst, AB in a FITA Star with a score of 336 at 50m (CC). 2002-08-10.

Senior woman compound- Sénior femme arc démultiplié: Monai Wanner, Estevan SK. in a FITA Star with a score of 336 at 50m (CC). 2002-08-10.

Senior woman compound limited - Sénior femme arc démultiplié limité: Pauline Ziehl Grimshrud, Estevan, SK. in a FITA Star with a score of 252 at 70m (CC-CO), 280 at 60m (CC-CO) and a total of 1033 (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Master man BH limited - Maitre homme chasseur limité: Ernest Skaar, Hagen, SK in a Field 24/72 with a score of 324 (CC). 2002-08-10.

Master man BH limited - Maitre homme chasseur limité: Ernest Skaar, Hagen, SK in a FITA Star with a score of 337 at 30m (CC-CO). 2002-08-10.

Master woman compound - Maitre femme arc démultiplié: Lillian Meehan, Surrey BC in a FITA Star with a score of 334 at 70m (CC), 338 at 60m (CC), 331 at 50m (CC), 351 at 30m (CC). 2002-08-10.

Master woman recurve - Maitre femme arc à recourbure: Céline Carpentier, Marieville, QC in a FITA Star with a score of 209 at 70m (CC), 204 at 60m (CC), 213 at 50m (CC), 289 at 30m (CC) and a total of 856. 2002-08-10.

Pre-cub boy compound - Pre-cub garçon arc démultiplié: Kyle Buzikievich, Pitt Meadows, BC in a CDN 1200 round with a score of 282 at 35m (CO), 288 at 30m (CO), 291 at 25m (CO), 297 at 20m (CO) and a total of 1158 (CO). 2002-07-07.

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Cub boy compound - Cub garçon arc démultiplié: Nathan Cameron, Sherwood Park, AB in a Cdn FITA with a score of 334 at 30m (CO). 2002-07-01.

Cadet man recurve - Cadet homme arc à recourbure: Jay Lyon, Winnipeg, MB in a FITA 70m (72arrows) with a score of 461. 2002-07-28.

Junior man compound - Junior homme arc démultiplié: Kevin Tataryn, Stonewall, MB in a FITA 70m (72arrows) with a score of 683. 2002-07-28.

Senior man compound - Sénior homme arc démultiplié: Kevin Tataryn, Stonewall, MB in a FITA 70m (72arrows) with a score of 683. 2002-07-28.

Senior man BH unlimited - Sénior homme Chasseur illimité: Bill Steeves, Vanscoy, SK in a Cdn FITA with a score of 355 at 30m (CO). 2002-06-23.

Senior man compound - Sénior homme arc démultiplié: Benny Parenteau, Asbestos, QC in a FITA Star with a score of 360-25X at 30m (CO). 2002-08-24.

Senior man compound - Sénior homme arc démultiplié: Benny Parenteau, Asbestos, QC in a FITA Star with a score of 348- tie at 70m (CO). 2002-09-01.

Pre-cub girl compound - Pre-cub fille arc démultiplié: Shianne Buzikievich, Pitt Meadows, BC in a CDN 1200 round with a score of 278 at 35m (CO), 292 at 30m (CO), 287 at 25m (CO), 298 at 20m (CO) and a total of 1155 (CO). 2002-07-07.

Cub girl recurve - Cub fille arc à recourbure: Jade Chipley, Estevan, SK in a Cdn FITA with a score of 287 at 50m (CO), 320 at 40m (CO), 306 at 30m (CO), 338 at 20m (CO) and a total of 1251 (CO). 2002-07-28.

Cadet woman recurve - Cadet femme arc à recourbure: Avery Murray, Maple Ridge, BC in a Cdn 900 round with a score of 256 at 55m 277 at 35m and a total of 797. 2002-08-03.

Junior woman recurve - Junior femme arc à recourbure: Diane Wicks, Mountain, ON in a Cdn 900 round with a score of 261 at 55m, 283 at 35m and a total of 815. 2002-06-20.

Cadet woman recurve- Cadet femme arc à recourbure: Marie-Pier Beaudet, Lévis, QC in a FITA Star with a score of 353 at 30m (CO) 2002-08-24.

******Nouveau record du monde cadet*** New world record cadet********

Junior woman recurve - Junior femme arc à recourbure: Marie-Pier Beaudet, Lévis, QC in a FITA Star with a score of 353 at 30m (CO). 2002-08-24.

Senior woman recurve - Sénior femme arc à recourbure: Marie-Pier Beaudet, Lévis, QC in a FITA Star with a score of 353 at 30m (CO) 2002-08-24.


Congratulations to all - Félicitations à tous

Christiane Murphy
Gestionnaire des records canadiens / Canadian records coordinator

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3. Coach's Diary Joan McDonald at the Championships of the Americas

Day 1 Friday, August 30
What can you say about traveling - except that flights are always too early in the morning? And, don´t carry your exercise elastics in your backpack - they could be used to hijack an airplane! We flew over the Gulf of Mexico and could clearly see literally dozens of oil platforms and then over Cancun and into El Salvador. The country is
very mountainous and very green. After filling out many forms I passed through customs and easily found people from the organizing committee holding up 40cm archery targets. We waited for the team from Colombia and Dominican Republic to arrive and then headed off by bus to the hotel. We traveled over a new highway and saw a city bustling with construction, built on and surrounded by mountains - nothing is flat. After about 45
minutes we arrived at the sport centre hotel. The sport centre is brand new and so far we have seen the outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool, many tennis courts, a gymnastics gymnasium and the weight lifting room and a wonderful archery centre. There is a small, brand new and very modern hotel for the athletes where we are staying.

Since Hugh and Lillian were not scheduled to arrive for several more hours, I visited the 50-meter indoor archery range (probably 30 meters wide) and the offices of the El Salvador federation. After meeting and greeting new and old friends there, I walked the 70 meters up the hill to the outdoor range. The range can easily hold 45 butts and is literally carved out of the side of a mountain. It is in the final stages of completion and there were at least 50 - 70 people working everywhere. The shooting line is made with
interlocking brick, as are the lines where the targets will go at all the different distances. Behind the shooting line is a large area filled with large, red stones, from 1 to 3 or 4 inches in diameter. It´s tricky to walk on and a bit difficult for archers to put their equipment on but looks wonderful. Behind that is about 15 meters of tiled area for sitting which is permanently covered. At one end are washrooms and at the other the
buildings to house scorekeeping, medical and targets etc. It is a spectacular facility. Turn away from the seating area and look over the swimming pool and there is a view down the mountain of San Salvador. Look towards the targets and the mountains rise steeply to peaks. The field itself was quite wet, as there has been a lot of rain.

Day 2
We got up when we woke up - about 7:30 and had a great breakfast, omelette,
French toast, fruit and juice. We took care of some of the administrative stuff and headed up the hill to the range. There were still hoards of people working everywhere and a little disconcertingly they were also working behind the targets that everyone was shooting at. Granted, they were quite far back, but still it wasn´t a great picture. Eventually, they closed the targets that were in front of the workers. I know we are all
good shots but I felt a lot better after the targets were closed.

After lunch we walked out of the sport complex and down in the hill. The neighbourhood is made up of very small houses all surrounded with tall wrought iron fences, but the people were well dressed and friendly. We encountered many small shops (very small) but you can't walk into them - they have bars over an open area and you have to ask for what you want. Eventually we came to a larger grocery shop and bought some snacks and bananas. We past several shops baking bread and also saw a truck with enormous baskets of bread on top. People came to buy bread from the truck and then the truck moved on to the next location. Our main goal was to find postcards for Lillian - but we found none. I expect that we need to be in a more touristy area of town.Back to top

At 4 pm I attended the first half of the COPANARCO meeting. COPANARCO is
the archery federation in the Americas. Of course, it´s mostly in Spanish and one could say I was definitely challenged to figure out what was going on. Eventually, the delegates from Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and the USA got together and Dr. Carlos Hermes from Guatamala translated for us. 18 countries had delegates at the meeting making it the larges COPANARCO meeting ever. During the meeting there was very heavy rain and thunder which continued for most of the night.
 

Day 3 - Sunday, Sept 1
We were up again at 7:30 and had another great breakfast. If this food keeps up - we´ll all be gaining weight! It´s quite cloudy and cool today after the rain last night and it felt like it was going to rain again today. We were back on the range again in the morning and the shooting line was pretty full - almost everyone is here.

The changes are truly amazing - the hoards of people working on the range are
moving ahead with great speed. But the field is soaking wet and the freshly
planted grass is going to take quite a beating. During most of the morning it sprinkled, but by noon it really began to pour again. The large US team arrived just before the rain started. We spent our time during the rain trading pins, hats and shirts. I had a long talk with the Venezuelan coach who is a full time employee. He told me that there are another 12 full time coaches in Venezuela!

Lillian was shooting her main bow today, but she discovered that her arrow rest was missing several tiny set-screws and wasn´t working properly at all. She worked on it for a while, but by this time it was raining, so her practice session was washed out.

After lunch I checked with the organizing committee to make sure they would be picking up JP (St. Arnaud) from the airport and looked after some other administration. Then we hopped in a taxi to go to a big, modern mall - again in search of the post cards that Lillian needs to send home. We counted 27 names on her list - this is going to be a major purchase. The mall lived up to it´s name - new and modern and full to shoe stores. In fact, this must be the shoe capital of the world! But - not a single postcard. Eventually we gave up, grabbed a cab and went back to the sport centre. The best way to survive driving in San Salvador is to close your eyes!!

I went back to my COPANARCO meeting and Lillian and Hugh worked on her arrow rest, eventually fixing it and then testing it in the indoor range. The hot news from the meeting is that Ernesto Diaz Bazan is the new president of COPANARCO and the Olympic qualifying tournament will be in September 2003 in Colombia. The meeting finished about 10pm and I found that JP had arrived with no problem.

Day 4 - Monday, Sept 2nd
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The opening ceremony was at 9am so we were all on the range standing behind
a person holding a sign with the name of our country promptly at 9 am. The range was transformed overnight. There were balloons and flowers everywhere.
The field itself it covered in water because of the rain. We were relieved to discover that there would not be a march in of countries - we would be ankle-deep in mud.

The stands were full (full at an archery event?) with clapping chanting people. There were all sorts of different chants involving the waving of arms and clapping and the names of all the countries - all done in unison. The ceremony started on time with the welcoming of the Vice-President of El Salvador and the playing of the national anthem. Speeches followed from Jim Easton, President of FITA, Ernesto Diaz Bazan-chairman of the organizing committee, the President of the Sport Centre, the president of the El Salvador Olympic committee and finally the Vice-President of El Salvador. Music was supplied by a live band. Then the Vice-President cut the ribbon opening the archery facility and then cut the ribbon into small pieces and many people got a piece of the ribbon. Then all the dignitaries came down to the shooting line and an archer from
El Salvador shot the opening arrow. We thought that would be the end. But the music started and dancers appeared performing many traditional cultural dances to wonderful music. Soon everyone was moving to the music. It was wonderfully entertaining and
I stopped to think - here it is about 10 am on Monday morning and the rest of the world is just tucking into their morning coffee and here we are in the middle of a full fledged party! How awesome is that?

It did end and then we were back on the range for the start of practice. I didn´t see too much of it because I had to attend the Team Captains' meeting which was well run by the Chairman of Judges, Gloria Roza, an archer I used to compete with back in the olden days. After lunch (and yet another thunder storm) JP, Hugh and Lillian took a cab to another area on the great hunt for postcards. I have walked way too much for my silly ankles to take, so I stayed here and wrote these messages to you. They have just arrived back - with success, Lillian has a whole bagful of postcards and stamps.

Tomorrow the FITA round will start - with practice at 8am and we hope it will be over before the afternoon rain appears. Lillian is writing and Hugh and JP are quietly following the pre-tournament fletching ritual.
 

Day 5 - Tuesday, September 3

Living in a sport centre doesn´t leave you with much to do when we are not shooting, so last night everyone was gathered in the lobby and on the steps just talking. A newspaper was making its way around. It was a Toronto Sun size newspaper and had 13 pages of sports. Of those 13 pages 5 were devoted to archery and this tournament. We haven´t seen a paper today, but judging from the number of photographers around, there will probably be more today.

It was a beautiful, cool morning with a beautiful blue sky and for the first time since we have been here, there was no humidity. Practice didn´t start on time because of the usual problems with an inexperienced organizing committee, which required team captains meetings to funnel information to the competitors. As well, the clocks weren´t working and we were back to a flag system. Fortunately, they were fixed by the time scoring starting although the display was a little strange as not all the right parts of the numbers lighted up all the time. So sometimes a 1 looked like a 7, but it didn't take long for the archers to figure it out. There was some controversy over whether countries could put juniors into the senior match play so that they could try for spots on the Pan America Games team, which involved much discussion during the day. It would mean that some countries would end up with 7 or 8 people instead of the traditional 4. By the end of the day it was decided that each country could only enter 4 - if they wanted some of them to be juniors that was up to them.Back to top

Hugh had a difficult 90m. First he was high. With each arrow he moved his sight but the arrows still went high....he kept moving his sight, then boom they were too low. So he'd move his sight again and then he'd be high again. He finished with a 271 and was in 16th place - not exactly what he had in mind. At 70m he slowly settled down and started to shoot better finished with 321 which was 6th place. His total of 592 has him in 10th place.

JP shot steadily through 90m with good speed and timing through the clicker. His groups hugged the 7-9 ring on the left and he shot a 276, not a bad result for his first international event since his return to competition. This put him in 11th place. At 70 meters his timing slowly drifted away along with his groups and his 306 was lower than he expected. His total of 582 has him in 12th place.

Lillian had the same sight problems at 70m that Hugh had at 90m. On one end I watched her shoot a group the size of a "twonie" in the 9 ring at 5 o´clock and move her sight after every shot. Then suddenly she was in the 7 ring at 11 o´clock.....frustrating. She finished with a 316 and was in 11th place. At 70m she was just stuck on shooting 56´s with way too many 9´s and few 10´s. Finally on the last end she had a 57 and finished with 337 tied for 3rd place, but lost on the 10 count and was 4th. I don´t have her overall placing.

The butts are made from cardboard - which slowed shooting down because they were wet and the compound shooters were having pass-throughs. They also weight about 250 lbs because the cardboard is so wet. The wheeled device that was to be used to move them would not work because the field is to muddy. So they have to drop the butt forward onto two boards and use 4 people to carry them forward while 2 other people repositioned the stand at the new distance. So 6 people to move on butt and there are 42 of them. So we had quite a rest between distances! After shooting medals were given out for each distance. This is done in all Championships of the Americas and we walked back to the hotel at about 3:10pm. 8am to 3pm to shoot two distances.......

Day 6

At about 10:30 last night a huge thunderstorm rolled in with lots of noise and lightning - and lots more rain. It rained most of the night. But this morning when we were up at 6 am it was starting to clear and it turned into another beautiful day. The field looks like a
rice field. There are paths made of interlocking brick up the middle and the sides of the field as well as across in front of the butts at each distance. The archers all walked to the butts on the paths single file, so that there was a snake of archers walking to the targets after each end.

Shooting went better today although it was agonizingly slow. Practice started promptly at 8 am but went on for an hour instead of the usual 45 minutes.

Lillian shot 50m much better, but with still too many 9´s. But she finished with a 331 and was tied for 2nd place for the distance but lost on 10´s, placing 3rd. At 30m she shot well enough to win the distance with a 355 but was disappointed that she didn´t have the 358 that she wanted. Her FITA total was 1339 and has her again tied for 2nd place, again loosing on 10´s finishing 3rd. This is an excellent recovery for her considering that she started out in 11th place at the end of 70m.Back to top

Hugh shot steadily but not spectacularly at 50m still troubled with high and low arrows finishing with a 316 and 7th place for the distance. The high and low arrows continued at 30m where he shot 343 also 7th place for that distance. His total was 1251 and puts him in 9th place.

JP struggled at 50m. He was able to keep his speed through the clicker up which was excellent, but he did not get rewarded for it. His total was 295 and was in 20th place for the distance. Finally at 30m things started to improve - he shot it well with a 340 and 11th place for the distance with 1217 overall and 13th place.

Moving the large, heavy butts between 50 and 30meters to painfully slow and then putting up the 4 individual faces on each butt seemed to drag on forever. It seems that the majority of countries always shoot one line and 3 per butt and were unfamiliar with shooting 4 targets on one butt, so that took yet another Team Captains meeting to sort out. By the time we started 30m it was 1:30pm. We finished 30m and got off the field at 4pm. So 8am to 4pm to shoot 72 arrows - that has to be a record. Since it was so late, they have put off giving out the medals for 50 and 30m and the FITA until tomorrow morning at 8am. Good idea.

Everyone made a mad dash for the dining room and ¨lunch¨. I had another
COPANARCO meeting at 5:30 so it was a bit of a rush. Part way through the COPANARCO meeting suddenly fireworks starting going off. They were fired from right beside the swimming pool, about 5m from the room where our meeting was. The new President, seeing our startled faces quickly said ¨don´t worry, it´t just fireworks, it´s not a revolution¨. So the meeting broke up while we all went outside to see the fireworks. No one knows why there were fireworks - maybe it was a celebration of Wednesday!

As I am writing this, the nightly lightning and thunder has started, but there´s no rain.....yet.

We have tomorrow off because it is match play for the recurve women and compound men. We´ll be up early to go and watch Lillian pick up her 3 medals. We´ll practise a bit in the 30m indoor range as well. Match play for the compound women and recurve men will be on Friday.

Here´s some results.
Recurve men - 38 competitors
1. Glenn Meyers USA 311 326 339 348 1324
2. Chris Shull USA 294 330 330 348 1302
3. Juan Serrano MEX 296 327 324 349 1296
4. Ted Holland USA 306 327 320 343 1296
5. Miguel Desoto MEX 288 326 317 348 1279

9. Hugh MacDonald CAN 271 321 316 343 1251
13. JP St. Arnaud CAN 276 306 295 340 1217

Compound Women - 15 competitors
1. Luzmary Guedez VEN 328 342 333 353 1356
2. J. Santacruz MEX 325 337 325 352 1339
3. Lillian Meehan CAN 316 337 331 355 1339

Recurve Women - 33 competitors
1. Jennifer Nichols USA 313 322 311 344 1297
2. Erika Reyes MEX 305 326 311 346 1288
3. Denise vanLamoen CHI 309 327 311 337 1284
4. Marisol Breton MEX 309 306 311 340 1266
5. Vanessa Chacon VEN 298 320 307 334 1259

Compound Men - 32 competitors
1. Jorge Jimenez ESA 341 347 344 357 1389
2. Gabriel Oliferow VEN 328 344 338 355 1365
3. Ruben Ochoa MEX 335 338 331 347 1351
4. Santiago Ayala MEX 323 335 339 353 1350
5. Juan Wedel CRA 323 334 332 354 1343

And now it pouring outside. Swimming suits instead of uniforms tomorrow.

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We were up an hour later today at 7 am, had a quick breakfast and then up to
the range for 8am for the medal ceremonies that were postponed from yesterday. Again the rain had stopped and the sky was clearing nicely. At this competition medals are given for each distance as well as the total FITA. Also consider that there both compound and recurve divisions in each of senior, junior and cadet and men and women. Now this is a lot of medals. They did start on time at 8am, and we took a gazillion pictures when Lillian received her 3 medals, bronze for 50m, gold for 30m and bronze for the total FITA. But this took an hour so the day was now an hour behind.

Practice started at 9 and those not shooting today (all of us) were not allowed to practice during this time. At 10 when the matches started there were targets where we could practice.

We started first with Hugh´s grip. In fact he has 3 grips, all slightly different. Although his current grip had done well for him this summer, he always felt it was too narrow. So we tried one he had made in the spring which was a little wider and instantly his groups closed in and the high and low arrows disappeared. So after about 60 arrows, it was decided to go with this grip for the matches tomorrow.

We worked hard to get JP´s draw coming back in a straight line and then to solidify his mental process for match play. By the end of the day he was shooting much better.

Lillian moved her peep down a little bit and felt much more comfortable and her groups slowly closed and her last 5 ends were terrific.

While this doesn´t sound like it should take that long - it has to be taken in context. Of course, we had to shoot with the same timing as the matches taking place since we were on the same shooting line. While each match moved along well, the time in between matches was pretty excessive - usually 45 minutes to an hour. But we were relaxed and just went with the flow. It was sunny and warm with not a breath of wind so quite pleasant. It was also good practice for tomorrow since the archers had to sit and wait and then get up and shoot the arrows well. Because we were working on a variety of things, we didn´t watch that many of the matches themselves.

Tomorrow we will do match play. Because of Pan Am qualifying some junior men will also participate expanding the field of recurve men to 43, but no more than 4 archers per country. This leaves Hugh in 9th place, but has moved JP down to 15th place which is actually better for us as it puts them at opposite ends of the brackets. Now Hugh and JP will not meet until the Gold medal match!

At about 4pm it looked as if we were going to have another rainstorm - there was ominous thunder and lightning, but it went by without any rain and there is no evidence of rain yet tonight. The field sure needs another day or so to dry out.

Results - ladies recurve (after match play). Remember the gold medal match will be Saturday morning, so these results start with 3rd place since 1st and 2nd won´t be known until Saturday.

3. Jessica Carleton USA 150 154 102 96 103
4. Lorinda Cohen USA 151 156 106 98 102
5. Denise vanLamoen CHI 150 152 104
6. Vanessa Chacon VEN 154 139 98
7. Erika Reyes MEX 162 51 93
8. Ashley Kamuf USA 144 150 92

Marisol Breton of Mexico and Rossana Rosario of Venezuela will meet in the
gold medal match.

My results package doesn´t seem to include the compound men. It does include all the junior and cadets, but I´m not going to copy all those results into this message.

So - think about us tomorrow and send us your good thoughts - all the marbles are on the line.

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4. Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards/Exemption

It has come to our attention that a number of sports are participating in
open world championships during the month of September. The Coaching
Association of Canada has decided to extend the qualifying period for the
2002 Petro-Canada Coaching Excellence Awards to September 30, 2002.


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4. Prix d'excellence Petro-Canada aux entraîneurs
Nous avons appris que plusieurs sports disputeraient leur championnat du
monde au mois de septembre. L’Association canadienne des entraîneurs a donc
décidé de prolonger la période de qualification pour les Prix d’excellence
Petro-Canada aux entraîneurs jusqu’au 30 septembre 2002.

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5. 2003 3D Nationals - Information du championnat de tir sur cible animalière 2003

Chairperson Ken Chipley Président du comité

Opening/Closing Ceremonies Robert Grimsrud les cérémonies

Treasurer Shelley Dayman trésoire

Secretary Monai Wanner sécretaire

DOS/Shoot off Marcel VanLoo Directeur de Tir

3D Course Ken Chipley Parcours

Registration Monai Wanner Inscription

Promotion/Media Pauline Ziehl Grimsrud Promouvoir/media

Food/Concession Pauline Ziehl Grimsrud les répas

Banquet/Entertainment Shelley Dayman le banquet

Merchandising Monai Wanner marchandisage

Information contacts: Monai Wanner & Ken Chipley

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6. SIRC

Title: Acute injury treatment - how to use ice and compression.

Source: Running and fitnews (Bethesda, Md) 20(7) July/August 2002

SIRCExpress Article No.: S-841265 (PDF format)

Title: Effects of high-top and low-top shoes on ankle inversion.

Source: JOPERD - The journal of physical education, recreation & dance

(Reston, Va.) 73(5) May/June 2002

SIRCExpress Article No: S-823439 (PDF format)

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7. Tournament Schedule / Calendrier des tournois