By tournament director, Tom Barker

The 2007 TSAA state JOAD was held in Victoria on June 16th and 17th.

The weather would just not give us a break. The tournament was stopped with two ends to go on the long distances on Saturday with a very violent thunderstorm coming in on us, and more forecast for the rest of the afternoon. The weather cleared about two hours later, but by then everyone was back at the hotel.

Everyone showed up at the venue early Sunday morning and we actually got practice started a half hour early at 8:30. We tried to start scoring at 9:00 but with one end of practice to go the sky opened up destroying a couple of easyup popup tents. It was just rain and wind, so we held everyone on the field for a good drenching. After about 10 minutes we started back up for one more end of practice only to have the storm that passed us, back up with lightning now. We cleared the field until 10:15. We then finished the two ends from Saturday, reset targets and then began the third distance. After two ends, a new storm moved in on the archers and the radar looked like it was going to last a couple of hours. So, at 11:15 the tournament director called the tournament. It was decided that even if the tournament could resume after two hours and then shoot for another 4 hours, assuming no more rain delays, by the time everyone finished with shooting and awards it would be 6 or 7. Many of the families had 7-9 hour drives ahead of them. No one complained. So, we went to the archery shop in Victoria and did the awards while it sprinkled. With the conclusion of the awards about noon, the sun came out and it was nice for the rest of the day.

Hunter Barthels and Joseph Human set a couple of state records for their shooting and I think the record for most rain delays was set also. Even though the event had to be shortened everyone seemed pleased to get back on the road and spend some of father's day not getting drenched.

Things the tournament director learned:
Everyone was very sympathetic and no one complained about his decisions.

Cell phones and lightning detectors are very valuable in thunderstorms, but not water resistant.

Easyup Popup Tents are storm magnets.

When there is a drought, schedule an archery tournament. The farmers and ranchers will love you. 

 

TSAA State JOAD Target Championship
  * Indicates State Record Dist1 Dist 2 Dist 3 Dist 4
Not  Shot
Lightning
Storms		 Total 10's
Yeoman Recurve Female Peterson, Bryce Marie 244 231 35   510  
Yeoman Compound Female Garcia, Sarah Ann 188 127 36   351  
Yeoman Recurve Male Bachmeyer, Aidan 53 118 33   204  
               
Bowman BareBow Female Trafford, Miriam 277 308 45   630  
               
Bowman BareBow Male Trafford, Hardy 209 214 23   446  
               
Bowman Compound Female Tomlinson, Jessica 333 330 44   707  
               
Bowman Compound Male Barthels, Hunter 336 334 57   727  
  Brister, Zachary 329 336 52   717  
  Estlund, Luke 322 327 50   699  
  Wiggen, Landon 170 206 20   396  
               
Bowman Recurve Female Brown, Mackenzie 290 302 48   640  
  Warner, Sara 239 247 44   530  
  Melton, Savunnah 224 243 35   502  
  Barthels, Heather 176 200 33   409  
  Wiggen, Logan 190 171 17   378  
               
Bowman/guest Recurve Female Holladay, Katy 213 226 41   480  
               
Bowman Recurve Male Faidley, Shawn 204 269 39   512  
               
Cub Compound Male Hoganson, Nicholas 316 334 52   702  
  Tomlinson, Claude 308 310 56   674  
  Human, Thomas 303 312 51   666  
               
Cub Recurve Female Anderson, Charly 281 311 50   642  
  Trafford, Rachael 268 285 48   601  
  Trafford, Heather 139 197 37   373  
  Williams, Allison 144 150 22   316 1
  Hollmann, Taylor 111 180 25   316 0
               
Cub Recurve Male Branham, Cristopher 52 104 9   165  
               
Cadet Recurve Female Schroeder, Jory 288 178 0   466  
  Westfall, Elise 145 163 10   318  
  Knowlton, Megan 0 86 40   126  
               
Cadet Recurve Male Janota, Tyler 252 174     426  
               
Junior Compound Female Lesak, Meagan 313 312 55   680  
               
Junior Compound Male Human, Joseph 278 326* 52   656  
  Brown, Bryce 0 320 51   371  
               
Junior Recurve Female Cabrera, Fernanda 288 255 45   588  
  Petrosky, Simone 232 141 11   384  
  DeBord, Kayla     39   39  
               
Junior Recurve Male Brown, Jordan 213 281 43   537  
  Sera, Max 202 241 29   472  
  Schardt, Tyler 146 222 31   399  
               
Master 50+ Recurve Male Petrosky, Gregory 187 161 33   381  
               
Master 70+ Compound Male Morgan, Don 321 318 49   688  
               
Senior Compound Female TRUE, Lannette 279 273 47   599  
               
Senior Compound Male TRUE, Andy 293 302 53   648  
  Cabrera, Hugo 274 309 51   634  
               
Senior Recurve Female Garner, Andrea 258 278 41   577  
               
Senior Recurve Male Hojnacki, Michael 255 295 53   603  

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