FITA Star Tournaments
Many archers have inquired about the benefits of participating in a FITA Star tournament. If you have been wondering about this too, here is a brief explanation on what the FITA Star program is all about.
Each year starting in August, the NAA office collects requests from its club affiliates for FITA Star tournaments for the upcoming year. They are noted on the calendar with a special symbol. Sometimes dates change due to unexpected circumstances so we encourage archers to check often for changes. Also, while we like to have a complete listing at the beginning of each year, Star tournaments do get added throughout the year. Clubs may still, therefore, request a Star tournament for the current as well as the upcoming year. A form for doing this may be found here, and the fee for establishing a Star tournament is $50.00, a portion of which passes through to FITA.
To register the Star tournament with FITA, the NAA sends to their office in Geneva, Switzerland the list of proposed tournaments in December. Archers attending these tournaments are then eligible to receive world recognition should they shoot a world record score. Notice should be forwarded to the NAA office as soon as this happens, since it has to be reported to FITA within ten days of its occurrance.
The NAA requires that the archer's scorecard be submitted to the office in Colorado Springs so it can be forwarded to Geneva for verification. When the score is ratified, FITA sends a World Record Acchievement Certificate to the NAA which is then forwarded to the archer.
All archers benefit from participating in the Star tournaments. There are FITA Performance Awards that "shall be granted when the competitor achieves the relevant score for the first time in the appropriate event". The NAA purchases from FITA a stock of outdoor FITA Star pins for both recurve and compound archers. When the archer achieves one of the score levels to qualify for a pin, he or she should submit the scorecard (or a clear copy) to the NAA office. The scorecard should be signed by the archer and a witness. The complete name and address of the archer plus a payment of $5.00 for the pin should accompany the card so that the award can be processed as soon as possible.
For both the recurve and compound divisions, here are the levels for each of the stars. They are the same for both men and women:
1000 points - Star pin
1100 points - Star on Black
1200 points - Star on Blue
1300 points - star on Red
1350 points - Star on Gold
1400 points - Star on Purple
While the colors are the same for both divisions, the word "Compound" is imprimnted on the pins for the compound division.
These FITA pins are very lovely and many archers take pride in achieving them. For further details on the FITA Performance Awards program, look for the information in Book 1, Chapter 6 of the FITA Constitution and Rules book. You will note that FITA has an expanded list of pins available for various competitions, but at the moment only the ones mentioned above are available for archers through the NAA office.
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