Third Place

I am very pleased to announce that this blog, Jordan Sequillion : My Quest for Archery Olympic Gold, finished as the third Best Sports Blog of the Year for 2013 by the Canadian Blog Awards.

Thanks to everyone who took time to vote for me, I can not express my level of gratitude to you. My hope is to continue to deliver quality information about archery in the future.

Second Place

I am very pleased to announce that this blog, Jordan Sequillion : My Quest for Archery Olympic Gold, finished as the second Best Sports Blog of the Year for 2012 by the Canadian Blog Awards. In the final round I managed to collect 33% of the popular vote and narrowly lost to Straight from the Arse who collected 39%.

Thanks to everyone who took time to vote for me, I can not express my level of gratitude to you. My hope is to continue to deliver quality information about archery in the future.

Mission Accomplished

No one can experience things for you. They can describe them in detail, draw pictures, give you a slide show, but you need to be there to truly understand what it’s like. That describes my trip to World Indoor Archery Championships in Las Vegas, NV.

I have been back for a week now, and thought I should blog about my experience. My goals before leaving were very simple; learn and enjoy the complete experience. If all I bring back is the knowledge of what it takes to compete that the World level, I will succeed.

Well mission accomplished, I gained the experience I was looking for and I now know what it takes to compete at the international level.

Although, I really enjoyed the learning experience and met several new friends from various other countries, it was extremely nerve racking. Prior to the competition beginning, I was shooting extremely well right up to the minute the announcer came on and declared “Welcome to the World Championships” and this set the wheels in motion. I was finally here competing for my country, and the whole world is watching.

My coach, Kathy Millar, tries to prepare us for this type of thing. Every couple of weeks in class we practice with distractions however nothing can prepare you for that level of distraction with loud fans, multi-lingual teams, and the constant commentators. It started with the introductions, world champion here, junior world champion there and me. Then the distraction of the commentator constantly announcing scores and who is shooting and what they did or needed to do. He even declared the winner in our of the bronze medal match even before we shot our final arrow.

Although individually I finished tied for 17^th in the recurve junior women division; my junior women’s team set a new national record, even though we lost in the bronze medal match on the final end to the host Americans. Also congratulations to all my Canadian team members, although none of us medaled in this competition, we all preformed well and showed the world that the Canadians can compete at any level.