sun devil archery

S u n D e v i l A r c h e r y

ASU Archery is Back!

Our Team

Ronilyn Sloan – Recurve/Compound

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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Laura Hurtig – Recurve

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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Maggie Huff - Recurve/Compound

Hometown:      Oro Valley, Arizona
Birth date:       June 29
Major:              Nursing
Year at ASU:   Junior

Interests and Hobbies: music, movies, spending time with friends

Coach: Alan Rasor

Competitive History:
     Collegiate:
        ·       2008 USIACs - 5th  (Compound)
        ·       2008 All-American (Compound)
        ·       2008 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor Champion (Compound)
        ·       2008 West All-Regional Archery Team (Compound)
        ·       2007-08 Academic All-American (Compound)
        ·      2008 AZ Outdoor Collegiate Champion (Compound)
        ·      2008 AZ Indoor Collegiate Champion (Compound)
        ·       2007 USIACs - 2nd (Recurve)
        ·       2007 All-American (Recurve)
        ·       2007 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 2nd (Recurve)
        ·       2007 West All-Regional Archery Team (Recurve)
        ·       2006-07 Academic All-American (Recurve)
        ·       2007 AZ Outdoor Collegiate Champion (Recurve)
        ·       2007 AZ Indoor Collegiate Champion (Recurve)

      US Outdoor Championships:
        ·       2006- US National Target - 1st Junior (Recurve)
        ·       2006- US National Target - Olympic Rounds - 4th (Recurve)
        ·       2006- JOAD Nationals - 1st Junior (Recurve)

World Events
· 2006 Junior World Outdoor Championships team member (Recurve)

      Other
        ·       2008 Olympic Trials Invitee (Recurve)
        ·       2007 AZ Duel Team Member (Recurve)
        ·       2006 Duel In The Desert Champion (Recurve)
        ·       2006 AZ Duel Trials Champion- AZ Duel Team Member (Recurve)

        USAT:
        ·       2007 Junior USAT Team member (Recurve)
        ·       2006 Junior USAT Team member (Recurve)
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Lindsay Pian - Recurve/Compound?

Hometown:          Scottsdale, Arizona
Birth date:            March 11
Major:                  Mathematics
Year at ASU:        Sophomore

Lindsay took some time away from ASU classes while she gave her bid for a place on the 2008 Olympic team a shot by training full-time. CONGRATULATIONS Lindsay on your 4th place Trials finish (just short... ouch, buit still hooray).

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Danielle Thrower – Compound

Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona

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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Ashley Votruba – Compound

Hometown:        Chandler, Arizona
Birth date:         March 30
Major:                 Psychology & Music minor
Year at ASU:      Senior

Interests and Hobbies:     Piano and Music

Coach: Ed Votruba (Father)

Personal: I started shooting in 2001 when we found Mesa Targeteers in Chandler. Archery is an awesome sport that I am proud to be a part of!

Greatest Achievement in Archery: Top 10 finish at the 2005 National Target Championship.

Goals Over the Next Year: To represent the Sun Devil Archery and myself with distinction. All-American! (Ashley, you are always our ambassador in the field!)

Long Term Goals: Where ever target archery and my college education takes me.

Greatest Influence:     I am very proud of my family's involvement with JOAD and helping to develop youth character and determination.

Competitive History:
    Collegiate:
        ·       2008 All-American
        ·       2008 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 2nd
        ·       2008 West All-Regional Archery Team
        ·       2008 AZ Outdoor Collegiate - 2nd
        ·       2008 AZ Indoor Collegiate - 2nd
        ·       2007 USIACs - 9th
        ·       2007 All-American
        ·       2007 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 2nd
        ·       2007 West All-Regional Archery Team
        ·       2007 AZ Outdoor Collegiate Champion
        ·       2007 AZ Indoor Collegiate Champion
        ·       2006 USIACs - 19th
        ·       2006 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor Champion
        ·       2006 West All-Regional Archery Team
        ·       2006 AZ Collegiate Outdoor Champion
        ·       2006 AZ Outdoor Collegiate - 3rd
        ·       2006 Western Region Collegiate Indoor - 2nd
        ·       2006 AZ Indoor Collegiate Champion

       US Outdoor Championships:
        ·       2006 US Outdoor Championships - 12th
        ·       2005 US Outdoor Championships - Junior division - 7th

       Other:
        ·       2007 AZ Duel Trials - 2nd - AZ Duel Team Member
        ·       2006 AZ Duel Trials - 2nd - AZ Duel Team Member
        ·       2005 AZ Duel Trials - AZ Duel Team Member

Other:     Employed at Arizona Music Academy as a private piano instructor.
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Seth Matthijssen – Recurve

Hometown:         New Jersey
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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Greg Begenyi – Recurve

Hometown:         Bethesda, Maryland
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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Andrew Reading - Recurve

Hometown:        Scottsdale, Arizona
Birth date:        October 30
Major:               Computer Science, Mathmatics
Year at ASU:    Junior

Coach: Kari Jill Granville, my second mother

Greatest Achievement in Archery: Starting. It would have to be. I mean, otherwise, I wouldn't be on this page.

Goals Over the Next Year: Archery-related: I'd like to win something. That would be really cool. General: Continue with my education and develop interpersonal relationships for the purpose of bettering myself and achieving happiness.

Long Term Goals: Discover the meaning of life (hint for Andrew... it's 42). Maybe count to infinity. Divide by 0. Actually, I don't know. One step at a time.

Greatest Influence: My previous failures and hardhips.

Competitive History:
    Collegiate:
        ·       2008 USIACs - Member of the Bronze Medal Men's Recurve Team
        ·      2008 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 30th
            ·       2007 USIACs
            ·       Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 26th
        ·       2007 AZ Indoor Collegiate - 10th

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Tyler Hoge – Recurve

Hometown:         Mason, Ohio
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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Ian Johnson– Compound

Hometown:         River Edge, New Jersey
Birth date:         May 14
Major:                Business Administration

Year at ASU: Senior

Theme Song: Bringin' Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake

Coach: Mel Nichols

Interests and Hobbies: Archery, Design, and Capentry

Personal: I dated one of the finest female archeres in the country and she introduced me to the sport.

Greatest Achievement in Archery: Joining the team.

Goals Over the Next Year: develop my archeryskills an become an asset to the team. (Ian, your sense of humor is ALWAYS as asset to the team)

Competitive History:
    Collegiate:
        ·       2008 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor -  15th
        ·       2008 AZ Indoor Collegiate - 9th
        ·       2007 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 13th
        ·       2007 AZ Outdoor Collegiate - 3rd
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Christian Thompson – Recurve/Compound

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Year at ASU: Freshman
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Vince Morgan – Compound

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Year at ASU: Freshman

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Ted Harden - Asst. Coach
Ted is the reason archery is back at ASU. It was his lone effort as a freshman which began the return of the dynasty. Throughout his college career, he has been an exceptional leader and role model, and now, while he finishes up before graduation, he will be helping to usher in the new generation of Sun Devil Archers as the Asst. Coach!

Hometown:      Tempe, Arizona
Birth date:       January 2
Major:               Business Administration
Year at ASU:   Super Senior

Interests and Hobbies: Photography, Cycling, Archery

Coach: Frank Pearson

Personal: I made bows when I was little and I had always wanted to shoot. Some family friends gave me a bow and I started to compete.

Greatest Achievement in Archery: Corey McCormick, Nate McCullough, and I won the overall men's team competition at the 2002 Outdoor Nationals in Michigan.

Goals Over the Next Year: Be on the USA team going to the World University Games and be an All-American. (the WUG trials competition was tough and Ted just missed it... but he did make All-American!)

Long Term Goals: Make the 2008 Olympic Team and compete on world field teams.

Competitive History:
        Collegiate:
        ·           2008 USIACs - 5th
        ·           2008 All-American
        ·           2008 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 2nd
        ·           2008 West All-Regional Archery Team
        ·           2008 AZ Outdoor Collegiate Champion
       ·           2007 USIACs - 3rd
        ·           2007 All-American
        ·           2007 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor - 3rd
        ·           2007 West All-Regional Archery Team
        ·           2007 AZ Outdoor Collegiate Champion
        ·           2007 AZ Indoor Collegiate Champion
        ·          2006 USIACs - 10th
        ·           2006 All-American
        ·           2006 Western Region Collegiate Outdoor Champion
        ·           2006 West All-Regional Archery Team
        ·           2006 AZ Collegiate Outdoor Champion
        ·           2006 AZ Outdoor Senior Champion
        ·           2006 US Collegiate Indoor -5th
        ·           2006 Western Region Collegiate Indoor -2nd
        ·           2006 AZ Indoor Collegiate Champion
        ·           2005 AZ Duel Trials - 2nd- AZ Duel Team Member
        ·           2004-05 Academic All-American

       US Indoor Championships:
        ·       2002 Indoor National Champion

       World Events:
        ·       2007 CAP Venezuela Team Member
        ·       2002 Junior World Teams

     Other:
        ·       2007 Duel Trials Champion - AZ Duel Team member
        ·       2006 Duel Trials - 4th - AZ Duel Team member
        ·       2005 AZ Duel Trials - 2nd- AZ Duel Team Member

USAT:
· 2001- 2003 Junior United States Archery Team member

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Kari Jill Granville, JD– Coach
Kari was a member of the ASU archery team for two years... about 100 years ago. She achieved All-American honors both of those years (4th and 2nd place).   After leaving ASU, Kari travelled the world for a period, then returned to ASU to finish her undergraduate degree and continued to complete her law degree.

Hometown:         Tempe, AZ (but originally a Texas girl)
Birth date:         Oct 26

Certifications:
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USA Archery Level 3 Coach

USA Archery Judge candidate

Honors:
    ·        2007-2009 AZ State Archery Association Board Member
    ·        2007 AZ Toxopholite of the Year
    ·        2006-07 USA Archery Collegiate Division Chairman
    ·        2006 USA Archery College Division Coach of the Year nominee
    ·        2006 Western Region Coach of the Year
    ·        2006 Western Region "Rookie" Coach of the Year

Competitive History:   (after returning to the sport in 2006... anything that happened the first time around was too long ago to remember)

Arizona:
    ·        2008 AZ Outdoor Champion
    ·        2008 AZ Indoor - 2nd Place
    ·        2007 AZ Duel Trials - AZ Duel Team Member
    ·        2007 AZ Outdoor Champion
    ·        2007 AZ Indoor Champion
    ·        2006 AZ Duel Trials - 4th - AZ Duel Team Member
    ·        2006 Grand Canyon State Games Champion
    ·        2006 AZ Outdoor - 2nd Place
    ·        2006 AZ Indoor Champion

US Indoor Championship:
    ·        2008 US Senior Indoor - 5th
    ·        2007 US Senior Indoor - 8th
    ·        2006 US Senior Indoor - 16th

US Outdoor Championship:
    ·        2007 US Outdoor Championships - Open Team Round - 1st Place (w/ Maggie Huff and Kendra Harvey)
    ·        2006 US Outdoor Championships - 15th
    ·        2006 US Outdoor Championships - Open Team Round - 1st Place (w/ Ali and Maku Wood)

US Field Championship:
    ·         2008 US World Field Championship Team Member
     ·         2008 US Field Championships / World Championship Trials - 2nd Place
    ·         2007 US Field Championships - 1st Place

Other:
    ·        2008 Gold Cup - 10th
    ·        2008 Texas Shoot Out - 3rd
    ·        2008 AZ Cup - 12th (US combined Qual and OR finish)
    ·        2008 Olympic Trials Invitee/Participant
    ·        2007 Gold Cup - 9th
    ·        2007 AZ Cup - 13th (Tie)

USAT:
· 2009 USAT standings - currently in 8th (the US Archery team is made up of the top 8 based on 2008 performances)
· 2008 USAT standings - 14th (the US Archery team is made up of the top 8 based on 2007 performances)

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Recent Alumn...

Mike Speck Kolby Granville