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Archery's resident athlete program underway at Chula Vista Olympic Training Center
By Mary Beth Vorwerk // USA Archery // August 25, 2006
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The 2006-2007 USA Archery Resident Athlete (RA) Program will begin at the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Chula Vista, Calif. on September 1, 2006. The RA Program year runs from September 1 through August 31. USA Archery previously did not have an official RA Program in Chula Vista since June of 2004, following the 2004 Olympic Trials, until the program started up again March 1, 2006 following the hiring of new National Head Coach KiSik Lee.
Fourteen total RAs will be participating in the RA Program for the next year. There will be eight men and six women, with seven returning from the last group that has been at the OTC since March including: Tyler Domenech (Airville, Pa.), Brady Ellison (Glendale, Ariz.), Guy Krueger (Blessing, Texas), Tyler Martin (Montville, N.J.), Kate Anderson (Sacramento, Calif.), Joy Fahrenkrog (Denver, Colo.) and Tiffany Hirano (Irvine, Calif.).
Seven new RAs will join the program in Chula Vista in September including: Jake Kaminski (Edgewater, Fla.), Dan Schuller (Mercer, Pa.), Dakota Sinclair (Ridgecrest, Calif.), Lee Stewart (Dowell, Ill.), three-time Olympian for the Republic of Georgia Khatuna Lorig (Stanhope, N.J.) and Lindsay Pian (Scottsdale, Ariz.). Karen Scavotto (Enfield, Conn.), a 2000 Olympian, will join the RA Program in January.
The RA Program is under the instruction of Coach Lee and Assistant RA Coach Larry Skinner.
The RAs live at the OTC and train every day at The Easton Archery Complex, on the grounds of the OTC, which is one of the largest permanent archery ranges in North America. It consists of 50 lanes have moveable targets that can be set at 30, 50, 60, 70 and 90 meters. With this world-class facility at their disposal and the warm climate of Southern California, it makes outdoor year-round training possible for some of the best up and coming recurve archers in the country.
For more information on the RA Program, please visit www.usarchery.org.
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