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Tournament report: USIAC
May. 21st, 2006 05:38 pmUnited States Intercollegiate Archery Championships: full FITA, plus elimination rounds
It was starting out so well on Friday. After the second end, I was one point off the leader board, in eleventh place.
Then the wind picked up. Third end, I shot a 14 on six arrows, and my morale was shot. I picked myself up a bit for the well-practiced 70m, but figured that at that point I was about a hundred points behind where I ought to and wanted to be. Saturday didn't start particularly well either, never quite getting a great aim at 50m. I did well for 30m, breaking 300 despite not having the right sighting and taking a miss in the first end, but the damage was done. I finished at 960 or so, well behind where I was at Western, and what I'd shot in my practice round last week.
Sunday was elimination rounds, and I was seeded 29th of 48. Just as at Westerns, I got a lower opponent first round, then came up against the 4th seed, and got my ass handed to me. I left, rather than stick around for any remaining eliminations, and now just have to go back for the awards banquet ... if the freeways let me.
What now? I don't even know if I'll have anywhere to practice over the summer. There's a tournament in Sacramento in two weeks, then State Outdoors in Long Beach a few after that, but if I've got nowhere to practice then they'd probably kill me.
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It was starting out so well on Friday. After the second end, I was one point off the leader board, in eleventh place.
Then the wind picked up. Third end, I shot a 14 on six arrows, and my morale was shot. I picked myself up a bit for the well-practiced 70m, but figured that at that point I was about a hundred points behind where I ought to and wanted to be. Saturday didn't start particularly well either, never quite getting a great aim at 50m. I did well for 30m, breaking 300 despite not having the right sighting and taking a miss in the first end, but the damage was done. I finished at 960 or so, well behind where I was at Western, and what I'd shot in my practice round last week.
Sunday was elimination rounds, and I was seeded 29th of 48. Just as at Westerns, I got a lower opponent first round, then came up against the 4th seed, and got my ass handed to me. I left, rather than stick around for any remaining eliminations, and now just have to go back for the awards banquet ... if the freeways let me.
What now? I don't even know if I'll have anywhere to practice over the summer. There's a tournament in Sacramento in two weeks, then State Outdoors in Long Beach a few after that, but if I've got nowhere to practice then they'd probably kill me.
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