Results from the Marianne Nuzzo Memorial Tournament can have been published, and you can view them here. Many thanks to those who came to shoot, and to those who came to help out!

Shooter of the Year

I have added a link for the Western PA Shooter Of The Year Info. To qualify for Shooter of the Year, you need to attend at least 6 local tournaments. The top six scores from all shooters in each category are totaled at the end of the season, and then invitations to the Shooter of the Year Competition are extended to these archers:

• Top Six Male Recurve Shooters in the U13 and U15 Classes
• Top Six Female Recurve Shooters in the U13 and U15 Classes
• Top Six Male Recurve Shooters in the U18 and U21 Classes
• Top Six Female Recurve Shooters in the U18 and U21 Classes
• Top Six Male Compound Shooters in the U13 and U15 Classes
• Top Six Female Compound Shooters in the U13 and U15 Classes
• Top Six Male Compound Shooters in the U18 and U21 Classes
• Top Six Female Compound Shooters in the U18 and U21 Classes

. This Invitational will be held on April 1st at Crowfoot, and will follow an Olympic Match Play format.

Falcon Archers Membership

It’s time to renew you memberships, or to join Falcon Archers. The next meeting will be this Wednesday, December 15th, 7:00 pm at the clubhouse. To continue in JOAD, you must join or renew by January. So take care of it this week!

Now is the time to register for the Marianne Nuzzo Memorial Tournament, 2022! Remember archers AND parents can shoot together.

Saturday Dec. 10, 2022 — Lines at 1 pm and 4 pm
Sunday Dec. 11, 2022 — Lines at 10 am and 1 pm

To Register, email falcon.joad@gmail.com or text 412-298-9986

• Cost: Donations only.
• All proceeds benefit Western PA JOAD clubs and archers!
• Open to all age archers and parents
• USA Archery scoring with no arrow restrictions
• Kitchen will be open for refreshments
• Location: Falcon Archers, 47 Papp Rd. Canonsburg PA

Top youth Recurve Archer will receive the Marianne Nuzzo Achieve your Dream trophy

Welcome to the 2023 JOAD season! Please take a few minutes to complete these items:

Complete the Falcon JOAD Registration for the new year. If you haven’t yet, you should also bring a check ($100 for returning archers, $140 for new archers) to the next practice.

Fill out the Tournament Signup sheet for your archer. You’ll be able to edit just the first tab (“SIGNUP”) — the other tabs are for us to send to the individual clubs. Please edit just your line, and indicate your archer’s preferred line times, numbering them 1 thru 4.

If you haven’t yet, please visit the website and sign up for email updates. Also be sure to register for Remind updates (text @falconjoad to the number 81010)

Practices Saturday @8:30. See you there!

Time for our yearly update on tournament requirements and etiquette!  Good luck to all our archers this weekend at Beaver Valley Archers.

Things to Remember for Tournaments:

1. Wear black pants and your team shirt. If you run into an “emergency”, you can come dressed differently, just be sure to not wear camo or old jeans.
2. Arrive 30-45 minutes prior to shooting time.
   • You need time to check-in, put equipment together, & listen to announcements (announcements are typically 5-10 minutes prior to start of shooting).
3. Come prepared
   • Be sure you have all of your equipment and enough arrows (in your quiver, not your case).
     • 3 arrows are shot at a time, but you need to have extras in case of damage to, or loss of, vanes or nocks (4 arrows is a minimum; 6 or more is best).
     • ALL of an archer’s arrows MUST match and have their initials on the shafts!
   • Keep a pencil in your quiver!
4. Upon arrival, check in at the registration desk and put your equipment together.
   • You are to verify your merit class, age class, equipment, gender, target type/size.
   • Sometimes merit classes change often. If you jumped ANYTIME before the tournament (including at the last tournament) be sure to correct it at check-in.
   • If you are given your scorecard at the registration desk, you are to place it at the target.
5. Scoring:
   • NEVER mark or touch arrows or the target before they are ALL called and recorded!
   • No less than 3 archers may score together, typical group size is 4 archers.
   • Double scoring is always used.
   • Archers decide who calls, who scores, and who observes.
   • Make sure everyone is clear on whether each archer is scoring inner or outer 10 rings.
   • Do NOT copy scores! i.e. – scorekeepers must do their own addition.
   • Check scores after every end, before arrows are pulled (even if the other scorekeeper doesn’t want to do this, it is very important, and is a rule – insist on doing it).
   • Mark your arrows!
6. Line etiquette:
   • Step to the line within the allotted time (10 seconds)/
   • If you are late to the line, do not step to line if archer facing you is at full draw.
   • Take care not to bump those around you on the line.
   • Do NOT leave the line if a shooter immediately on either side of you is at full draw.
7. Verbal communication and coaching on the line is NOT permitted.
   Communication must occur behind the wait line while your line is not shooting.
8. If you are unable to shoot an arrow/end due to an equipment issue, notify a coach and/or line judge. (A line judge MUST be told – a coach can do this for you – BEFORE you miss your time to shoot).  If you are on the line, raise your hand to indicate a problem. The line judge will let you know to step off the line and seek help.
9. At completion of shooting, give both scorecards to the host club’s representative. They will return one of them to you.  Keep it for your records, but we will receive the scores from the host club in a few days.
10. Any questions or problems, ask a coach or line judge.

Links are available on the website (and copied here for your convenience) to sign up for jobs and food donations for the Falcon JOAD Tournament, held the weekend of Jan. 14-16.

We’re a smaller group this year, but when we hold our tournament we still need to handle the same number of people as always. So I’m hoping that if you have two able adults in the house, you are going to help out by taking two job assignments.

Falcon Tournament Jobs

I kept the same food list as always, too, but we’ll never meet it with one donation per family. So I’m going to ask that each family select TWO items from the list. If this presents a problem, please reach out to coach Jeff and we’ll see what we can work out.

Falcon Tournament Food

Thank you everyone! I hope you enjoy a terrific holiday!