“ON TARGET” with Queen Anne Archers JOAD

    The Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) team, Queen Ann Archers, is well into its summer tournament season. This year the JOAD Outdoor Nationals were held in Lebanon, Ohio, on June 30 to July 2. Greg Begenyi competed in both the FITA event and the Olympic Round. He shot a personal best in the FITA, and qualified as an outdoor Silver Olympian. (He already holds Silver Olympian status for indoors.)
    The Virginia Commonwealth Games are scheduled for July 14-16 in Roanoke, Virginia.  QAA, under the leadership of Coach Lani Young, will host the archery event at the Games. Archery is also to be featured as a key event during the opening ceremonies, and the QAA kids will participate a short skit depicting target archery. Both adult and child archers from all over Virginia will be competing in both recurve and compound bow classes, in all age categories. The Commonwealth Games is the biggest event of the year for QAA archers. We wish all the QAA kids well as they head down to Roanoke.
    While the kids have been shooting, Coach Mary LeCompte has been hard at work renovating the QAA website. The site now includes an interactive component, and QAA members can post their scores, pictures, and other relevant info for other members to see. (Mary will monitor the site to insure that all postings are appropriate, and that no one posts any personal identifiers.) Practice and tournament schedules will also be included on the site, as well as links to other archery resources.
    Lastly, QAA is proud to report that one of its former members, Nikki LeCompte, is shooting extremely well on the women’s varsity rifle team at Texas Christian University (see TCU Rifle Team website) She holds a rifle scholarship and despite her heavy practice and tournament schedule, has earned herself a spot on the Dean’s List!    Way to go, Nikki!

      
    QAA is always looking for more kids to share the fun of archery. QAA holds weekly practices on Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings at the IWLA outdoor range. All children (ages 8-18) in the Arlington-Fairfax Chapter of IWLA are encouraged to join QAA and discover the excitement of competitive tournament archery through JOAD. Visit the QAA website (queenannarchers.org) for more information.

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Picnic and Fishing Derby

      Another great day dawned for the annual Picnic and Fishing Derby for those with disabilities.   The 37 special guests, were able to participate in activities including air rifle with Tom Ciarula,  archery with Frank Boyko, hay rides with Durwin Carter driving and fishing under the eagle eyes and direction of Bill Suter and Carl Rice.   The traditional picnic lunch was prepared by Master Chef, Rick Kohne and his helpers.
 
      The many volunteers who help with this event come back year after year because although it’s a lot of work, they always leave feeling really good about what went on and the impact they’ve had.  The volunteers included Ken Brumback, Bob Baublitz, Wayne Owens, Joe Turner, Ed Hyland, Gilbert Ramey, Robert LeFrancois, John Dudzinsky, Frank Niccoli, Tim & Paul McBride, Gordon & Patsy Riley, Bill Hill, Clayton Poteate, Gary Stevenson, Patrick Feehan and family, Nick Hablenko, Joe & Eileen Pounder, Bruce Carr, Brian & Jennifer Veit, Rob Davis, Andrew Korostelin, Tim Kravek, Art Shope, Joe Doskus, Pam Meara, Nancy Keaton, Tilda & Bob Bissonnette and Florence Atkins.
     Coordinated by Bucky Sills, this  affair is a great destination available to special individuals and groups who love to fish and play and eat. .