/ Range / Coaches

Four coaches. Forty combined years on the line.

Every coach on staff carries a USA Archery Level 2 or Level 3 certification, plus a discipline they specialize in: recurve, compound, traditional, or youth development. Most have been with the program more than five years. The longest, since the year we opened the south gate.

USAA Level3
/ Head coach · recurve discipline

Ottilie Vasquez

Cert Level 3Years 22Discipline RecurveSchedule Sun · Wed

Ottilie has been the head coach since 2014. She came to archery in her early twenties through a college club, made the indoor state finals twice in her late twenties, and has been teaching full-time since 2008. She runs the senior recurve squad and the Sunday morning intro lessons that introduce most of our archers to the sport.

She tunes her own bows, refuses to coach anyone with poor stance for more than the first ten minutes of the first session, and has a reputation for sending archers home with one specific note to think about until next week. She doesn't pile corrections.

"Pick the smallest correction that the archer can hold in their head between sessions. Then make sure that one sticks."
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USAA Level2
/ Compound & field discipline

Bram Holcombe

Cert Level 2Years 14Discipline CompoundSchedule Wed · Sat

Bram came to target archery from bowhunting — a route that's increasingly common in our compound clinic. He runs the Wednesday compound clinic and the Saturday 3D roving sessions on the back ridge. ATA-certified, with a quiet preference for slower release work over equipment fixes.

He has a working knowledge of every compound bow we rent, tunes the loaner kit personally, and has placed top-five at three regional 3D shoots in the last decade. He talks about cam timing the way some people talk about wine.

"Compound rewards the boring. The archers who win this discipline are the ones who shoot the same shot ten thousand times in a row."
Book Bram → Compound gear
USAA Level3
/ JOAD director · youth development

Lin Ó Briain

Cert L3 + L2 YouthYears 16Discipline Recurve · YouthSchedule Tue · Thu · Sat

Lin has run the JOAD program since 2018 and is the reason most of our families stay across multiple seasons. She has both the USA Archery Level 3 instructor certification and the Level 2 Youth Coaching credential, which is unusual at a club our size — it's the certification that allows us to run a tournament-track squad.

Two of her senior squad archers placed in the top ten at indoor JOAD Nationals last cycle. Three more qualified for outdoor nationals. She'll tell you none of those numbers matter as much as the kids who started with her at age nine and stayed through eighteen.

"The job at nine is to make them love the bow. The job at fifteen is to keep them loving it through the regression. The job at eighteen is to let them go."
Book Lin (JOAD) → JOAD details
USAA Level2
/ Traditional & longbow discipline

Eshaan Marchetti

Cert Level 2Years 18Discipline TraditionalSchedule Sat afternoons

Eshaan runs traditional Saturday afternoons — barebow, longbow, instinctive shooting. He's the one with the cedar arrow stash, the elm-self-bow he made over a winter, and the patient explanation of why a traditional archer should not buy a sight kit for at least their first two seasons.

His class skews older than the rest of our membership and stays small — eight archers most weekends, ten in summer. He's also our first stop for any archer crossing over from a primitive-skills or traditional-bowhunting background. He's been teaching since 2007.

"You don't aim a longbow. You become a longbow. Once you stop trying to aim, you'll start hitting the gold by accident — and then on purpose."
Book Eshaan → Traditional gear
/ Volunteer instructors & range officers

The line doesn't run without these folks.

/ Range officer

Patience Aldridge

Volunteer range officer on Saturdays since 2017. Calls the whistle line, keeps the lane cards, knows where every coach is at any moment.

/ JOAD assistant

Henrik Sallow

Senior JOAD archer turned assistant instructor. Helps Lin with Cubs and Sprouts on Tuesdays. National JOAD outdoor qualifier 2024.

/ Equipment tech

Mariadelia Ortuno

Strings every loaner recurve in the kit. Rebuilds bowstrings on a small jig in the back of the long shed. Quiet, fast, exacting.

Book the coach that fits.

You can book a private session with any of our four head coaches directly through the booking page — pick the coach, pick a date, pay at the gate. New archers default to whichever coach is teaching the next intro slot, but if you'd rather choose, just say so when you book.

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