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2003 ASAA Outdoor championship
April 5th
and 6th, 2003 Ben
Avery FITA Event Range, Phoenix Arizona Photos Results The 2003
Arizona State Archery Association Outdoor Championship was held first under
cool and quite windy conditions followed by a classic Arizona spring
day. Fourteen AZJOAD’s joined
seventy-four seniors and guests including international team members from
Canada and Denmark. The twenty-four
guests were eager to participate in preparation for the following week’s
Arizona Cup. This gave our AZJOAD the
unique opportunity to “play” with some local and out-of-state internationally
ranked archers. The Star
FITA was a traditional two-day tournament with the long distances shot on the
first day and the short distances on the second day, just like the AZ
Cup. Concession included grilled
hotdogs, hamburgers and an Arizona favorite, Teriyaki Chicken. Breakfast burritos were a welcome morning
meal. Tournament
winners included: ·
Stewart Bowman compound male champion using his own
Bowman Accu-Riser II. ·
Becky Pearson won the compound female championship. ·
Brooke Rosania, Former JOAD, won the recurve female
championship. ·
Jerry Borum, Former JOAD, won the recurve male
championship. ·
Check the tournament results of all the
participants including the AZJOADs. A
highlight of the event turned out to be an impromptu Olympic Round held after
the FITA round. The archers including
the international guests joined in with women and men competing head to
head. Seeding was based on the
tournaments 36 arrow 70 meter round score. The Recurve OR started with 32
positions while the compound archer’s OR competition began with 16 positions. When the
OR Dust cleared, Dennis Bager of Denmark took the recurve Gold while Magnock
archer, Gary Funnel, of the UK won the compound OR. Along the way the AZJOADs had some serious fun. Maggie Huff was defeated by Michael
Mitchell who then bowed out to Denis Bager.
Mary Frangos made it to the sweet 16 only to be taken out by US
Olympian Ed Eliason. Lindsay
Pian made it to the great eight and shot against the eventual OR winner
Dennis Bager. Brandon
Hunt shot against Mark Penaz and that was enough to end Brandon’s day. By the
way there was that another highlight.
On day one, during the second distance, a dust devil up rooted a
canopy and proceeded to dump it on the DOS stand. This all happened with little warning as some observed the dust
devil formed right above the field.
Janice Price, Mike Koistinen and Director of Shooting Nancy Myrick
were in the direct path for the dust devil uprooted canopy and miraculously
escaped injury. Every one pitched in
to clear the debris. With the canopy
re-staked, Nancy got things going again in quick fashion. Lesson?
Make sure that your target stand is staked down, your target matt is
anchored firmly and your scorecard clipboard is face down. Note
that in preparation for the AZ Cup, Arizona holds its Arizona State Outdoor
Championship the weekend before the Cup and its Arizona JOAD Outdoor
Championship the weekend before the State Outdoor. JOADs, seniors and guests are encouraged to compete in both
preparatory events. Both are Star
FITAs. Serious
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