World University Archery Championships, July 2008

						Chinese Taipei

The 7th World University Archery Championships (WUAC) will be held in July 2008 in Tainan County, Chinese Taipei. Start your USA CAP World Team quest by training now and getting your passport in order. 

FITA Information and More

The USA College Archery Program (CAP) World Championship and CAP World Teams have traveled all over the world in recent years, including Korea, Turkey, Slovakia and Venezuela.

The FITA World Cup site has posted an article about the 7th WUAC to be held in Chinese Taipei in 2008.

A temporary website for the tournament has been set up by the event’s Organizing Committee. This website provides downloads of entry forms, regulations, and event info.

Helpful Hints

Getting a passport is taking longer and longer (sometimes up to 3 months!) Apply for your (and your family’s too!) passports now at the U.S. State Department’s Travel and Business website.

Many countries require that passports be valid for at least six months from the date of entry. Make sure your passport is valid at least through January 2009 at the minimum (it would be better to have a year or more of time left) to meet that requirement. The WUAC is less than 7 months away.

Find out about overseas travel in general, and about Chinese Taipei (known by the U.S. State Department as Taiwan). The U.S. State Department’s Travel web pages are helpful. These pages include a link to the CDC for vaccination information.

USA Archery World Team trips are a great experience and become wonderful memories.

Submitted by: Bob Pian, CAP High School Director/JOAD Co-Chair

Edited by: Lorretta Sinclair, CAP Publicist

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2008 U.S. Olympic Archery Team Trials First Nomination Shoot

Joe Fanchin, USC

On the weekend of 29 September, 2007 in Conyers, Georgia, more than 200 athletes from around the United States gathered to participate in the first of three tournaments to select the US Olympic Archery Team to compete in Beijing, China in August 2008. Each of these tournaments is referred to as a Nomination Shoot. The purpose of the first Nomination Shoot was to cut the field to 16 men and 16 women. The archers who make the cut at this first event are referred to as the Shadow Team. The second Nomination Shoot will be held in Chula Vista, Ca. in April 2008 where the field will be cut to eight. The third and final Nomination Shoot will be held in May 2008 where the U.S. Olympic Archery Team consisting of three men and three women will be selected.

On the first day of the Nomination Shoot all competitors shot a qualifying round that consisted of four 70 meter 36 arrow rounds. At the end of the day four college archery athletes made the cut to the top 16 and are members of the Shadow Team.

• Joe Fanchin, University of Southern California
• Kendra Harvey, Central New Mexico Community College
• Erin Mickelberry, University of Washington
• Dakota Sinclair, Arizona State University

In the men’s division qualifying event, Dakota finished in 2nd place and Joe in 10th. In the women’s division, Erin qualified 11th, and Kendra 14th.

For the next two days the athletes participated in a series of round-robin matches. Points were awarded for scores as well as win/losses and were totaled with the qualifying round results to give each athlete their final standing.

Final placements in the 1st selection shoot for the college athletes: Dakota Sinclair 7th, Joe Fanchin 14th, Erin Mickelberry 11th, and Kendra Harvey 13th. See the U.S. Archery website for the detailed results.

The 2nd nomination shoot will be held in Chula Vista, CA the first week of April.

Congratulations to all of our college athletes and Good Luck at the next Nomination Shoot!

Kendra Harvey, CNMCC

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Braden Gellenthien, Erika Anschutz

photos by Mel Nichols

 

Two world records, One World Team Championship, 1 Silver, and 1 Bronze medal – and two college archers……

The 2007 World Championships were held in Leipzig, Germany in July. Team USA included college athletes Braden Gellenthien (James Madison University) and Erika Anschutz (University of Nebraska). Both archers shoot the compound bow and have been National and Jr. World Champions in previous years.

The World Championships once again brought out the best in college archers with Braden placing 6th in the Men’s qualifying round and Erika finishing 1st. Erika shot a 1408 in the qualifying round, three points shy of a world record. The women’s compound team of Jamie VanAtta, Kendal Nicely, and Erika set a new world record of 4157 points, breaking the previous record, also held by USA in the qualifications round.

In the ever variable elimination round, Erika went out in the 1/8ths finishing 10th, while Braden moved on to the Gold medal match against Dietmar Trillus of Canada. The match was close through each end resulting in a final one arrow shootoff. Trillus shot a 10, while Braden shot a 9 and took the Silver medal home.

Team round once again found the college archers leading the team efforts. In the men’s compound competition, the final arrow came down to Braden’s ability to shoot under pressure. Needing a 9 to tie or a 10 to win the match, Braden came through with a solid 10, with the men’s team of Roger Willett, Reo Wilde, and Braden becoming World Champions.

In the quarter finals, Team USA, scoring 232 points clinched the elimination round World Record which was previously held by Russia’s 230 points set in 2006.

In the women’s compound team match, the women lost to Italy (222 to 220) in the semifinals, setting the women up for the Bronze medal match against France. Team USA archers Jamie, Kendal, and Erika solidly won the Bronze medal with a score of 225 to France’s 221.

Congratulations to our College Student Athletes! Braden and Erika, you represent us well!

Erika, Jamie, and Kendal

photo by Mel Nichols 

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Derek Davis, Ken Downey, Nate McCullough, Tina Jeon, Jacob Wukie, Desiree Sporano, Steve Gatto, Dakota Sinclair, Danielle McCullough, Ryan Rambo, Michelle Wright, Eric Mamo, and Sheri Rhodes

Under the coaching staff of Sheri Rhodes (Stanford University), Derek Davis (Columbia University) and Dave Mamo (Western Michigan State), a group of college athletes traveled to Venezuela as part of the College Archery Team in June 2007 to compete in the World Ranking Event (WRE).

Paying their own way to attend the event, living with cockroaches crawling throughout their rooms, and in one athlete’s case, not having her equipment until after the completion of the first day of shooting, were recurve archers Nate McCullough (James Madison University), teammate Jacob Wukie, Tina Jeon (Yale University), Danielle McCullough (Westminster College), and Desiree Sporano (Atlantic Cape Community College). Compound archers Steve Gatto (Atlantic Cape Community College), Ryan Rambo (Penn College of Technology), Eric Mamo (Western Michigan State), Michelle Wright (Penn State), ***. Since only one woman compound archer attended, she could not compete in the team round.

Dave Mamo went to Herculean efforts to get Michelle’s equipment from the airport, leaving in the very early morning from the Olympic Training Center in Venezuela, and spent several hours working with airport security to return with her bow. Running out of water at the training center where they were staying part way through the tournament, the athletes were pleased to be moved to a motel that did not have night time visitors with 4 legs and antennae.

Venezuela WRE Results

Archer(s)	Event	Award
Dakota Sinclair and Ken Downey, not college archers during the 2006-2007 season, also competed in the Venezuela WRE.
Steve Gatto	FITA, Compound Men	Gold Medal
Steve Gatto	90m Round, Compound Men	Gold Medal
Steve Gatto	70m Round, Compound Men	Silver Medal
Steve Gatto	30m Round, Compound Men	Silver Medal
Ryan Rambo	90m Round, Compound Men	Silver Medal
Eric Mamo	30m Round, Compound Men	Bronze Medal
Steve Gatto, Ryan Rambo, Eric Mamo	Compound Men’s Team	Gold Medal
Tina Jeon, Danielle McCullough, Desiree Sporano	Recurve Women’s Team	Bronze Medal
Nate McCullough, Dakota Sinclair, Jacob Wukie	Recurve Men’s Team	4th
Ken Downey	50m, Recurve Men	Silver Medal
Ken Downey	30m, Recurve Men	Bronze Medal
Dakota Sinclair	90m, Recurve Men	Bronze Medal

Nate, Danielle, Desiree, Steve, Tina, Michelle taking a break.

Opening Ceremonies

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• The CAP Eligibility forms have been updated and can be found in the Handbook / Forms section.
• The Club and Archery Roster has been updated.

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2008 USIAC and World University Archery Trials will be hosted by ACCC in Cape May, New Jersey on 15-18 May.

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