September 2010 Announcements
Next General Meeting
The next general meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 1st at 7:30 pm at Van's Studio. For directions, new members can email the club or ask another member. Minutes from the previous meeting can be found here.
PRA shooters at California State Games
Six PRA shooters competed in the California State Games at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista. Most woke up very early in the morning to drive down before the start. Despite some turbulence in the tournament's organization, it was great weather for a tournament.
PRA Announces a Summer Archery Day Camp
Coach Jim MacQuarrie will hold an archery day camp at the PRA range for beginning and intermediate archers aged 8-16. Camp will run from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon August 2-6, 2010. The cost is $160.00 and includes the use of all necessary archery equipment. Space is limited. Interested parents should contact Jim at the range or send an email to pra@lidar.com for registration details.
Archery Class Information
Welcome NBC 4 LA viewers!
Information on our archery classes, from beginner to advanced, can be found HERE on our instruction page. All you need is an interest in archery and a free Saturday morning.
PRA on NBC
Coach Van and PRA appeared on the "Today In LA" program on KNBC 4 on Friday, June 18th. The three anchors, Alycia Lane, Chris Schauble and Kathy Vara, took a Safety and Orientation class, and had a great time with archery!
Link to the NBC Segment Video
Coach of the Year
Congratulations to PRA's Coach Mike Burnham being recognized as US Collegiate Archery Coach of The Year!!
PRA 75th Anniversary Celebrations
2010 is our 75th Anniversary Year. If you have knowledge of the club history, beyond what is contained in "The First Fifty" or have suggestions on events for our anniversary year contact Jim MacQuarrie and/or join the discussion on Facebook.
2009 Competition Season Scores
November and December 300 Round scores have been posted HERE.
General Information
Pasadena Roving Archers is an archery club that has been dedicated to the art of the bow and arrow in Pasadena’s Lower Arroyo Seco Park since 1935. Incorporated as a non-profit organization, our membership includes men, women, young adults and children. It is a melting-pot of archers from all walks of life. PRA is home to beginners, weekend enthusiasts, regional, state, nation and international champions and maybe a future Olympic Gold medal winner. All are bound together by the sport of archery.All archers are required to adhere to the Range Rules.
Free Saturday Morning Archery Classes
We conduct an ongoing program of archery instruction classes for people interested in learning the sport of archery. PRA offers a Beginner's class and public instruction.
Classes are held every Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. throughout the year at the PRA range (You can use Google or Bing to find us). These classes are popular and fill up quickly so we recommend that you arrive at the range by 8:15 a.m. in order to be fitted with equipment. The introductory class is free and we invite a donation of $5.00 for subsequent classes.
Classes are open to all residents of Pasadena and Southern California. Everyone is welcome to participate. Young archers must be a minimum of 10 years of age. All young archers must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Pasadena Roving Archers also offers a 6 meeting Basic Archery Instruction Program (BAIP) class for new archers who want to learn effective shooting form. The six meeting BAIP class costs $60.00 and includes instruction and equipment use. Adults who complete the class and who wish to continue in archery are encouraged to join the club and to take advantage of our Mentor Program for intermediate archers.
This is a shooting sport, and all students, regardless of age, must, in the opinion of the instruction staff, be able to safely and comfortably handle the equipment.
An archer takes aim in one of
our many competitions.
Pasadena Roving Archers conducts an NFAA regulation club shoot or qualifier every Sunday morning. We shoot 28 field or hunter targets (not to be confused with 3-D targets, hunter targets are simply a different type of field target) or a combination of the two. All of our events are open to guest archers who wish to participate.
A 3D tournament is held on the 3rd Sunday of each month.
A 300 tournament (30 arrows at 20 yards) is held on the second and fourth Sunday of each month.
PRA sponsors three fundraising tournaments during the year. The Oaktree 3-D tournament in May, a traditional shoot in October and the 21 or Bust tournament in early December. Trophies, Food and a Raffle are part of these events. All archers are invited to participate in our tournament offerings. Archers from all over the state come to compete in these events.
Contacting us
Our clubhouse was destroyed by fire in April of 2002. Until it is rebuilt, club leaders may be contacted at the range on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to about 11:30 a.m. and on Sunday mornings, as early as 8 a. m., during the summer, and 9 a.m. in the winter, until about 1 p.m.
Feel free to stop by and speak with any of our members or
club officers. Email questions to pra@lidar.com.
