Aftermath Junior Nats (Vics)

[Gilli]

Home from Sydney.... Soo glad to be home in our own house, bed, and cooler Melbourne Temps.

Vic Team had a ball... Made lots of new archery friends. Caught up with lots of old ones. Some Juniors had someone to compete for the first time since joining archery.
Great shooting by everyone. This was a fantastic experience for everyone, only one member of the team did not bring home a medal. (But we all got a Winning Compound TEAM Medal - even Eric and I.) Several National Records were broken by Vics this week.

We are sending at least 4 of the Victorian Team Members to New Zealand for the Trans Tasman Junior Challenge at Easter. And one to UK for the World Junior Target Comp.

You will see some serious training from this group over the coming months. Just give them a couple of days to recover as it was a very tiring week for Juniors, Parents and Team Managers.

Gill

[Marcus]

We won the Compound Teams!!! Fantastic!! Well done everyone on the Vic team!

So who are going to NZ and the UK (Chris I think is going to the Worlds)

:D

[Flame]

We won the Compound Teams!!! Fantastic!! Well done everyone on the Vic team!

So who are going to NZ and the UK (Chris I think is going to the Worlds)

:D

The AA board will not make a decision on who will be going to the Worlds for 3 weeks according to GL

[Flame]

Big thanks to you Gilli and Eric for the great job you did as
Mananger and Assistant Manager

Well done :D

[Chris]

The Worlds:
Chris Edwards (unoffically on team Awaiting Conformation)

Trans-Tasman
Chris Edwards
Sten Nigol
Patrick Smith
Dean Anderson

I think these are correct

[CMB50]

The Worlds:
Chris Edwards (unoffically on team Awaiting Conformation)

Trans-Tasman
Chris Edwards
Sten Nigol
Patrick Smith
Dean Anderson

I think these are correct

Great work guys, well done on being selected. There's a mighty fine bunch of shooters there!

[Marcus]

Nicole Pless also has been selected to the Trans Tasmen.

[ambie]

yeah thanx gilli! you looked after me well too!

[Gilli]

Hey Amber,
If you are going to become a Victorian Archer we have to make you feel at home!! Great to see you. Did you have as much fun as everyone else - probably more?? Great Shooting

Have a good trip home & say hi to our friends in Perth

Gilll

[ambie]

of course i had fun! i always do... and how could i not with 2 gold medals?? lol. nah it was great to see everyone again, and next year i am staying in sydney longer than my team is.

[abaggs]

What's the deal with scores to qualify for the Junior Worlds? the qualifying score for u18bc is 1320 and Chris only shot like 1293 (I don't mean only in that sense) but yeah what's the deal? how can he be considered?

[Marcus]

Did those submitting interest have to pay $50 to register for the team? Did they also ask people to register on the day?
Seen that done before just to raise money.

[abaggs]

I believe you could register for the trans-tasman on the day, but as for paying or the junior worlds I don't know, I dint ask coz I thought I dint shoot well enough. :cry: :wink:

[Clare Barnes]

What's the deal with scores to qualify for the Junior Worlds? the qualifying score for u18bc is 1320 and Chris only shot like 1293 (I don't mean only in that sense) but yeah what's the deal? how can he be considered?

This was circulated by AA in November......

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1. OVERVIEW

1.1 The 2004 World Junior Championships is a major event in 2004 and Archery Australia is intending to send a team to the Championships.

1.2 The 2004 World Junior Championships will be conducted in Lilleshall Great Britain from the 19th to the 24th of July 2004.

1.3 Team funding will be in line with current Archery Australia team funding policy.

1.4 Archery Australia can enter of team of 32 junior archers into 2 age categories Junior and cadet. A junior is a person 18 years and under and a Cadet is a person 16 years and under.

1.5 There can be up to 16 Junior archers shooting in 4 categories - 4 Junior Men Recurve, 4 Junior Men Compound, 4 Junior Women Recurve, 4 Junior Women Compound

1.6 There can be up to 16 Cadet archers shooting in 4 categories - 4 Cadet Men Recurve, 4 Cadet Men Compound, 4 Cadet Women Recurve, 4 Cadet Women Compound

1.7 Archery Australia will appoint a Team manager and Team Coach who will be responsible for the planning, preparation and conduct of the team during the championships.

2. PROCESS

2.1 The firstly to be considered for selection archers must a) obtain the required Minimum Qualifying Score (MQS) and 2) register with Archery Australia submitting the registration form and paying the registration fee.

2.2 Registrations close on the 2nd January 2004 with the Archery Australia Chief Executive Officer.

2.3 The Minimum Qualifying Scores (MQS) and rounds are

[654321]

Does any one know who else over the rest of Australia have been selected for the trans-tasman team ?

Thanks

[Jay Bowden]

I heard that 3 members from the Sunshine Coast made selection.

[abaggs]

Oh right,

stupid string, why did you have to break three days before the junior nats!

[frommy]

Oh right,

stupid string, why did you have to break three days before the junior nats!

Anthony,

And just think how much worse it would have been for you at the Jnr Nats had Bob Armstrong not fixed your noisy bow! :roll:

Brian

[Flame]

:D

[abaggs]

My bow was noisy before during and will be after the juniors, so I take it that wasn't an attempt at a put-down :D (for want of a better word) sure my string and cables may have not lasted the rest of the nats with practically 0 twists in them, but damn that changed the friggin sight settings :-? Not like I was gonna get a string settled in, and solid sight setting, with nice cam-timing and perfect all that in three days...

Nah, anyway it was good of him to help me though.

Can't keep making excuses tho, just gotta be prep'd for that sh#t when it happens really. :(

[Marcus]

You would if you used 452X or 450 Plus. Put mine on, went oout got sight settings and shot a FITA 3 days later. Sight settings fine. :wink:

[abaggs]

I would have been alright if I had even a half shot-in string, problem was, I had only just settled in the original set of cables/string.

I guess the moral of the story is get your bow and make two sets of strings/cables when u get it, on exactly the same settings
(or order 2 sets of WC's if ur 2dogs)
and put 500 shots through the first set, then chuck the 2nd set on and settle those in. (instead of the ****e martin-made ones)

:roll: Bit of a long moral i spose, but works for me :)