Pronounced Jay Oh Pea, JOP is a Sask Archery Association weekly youth archery program designed to get our youth coached, structured archery lessons in a safe and fun environment. More background information can be found on the saskarchery.ca website. JOP is open from roughly 8 years old (depending on your youth’s maturity/focus) to 21 years old (as of Dec31 of the year).

As for our club specifically, youth members have an opportunity of joining our JOP, depending on availability. We want the right ratio of coaches to youth for the best and safest training, so spots are limited, first come first served. Youth that participated in the previous year would get their spot back first if still interested.

This year we are running JOP over 3 different weekly time sessions. Times could change year over year depending on our (volunteer) coaches, youth interest, and number of archer’s per shooting distance.

  • Tuesday, 6:00PM –> 7:00PM
  • Tuesday, 7:30PM –> 9:00PM
  • Wednesday, 7:30PM –> 9:00PM

If accepted into the program, we would schedule your youth on the same session for the JOP duration for the season. We generally start JOP in late October, and it goes until the JOP Provincials tournament in mid April.

Your youth must be a member of Frontier Bowmen for the upcoming season. So for JOP 2025/2026 season, you need to at least have a 2026 membership for your youth, and at least one adult if the youth is under 16 (as of Dec31). For insurance reasons, our memberships are not pro-rated and they are for the calendar year. However, we do start selling our next year memberships on Oct 1 of the current year. This gives you Oct-Dec of the current year, plus the entire next year.

Youth must bring their own equipment for JOP. They would need to bring:

  • Bow: Recurve or Compound
  • Arrows (at least 6+)
  • Hand/Wrist/Finger Release/Glove
  • Quiver (waste belt style generally works best)

Additionally, if your youth is accepted into the program, in previous years we charged $110 JOP Fee. This includes a $60 registration to cover supplies like paper targets, badges, medals for provincial tournaments, etc. The other $50 is a “volunteer deposit”. Frontier Archers is 100% a volunteer ran club. We really need our members to help with things from hosting shoots, running canteens, to mopping floors, or cutting grass. We email our members as we have events needing help, and of course all training is provided, so don’t worry if not sure what the task is! We are just asking for families to help the club, as our volunteer coaches help run this program. There is a form you can submit after volunteering to claim your $50 back.

Please reach out if any interest, or questions! If you would like to register for the next season please use the form below!

NOTE: As of Sept 2025, we are now at capacity for accepting new youth for the 2025/2026 season. As we want to provide a high quality, safe, learning archery experience to our young archers, we have to balance the archer vs coach ratio between the number of sessions we have. If your youth is still interested, please submit a form below to get added to our wait list for next season (Oct 2026->April 2027) and we can answer any questions about our program.