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Grow Your Archery Garden: Reflecting on Outdoor Nationals 2017
SerahRose and I traveled to Westfield Indiana this month to coach four Amherst Archery athletes at Outdoor Nationals. David Weaver (Recurve, NH), Zach Dutton (Recurve, NH), Ethan Callihan (Compound, NH)…

Training Clinic with USA Head Coach Kisik Lee: May, 2017, in New England!
I am excited to announce that Jane Park, mother of archer athlete Gene Kang, is working to organize a Training Clinic here in New England with USA Head Coach Kisik…

Daniel Roney: Resilient, Patient, Determined
Indoor Nationals, 2017. Amherst Archery Academy Compound Archer Athlete in focus: Daniel Roney. Qualities highlighted: resilience, trust, team work, sportsmanship, process-based thinking, maintenance of self-image. Daniel recently joined AAA. In…

Sam Kleinman-Eddy Goes to Nationals, Finds His Center, Solid Mental & Physical Game
Another story from Nationals from a very, very proud Coach. This story is about Sam (not the Sammy the other story is about from a post from earlier today). However,…

Sammy Conrad-Rooney Goes to Indoor Nationals 2017, Gets Yellow Pin, Ranks High
I’ll be writing a full report on how Nationals went. Until then, I don’t want another day to go by without acknowledging Sammy and his accomplishments during Nationals this year.…

Chula Vista Olympic Training Center: Day 5
If victory is your destination, make excellence your governing value and perform the work necessary to become great. There are no shortcuts along that journey. I looked back over my…

Chula Vista Olympic Training Center: Day 4
Today I got to attend a lecture from Dr. Lee, a sports scientist. Luckily, we ended up eating lunch together after the lecture and I was able to extend my…

Chula Vista Olympic Training Center: Day 3
I was lucky today In a few ways. One: We had a clinic with (I think) the head of high performance coaching within the US Olympic Committee….I need to double…