Junior Olympic Archery Development

Our JOAD program meets at the range every Saturday morning from 9:00 am until 1:00 pm. Coaches Mike Broder, John Downey,  Dave Dragan, and a host of volunteer archers provide instruction with an emphasis on good form and good fun.  JOAD Membership is $10 per year.  While our JOAD program is held on the Conejo Valley Archers (CVA) Range, membership in CVA is not required.  There is a $3.00 fee per archer per session to shoot. Those young archers who have their own equipment are given encouragement and advice on setting it up properly and using it to best advantage. The majority of the starting archers do not have their own bows and use equipment owned and provided by the JOAD organization. This program has a number of fine young archers who are doing well in national competition.

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Although the JOAD program is intended for young archers, the Coaches have been kind enough to permit adults who are just beginning this sport to join in the JOAD training sessions. There may be no finer way to get started than with the coaching talents of Mike, John and Dave.  Mike, John, and Dave are National Archery Association (NAA) Certified Archery Instructors.  Many National and State Champions have come out of our JOAD program, including Dave Dragans's daughter, Carissa.  Carissa was one of the top three college female archers in the USA last year, and is a product of the Conejo JOAD program. The National Archery Association of the United States recognized a need for a Junior Olympic Archery Development program in 1961 and has improved it's structure over the years. Since the commitment was made the JOAD program has endeavored to meet the need of all youth in archery. The JOAD program is an effort to provide a basic organizational guide for junior archery activities. The NAA, with its Olympic membership affiliation, is the guiding force for these potential Olympic and international archery contestants. The program is also intended to provide the necessary guidance for the recreational archer who is interested in archery purely for the enjoyment of shooting a bow and arrow. Youth may participate in the JOAD program through the calendar year of their 18th birthday. JOAD sponsors tournaments in which the archers are organized into classes by age group.

The JOAD program also has a club level achievement program for the grassroots level. A system of qualifying rounds and achievement levels were designed to provide a challenge for youth in archery achievement. Success at each level is dependent on the individual's skill and willingness to apply themselves. Each archer can advance at his or her own pace, progressing to the next distance after completing the previous level.

To progress through the achievement program, the JOAD archer must challenge each level, starting with Yeoman, and shoot the required score in tournament-like conditions. To score a qualification round requires a minimum of three JOAD archers and one adult sponsor. The indoor qualifying and indoor tournament rounds may be held out of doors when space or safety may be a factor. Qualifying scores are shot in rounds of 30 consecutive arrows. After an archer has achieved a qualification level he or she may start working on the next level with a new 30 arrow round.  Archers earn pins for each level they attain.

Come on out and join us. Contact one of our officers or board members for more information and directions to the range, or leave a message at (805) 530-1339 and we will contact you.