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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)…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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.…

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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…

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Chula Vista Olympic Training Center: Day 2

(Originally posted on facebook) Day two summary (Tuesday). Today Coach Lee finished overviewing the mental and physical aspects that make up the National Training System (NTS) as well as explaining…

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Chula Vista Olympic Training Center: Day 1

We are about to start day two of coaching clinics on the National Training System (NTS) at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center! Monday was fantastic and even Sunday night…