ery range in the school gym

Text Box: ery range in the school gym. Educators say that school attendance is up and student behavior improves
when archery is introduced. Other side effects of the program include
increased sales of archery equipment and after school archery clubs.

The Oklahoma Wildlife Department sponsored a state archery championship tournament at the Wellness Center of the University of Central Oklahoma( UCO) in spring of 2005. Over

Text Box: 200 archers in middle school and high school participated in the inaugural
event.
Trosper Club members Mike Atwell, Fred Hockett and Jane Johnson were among the volunteer officials during the tournament.
Jane

Text Box: The National Archery in Schools Program (NASP) began in Kentucky in 2002 and was introduced to Oklahoma schools in 2005 by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife.

The program features include a two-week archery program in physical education classes, as well as a curriculum including science, literatureand history aspects of archery. Using the Genesis Bow made by Matthews, teachers can easily set up a safe arch

Text Box: Trosper Archery Club has reached out to the archers of tomorrow in establishing a National-Archery-Association-certified Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD use this link for more information) Club for archers eighteen and under.
Trosper JOAD Club will meet at the Indoor Range at 10:00 a.m., Saturdays, unless there is a tournament scheduled for that weekend.
The JOAD Program provides boys and girls with an opportunity to learn to shoot and win awards for achievement in shooting, as well as opportunities to compete with others their age. The NAA's JOAD Clubs

Text Box: have contributed significantly to filling our U. S. Olympic Archery Teams, since many recent U.S. Olympic team members began shooting as JOAD Club members.
Adult leaders are needed to work with NAA-certified coaches Gary Adair, Cameron Potter and Jane Johnson in developing Oklahoma's future gold medalists. Contact Gary Adair at (405) 721-0979 to take part in this exciting project.
Many thanks,
Jane, Gary, Kathryn & Cameron

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Text Box: However, we need a facility to use for a few years until we can get the grant and permission from the Parks Department.
We are working to get the club classified as a non-profit organization, which would allow a property owner to let us stay rent free and claim the rent as tax deductible. We would only have to pay for utilities. If any

Text Box: Most of you have probably already know that we lost the indoor range on Robinson. Since that time we have had to move to new indoor facilities twice. The problem we have is finding an affordable place which the club can afford. The club if currently talking to the Parks Department about allowing us to build a permanent facility at Trosper Park, which will be funded by a grant.

Text Box: of the club members know of a suitable building for the indoor range
and a willing land lord please find out if the owner is willing. The current indoor facility is up for rent and can be rented at any time, which would put us out on the street. Call Rhonny or Damon for information.
Damon

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