What is an “Olympian” score?
The NAA has created a series of levels of proficiency for archers to use to provide milestones, or progress indicators, as they get older, gain experience, and generally get better in archery. Just like scouting provides ranks of achievement, JOAD provides ranks. Each archer will advance at his or her own rate, and the JOAD coordinator will assign the award once the archer shoots the score necessary for the rank. It must be shot in a “tournament-like” condition with at least 3 JOAD archers shooting and an adult supervisor/sponsor present. The best possible score is 30 arrows times TEN, which is 300. Therefore an archer must shoot a perfect round of 30 arrows to achieve the GOLD OLYMPIAN level. Very few archers will ever in their lifetime score a perfect set of thirty TENS in a row, but it always a possibility on a “good” day. There is also the Silver Olympian and the Olympian ranks, for shooting slightly less than PERFECT rounds.
