Alberta Smallbore Rifle Association

The 2014 CAT RIO Quota winners: Here

The 2014 CAT Pan Am Quota Award Schedule: Here

Here is a link to a list of great resource material for the shooting coach.
It is an excellent compendium of resource material.

If you need any further information please contact:

Susan Eymann:  susan@lethbridgesportcouncil.ca 
Dennis Grover:  berden@xplornet.com 

Link: Shooting Coach Resource Material

ASRA is proud to have Wynn Payne on the Canadian Shooting Team.

Alberta Federation of Shooting Sports (AFSS) has announced a new scholarship.

For full details on this new fund, check out the form here: AFSS Scholarship

Please be advised that the cut scores for the 2014 High Performance Program have been added to the Selection Criteria.

Please follow this link to view the 2014 SFC High Performance Selection Criteria:

2014 Athlete Selection Criteria

Shooting moved from Group D to Group C.

The International Olympic Committee announced a new grouping of Olympic sports for the purposes of the distribution of Olympic revenues to international federations, at a joint meeting of its Executive Board and that of the Association of Olympic International Federations at the SportAccord convention in St Petersburg, on the 29th of May.
Being group A the federation with the largest revenues share, and group E the group with the smaller revenues share, Shooting was elevated from group D up to group C.

The new ranking of existing Olympic sports for revenues share is as follows:
Group A
aquatics; athletics; gymnastics
Group B
basketball; cycling; football (soccer); tennis; volleyball
Group C
Shooting; archery; badminton; boxing; judo; rowing; table tennis; weightlifting
Group D
canoe/kayak; equestrian; fencing; handball; (field) hockey; sailing; taekwondo; triathlon, wrestling
Group E
modern pentathlon; golf; rugby sevens.

IOC proposed to ASOIF this new groups after evaluating sports according to six criteria. Each criteria was assigned a different weight:

• TV (the television audiences that each sport attracted during the games): 40
• Internet (the number of internet page views and social media mentions): 20
• General public (favourite sports, according to a survey): 15
• Spectators (ticket requests in the host territory): 10
• Press (number of favourable press articles): 10
• Universality (number of national federations): 5

The validity of this methodology was guaranteed by CIES, the International Centre for Sports Studies in Lausanne, as IOC authorities explained.
“Shooting was previously ranked in Group D. After the last evaluation our sport has been moved up into Group C. This means that the efforts of the ISSF to improve its visibility on TV and Internet were successful, and that Shooting is becoming more and more popular among sport fans.” ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Rana said.
“We welcome this positive news with great pleasure. Our aim is to keep on improving the status of Shooting on the international panorama.” Secretary General Franz Schreiber said. “The ISSF is doing things right in the fields of management, media and promotion, and this positive news proves it.”

Article also available here on line: IOC Group change

Hey shooters: the video link page has been updated to include the 2013 ISSF World Cup videos.
You can get them here: video links

An 8 page summation detailing the interpretation of some of the new ISSF 2013 rules.

It’s available in the “Downloads” and “Shooting Resources” page of the website.

It should make for some interesting reading: 2013 ISSF Rule Interpretation