About the Contributors

Butch Johnson is a five-time U.S. Olympic team member, Olympic team gold and bronze
medalist, multitime Pan Am Games team gold medalist, and European Grand Prix
champion. Johnson, who has held as many as seven world records at one time, is also a
World Cup team silver medalist and a World Archery Indoor Championships team gold
and individual silver medalist. An accomplished compound archer before he turned to
recurve, Johnson has amassed an incredible 47 national championship titles between
the two disciplines across multiple event formats. Johnson, who coaches while helping
to manage Halls Arrow Indoor Archery Range, continues to compete in national and
international events.
Mel Nichols is a level 5 NTS coach and has been an archery coach for over 20 years. As
a member of USA Archerys international teams staff, Nichols has accompanied multiple
medal-winning teams to key international events, including the 2012 Olympic Games,
World Cups, Indoor and Outdoor World Archery Championships, Pan Am Games,
and London Archery Classic. A staff coach for the Junior Dream Team, USA Archerys
elite youth development program, Nichols is also active with Junior Olympic Archery
Development programs and youth archery camps in Arizona. Nichols, who was USA
Archerys National Coach of the Year in 2010, started his own career as an archer, competing with a compound bow for many years in the 3D and target archery disciplines.
Guy Krueger is the current assistant head coach for USA Archery at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, and a level 5 NTS coach. Krueger has worked
closely with the Resident Athlete Program at the Olympic Training Center since 2008.
An experienced competitor himself, Krueger was the World University Games champion in 2000 in Madrid, Spain, and the 2002 World University bronze medalist. He also
won an individual silver medal and team gold medal in the 2003 Pan Am Games and
has competed at several world championships and other international events. Krueger
also won the 2005 U.S. Open and several junior and collegiate national championships.
He has been involved in archery for over 24 years and was a junior and senior national
team member from 1996 to 2008.
KiSik Lee was hired as USA Archerys national head coach in 2006 and is credited with
helping to transform the organizations athlete and coach development programs. Lee
has one of the most accomplished coaching records in archery history: The 2012 U.S.
archery team was the seventh team he led to the Olympic Games. Under Lees guidance,
his students have won nine Olympic gold medals. During his years of coaching, Lee
developed the worlds only biomechanically based step-by-step method for shooting a
bow. He has authored two books on the subject, both translated into several languages
and referenced as top coaching texts worldwide. In introducing this system in the United
States, now called the national training system, Lee revolutionized the way archery is
taught to students and changed the way coaches are trained to work with archers. Lee
was awarded the U.S. Olympic Committees Order of Ikkos by the silver medalwinning
mens U.S. Olympic archery team in 2012.

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Sheri Rhodes is the coach development manager for USA Archery. Rhodes began her
career in 1976 as head coach for Arizona State University; during her time there, her
students accumulated 45 individual and collegiate championship titles and over 100
All-American titles. Rhodes served as a U.S. Olympic archery team coach in 1988 and
2004; under her direction, athletes took individual gold, team silver, and team bronze.
Rhodes was the technical delegate at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. She resides
in Arizona.
Diane Watson has over 30 years of experience as a competitor and coach. Watson has
competed in both recurve and compound divisions and at target, field, and 3D events.
Watson began shooting archery in the Junior Olympic Archery Development Program
in the early 1970s and has several national and international podium finishes to her
credit, including World Cup and World Championships team and individual medals.
Watson continues to coach and compete today.
Robby K. Beyer, MS, is the former high-performance manager and former national teams
manager for USA Archery. After completing his master's degree in sport and recreational
management, Beyer worked with USA Archery for three years, during which time the
teams he helped to support tripled their medal counts from previous seasons. Beyer is
responsible for helping to construct USA Archerys national ranking system, restructuring the organizations team selection procedures, and supporting athletes through many
international events in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympic Games. Using his experiences
in coaching Division I and III track and field athletes, Beyer has a guiding philosophy
focused on improving the complete individual and athlete. Currently Beyer is coaching
athletes in central Iowa.
Randi Smith, USA Archerys Paralympic national head coach, has been an archery coach
since 1984, working with youth and adult archers as well as training other instructors.
Smith has focused on outreach to disabled archers for many years, working with military
athletes and events such as the Endeavor Games. She has served as coach and team leader
for many international events, including the World Archery Para Championships and
Paralympic Games. She most recently coached two archers to medal wins at the 2012
Paralympic Games and was awarded the U.S. Olympic Committees Order of Ikkos for
her athletes medal-winning performances at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games.

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