The Outdoor Shoot Your Way Across Texas or SYWAT is a Field archery tournament series held at various locations around the state.

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2 About SYWAT Outdoor... The Outdoor Shoot Your Way Across Texas or SYWAT is a Field archery tournament series held at various locations around the state. A Field archery round consists of shooting 4 arrows at 28 targets for a total of 112 arrows. The maximum score is 560 points. The TFAA field round consists of 14 Field target faces and 14 Hunter target faces. Field target faces are black and white with a black center; Hunter target faces are all black with thin white rings and a white center. Target face size varies depending on the distance of each target. Scoring rings on the target face are X (5 points), 5, 4 and 3. There are signs at each target that indicate distance and shooting position for each age class. Shooting positions may include all four arrows from one position, a series of four walk-up positions, or a fan layout of four positions. Each shoot at each shop/club on a given weekend is its own tournament. Line times vary, and are frequently shotgun start, so be sure to check the host location s web site to confirm. Archers can shoot in one or more lines at the same location on the same weekend; only the highest score for that tournament will count. Archers three highest scores from tournaments through the season are posted on the TFAA web site. The shooter from each Division/Style with the top score from their three SYWAT shoots plus their Day 1 State Championship score wins the Aggregate/Shooter of the Year award. TFAA Membership TFAA Membership is not required to shoot in SYWAT tournaments, but is required to be eligible for awards at the TFAA Outdoor State Championship. Sign-up for membership is available via the NFAA Web site at 2

3 2018 OUTDOOR SYWAT SCHEDULE Date Host City/State Phone March Archer's Haven Canyon Lake, TX April 7-8 Huaco Bowmen Archery Club Waco, TX April Tejas Bowmen Archery Club Corpus Christi, TX April Cowtown Bowmen Archery Club Fort Worth, TX April Irving Bowhunters Association Irving, TX Bobby Hunt Memorial April Golden Eagle Field Archers La Feria, TX April Buffalo Field Archery Club Houston, TX April Red River Bowman Archery Club Dean Brown Invitational Shreveport, LA May 5-6 Tejas Bowmen Archery Club Corpus Christi, TX May 5-6 Irving Bowhunters Association Irving, TX May Sherwood Archery Bedias, TX May Fort Grard Guns & Archery Weatherford, TX May Golden Eagle Field Archers La Feria, TX May Huaco Bowmen Archery Club Waco, TX June 2-3 Cowtown Bowmen Archery Club Fort Worth, TX June 2-3 Flo Bateman Memorial Shoot Canyon Lake, TX June NFAA Southern Field Sectionals Shreveport, LA June Fort Grard Guns & Archery Weatherford, TX June TFAA Outdoor State Championship Irving, TX ADDITIONAL DATES AND LOCATIONS MAY BE ADDED CHECK TEXASFIELDARCHERY.ORG FOR UDPDATES TFAA OUTDOOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIP JUNE 23-24, 2018 IRVING BOWHUNTERS ASSOCIATION IRVING, TX CHECK TEXASFIELDARCHERY.ORG FOR DETAILS Note: The State Outdoor Championship is its own tournament. Shooting in SYWAT tournaments is not required to participate in the State Outdoor Championship. 3

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9 FROM THE TFAN EDITOR ATTENTION SHOPS/CLUBS! IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR TFAN AD UPDATED, PLEASE CALL/ /TEXT GREG NICHOLS (CONTACT INFO ON BACK PAGE) 9

10 FIELD GOVERNOR REPORTS District 5 Jay Lindsey Doug Bucy We had a great Indoor season in District 5 and now it s time for Outdoor! In April Cowtown will host their field shoot April IBA will host the Bobby Hunt Memorial April The weather is getting good so come on out and shoot some Field! 10

11 TFAA FAMILY Thoughts and Prayers Please keep these TFAA members in your thoughts and prayers: Bubba Bateman Ongoing medical issues Emma Jean Brown Cancer Steve Coleman Knee surgery Mike Culwell Stroke Melanie LeBoeuf Cancer Charlie Villarreal Recovering from quadruple bypass Mike Zenon Cancer Jesse Zumwalt Serious work-related accident. If you know of other members that have medical issues, please let us know so we can add them to this list. 11

12 PRSRT STD US Postage Paid Georgetown TX Permit 91 Greg Nichols Editor PO Box 1452 Roanoke, TX President Steve Coleman 909 LCR 120 Mt. Calm, Texas Bowhun ng Director Ken Wi 2100 Rustling Elm Burleson, Texas wi Field Governor, District 4 Clyde Miller 5564 Ayers Street Corpus Chris, Texas clyde@clydesarchery.com Field Governor, District 7 Nathan Taylor PO Box 2646 Kilgore, Texas nt4444@aol.com Secretary/Treasurer Be y Johnson 514 Berkshire Drive Longview, Texas bjohnson1942@sbcglobal.net Field Governor, District 1 Michael Lowe 805 Cedar Avenue Idalou, Texas mlowe0338@gmail.com Field Governors, District 5 Doug Bucy 314 Arkansas Sherman, Texas dougbucy@yahoo.com Webmaster Mark Tanner Info@texasfieldarchery.org NFAA Director Steve Coleman 909 LCR 120 Mt. Calm, Texas j13scoleman@yahoo.com Field Governor, District 2 James Barkhimer PO Box 42 Iraan, Texas fishhntr365@gmail.com Jay Lindsey 1696 Blevins Drive Keller, Texas jwljr@yahoo.com Tournament Director Lee Gregory PO Box 210 Georgetown, Texas lee@dlprint.com Field Governor, District 3 David Allen 7914 Teal Trail Spring, Texas dallen@hcp4.net Field Governor, District 6 Steve Jenkins 3211 Tavern Oaks San Antonio, Texas txarcher1@yahoo.com 12