About JOAD

Junior Olympic Archery Development, or JOAD, is administered by USA Archery, the national governing body for the sport of archery. USA Archery is sanctioned by the US Olympic Committee to oversee US Olympic Archery. USA Archery is a member of the word-wide archery organization FITA (Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc).

JOAD is open to any youth archer aged 5 to 18. Both recurve and compund bows are used in club activities and in tournaments. JOAD archers who use a compound bow can train to compete in local and regional tournaments, and can earn a seat on a youth world team to compete in other countries representing the United States on behalf of USA Archery.

Recurve archers can compete likewise, with the added benefit of being able to use their recurve bow to try out for a spot on the US Olympic Archery team, which is selected and managed by USA Archery.

Olympians

		Jozef Ziegler Compound: Gold Olympian 9/25/10 Silver Olympian 9/04/10 Bronze Olympian 7/23/10		Recurve: Bronze Olympian 9/23/10
		Jeremy Pittman Bronze Olympian 2/24/11
		Garret Guilloz Silver Olympian 2/19/11 Bronze Olympian 1/15/11
		Torrey Bonham Silver Olympian 2/11/11 Bronze Olympian 9/12/10
		Blake Ballou   Silver Olympian 1/02/11 Bronze Olympian 12/19/10
		Tyler Bauer   Bronze Olympian 05/08/10
		Cordel Berger   Silver Olympian 05/22/10 Bronze Olympian 04/05/08
		Logan Ballou   Bronze Olympian 01/17/10
		Mitchell Lombardi   Silver Olympian 03/06/10 Bronze Olympian 01/10/09
		Sarahanne Wanty   Bronze Olympian 01/10/09
		Corey Genereaux   Bronze Olympian 02/24/08 Silver Olympian 04/05/08

JOAD Awards

JOAD Stars Pins

JOAD Stars pins are awarded for scoring achievements. JOAD archers can earn Stars Pins for shooting indoors and/or outdoors with recurve and/or compound bows.

Each Stars Pin is a different color, and each has a successive number of stars on it to represent the increasing challenge in earning that particular award pin.

In order to allow for the greatest flexibility in terms of indoors/outdoors, recurve or compound, each pin can be earned in a variety of ways.

Following the Stars Pins, JOAD archers can achieve even higher "Olympian" awards.

6-Star Gold Pin

Your JOAD archers can earn the official “6-Gold” pin when they shoot six 10’s in a row—either in a single 6-arrow end, or in two consecutive 3-arrow ends.

Olympian Awards

Youth archers can earn advanced levels of recognition with the Olympian Award levels—Bronze, Silver and Gold.

An archer reaching these levels is honored with special recognition from the USA Archery office.

The Pro Shop

We are a full service Pro Shop

and can service your equipment

in a timely and professional manner

Here is Brandi in our arrow room where we fletch most of our arrows by hand. If we don't have the colors you want in stock we will custom fletch them for you at no extra charge.

We have Truflite feathers, Blazer, Quikspin, & AAE Vanes.

We also have wraps available.

Here you see Dave in our Bow Work Shop. We use the most up to date equipment to work on your bow. We have replacement strings and cables for most makes of bows. Our goal is to service your equipment while you wait if at all possible. The use of 2 Sure-Loc X-Presses help us toward this goal.

We carry a wide variety of archery accessories: