From the CAP Assistant Director, Lorretta Sinclair:

Fall Session is 1 August through 31 December

In order to compete in any local, state, regional or national USA Archery tournament within the College division (you can always shoot in Senior division) you must meet all of the following CAP eligibility requirements: 

1. Full-time student status
2. Minimum 2.0 GPA (3.0 for grad students)
3. Be a member of USA  Archery
4. Member of a recognized CAP club
5. Complete and submit the team and academic eligibility forms

The Team Eligibility form can be signed by the club president or the club coach/advisor, but the Academic Eligibility form MUST be signed by the university registrar. For those clubs that are members of the sports recreation department, the athletic director or sports club director may also sign the form. If your club is direct through USA Archery, you MUST have the school registrar sign the form. Coaches, per the CAP Handbook, are not allowed to sign the academic eligibility form.

All eligibility forms (both Academic and Team) must be sent to the registrar 15 days prior to the first competition or by 15 August September, whichever occurs first. If you have problems due to class schedules, or schools that are on the quarter system, please contact the CAP Registrar, John Sahi, with your concerns PRIOR to any competitions. 

Send eligibility forms (new clubs must also send a copy of their USAA Club Membership) to:

John Sahi
CAP Registrar
275 Turnpike Road
Willington, CT 06279

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CAP-eligible archers and clubs are being offered some great discounts on some Angel archery equipment–quivers, sights and more. Download this data sheet to see what is available. Note: CAP eligibility is required and will be verified to qualify for these discounts, and it is limited to the available stock on-hand.

Updated 2008-8-12: fixed broken link to data sheet

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Take a look at how Brian Christensen is incorporating archery into research at Colorado State University:

In a darkened hallway outside the lecture hall, students observe Christensen’s exceptional ability to aim a bow-mounted laser beam at a small target approximately 100 feet away, (pictured above) compared with students in the class, who are not trained archers. The overall goal is to illustrate how neural pathways discussed in lecture are utilized for muscle control.

Read the full article to find out more about Brian’s work.

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Welcome to the new CAP website! Keep coming back as we continue to develop more great online resources for collegiate archers, or subscribe to the RSS feeds at the bottom of the right-hand column.

If you have anything you would like to share and get posted, e-mail it to Jeep Hauser, CAP Publicist at publicist@uscollegiatearchery.org.

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The College Archery Program is proud to announce that the following corporations have generously sponsored athletes in the College Archery Program:

World University Archery Team

• Easton Sports Development Foundation

All-Americans Sponsorships

• Easton Technical - EXPECT THE BEST
• Sure-loc sights - Archery Products
• Jaeger Grips - Hey, Get a grip!
• Stone Mountain Bowstrings - When only the Best will do!
• Doinker - The King of All Stabilizers
• Whitetail Targets - Simply Superior
• Gold Tip Arrows - The Toughest Arrow You’ll Ever Shoot
• AAE Cavalier USA - World’s largest manufacturer of Nocks and Vanes

All-Academic Team Sponsorships

• Easton Technical - EXPECT THE BEST
• Sure-loc sights - Archery Products
• Jaeger Grips - Hey, Get a grip!
• Whitetail Targets - Simply Superior
• Gold Tip Arrows - The Toughest Arrow You’ll Ever Shoot
• AAE Cavalier USA - World’s largest manufacturer of Nocks and Vanes

Best New Archer Sponsorships

• W&W - What champions are made of: Professionalism and Strength
  Provided Winact Bows for each Best New Archer in the recurve divisions
• Martin Archery - The most accurate bows in the World
  Provided a Mystic bow for each Best New Archer in the compound divisions

All 2007-2008 CAP Eligible Archers

• AAE Cavalier USA - World’s largest manufacturer of Nocks and Vanes
• Gold Tip Arrows - The Toughest Arrow You’ll Ever Shoot
• PSE Archery

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The Executive council held its annual meeting after the USIAC BBQ on Friday, 16 May. Elections were held for Director, Assistant Director and the two student representatives; as well as appointments for Registrar, Historian, Publicist and JOAD/HS Relations.

Accepting the position for Director was Bob Ryder, JMU and the re-election of Asst. Director Lorretta Sinclair, Cerro Coso. Student representatives are Dakota Sinclair and Cat Wu, UC Berkeley.

Bob Ryder then made the following appointments:
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The CAP board of directors submitted a grant proposal to the Easton Sports Development Foundation requesting support for the World University Archery Team. It is with great pleasure to announce the full amount of the request, $21,000, was granted to help the WUAC team.

Easton Sports Development Foundation’s goal to provide support to the College Archery Program and colleges across the country is unprecedented for the College Archery Program. The grant will provide approximately 50% of the funding required to send the top collegiate athletes to compete in the World University Archery Championships in Chinese Taipei in July 2008.

Thank you Easton Sports Development Foundation!

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USA COLLEGE ARCHERY PROGRAM
7-10 July 2008

The World University Championships will be held in Chinese Taipei Jul 7-10, 2008. USA Archery, College Archery Program will be fielding a full team to this event. (3 each from Women compound, men compound, women recurve, men recurve plus 2 coaches and 1 team leader).

Team selection: The USA team trials will run concurrently with 2008 USIACs to be held in Cape May, New Jersey. The top three finishers in each class from the FITA portion of the tournament (qualifying round) will form the 2008 USA WUAC team.

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Preregister for USIAC 2008! Download the form here: Word version and PDF version

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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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