New Haven Elementary Archery

12/21/2022

Sneaky sneaky...

10/26/2022

The Boone County Dolly Parton Imagination Library is NOW LIVE!!!! This means anyone living in Boone County can sign their child up (0-5 years of age) to receive a high-quality early childhood book, once per month for FREE until the child turns 5 years old. From birth through 5, that is 60 books in the hands of children that might not get access to high-quality books to read. The DPIL will bring us one small step closer to equity for many of our students and families in Boone County.

Here is the link for parents or guardians to register their child: https://imaginationlibrary.com/check-availability/

11/30/2020

With school still being 100% virtual, the parent informational meeting that is scheduled for 11/30/20 at 7:00pm, has been postponed again.
We do not know what the rest of the school year holds. This is not an easy decision for the coaches to make, because we love our team and pour everything we have into our kids. We do know that it is not fair to our kids to start the season, only to stop it later in the year.
We will update this page as we have a definite date to begin, or a definite decision to cancel the entire season. Regardless, keep practicing at home, stay safe, and thank you for your continued support of our New Haven Elementary Archery Team.

Bob Goble
Brenda S. Klaas
Ronnie Burke

11/26/2020

We would like to wish everyone a very Happy and Safe Thanksgiving. We still don’t know what the rest of the school year will bring, but always remember that archery is family. We are very thankful for ours!

11/13/2020

Please pass along to everyone. The parent meeting has now been rescheduled for 11/30/20 at 7:00 pm in the cafeteria. We must follow all school guidelines regarding the safety of our team, parents and coaches. Thank you for understanding in advance. If you have not filled out an interest form, please do so. Without it, you will not be allowed to participate or attend the meeting.
Brenda S. Klaas
Ronnie Burke
Bob Goble

11/12/2020

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Here is the link for the interest form if you are planning on participating.

This form is to be completed for all students interested in participating on the New Haven Archery Team during the 2020 / 2021 Season. Form must be completed by NOVEMBER 7th, 2020 and failure to submit the form within the allotted time frame may result in the student not being eligible to participat...

11/12/2020

All 4th and 5th grade students should have brought home a informational packet. The date on the packet says to complete all paperwork by 11/7/20. That deadline HAS BEEN EXTENDED to 11/15/20. You DO NOT need a physical to be on the team. The parent meeting will be 11/16/20 in the cafeteria at 7:00. The forms need to be completed by then, and brought with you. It is important for one parent per child and the child who is going to participate to be present at the meeting. Please contact coach Mark if you have any questions.

11/09/2020

The informational meeting for tonight has been pushed out until next Monday, 11/16/20 at 7:00pm. We will keep everyone informed, but we will be having a team. 😁 please continue to practice, and be looking for something to come home soon with your child.

Ronnie Burke
Brenda S. Klaas
Bob Goble

11/02/2020

New Haven archers, be looking for updates. We are tentatively planning a parent meeting on 11-9 @ 7:00.
There will be an interest form and Covid checks will need to happen prior to entering the meeting. Masks must be worn and social distancing will be enforced. Because of Covid, we have to reduce our numbers of our team this year.
Please share with other New Haven team members and those interested

07/16/2020

Yes!!!! Yes!!!! YES!!!!!!

Personal growth is so important in life. Get it right and your mindset will be amazing for your shooting and in archery in genral. This should help you get there.

You can imagine your personality by thinking of a target with concentric rings. Your personality is made up of five rings, starting from the center with your values and radiating outward to the next circle, your beliefs and values in life.

Believe In Yourself

Your values in life determine your beliefs, about yourself and the world around you.

If you have positive values, such as love, compassion, and generosity, you will believe that people in your world are deserving of these values and you will treat them accordingly. When you believe in yourself and chose to be a good person you will find yourself to be more positive and successful in life.

Set Expectations And Know Your Values In Life

Your beliefs, in turn, determine the third ring of your personality, your expectations. If you have positive values, you will believe yourself to be a good person.

If you believe in yourself to be a good person, you will expect good things to happen to you. If you expect good things to happen to you, you will be positive cheerful, and future-oriented. You will look for the good in other people and situations.

Attitude: Expect Good Things To Happen

The fourth level of your personality, determined by your expectations, is your attitude.Your attitude will be an outward manifestation or reflection of your values, beliefs, and expectations.

For example, if your value is that this is a good world to live in and your belief is that you are going to be very successful in life, you will expect that everything that happens to you is helping you in some way.

As a result, you will have a positive mental attitude toward other people and they will respond positively toward you.

You will be a more cheerful and optimistic person. You will be someone who others want to work with and for, buy from and sell to, and generally help to be more successful.

Be A Good Person Through Your Actions

The fifth ring, or level of life, is your actions. Your actions on the outside will ultimately be a reflection of your innermost values, beliefs, and expectations on the inside. This is why what you achieve in life and work will be determined more by what is going on inside of you than by any other factor.

Action Exercise

Make a list of your three to five most important values in life today.

What do you really believe in and stand for? What are your values in life? What qualities are you best known for among the people who know you? What do you consider the most important values guiding your relationships with others in your life?

Remember to expect good things to happen and work hard towards your goals so that you will find yourself living a happy and successful life.

06/25/2020

Have you ever gone apple picking? Think of yourself picking fresh fruit from a large tree. You see the fruit, you pick it, and you eat it. You never see the seed that started the tree. You only see the result.

If you plant an apple seed today, don’t expect to eat fresh apples tomorrow. You must be patient if you wish to produce worthwhile results. Don’t expect to accomplish anything significant in a few days or weeks. Be prepared for a long road filled with potholes, detours, and dead ends.

Many great archers are falsely assumed to be naturally gifted. You see the result and cannot fathom how the archer progressed to such an amazing level. What many fail to realize however is that the archer may be nothing more than patient and diligent.

Impatience is perhaps the number one reason why archers fall short of their potential. The archer sets a goal, works on it for a few weeks, doesn’t see the progress that he / she was hoping for, so drops the idea and moves on to another. The cycle continues repeatedly. After several months of bouncing around, the archer is no better off than when he /she started. He’s done nothing but jump from challenge to challenge without results.

Another common scenario comes from the archer who tackles several new goals at once. He / she too may be diligent, but he isn’t patient enough to apply a slow and steady strategy. He / she wants everything now and isn’t interesting in waiting.

One Thing at a Time

I cannot overemphasize the importance of this simple statement. If you wish to tackle several challenging goals, start working on one at a time. If you set out to do everything at once, you’ll accomplish nothing. Instead, start working on one primary goal. Working towards this goal is a simple addition. There is no need to change your entire plan to accommodate a single goal. With a consistent effort, you will eventually conquer the goal. Mark the goal from your list and prepare for a new challenge. You’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish with this slow and steady approach to training.

06/20/2020

This is how we practice.

Bob Goble
Ronnie Burke

The coach must prepare their archers so they are familiar with how pressure-cooker situations feel, planning and developing pressurised training methods.

They must form a strong relationship with their archers so they can develop coping strategies specific to the individual so they feel comfortable in any environment.

An archer-coach relationship is essential. A good coach will know their athlete inside out. They will know from their body language how they are feeling straight away.

And we know that coaches nowadays must be part-time psychologists as well as the fount of all knowledge in their chosen sport. They can no longer allow archers to use ‘I felt stressed’ as an excuse for underperformance.

The environmental and psychological development of the individual is a fundamental responsibility of the coach, and just as important as the physical, technical and tactical development.

With all this in mind, maybe there is hope yet for the atrcher who would normally ‘bottle it’ on the big occasion. With a good coach on side, practised in the techniques of how to deal with pressure, an archer can become equipped to hit the gold, rather than have to settle.

Top tips

Understand the distractions, disruptions and differences that your athlete will face on competition day. List them all. Discuss them with your archer so they know what to expect. No surprises!

Don’t neglect areas such as travel time, sleep quality, nutrition and fatigue when it comes to performance gains and the athlete’s ‘feel-good factor’ on competition day. Psychology is not just about the technical.

When training, place your archers in pressurised situations where they feel uncomfortable (Only if they want to shoot competitely). They need to be able to deliver the best possible result in the worst possible conditions.

Practise competition protocol frequently, and do your best to mimic the stimulus that your archers will feel on the day.

Educate the archers to understand that competitions are the ultimate training sessions. Mistakes will be made, but these are essential lessons to generate optimal performances in the future.