The 3D Achievement Award Program is for USA Archery members of any age. Membership to USA Archery (excludes Recreational and Temporary) and membership to either a USA Archery Youth, Both Youth and Adult, or Collegiate Club is required to participate in the 3D Achievement Award Program. The program is designed to allow archers to develop their 3D archery knowledge and skills and to help prepare archers to compete in 3D archery competitions. Participants may earn skill-based awards using a recurve, compound (fixed pins permitted), or barebow. Archers can proudly display their 3D Awards on lanyards designed for the 3D Achievement Program.
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Membership to USA Archery (excludes Recreational and Temporary) and membership to a USA Archery Youth, Both Youth and Adult, or Collegiate Club is required to participate in the JOAD Achievement Program.
JOAD Achievement Award Star Pins are awarded for scoring achievements. Archers can earn JOAD Achievement Award Stars Pins for shooting indoors and/or outdoors with barebow, basic compound, fixed pins, recurve and/or compound bows. A current USA Archery Youth, Adult, or Family membership is required to participate in the Achievement Awards Program, as outlined in the Club Membership Form.
In addition to Star Pins, JOAD archers can earn the official "6-Gold" pin when they shoot six 10's in a row - either in a single 6 arrow end, or in two consecutive 3-arrow ends.
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JOAD Archers can display their Stars Pins on lanyards designed for their archery specialty. Each lanyard holds all Stars pins as well as the optional 6- Star Gold pin.
JOAD Archers can earn advanced levels of recognition with the Olympian Award Levels-Bronze, Silver and Gold. An archer reaching these levels is honored with special recognition from the USA Archery Office.
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Membership to USA Archery (excludes Recreational and Temporary) and membership to a USA Archery Adult, Both Youth and Adult, or Collegiate Club is required to participate in the Adult Achievement Program.
Adult Star Pins are awarded for scoring achievements. Adult archers can earn Stars Pins for shooting indoors and/or outdoors with recurve and/or compound bows. A full USA Archery Youth, Adult, or Family membership option is required to participate in the Achievement program, as required in the Club Terms and Conditions Agreement.
Each Star Pin is a different color, and each has a successive number of stars on it to represent the increasing challenge in earning that particular award pin. In order to allow the greatest flexibility in terms of indoors/outdoors, recurve or compound, each pin can be earned in a variety of ways.
In addition to Star Pins, Adult archers can earn the official "6-Gold" pin when they shoot six 10's in a row - either in a single 6 arrow end, or in two consecutive 3-arrow ends.
Adult Archers can display their Stars Pins on lanyards designed for their archery specialty. Each lanyard holds all Stars pins as well as the optional 6- Star Gold pin.
Order Adult Achievement Pins & LanyardsAdult Archers can earn advanced levels of recognition with Bronze, Silver and Gold pins. USA Archery honors archers who reach these levels with special recognition. To earn an Adult Bronze, Silver or Gold Award the archer will be required to shoot the distance and target face that corresponds to their Class at National Events (i.e. Senior or Master)
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The JOAD and Adult Program scoring matrix does not begin based on age. Age classes of U21, U18, U15, and U13 are intended for tournament placement, and they do not relate to where an archer would begin on the Scoring Matrix. Every archer will start at the beginning of the scoring matrix and work their way through each star pin.
If an award level has more than one distance or target size, the club leader will choose where to have the archer positioned and what target face, he or she will use based on skill level/experience of that archer.
Once an archer reaches the Bronze, Silver and Gold pin level, the archer must shoot the distance/target face which corresponds with their age class. Please reference Page 13 of the Event Reference Guidebook to learn more about JOAD age classes.
Based on the JOAD Achievement Program scoring matrix, a barebow/basic compound indoor archer would need 75 points shooting from 9 meters using a 60cm target face. If the archer were shooting from 18 meters on a 60cm target face, he or she would need 30 points to receive the purple star pin. As noted on the scoring matrix, the decision to start at 9 or 18 meters is up to the club leader as is based on the archer’s experience and skill level.
Based on the JOAD Achievement Program scoring matrix, a compound indoor archer would need 240 points shooting from 18 meters using inner-10 ring scoring.
Based on the JOAD Achievement Program scoring matrix, a recurve indoor archer would need 250 points shooting from 18 meters using a 60cm target face. If the archer were using a 40cm target, he or she would need 240 points.
Based on the JOAD Achievement Program scoring matrix, a recurve outdoor archer would need 290 points shooting from 18 meters using a 60cm target face. If the archer were using a 40cm target, he or she would need 285 points.
Based on the Adult Program scoring matrix, a compound outdoor archer would need 310 points shooting from 50 meter using an 80 cm, 6-ring target face. If the archer were shooting a full-size 80cm target face, he or she would need 315 points.
For more information on the Achievement Program, please refer to the USA Archery Club Handbook.
