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2003 ARizona cup
Joad and
other Highlights April 11 –14, 2003 Whew,
another Arizona Cup (2003). The first
USAT qualifying tournament of 2003 was a real JOAD affair too. It was great to see so many JOAD from
around the country join in with the nine Arizona JOADs and do some great
things. Friday, the
event opened with Arizona’s own, Mary Frangos, playing the National Anthem on
her clarinet. Then
most of the competitors took in about 4 hours of practice in “warm” weather
after equipment inspection. The JOADs
were then invited to hang out a Fuddruckers Hamburger Restaurant that
evening. About a dozen took part for
a little while before getting a good nights rest. Almost
300 archers competed with two divisions shooting the AM and the other two in
the PM. Saturday was
still warm with the winds variable enough to make it challenging. Some highlights were great food (Teriyaki
Chicken) and prices, a parking lot that seemed to just be big enough, and
best of all, lots of quality recurve and compound archery. Nancy
Myrick ran a tight ship as the Director of Shooting with Mike Koistinen, the
event organizer, who kept it lean, mean, and efficient. The team
rounds took place Saturday afternoon right up to and after sunset. About twenty teams took part. Some Olympic and World Championship “Dream
Teams” competed. Junior teams made it
to all four gold medal matches.
Wow! Prize money was awarded. Sunday was a
bit cooler with winds growing stiffer.
The tourney clicked along until all four FITA divisions were
completed. There was not much time to
relish the FITA finish as 64 female recurve archers stepped into the Olympic
round followed immediately by 64 male recurve Olympic round. Sunset fell as the last shoot off arrow
was shot. Seven Arizona JOADs made it
to the Olympic Round. Monday began
with the compound male 64 archer OR and female compound 32 archer OR. The four
division’s 16, 8 and 4 archer matches took place together. Finally the recurve bronze matches took
place side by side and then the gold medal matches. The compound medal matches followed suit. There were tournament cash awards for the
OR winners and eye-catching trophies for the FITA winners. Several
junior archers including at least ˝ a dozen recurve JOADs achieved a Jr. USAT
qualifying score. Of particular note
was the performance of Arizonans Brandon Hunt, Brady Ellison and Margaret
Hargett, who are relatively new to JOAD target archery (but seasoned 3-Ders),
and all had great “senior” tournaments. By 5:00
PM the field was cleared, all the equipment put away and the gate closed on
the 2003 Arizona Cup. Here are
some of the comments and thoughts after the 2003 Arizona Cup. Archer
comments and invited suggestions: ·
“Great tournament, well run, thanks” ·
Thanks for not gouging us on the concession prices! ·
Thank you for the picking a nice hotel as the
headquarters and negotiating a great price. ·
(No comments at all on the port a potties which is
a good thing, except
for that rattlesnake visit) Ideas to toss around for next year: ·
Hold the tourney on Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday
allowing for many to be able to shoot the State Tourney the weekend before
and only take up one week of vacation or holiday. It also gives a little more time between the Cup and the
Shootout. ·
Hold all the Olympic Rounds on the last day, giving
more time to set the OR seeding.
Those that don’t make it can watch or enjoy an Arizona Sunday. ·
Shoot all the 32 archer OR division simultaneously
thus reducing the archer down time.
It would also allow for unscheduled delays and insure that all shoot
before sundown. (Simultaneous division elimination rounds will require 64
targets. The current field only has
58 target spaces.) ·
Allow for unofficial practice early the first day,
field preparation permitting. This
would allow those that fly in the night before something productive to do
before the judges show up for the afternoon equipment inspection and official
practice. ·
Let us on to the field earlier to start shooting to
stay away from sunset. ·
Please make sure that the hotel offers frequent
shuttles to and from the field and complementary breakfast to all. An airport shuttle would be grea,t too. ·
Print the OR ranking/target assignments flow chart
on the back of the OR score card. ·
Offer an Olympic ranking type (72 arrows at 70
meters) format. ·
Get a Netherlands flag. Thank You List The Arizona Cup is made possible by volunteers that are committed to hosting an archers tournament. Here are the volunteers that I know of. Please let me know of any others. Jim Hamilton, Field
crew and the generous use of his air-conditioned trailer for
scoring. Art Baribault, Field Wayne Davidson, Field Bob Kortan, Field Stewart Bowman, Field Juli Witt,
Tournament Doug Witt, Field
and Tournament Jeremy Witt,
Tournament Alan Huff,
Tournament Teresa Huff,
Tournament Mack Huff,
Tournament Margie Stinson,
Tournament, California Andrew Stinson,
Tournament, California Tom Noblet,
Tournament Barbara Noblet,
Scoring Rob Mitchell, Field
and Tournament Mark Kauffman, Shirts Corner Archery Magnock Chas. Roberts Air Conditioning The Officials
Neil Foster Linda Cockrell Tom Greene Diane Tone Nancy Myrick, DOS Vivian Koistinen The ResourcesMJ Rogers Tom Parrish Lloyd Brown Sheri Rhodes Young Guns “Jerry, David, Clint and Shane”, Field Evelyn, for all around help Heather and Scott for the delicious food at a great price. The
Arizona Game and Fish Department/ Ben Avery Shooting Facility/ Don Turner for
doubling the parking lot size. Special thank you to the folks that were able to shoot the Arizona State Championships as Guests and practice with us all week
including teams from: Denmark Canada The UK The success of the 2003 event can be fully
credited to Mike and Vivian Koistinen for their unwavering
commitment to the
support of the archery community. Our Arizona JOAD youths and their parents for supporting
our future. Ted Harden, we hope you return to 100% soon. SSPW Architects scoring and leader board data crew, a special thanks for their concentrated work effort Amy Bryant Matt Latka Mark Davenport Travis Irvine Saul Ramirez Chuy Ortega Jeremy Bloomer Carlos Murrieta See you next year!
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