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Department of Athletics Adds Archery and Competitive Dance as Varsity Programs
COMING FALL 2023
INDIANA TECH’S DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS ANNOUNCED EARLY IN NOVEMBER IT WAS ADDING ARCHERY AND COMPETITIVE DANCE AS VARSITY SPORTS FOR THE 2023-24 ACADEMIC YEAR. AS THE UNIVERSITY LOOKS AHEAD TO THE LAUNCH OF THESE NEW PROGRAMS, INDIANA TECH MAGAZINE PRESENTS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF EACH SPORT.
ARCHERY
↘ Indiana Tech will compete in the outdoor target discipline; its season begins in spring 2024. Indoor target and 3D archery could be added in the future. ↘ Collegiate archery programs can field men's teams, women's teams and mixed teams. ↘ Collegiate archers can participate in four divisions: Recurve, Compound, Fixed Pins and Barebow. ↘ In competitions, a team consists of three archers. The average program size is 20 archers. ↘ Teams and individual archers compete to earn overall national champion honors in each division at the end of the season. ↘ University of the Cumberlands (Williamsburg, Kentucky) is one of the strongest collegiate archery programs in the country, having won 10 national team titles. ↘ A recurve bow has limbs that curve away from the archer when it is unstrung. ↘ A compound bow uses cables and pulleys to bend the limbs. ↘ Fixed pins refers to the sights on the bow. The archer sets these sight pins for various distances they shoot during a competition. ↘ Barebow is a recurve bow that does not include accessories for aiming or stabilization.
COMPETITIVE DANCE
↘ A minimum of six and a maximum of 16 dancers must be on the floor during a performance. Routines must be at least 1 minute and 45 seconds in length, but must not exceed 2 minutes and 15 seconds. ↘ Teams must include in their routines elements of these dance techniques: jazz, hip-hip and pom. In addition, each routine must include a squad leap, a squad turn and a squad turn sequence. ↘ Teams are scored based on these categories: jazz technigue, hip-hop technique, pom technique, team turn sequence, staging and transitions, uniformity, choreography, overall degree of difficulty, performance impression, team turn and team leap. ↘ Indiana Tech's dance team will also serve as the university's spirit team during on-campus events. ↘ Indiana Tech will compete in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference along with Aquinas, Concordia, Lawrence Tech, Lourdes, Madonna and Siena Heights, with Aquinas being historically strong in the conference. ↘ On a national level, Midland University (Fremont, Nebraska) and St. Ambrose University (Davenport, Iowa) are historically strong programs.
