Summer 2008 National Governing Body for the Sport of Archery The 2008 USA Olympic Archery Team Summer 2008 usa archery magazine 6 Archer Spotlight on . The 2008 Olympic Team After many days of intense competition stretching out over eight months, the Olympic Archery team is now set. 12 Three Silver Medals at World Cup 3 Brady Ellison, Jamie Van Natta and the Men’s Compound Team all strike silver in Turkey. 13 Nat. Field Chmps/World Field Trials Can the USA repeat its gold medal performance of the 2006 World Field Championships? Many familiar names top the results list for both the National Field Championships and the World Field Team Trials and a strong team is in the offing. 24 CAP Announces All-Academic Team These student-athletes not only are some of the nation‘s best archers but are very strong students as well. USA Archery is published by USA Editorial Submissions Design/Layout Steve Ruis Archery, 1 Olympic Plaza, Col - Please submit editorial materials to: orado Springs, CO 80909. Postage Bradley Camp, CEO USA Archery is produced by paid at Amherst Junction, WI and USA Archery magazine Watching Arrows Fly , Chicago, IL additional mail ing offices. 1 Olympic Plaza Colorado Springs, CO 80909 The views published within this pub - Subscriptions Fax 719.632.4733 lication are those of contributing writ - USA Archery magazine can only ers and do not necessarily represent the be obtained as a benefit of mem - Production Manager/Editor opin ion of USA Archery magazine bership in USA Archery. Claudia Stevenson or USA Archery. 2 US AArchery magazine also in this issue . The USA Archery 4 Straight Shots . Board of Directors by Bill Corbin USA Archery is led by an elected ten-person Board of Direc - 5 From the CEO tors, which consists of representatives of the following con - by Brad Camp stituency groups: Judge, Coach, Collegiate, JOAD, Allied orga - nizations, At-Large, Athlete, and Independent. In addition, 10 USAA Events there are four representatives, one from each of the geographic regions: East, North, South, and West. 16 Olympic Watch The Chairman of the Board is elected from within Preparing for Beijing by Tom Parrish the board, while a full-time Chief Executive Officer over - sees the national office and the various programs run by Paralympic Team Chosen the organization. 22 Coaches Corner CHAIRMAN Playing at Archery by Tom Barker Independent Bill Corbin 26 The JOAD Pages DIRECTORS Allied Organizations Brian Sheffler 31 USAA News Athlete Phyllis Shipman Athlete Nancy Zorn 34 USAA Calendar At-Large Christine McCartney Collegiate Derek Davis 36 Parting Shot Coach Sheri Rhodes Remembering Jonah Independent Belinda Foxworth JOAD Denise Parker Judge Tom Green REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES (previously elected to the Board of Governors) East Randel “PeeWee” Turner Cover Photo Com - North Darrell Pace South posite from photos Jane Johnson West Lloyd Brown by Kathy Miller CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Dean Alberga Lloyd Brown Gary Holstein David Liu Skip Trafford Joy Fahrenkrog Jim Gatto A. Ron Carmichael Claudia Stevenson USAA STAFF Chief Executive Officer Bradley Camp [email protected] High Performance Manager Tom Parrish [email protected] National Coach KiSik Lee [email protected] Resident Program Manager Guy Krueger [email protected] JOAD/Membership/Merchandising Terry Casey [email protected] phone 719.866.4576 fax 719.632.4733 email [email protected] US AArchery magazine 3 FR OM THE CHAIRMAN’S DESK From the highs of watching my first noticeable improvement in perfor - competition at the Olympic Trials mance in the future. Chris arrives in and seeing why you are passionate late July and we are excited to wel - about archery, to seeing first hand come her back to full-time duty. what an immense amount of admin - Obviously, we will soon replace istrative and policy documentation Chris on the board. the USAA is responsible for, to Performance evaluations con - understanding the membership’s tinue across the organization; the lack of confidence and trust sur - board is instituting an annual evalu - rounding the administration of the ation of the CEO and Coach Lee sport, the last four months have has been an active participant in the been quite an education. review process with his staff. You There is a palpable lack of con - will see increased use of confidential fidence in USA Archery within the evaluations from the athletes who archery community. Judged in a vac - participate in international trips and uum, it is easy to see that prior per - other events. We will be objective formance and some recent events and patient in view of the workloads justify this critique as it relates to involved but you should realize that competency. However, when mis - mistakes are reviewed and takes are made in an environment addressed. without transparent communication, Continuing the objective theme a simple error is perceived by those of transparency and performance, I affected as somehow intentional or am not satisfied with my own political. This is not the case, from progress lately, our strategic plan - what I have witnessed, and our sport ning meeting having been cancelled is much diminished when we when the consultant fell ill at the last attribute negative motives to such minute, and I have been surprised by actions; many of you would be sur - the amount of work that needs to be prised to know just how much work performed. The board is moving to a it takes to administer a small sport more specific calendar with regular - that has the bare minimum of finan - ly scheduled conference calls to sup - cial resources. We all need to do plement required board meetings. more if we expect the sport to satis - We need more volunteers for our fy our highest expectations. committees and task forces and Having addressed perceptions, more athlete representation. Active we now must address our competen - participation is the best way for you cy issue. The board challenged the to help the Board restore confidence CEO to complete a performance in USAA. review of current administrative staff Bill and obtain the required skill sets to properly serve the archery commu - nity. The first step in that ongoing process has been to rehire Chris McCartney to help manage pro - grams and the Colorado Spring office. Another new addition to our team and who is off to a promising start is Stephanie Thomas. We believe these moves will lead to a 4 US AArchery magazine FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Olympic Expectations Our 2008 Olympic Archery We are working on a change to our website. Content Team is set and we have is being migrated to a fan-facing website that will offer great expectations for some many opportunities for enhanced communication and stellar performances at the exposure to athletes. We are also migrating our member - Games in Beijing. We will ship database over to an online membership and event reg - let you know in E-Nock, on istration system. The online systems will allow members, the website, and later in this especially clubs, regions, and state associations, to access issue when archery will be and update their own information and register for not only on television. national events but also local and state events as well. We I would like to wel - think this will be of great benefit to everyone. come Guy Krueger and A great opportunity presented itself locally in a collab - Christine McCartney to oration with the new sport management program at the our staff. We are excited to have them share their vast University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. A class will be archery experience with our membership. at the U.S. Nationals volunteering their time with different U.S. Nationals is right on top of us and should be a aspects of the tournament. The sport management pro - fantastic event. Lorinda Cohen and Tara Robey are the gram will also provide interns to USA Archery throughout Tournament Directors and are doing a great job. Lorinda the year to work on specific projects. We are excited about runs the Texas Shootout and Tara was co-Tournament this relationship and the opportunity to expose archery to Director for the JOAD Nationals and World Target Trials. new students as well as free labor. Steve Cornell and Darrell Pace, who ran the tournament in We hope to see you all at the 124th U.S. National Tar - 2006, will be present to assist as needed. Due to the get Championships and best wishes to those in Beijing. Olympic Games, we moved the Annual Meeting to Tues - day evening at 7:30PM at the USOC Visitors Center. This Brad will permit me to be with you before I depart for Beijing on the following day. We hope you will join us. P h o t o b y D a v i d L i u US AArchery magazine 5 Archer Spotlight on . The 2008 Olympic Te am As one might expect, this is not the first time for any of the 2008 Olympic Team members (or coach) to be in the Archer’s Spotlight- Brady Ellison appeared in Vol. 4, No 3, Butch Johnson was in the spotlight in Vol. 2, No. 3, Vic Wunderle was the first target of the Archer’s Spotlight (Vol. 1, No. 1), Jennifer Nichols got the limelight in Vol. 2, No. 4, and Khatuna Lorig made it in Vol. 5, No. 4. Not to be outshone, Coach Lee was highlighted in Vol. 4, No. 2. On top of that Butch, Vic, and Jennifer were highlighted P h o t in the Vol. 2, No. 5 Spotlight on the 2004 o b y Olympic Team. G a r So, we worked very hard to come up y H o with a few things you didn’t already know l s t e i in this issue’s Archer’s Spotlight on .