Iaaa

spudnick

Hi,
As far as im aware the student archers have no representation at the Iaaa.As some of you may know the agm was held and no names for the college rep was put forward.(as far as i know).A rep can sstill be put forward,he/she would be required to attend 2 or 3 meeting during the year.I think that the should be some kind of representation for the college at the iaaa.and i would like to hear what ye all think about the idea of getting a rep,and how to decied who?

span

There has been a college rep on the IAAA board for the last number of years.

It was Kieth Colton last and Paul Burke before that. At the AGM just gone Harry Lyster of DIT put himself forward for the position of college rep.

mr potato head

Warning, contains rant!! not sure if it all makes sense...

Yea i was rep for a while... the IAAA would love for the Colleges scene to develop more as this greatly increases exposure to the sport and would like input from students on ways to spread the sport to new institutions.

For students to have a say in how the sport is run in Ireland you have to firstly join the IAAA as individuals and institutions! I’m not being funny but you don’t get nothing for free… running the sport costs money!
It is in the interest of students to join the IAAA as members because, Irish sports council funding is based on membership numbers (real, provable and on paper ones) so more members means more government money which in the future leads to more facilities, more training courses etc.

Unfortunately not all colleges are IAAA clubs so that causes some difficulties in terms of what the IAAA can do to help college development. We introduced a competition only membership for students who were members of a college club that was also a IAAA club.
This membership allowed a student to attend IAAA shoots and training events but did not insure them to train at other clubs (as you can as a full member) as their training should be insured under their college insurance.

A few of my own opinions (sorry i feel a rant coming on!!):

Some people in the past have objected to the idea of being under the IAAA and wanted to remain independent. These objections were due to funding problems within college budgets, the lack of members interested in a club to make use of the benefits and general "down with THE MAN" attitudes.
My view is if you look at the college clubs who have close ties with IAAA clubs; Carlow IT, DIT and GMIT to name three but there are more, you can see a benefit from coaching experience, access to more training times and generally a good wider community feel.

Finally, Being members doesn’t mean you have to stop enjoying the sport as a student sport, look at my old club DIT, we’re a group of clowns!!! But I for one took a lot from the club.

I apologise to those who read this far!!!!
I’ll keep it shorter next time.
Keith

ruiner

Harry got accepted for the rep position from the IAAA, each of the college club secretaries, or representative got a phone call about it last week and they all gave the go ahead.

spudnick

thanks i was told that no one put them selves forward,but im sure harry will do a good job.I too think that the colleges would benfit from being members of the Iaaa.thanks for your input on the topic and hope to see more of your toughts bieng put forward

Blind man

While we have this thread open i propose we carry forward the motivation began by Keith's rant above and i would call upon the new Rep or any other knowledgable party to lay down in three steps how a club can become on its own an IAAA member / institution. From there the clubs own members will have the option of joining as they wish knowing that they can use their own club as a reference.

Folks you all payed about €2 to join your college club. If your college is IAAA registered you pay your student fee to the IAAA and whenever you want to pick up a bow and train in any club or shoot in any event perhaps over the summer if you haven't tried your hand at it before your more then free to do so.

If some1 could follow this post with the following three things for clubs

- Forms / fees
- Who do i send them to
- How long is and when does membership begin.

I don't want to muddy the waters so i'll leave these to some1 who can provided definite answers.

"Pepsi twist - sponsoring carbonated sports in your area today"!!!

ruiner

The new forms for next year aren't up yet as they are being updated

There will be a new club affiliation form (I-AAA1 at the moment) downloadable from www.archery.ie under the documents section. The cost breakdown is €200 for affiliation, €60 for medals and €41 for FITA stars. I think the FITA stars cost only applies if you run a FITA star event but you'd need to double check. In previous years the affiliation fee has been waivered for the first year that a new club joins. You just have to pay the €60 for the medals. I haven't heard anything to suggest this has stopped.The form will explain the costs.

A club also needs to submit a seperate form (I-AAA5) indicating coaches and team managers if they have them and nominate a childrens officer. Bear in mind anyone under the age of 18 is considered a child.

The address to send the forms and fees to will be on the bottom of the new form. It will probably be to the new sports headquarters in Parkwest but I haven't seen the forms yet so I can't say for certain. John has ceased to be treasurer so they wont be going to him any longer

The membership is for a year and runs from January to the following January. There are two types of student membership (I-AAA3), shooting only and full. Shooting just covers you for competitions and the full covers you to shoot at any other IAAA club as well.

The fees have increased slightly this year for individual membership by €10. There is also a family membership availablele.

Sorry it's not all definite. There will be a mail going to all club secretaries in the next while reminding them that their membership or next year will be up. The new forms will be up by then.

Panserborn

We (NUIG) have been affialited for the last 4 odd years, with about 8 of us a year paying up full individual fees to let us train/shoot/mess anywhere. This has co-incided with us actually getting good as a club, I really recommend joining up.

ruiner wrote:

I think the FITA stars cost only applies if you run a FITA star event but you'd need to double check.

We've never been asked to pay this 'cause we don't yet hold a FITA star event.

Scottish Rob

I would just like to add my support for the excellent comments above. IAAA membership allows you to shoot in any IAAA competition and you only have to look at the calendar to see that there are many,(both indoors and out, field and target), throughout the year. You are not just restricted to IAAA shoots either as the organisation is affiliated to FITA and this allows you to shoot in GNAS (affiliated to FITA too) competitions as well. Only this weekend at the King's Hall in Belfast a student from Edinburgh University Archery Club got the highest overall score in the N.I. Civil Service Archery Club shoot. Looking along the shooting line at Intervarsities it is obvious that you are serious about your sport and are comitted to it judging by the amount of very expensive equipment you have invested in. I would urge you to invest a little more and join the rest of us in Archery in Ireland at any one of the many competitions around this country and abroad. Happy Shooting !

Finally, the new forms should be up on the IAAA website very shortly