CHAMPIONSHIP
The weekend of March 29th & 30th, 40 Creekwood
Shooters ventured to Oneonta, NY for the NYFAB
Classic Indoor Championships. It was held at the
Boys & Girls Club in two separate gyms. It is a huge
facility with the potential to have many more shooters
than showed up. Creekwood shooters took 5 - Best
in Style Champions, 17 - 1st places, 9 - 2nd places,
3 - 3rd places, which equates to 22 NYS Champions.
A 1st is a State Champion and a Best in Style is a step
above first.
The cake was chowed down by all the folks in
the group picture taken at Creekwood before
we left for Oneonta.
This is what a Best in Style Trophy looks like.
This is Sarah Paluskiewicz who is the Style
Champion in Youth Female Freestyle Limited.
A 1st Place Metal is like the one Diana Simone won.
She is standing next to her dad, Dave.
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All the pictures below were provided by Paul Shaver and the originals
can be found at http://pjshaver@znfolio.com
When we got there we were surprised to see what a nice facility it was.
The lighting left a lot to be desired, but Creekwood's lighting spoils its shooters. No matter
where we go we don't like the lighting with the exception of Lancaster Archery.
I didn't go upstairs where this picture was taken, but there is another room up there where
you could add another line to the shoot.
As you can see the facility was sweet, but it was a long and expensive way to go.
We have been spoiled with having the shoot in Seneca Falls for the last few years. Creekwood
is going to push to have this shoot run like the NFAA shoot we hosted the following week.
Saturday was practice. These are some of the pictures taken during the practice session.
For the people that could, adjustments were made to compensate for the lighting. For the
people who couldn't make adjustments it is just a matter of getting accustomed to the
conditions that are fair and the same for everyone. Sometimes adjustments in sight settings
have to be made just because changes in lighting make the target appear different to you.
Are kids that went took practice serious to prepare for the competition the next day. As you
will see later on looking at these pictures, GOOD PRACTICE pays off. In archery, we at
Creekwood have a saying: Thoughts become actions, actions become habits, and habits
become character. We believe archery builds physical, moral and mental courage which
develops a self-reliance which is so lacking these days.
While practice was going on in one gym, Samantha (in white) and Tracy Neil (in light blue) were running a CD Shoot in another gym.
Anyone who wanted to try there luck, paid $1.00 per CD, and if you shot inside the hole with
no damage to the CD, you qualified for a shoot-off for a whole pile of great stuff. Any one who
tried was also in a blind drawing for good stuff.
Saturday night Creekwood went out to dinner at the Depot. It was a restaurant made out of an
old train station. We had a room at a Bar-B-Que place for a while but it was over booked and
we lost out. The Depot turned out to be a good thing, but Marcia on a reconnaissance mission
had some doubts. She didn't know how it would be for kids. As it turned out it was fine.
We had our own room, which was nice. The food was real good and the desert was great.
OK, now it is Sunday, the big day, the day our States Program has been running for 14 weeks for.
Everything is on the line. The whole enchilada, as they say. Once an arrow is shot, there is
only two things you can do. If it's a good shot, you feast on it. If it's a bad shot you forget it.
You learn sometimes the hard way, that if an arrow gets away from you and you let it bother
you, you will pay for it on the scoring of arrows shot after the bad one.
Archery is all mental control. While some people are shooting, some are just watching or have
already shot. There was lots of spectator room. Dave Benty & Ray Scroger above have been
friends shooting together for years and years.
Brad Carney (above) is being missed at Creekwood. Lorie Moses (above) showed up and
kicked her normal butt.
Cub competition had it's issues. Creekwood provided the targets and the shooters were so
good, they were shooting thru the target. For our kids that are learning how to shoot, they still
work fine at our shop, but that young man "The 60X man, as from Doc's Archery was pounding
so hard, we had to keep moving his target around. I was the Ref for the cub target, and he looked
at me and said, "Where did my arrow go?" I think next year NYFAB will have to find a better
target for the Cubs. Some years, and this was one of them, some of the Cubs had experiences
that they are not ready to handle. These kids are 11 and under, and away from there home club
there are a lot of pressures they have not experienced before.
Watch for this young lady in the middle (above) next year.
This young lady is Allison Gurgel(2 CD centers) Both these Creekwood Shooters PJ & Paul Shaver are 300 shooters and Alli kicked there butts in a shoot off.
Creekwood received the Charlie Ryan Cub Incentive
Award for the third year in a row for having the most
kids at the State Championships
CREEKWOOD RULES
LIFE IS GOOD !