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Photo courtesy of Gary Hostein

The 2011 USIAC hosted by James Madison University and the JMU Archery Club had a record number of participants, 240. The three-day event consisted of a 144 arrow ranking round, team rounds, elimination rounds and for the first time ever a mixed team round.

A mixed team is made up of one male and one female in their respective division. The compound mixed team was won by Cierra Abbate and Daniel Suter from JMU. The recurve mixed team was won by Jennifer Nichols and Aaron Henslin of Texas A&M. In the bowhunter division, a new collegiate division, Penn State won the mixed team round. 

Following the final ranking round on Saturday the team rounds took place. The recurve women’s team gold medal match was extremely close with Texas A&M shooting 10 hits to Columbia’s 9. Texas A&M also won gold in the men’s recurve and men’s compound divisions. The women’s compound gold medal was won by Dine College. Penn State took gold in the bowhunter team round. 

The final day of competition was the elimination rounds were the individual national champions were won. This years national champions are:

Women's Recurve, Jennifer Nichols – Texas A&M

Men's Recurve, Forrest Blackley – Shawnee Community College

Women's Compound, Kendal Nicely – University of New England

Men's Compound, Danny Wido – Penn. College 

Women's Bowhunter, Maria James - Michigan State University

Men's Bowhunter, Joseph Dowdrick - Penn College

At the awards banquet USCA Director Lorretta Sinclair presented the coaches with pins for the number of years they have served as a USCA coach. Coaches continued to be recognized for their service with the Coach of the Year award. This years nominees were Lorretta Sinclair (West Region), Glen Bennett (North Region), Chad Karstetter (East Region). The 2011 Coach of the Year award went to Chad Karstetter of Penn College.

All American Awards were given to the top 10 archers in each division based on their cumulative score of Indoor Nationals and the USIAC.

The finale of the Awards banquet was announcing the 2011 USCA Overall Team Champion. This year's overall team champion was Texas A&M with Penn College coming in 2^nd and James Madison 3^rd.

For complete USIAC results click here.

 

Best New Archer

Recurve Men                                                            Recurve Women

1. Albert Whitehat, Mt. Marty College               1. Jamie VanLent, Mt. Marty College

2. Kevin Wong, UCLA                                   2. Kayce Olson, Mt. Marty College

3. Alexander Wen, UC Berkeley                       3. Rebecca Wang, UCLA

 

Compound Men                                                        Compound Women

1. Shaun Harbison, JMU                                 1. Abbey Woods, JMU

2. Ripley Otero, Cal State Long Beach               2. Amanda MIller, JMU

3. Jeremy Turck, JMU                                    3. Stephanie Ranks, UC Berkeley

 

Overall Team

1. Texas A&M, 1222

2. Penn College, 1017

3. JMU, 921

4. UC Berkeley, 859

5. Cal State Long Beach, 599

6. Stanford, 517

7. UConn, 482

8. UCLA, 420

9. Atlantic Cape, 392

10. Mount Marty College, 328

 

2011 World University Team

Recurve Men                                    Recurve Women

Tony Don                                  Kayla DeBord

Joe Fanchin                               Lyndsey Marzec

Glen Thomas                             Elizabeth Didan

 

Compound Men                               Compound Women

Adam Gallant                            Tristan Skarvan

Adam Wruck                              Elissa Falconer

Zach Plannick                            Kacey Eggers