Gator Cup 2015

This was the briefest I ever remained at Gator Cup, mostly due to a mixture of inclement weather and 1001 other things I had to deal with, including school and taking preventative measure to protect what's left of my poor immune system. Full suite of pictures can be found here: http://s1281.photobucket.com/user/GuenhwyvarAnCrosaire/library/Gator%20Cup%202015

 The proprietor of Tasty Gators decided to catch a picture of me and the furry bear before Saturday's team competition began. 

 Paralympic archer Kinga Kiss-Johnson on target and ready to kill some 10 rings. She is one amazing warrior and towers above the rest of us!

 Lee Ford-Faherty preparing for some serious archery action and even more serious butt-kicking. I don't remember the name of the archer next to her, but she is also one heck of a warrior.

 Shooting line in action, including some of our amazing youth!

 Another view of the shooting line. This year wasn't a particularly good year for photography.

 Eew.  Just eew.  Some numbskull, I mean, football (probably American style) player dropped this on the field. We dare not touch it for fear of acquiring the brain-drain disease.

 Arrows... lots of arrows!

 Pincushions, anyone?

 My best end the entire weekend aside from a let-down gone very, very ugly.

 The next few pictures of me on the line are courtesy of one of the ultra-nice coaches who had no problems with pointing and clicking the camera for me.

 Me and Lee Ford-Faherty with her awesome little scooter! She is one of my greatest heroes in the archery world with her tenacity!She probably knocks more sense into my head than most others!

 I now have two stickers on my case so I can recognize it better!

 Team round preparation.  This is NOT very pretty.  Candy and I did some structural damage to the target butt.  At least mine came out without *too* much trouble.

 The next series of pictures are courtesy of the furry bear, although I know he had a difficult time photographing us because of all the people moving in/out and everywhere.

 Team Florida Stars! We took 4th in the senior women's recurve team match but we had an amazing blast! Nothing like three archers of different backgrounds teaming up and kicking butt! We even had a former Ukranian Olympian with us (on the far right). 

 Two of my favorite male recurve archers... one Canadian Olympian and one UF archer who has gone from an awkward engineering student to one heck of an archer. 

 The next series of pictures are courtesy of a compound shooter who happened to be in the vicinity and was not afraid to handle my camera. I got eliminated 6-2 by my young opponent but it was still a lot of fun aside from the downpour and thunder!

 And here I am with my good friend C. Balusek of Georgia Tech. He's like me - went from barebow to Olympic recurve and got hooked on it. He was the lone wolf from his school but he made it down!

 Practice end for team round... I think I needed to adjust things a bit.

And this looks a little better... although that first arrow was NOT pretty!