October 11, 2019

USA Archery Congratulates Achievement Award Winners

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – USA Archery’s Achievement Award Program is designed to celebrate the accomplishments of archers of all ages and abilities as they progress in the sport from the most beginner to incredibly advanced levels of success. The JOAD Olympian and Adult Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards mark the highest of those achievements and USA Archery is proud to congratulate the following archers on their recent achievements.

These awards are part of the USA Archery Achievement Program, which provides achievement award pins for progressive scoring achievements, and encourages youth and adult archers to accomplish goals in the sport of archery.

12 year old Hatley Hetletved of North Dakota earned her compound outdoor silver and gold Olympian Awards recently and shared: “It was a great milestone for my archery to get my Silver and Gold and what makes it better is that it was at one of my favorite USA sanctioned shoots—the Voyageur Cup. It was challenging to obtain the Olympians. This year’s outdoor has definitely taught me about the wind!  Accepting your shots were good and sometimes mother nature helps its landing. I have a lot of gratitude after earning these high standards.”

On the Achievement Award program, Hatley added: “The achievement awards are good.  I like that people in my JOAD can earn pins by working and improving even if they don’t travel nationally like I do.  It’s important to have goals to reach.”

In addition to a certificate and pin, Bronze JOAD Olympian awards are recognized with a backpack, Silver JOAD Olympian awards are recognized with a lightweight jacket, and Gold JOAD Olympian awards are recognized with a belt buckle. 

Archers wishing to shoot for these awards must be current youth, adult, or family members of USA Archery and part of a registered USA Archery JOAD or Adult club.

Congratulations to our JOAD Achievement Award winners:

And Congratulations to our Adult Achievement Award winners: