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ITAA Newsletter - September, 2018
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A Note from the President
September, 2018
Now is the time to finish the outdoor season strong, and take some tinkering time to experiment with new ideas, equipment, or training before indoor kicks in.
August was a month of huge tournaments. Adult USAA Nationals and the Lausanne 2018 World Masters Championships both featured ITAA archers. In September, ITAA archers also competed at the Para World Ranking Event.
Closer to home, the ITAA JOAD Outdoor and All-Ages Outdoor state championship events were last month. The JOAD Outdoor this year featured an afternoon elimination bracket culminating in category finals shot World Cup style from a raised stage, with bleachers full of cheering supporters and running commentary from our Mr. Archery Demetrio Mascarenas! The All-Ages event featured our largest shooting line ever, pushing through the heat, sun, and locomotives for a great event.
Congratulations to all of the volunteers, archers, coaches, and supporters who made both events a big success. As always, please email me or any of the board with your thoughts, comments, and feedback. That's the only way we keep improving.
In the Outdoor state championship events, several of our archers received special awards for extraordinary results:
- Barb Schuessler - Bronze Olympian Pin
- Charlie Bolton earned his USA Archery Silver Olympian Pin.
- Cady Kokotovich from Mid America JOAD took Missouri Top Junior Female Compound Archer for 2018 from her combined success at the Missouri Outdoor and Indoor State Championship events.
At the Iowa JOAD state championship, every single Illinois archer who participated won a podium spot! Great job in spreading the Illinois out to other states!
Here are some upcoming highlight events:
On Sept 22nd, WRC is hosting the inaugural Midwest Barebow/Trad Target Championships -- a variety of challenging formats all day long, crowning the champions as the most versatile sightless archers.
On Sept 29th, the Cross River Challenge pits JOAD archers from Illinois against JOAD archers from Missouri.
USA Archery has posted their schedule for the 2019 National Events. There are some big changes, so make sure you check them early.
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2018 Midwest Barebow / Traditional Target Championship
On September 22nd, The Wheaton Rifle Club is hosting this inaugural all-sightless mixed-format day-long archery tournament.
This four-part tournament comprises a 30 arrow International Round, a 36 arrow World Archery Round, a Paper Animal Target Round, and a last-arrow-flying elimination round.
More details and sign-up info is over here.
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Cross River Challenge
On September 29th, Mid-America JOAD is throwing down the gauntlet to see which state's JOAD archers can bring the excellence. So finish your outdoor season strong and represent your state!
This is a one-day 720 JOAD Round at Town Hall Archery in Belleville.
More info and registration is over here.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Illinois Archery Combined Archery Calendar
This list is continually updated over here on the ITAA web site.
September, 2018
- September 22nd, 2018
- September 23rd, 2018
- JOAD and AAP Pin Shoot
- 9am – recurve 122cm
- Noon – compound 80cm
- 3pm – as-needed
- Wheaton Rifle Club, West Chicago, IL
- September 29th, 2018
- September 29th (was August 4th), 2018,
- September 30th, 2018
October, 2018
- October 6th, 2018
- October 7th, 2018
- October 7th, 2018
- October 13th, 2018
- Fall FITA
- Indoor 600 Round
- Chicagoland JOAD @ Chicago Bow Hunters
- CBH, Bolingbrook
- October 13th, 2018
- October 28th, 2018
November, 2018
- November 3rd, 2018 (was 10th)
- Turkey Trot
- Indoor 600 Round
- Chicagoland JOAD @ Chicago Bow Hunters
- CBH, Bolingbrook
- November 30th, 2018
- Placeholder
- TAZ Archery, Woodstock
December, 2018
- December 1st, 2018
- Placeholder
- TAZ Archery, Woodstock
- December 1st, 2018
- December 7th-9th, 2018
- December 15-16th, 2018
January, 2019
- January 4th-6th, 2019
- January 18th-20th
- January 25-27th, 2019
- January 26th, 2019
February, 2019
- February 8-10, 2019
- February 23-24th, 2018
- NFAA Great Lakes Sectionals
- Sauk Valley Archers, Dixon
March, 2019
April, 2019
August, 2019
- August 31st-September 1st, 2019
- North Region Outdoor Target Championships
- Duel in the Cornfield – State vs State
- 2-day Double 720 Round
- DuPage County Fairgrounds
- Wheaton, IL
February, 2020
If your club or organization is hosting a tournament, let us know and we will be glad to list it here and promote it.
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ASSOCIATED LINKS
Mission JOAD / Strictly Archery, Shorewood
American Indian Center of Chicago Archery, Chicago
Team BowDoc JOAD, Mokena / Joliet
North Side Archery Club, Chicago
Standard Archery, Round Lake
Chicago Archery Academy, Elmhurst
Northern Illinois Archery Organization, Sugar Grove
Rigneys School of Archery, Springfield
Indian Trails Archery, Freeport
Town Hall Archery / Mid-America JOAD, Belleville
The Archery Place, Montgomery
Wanderlust Archers, Morton Grove
Nock And Feather, Aurora
If your archery club or organization would like to be included here, just let us know.
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