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V.I. Archery Team Has Success at International Competition

Youth Archer Cora Warehime competes during the XI Copa Juan Enrique Barrios World Ranking tournament.At Bayamón, Puerto Rico on June 23-27, over 100 athletes from six countries, including the United States and Mexico, converged in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, to compete in the XI Copa Juan Enrique Barrios World Ranking tournament.
This competition marked the first time the Virgin Islands has fielded an archery team with multiple athletes. The team of five archers had three top ten finishes in the men’s and women’s Olympic recurve division, and the lone VI youth reached 5th place. In an extremely competitive field of compound archers, the Virgin Islands earned a 9th place finish. The V.I. mixed recurve team, composed of one man and one woman, successfully made it to the bronze medal round before being knocked out by a more experienced Puerto Rican team.
Based on their individual achievement at this tournament, every member of the Virgin Islands Archery Team is now world Rrnked. National Team coach Ruth Rowe was pleased with her team’s performance, noting that for four out of the five archers, this was their first competition. “The team did very well in this tournament and continues to train hard,” she said. “The future for Olympic archery in the Virgin Islands is promising.”
The next major event for the Virgin Islands Archery Team will be the Pan American Championships in Rosario, Argentina, Oct. 18-25.
For anyone interested in becoming involved with the Virgin Islands Archery Program, there will be two seminars, Archery Instructor (seven days) and Archery Range Officer (one day), on St. Thomas from Aug. 1-7. The seminars offer an excellent opportunity for teachers, professors, parents, and individuals interested in becoming archery instructors or just learning more about the sport.
For more information, contact William Coles, president of the Virgin Islands Archery Federation, at william_coles@hotmail.com or 643-0793.
The VIAF is currently conducting regular archery programs with Central High School on St. Croix through the National Archery in the Schools Program. It has held numerous introductory courses with such groups as the Boy Scouts and the Youth National Guard Program both on St. Thomas and St. Croix.

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