Perfect weather conditions greeted archers shooting over the July 20-21 weekend.
Personal Best scores were shot on both days, for recurve, barebow and compound categories – congratulations to everyone.
Special shout-out to Kaity Horlock who earned national Gold Squad ranking on Saturday.
Use the following links for all 4 rounds:
It was a good way to end our outdoor tournaments at SNAC. Thank you to everyone who participated over the years and supported our club.
Leading the pack of several successful advanced students, Quintin shot out 5 candle flames without touching the candle itself. Well done, Quintin.
Congratulations to Shane Bryson, who topped all other students both adults and youth with an almost perfect score during our annual Nutrition Week Challenge.
All students in the advanced classes keep track of their food intake for one week in accordance with the Canada Food Guide, plus earn bonus points for reducing empty calories, fried food and caffeine.
Many of our students either improved or stayed the same score as in 2023 – very few did worse.
So, congratulations to all our students during National Nutrition Month and the annual SNAS Nutrition Challenge!
South Nation Archery was represented well at the first indoor version of Ontario Games in Thunder Bay February 22-28, 2024. Usually, archery has been in the summer games, but was switched into the winter for these games.
Serenity Last won her age category for both the 600 round and elimination day. Congratulations, Serenity and keep up the good work! Kathleen Millar was Eastern Zone Coach along with Garnett Last as Eastern Zone Manager. Eastern Zone archers medalled in each division athletes were registered in.
Thank you to Archery Ontario for funding our training camp in January, and to Jess Watson in particular for all her work.
Kathleen Millar, team coach, along with manager Garnett Last, will be supporting the Eastern Zone archery team to the 2024 Ontario Winter Games, February 22-26th, 2024. The Games are taking place in Thunder Bay, ON.
This is the first time that archery has been assigned to the Winter Games, and therefore, archers will be shooting indoors at 18m. The team age categories, U21 and younger, include recurve and compound archers from across the zone.
Archers are looking forward to all the aspects of competition and Games. There is a wide cross-section of archer experience and age on this team for males and females, from first-time major games participation to Pan Am youth championships.
While the Games are running, Kathleen Millar will not be available for private coaching from February 21 to 28, 2024. In the meantime, for further information on private lessons, please contact South Nation Archery at 613-989-2943 and speak with Larry.
Thanks to our competitors, some of whom travelled quite a distance to be here. We had another day of perfect weather.
You can see results at:
On June 11th, SNAC ran 2 WA720 rounds. Thank you for everyone who attended.
During the afternoon round, SNAC member Shawn Matheson shot his 3rd and final qualification score to represent Canada at the Para Archery World Championships in Pilsen, CZE later in July this year.
Congratulations, Shawn!!
Please find our results links below:
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This year, Concussion Awareness Week is taking place from September 25 to October 1, 2022.
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South Nation Archery must impose a pre-payment policy for those registering for private lessons for the first time.
Payment can be made in person using credit card, cheque or cash, e-transfer, or over the phone with credit card information.
We are sorry to have to enforce this policy.
Mount Joy, PA — Members of the local Mount Joy community, as well as members of the archery industry at large, are mourning the loss of Jim Kinsey who passed away Tuesday, Jan. 18th, 2022 at the age of 84.
Jim’s father, Vernon, founded Kinsey’s as a local archery retail store in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania in 1952. It was through Larry Smith’s close contact with Vernon’s company while he was growing up in PA that led South Nation Archery Supply to start an account with Kinsey’s as our first wholesale supplier when we started in business in 1983. So our personal and business ties go back to both Vernon and Jim.
Jim Kinsey pioneered the distribution portion of the business laying the ground work for what Kinsey’s is today. Starting in 1957, Jim was instrumental in distributing arrows to retailers throughout the Northeast. He also spearheaded the company’s arrow manufacturing division by cementing contracts with both Colt Firearms and Bear Archery.
Jim led the family business for 40 years from 1957 through 1997 before passing the reins onto his children, 3rd generation owners, Rick Kinsey and Sherri Gorman. Mr. Kinsey stayed connected to the business through 2013 when he formally retired.
Jim loved skiing as well as archery; we would share stories with Jim and his staff every year at archery trade shows. He had a great smile and a good sense of humour. We enjoyed his company. We send our condolences to Rick, Sherri and their families.