Arrow Challenge!

Arrow Challenge! is an archery marathon that challenges the archer to get ready for competition and help your Ace Archers JOAD club. The athlete’s challenge is to get physically ready to shoot a lot of arrows and to raise money for the JOAD Club through a per arrow sponsorship. Arrow Challenge! occurs two times a year, once in December and once in May.

  1. Decide how many arrows you want to shoot for your arrow goal. We suggest 300 arrows for JOAD members, 400 arrows for adult members b and 500 arrows for coaches. If you feel that you cannot do this number of arrows, then choose a lower arrow count. Make your goal something to stretch for, not something you can easily achieve.
  2. Get ready for the event by shooting lots of arrows 5 days per week. Coach Tom suggests you shoot 30% of your arrow goal per day for a month starting three months before the Arrow Challenge! Then 50% of your arrow goal for one month starting two months before the Arrow Challenge! Then 75% of you arrow goal for the month prior to Arrow Challenge! If you have your own equipment, use that. If you do not have your own equipment, come in a practice with our rental equipment!
  3. Get Sponsors! Help your club by getting monetary sponsors for your participation in the Arrow Challenge! through per arrow pledges from friends, family and neighbors. We suggest a pledge of 5¢ to 25¢ per arrow. ($15 to $75 per sponsor for JOAD members, $20 to $100 per sponsor for adult members and $25 to $125 per sponsor for coaches.) Please get an official sponsor card from the front desk. There minimum number of sponsors is one and no minimum dollar value per sponsor to participate in the Arrow Challenge!
  4. Practice at Ace Archers every week! Once you have $100 or more of sponsor pledges, practice at Ace Archers on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm for free. Bring in your sponsor card for the 100% discount. Of course, you can join in the Arrow Challenge! practice every Wednesday without the $100 of sponsor pledges.
  5. Attend the Arrow Challenge! The marathon runs from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. There will be sanctioned breaks every hour for 10 minutes and a lunch break of 30 minutes at noon. You will have to take the lunch break but you don’t have to take the hourly breaks. We do suggest that you start at 9:00 am, but you can start any time before 1:00 pm. The challenge ends at 5:00 pm.
  6. Register your arrow count! There are “officials” who check in with each archer every hour to get their latest arrow count. Your arrow count will be posted on the Arrow Challenge! Board. Once you stop shooting, the arrow count total and your pledge total will be posted on the Arrow Challenge! Board.
  7. Collect the sponsor’s donations! The sponsor’s donations are due 30 days after the Arrow Challenge! Checks can be made payable to Ace Archers JOAD. Credit or debit card payments are not accepted.