Preliminary results for the 2018 Ontario IFAA Indoor Championship are now available on the tournament results page.

The Ontario Association of Archers (OAA) is pleased to announce the criteria for Ontario Cards under the 2017-2018 Quest for Gold - Ontario Athlete Assistance Program (OAAP). The athletes will be selected using the sport specific selection criteria developed by the OAA and approved by its Board of Directors and applied by the Selection Committee. 

Dear Partners,

Thank you for your feedback regarding Maintenance of Certification, and specifically Renewal of Certification for coaches who do not maintain their certification. Through consultation with the partnership, we recognized that aligning the renewal process with the original certification process potentially presented a capacity issue. However, at the same time, NSOs wanted to ensure that coaches who were renewing adhere to the same minimum standards that had been originally put in place.

Through the consultation that followed the NSO meeting on November 1, we received clear support for the proposed Renewal Process that is outlined below. Following final consultation with the NSO executive, this proposal was presented to the CAC Board of Directors for their review and support that was ‘unanimously’ received.

Renewal of Certification Process

• Coaches who do not complete their Professional Development (PD) points by December 31st of the last year of the cycle as defined by the NSO:
  • Will not have their certification renewed in the Locker.
  • Will have their Locker transcript marked with the timeframes when their certification was valid and have Not-Renewed added to the status. How this is reflected in the Locker may change pending consultation with the partnership.
  • May be ineligible to coach at a certain level or competition, should the NSO have a policy requiring coaches to be Certified in good standing in a certain context.
• In order for this coach to renew their certification status they must:
  • Complete the remaining Professional Development points; or
  • Follow a re-evaluation pathway as identified by sports who wish to implement this process. Completing the evaluation pathway will always automatically certify or renew a coach.

We are investigating the additional option for NSOs to institute a time limit for the completion of PD points for Renewal, after which time a coach must complete the entire certification pathway. However it will be critical for the partnership to understand the impact of such a decision prior to approval and therefore will require further consultation.

• Once a coach has renewed, their new maintenance cycle will begin on January 1st of the following year.

As several of the NSOs made the decision to maintain Trained statuses as well as Certified, this solution is applicable to both scenarios.

This updated policy will be effective January 1, 2018.

As part of the consultation, you provided us with a number of specific questions. We have compiled them and our responses HERE.

We also recognize that as part of the implementation, we will need to further work with the partnership to determine the specifics of how maintenance of certification will be reflected in the Locker and how we improve communication on the policy and how it relates to the NCCP philosophy of lifelong learning.

For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For more details on how this relates to archery coaches in Ontario, contact Bruce Savage, Coaching Coordinator (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Please be sure that you have READ the “TEAM SELECTION PROCESS” document.

It is the Archer’s responsibility to get their scores in to both Richard Towler and Kelly Chambers, as this will determine your eligibility to attendant a camp.

When forwarding your interest in trying out for the CWG please include the following information:

• Archer’s Full Name
• OAA number
• Date of Birth
• Discipline (Compound/Recurve, Female/Male)
• Archer’s email
• Parent Contact email (required if archer is under 18 but recommended for all)

DATES FOR THE TRAINING CAMPS

• NE Zone – Sault Ste. Marie – Algoma Rod and Gun Club April 8, 2018
• Eastern Zone - Peterborough – Saugeen Shafts April 15, 2018
• Central Zone – The Archers of Caledon April 22, 2018
• NW Zone – North Bay – Wilderness Bowhunters & Archers April 29, 2018

CWG TRIALS WILL BE HELD AT THE ARCHERS OF CALEDON ON
MAY 6, 2018
Trials are by invitation only. Details will follow.

Please contact for further information:
Coach: Richard Towler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Manager: Kelly Chambers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Canada Games are an inter-provincial and territorial sports festival staged every two years, alternating between Summer and Winter Games.

Since the Canada Games were introduced in 1967, more than 100,000 participants in over 40 sports have been involved as athletes, coaches or officials, and over 75,000 volunteers have dedicated their time to staging the event.

The 2019 Canada Winter Games is a multi-sport event which will be held in Red Deer, Alberta. Top young archers from each province compete in late February (Entire event February 15th - March 4th). The rounds are shot indoors at 18m on vertical 3 spot targets only.

**Archers must be 20 years of age or younger as of December 31, 2019**

Ontario takes a Team of 2 male and 2 female archers, one each in recurve and compound to shoot two days of indoor World Archery (FITA) rounds for ranking, followed by days of shoot-offs, and mixed team rounds.

Scores from registered club 60-arrow World Archery indoor rounds (formerly FITA rounds), OAA Championships, and training camps held in February, March, and April of 2017 will be used as qualifiers to determine archers who will be invited to attend the Team Trials. Details will follow. Archers from any zone may attend any camp but archers may attend only one of these camps. The camps will consist of a 60 arrow round using only vertical 3 spot target format, information regarding other helpful training areas, as well as practicing team rounds.

NOTE: Excluded from the Canada Games are:

• Athletes who have held a Senior card (as defined by Sport Canada's Athlete Assistance program) at any time.
• Athletes who have competed for any nation at a Senior World Archery Championship.
• Athletes who have competed for any nation at any Pan or ParaPan American Games.
• Athletes who have competed for any nation at any Olympic or Paralympic Games.

If you have any questions about the Canada Winter Games and/or the Team Selection Process please feel free to contact either Richard or Kelly below.

Team Coach: Richard Towler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Team Manager: Kelly Chambers (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

To participate in the Canada Winter Games, you must be a Member of the OAA and Archery Canada

JOIN NOW!

For more information about the upcoming Canada Winter Games

• https://canadagames.ca/2019/archery2019
• 2019 - Information Package for Archery (pending)
• Canada Winter Games 2019 Archery Technical Package

Minutes for the 2017 AGM are now available. You can access them here, and must be logged in to do so.