JUNIOR - Through the calendar year of their 20th birthday (born in or after 1990)
Outdoor Distances
Female: |
70, 60, 50, 30 meters |
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Male: |
90, 70, 50, 30 meters |
CADET - Through the calendar year of their 17th birthday (born in or after 1993)
Outdoor Distances
Female: |
60, 50, 40, 30 meters |
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Male: |
70, 60, 50, 30 meters |
CUB - Through the calendar year of their 14th birthday (born in or after 1996)
Outdoor Distances
Female: |
50, 40, 30, 20 meters |
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Male: |
50, 40, 30, 20 meters |
BOWMAN - Through the calendar year of their 12th birthday (born in or after 1998)
Outdoor Distances
Female: |
30,25, 25, 20 meters |
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Male: |
30, 25,25, 20 meters |
Note: All outdoor classes shoot the two longer distances at the 122cm target face (outer 10 ring) and the two shorter distances at the 80cm target face (outer 10 ring). Please note that Bowman shooters shoot 25 meters twice (once at each size target). All archers shoot 36 arrows at each distance.
Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program 
of USA archery that is designed to teach archery to young people, over a series of classes taught by a certified archery instructor or coach. JOAD
offers both recurve and compound archers the opportunity to learn range safety and proper shooting technique in an environment that also fosters focus, increased self-confidence, and team buidling skills. JOAD is open to any youth archer aged 8 to 18 and is designed to grow with the youth archer. Introductory JOAD classes teach the fundamentals of proper shooting form; as the young archer develops, they will learn more advanced techniques.
Both recurve and compound bows are used in club activities and in tournaments. JOAD archers who use a compound bow can train to compete in local and regional tournaments, and can earn a seat on a youth world team to compete in other countries representing the United States on behalf of USA Archery. Recurve archers can compete likewise, with the added benefit of being able to use their recurve bow to try out for a spot on the US Olympic Archery team which is selected and managed by USA Archery.
Whether your child's interest is purely recreational or an Olympic, Paralympic or World Championship dream, USA Archery's JOAD program is tailored to help the young archer achieve their goals.
JOAD Star Pins
JOAD Star Pins are awarded for scoring achievements. JOAD archers can earn Stars Pins for shooting indoors and/or outdoors with recurve and/or compound bows.
Each Star Pin is a different color, and each has a succuessive 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, 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.
JOAD FITA Star Pin Rounds
JOAD FITA Star Pins
JOAD Achievement Lanyards
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.
Olympian Awards
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.
Pennsylvania JOAD Clubs
| Reading Archery Club JOAD 880 Church Road Reading, PA Rich Goshorn archer1@epix.net Denise Shirk 610-762-0909 scooby3xs@yahoo.com Website |
Middletown Jr. Olympians 127 Barren Road Media, PA Cindy Bevilacqua 610-566-8092 coachbev2004@comcast.net Website |
| Lancaster Archery JOAD Lancaster, PA Robert Kaufhold 717-394-7229 Website |
Gold-N-Grain Archery JOAD Sharpsville, PA Charlene McCullough 724-962-1110 |
Hemlock Archers JOAD |
Clairton JOAD Pittsburg, PA Bud Simon 412-655-7404 Website |
| Palmyra Sportsmen's JOAD Palmyra, PA Richard Wallace 717-838-2357 |
Stoneridge NAA JOAD Club Allison Park, PA Robert Faytik 724-935-1528 Website |
| Lonesome Road Archery JOAD Taylor, PA Jason Jones 570-562-0751 |
Chieftain Archers JOAD Lower Burrell, PA K. Terry Morrill 724-845-6611 |