Hi guys,
We are definitely excited to start the new semester and look forward to meeting everyone! Here is some general information about our club.

Our club predominantly shoots recurve archery. Those interested in joining do not need to have any prior experience since we provide all the necessary equipment and have student instructors that will teach basic form to newcomers. If you have your own equipment, you are definitely welcome to bring it and practice with us! Club dues are $30/semester and $50/year and cover equipment maintenance costs, carpooling costs, and most social events. Checks are preferred! If you are a driver, we express our gratitude and compensate you at the end of the school year based on the number of passengers you helped transport. We always welcome new drivers!

For practices, we meet up in front of the Subway at the University Village (at the intersection of Jefferson and McClintock).
Sunday practices are open to anyone and are there for those that want to have fun, relax, and shoot. We meet up at 4pm to carpool over and practice is from 5-7pm, so we generally get back to campus at around 7:30pm. Roughly once a month we have socials that will usually either be before Sunday practice or afterwards.

Tuesday and Friday practices are for advanced archers, or archers that are planning on dedicating time to compete at competitions. Archers that attend our advanced practices are expected to attend at least one practice per week. For these practices, we meet up at 6pm to carpool over and practice from 7-9pm.

Since we carpool over to the archery range at Rancho Park, we require those planning on attending practices to RSVP at our website (http://www.uscarchery.com/rsvp-for-practice/). We send out confirmation emails to those that reserved available seats usually by the night before. Due to the high interest in the beginning of the semester, we often lack the number of drivers that are able to carpool everyone over to the range. If we are unable to accommodate the number of archers attending practice, we email those that are at the bottom of the RSVP list to notify them that they are on the waiting list. Therefore, make sure to RSVP early to guarantee a spot. Also, if you RSVP for practice and are unable to attend practice, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible so we can give your spot to someone on the waiting list.

Our RSVP page is usually refreshed on Sunday nights for the upcoming week. Make sure to RSVP for the correct week or else your RSVP will be deleted and you will lose your spot! If you do not get a spot for a practice, do not despair! Try RSVPing for the next week and we will try to give you preference over those that were able to attend the previous practice. That being said, we usually have more space and equipment accommodations as the semester progresses, so don’t be afraid to show up in the middle of the semester!

Our first Sunday practice is the coming Sunday, January 22nd. The RSVP page is now open so you may submit your reservation. We will be meeting at 4pm in front of the Subway at the University Village. We need you to fill out a waiver, so try to bring a pen and make sure to bring your health insurance information! For new drivers, driving directions to the archery range can be found on our website under FAQs.

We also have info sessions on January 18th @ 2pm and January 19th @ 1pm in the Trojan Presentation Room (STU B3) if you would like to ask us any other questions or come learn about our club.

We hope you are enjoying your long weekend and hope to see you soon!

Jessica

PS We just sent out an email to those that signed up at the involvement fair. If you did not receive the email and would like to be added to our mailing list, email us at archery@usc.edu to let us know!

Hi guys!

Your officers have made some TOTALLY AWESOME arrow pens! We have about 30 of them ready to go and are now selling them for $5 each (cash or check). Christmas is approaching and they make great gifts for friends and relatives, so why not buy a few of them as gifts and one (or two) for yourself! If you would like to buy some, just send an email to archery@usc.edu and let us know how many you would like and we will arrange to meet with you!

Check out the photos below of us making the pens and the finished products!!
Mallory

Last Saturday (11/12), several Archery Club members participated in the Bruin Indoor 2011 Collegiate Tournament, hosted by UCLA. This was a great introduction to competition-style shooting for our new archers who participated and they all shot really well!

Jessica Chen placed first with her team in the team competition. And in the Men’s New Recurve individual competition, Scott MacDonald placed second, and Seong Ju Kim placed third. Great shooting, guys, and congratulations!

Some photos from the competition are below, but to see more, check out the whole album on

Hi everybody!
Thank you very much to everyone who participated in the PAC-12 Best of the West Fitness Challenge with Archery Club! Thanks to all of your hard work, we placed third in the competition between all USC clubs and we won a prize of $50.

Great job!
Mallory

Last Monday (11/7), several club members participated in a homecoming competition called Anything Goes, in which we competed as a team against other USC clubs in a series of surprise events. We participated in a Twister competition and tied for first place with two other teams and also in a competition in which people had to search for keys in a tray full of whipped cream to unlock a prize, using only their faces!

Unfortunately, we didn’t get any photos of the Twister competition, but the photos below are from the whipped cream-eating competition!

Enjoy!
Mallory

Hi guys!

If you didn’t make it to practice last Friday (10/21), then you missed an unusual sight: Jeep shooting! After years of club members’ begging, Jeep finally brought his two lovely longbows to the range and shot with us! Below are some photos of him shooting and displaying the bows.

The Pac-12 Best of the West Fitness Challenge is back!!
The challenge begins on Monday, October 24th and ends Sunday, October 30th. In order to help win points for our club and university, you must visit the facebook page here and “Like” the page in order to start recording your minutes. Family and friends can also “Like” the page without being a part of the university and they can help us earn points, so make sure to tell your friends and family!

So basically, any activity you do next week, you should record down and submit on facebook, whether that is walking or biking to class, working out, etc. You get points for every minute that you exercise next week (but you must log your minutes on Facebook!) and the school that has the most points at the end will win $5,000. Woot. For the archery club, if you log in your minutes on facebook, make sure to also send a totaled number of minutes for the entire week to me at chen85@usc.edu so that I can submit it to RCC. RCC will give money to the three clubs that have the most minutes.

The Lyon Center will also have FREE Workout classes and FREE TRX Suspension Training classes during this week, so make sure to try those out and count them in your minutes. Go to the Lyon Center, grab a buddy to exercise with you, or anything else that makes you active and happy (actively happy)!

Hopefully this will motivate y’all to exercise more this week (and perhaps continue this habit for the future)

Hello archers,
Competitions are coming up soon! =) We may be participating in a small tournament with other colleges on November 12 as a precursor to the Indoor Championships which are held at the end of Winter Break. There are also several other competitions later on the year where you can shoot with archers from all different states and universities under different weather conditions and different distances. So if you are interested or thinking about competing this year please email Christine, our Tournament Manager, at cjang@usc.edu with your name and phone number. She will be helping you with the registration process (see our email for more information) and will send you updates concerning upcoming tournaments.

Please note that in order to qualify for tournaments you must meet the following requirements:
1. Full-time student pursuing a degree at any accredited college or university as recognized by the US Dept. of Education with a Federal School Code.
2. Maintain cumulative 2.0 or greater GPA on a 4-point scale (3.0 for graduate students)
3. Member of the appropriate organization as outlined above.
4. Member of a college club registered with the US Collegiate Archery Association.

I hope you are excited and that I will see you at competitions!

We are forming a team for the Anything Goes competition during Homecoming. It is a competition with (most likely) three secret events in which we compete as a team against other organizations. The competition is on Monday, November 7th from 7:30pm to 9:30pm at the latest. If you would like to join our team, email us at archery@usc.edu to let us know, or feel free to drop by to see what’s going on!

Also, we will be having a Halloween Social!! Instead of regular practice on Sunday, October 30th we will have a BBQ and Pumpkin shoot, in costume! We will meet at Subway at 2 pm, then head over to the range for a late lunch/early dinner BBQ, followed by our usual practice until 7pm. We will bring some pumpkins for use as targets, and we encourage everyone to show up in their Halloween costume! Please RSVP for practice as usual; we will have a separate RSVP for the BBQ, so if you are able to attend make sure to check that box, too, so we can get a headcount. The BBQ will be semi-potluck style so when you RSVP, please comment what you are bringing (either a food item or money).

I’m excited to see you!
Jessica