photo by Peter Ho, Stanford University
Tournament Overview and Awards
The 2005 Western Regional tournament was held in Long Beach, CA at the El Dorado field in late April. Wind, rain, and cold did not hamper the fun and competition. Though Mel Leach accused the one and only Utah archer of, ‘bringing this weather’, it was only done because we have to shoot in the same environment that we practice in. Otherwise, we would’ve called for hot and sunny.
Team attendance was represented by 11 schools, though there were a few ‘lone archers’ who quickly made friends within the larger groups. The spirit of friendliness by the archers was one of the finer points of the competition. The days were long, with some delays, but overall the tournament was run very well.
Introduction of the ‘skipping rule’ at the 30meter distance kept morale high and focused archers on the X. The ‘skipping rule’ should receive consideration to FITA rules as it enhances the speed of completing the round, among other things. Skipping rule, you ask?? Early in the last round, Dine’ College stated that if you didn’t shoot an X, you had to skip back from the target. The intentness on getting X’s, not just 10’s increased 10 fold, especially with one archer who is ‘skipping impaired’ having failed skipping lessons early in life. Soon after the rule was implemented, there became long lines of skipping archers returning from the targets. Laughter abounded.
The awards ceremony was held late in the day on Sunday after the elimination round.
| Archer | College / University | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Given to the high rookie FITA scorer for each class. | ||
| Jeff Bryan | California State University, Long Beach | Compound Men |
| Sophia Clark | California State University, Long Beach | Recurve Women |
| Peter Ho | Stanford University | Recurve Men |
| Lizatina Tsosie | Dine' College | Compound Women |
| Medal | Compound, Women | Recurve, Women | Compound, Men | Recurve, Men |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Keebaugh, Chick, Austria, California State University, Long Beach | Tapaha, Alcott, Dimond, Dine' College | Blomquist, Bryan, Mercier, California State University, Long Beach | Hubbard, Slaybe, Tapaha, Dine College |
| Silver | TIED- Clark, Leung, Collier of California State University, Long Beach& Tyan, Erickson, Yu of Stanford University | Etsitty, Gray, Poorman, Dine College | Cheng, Rael, Keenan,University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Bronze | Men’s Recurve: Hwang, Kodiak, Yee, Stanford University |
| Place | Compound, Women | Recurve, Women | Compound, Men | Recurve, Men |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julie Murphy, University of California, Los Angeles | Kate Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles | Eric Blomquist, California State University, Long Beach | Dakota Sinclair, Utah State University |
| 2 | Sandra Tyan, Stanford University | Tyler Benner, Claremont McKenna College | ||
| 3 | Marcus Clinco, California State University, Dominguez Hills | |||