No retail sales. No games. No noise.
Just teaching archery and letting you shoot on your schedule.
At Ohio Archery Learning Center, we have created a world class archery facility for all ages and skill levels. We provide certified professional coaching/instruction. We specialize in teaching archery to beginners from 6 to 80 years old and helping seasoned archers improve their shooting form. We can help with tuning your bow and providing buying guidance.
If you are new to the sport, we welcome you and we are here to help you get started in archery. Ohio Archery Learning Center can also help you prepare for your next hunting trip, competition or any other archery event. We teach Traditional/Recurve Archery, Olympic Recurve Archery, and Compound Archery. Let's get started!
Open Range Shooting: If space is available the range is open to walk-in's for shooting and practice. The best way to check if space is available for shooting is to call or txt John at 440.829.8730.
OALC and Nocking Point Archers at 2025 USA Archery Indoor Nationals and JOAD Indoor Nationals
We had had 5 archers from OALC at the 2025 USA Archery Indoor Nationals and JOAD Indoor Nationals in Mason, Mi. I'm proud of you all.
Picture left to right: Carolyn Lee, Geneva Foster, Emmeline Brugger, Nicole Castleberry, and Sarafina Galinac.
Carolyn Lee (JOAD Recurve U18 Women) finished 126th out of 156 shooters nationwide and 5th in Mason. Geneva Foster (Barebow 50+ Women) finished 30th out of 33 shooters nationwide and 3rd in Mason. Emmeline Brugger (JOAD Recurve U!8 Women) finished 129th out of 156 shooters nationwide and 6th in Mason. Nicole Castleberry (Barebow 50+ Women) finished 22nd out of 33 shooters nationwide and 2nd in Mason. Sarafina Galinac (JOAD Compound U15 Women) finished 23rd out of 39 nationwide and 1st in Mason.
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2024 OALC Shooters Who Competed
With the end of the 2024 tournament season, we thought a final group shot of the OALC archers who competed was appropriate. We had fifty-one OALC shooters compete this year. You guys did a great job and brought home the medals including two OAA Shooter-of-the-Year awards.You guys did a great and I'm proud of you all!:
Pictured left to right: Back row - Caroline Williams, Erin Burns, Erica DiNovo, Brian Ott, Thomas Gazley, Jeffery Buelow, Sam Bell, Greyson Fischer, Tim Trobenter, Ed Zgrabik, Terry Keller, Zahra Amin, Jacob Nienaber, Shawn Lewis, and Asher Rosenberg. Second row - Gabrielle Petek, Robin Ott, Kayana Martin, Geneva Foster, Lara Proegler, Margaret Wu, Carolyn Lee, Kristine Sovich, Amanada Geremia, and Jeanine Hubbell. Front row - Julianna Chan (OAA-SOY), Nicole Castleberry, Ella Cotton, Teagan Keller, Kaithie Buresch, Azra Saka, Carrick McClintock, Emmeline Brugger, Sarafina Galinac, Cimaron Fischer, Auberon Fischer (OAA-SOY), and Anna Spataro. Not pictured - Sean Bencsath, Megan Bender, Alex Carter, Liam Conway, Stacy Conway, Caleb Gianzero, Phoebe Hodina, Elliott Harder, Brian James, Kylee Litnar, Nick Luzius, Reagan Milan, Mike Milan, and Dean Stebner.
Nocking Point Archery Club will meet at OALC, 8051 Mayfield Road, Chesterland from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Sunday, April 27, 2025. This link provides directions to the location. We will be shooting the USA Archery Virtual Indoor Winter Tournament which is a 300 Round on 40/60 cm targets at this meeting. Virtual tournaments are competition were you compete against other archers across the entire USA. The score for this virtual round will also be used for achievement awards. Sign up sheet to select a shooting time for this Sunday is at the range. The fee per archer is $10 which you pay at the time of shooting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John.
Ohio Archery Center was featured on WKYC, Channel 3 Morning show on Friday, August 2nd as one of the Olympic sports that you can do locally. This link takes you to the video from the morning show. I appreciate the crew from WKYC coming out and three of my archers (Megan Bender, Emmeline Brugger and Carolyn Lee) for helping out the news crew. If you are interested in learning archery, register for classes here.
Kids & Archery ...
Archery plays prominent roles in movies, TV shows and video games. Kids routinely see superheroes and Disney princesses shooting archery. They imagine themselves as Katniss, Merida and Hawkeye, and many ask parents if they can try the sport. Kids will think it's cool to shoot. Bows are featured in their video games after all! If archery intrigues your child, maybe it is time to sign him/her up for introductory lessons.
Archery is a great introductory sport for anyone of any age or skill. Many athletes shoot archery without having played other sports or honed any athletic skills. That makes it appropriate for any age. Archers must only focus on their form, not their individual strength or stamina. In addition, archery tournaments have age divisions for all kids who enjoy competing, so they can take their archery passions from the range to the tournament stage whenever they like.
- Archery is the oldest sport still practiced today, and while the equipment has changed, archery basics is remarkably unchanged.
- Archery gets your kids outside away from their phones/tablets where they can soak in that vitamin D and fresh air.
- Archery can help your kids develop their ability focus, and concentrate.
- Archery will strengthen your kids' confidence by giving them a skill that they can steadily improve upon.
- Archery can provide a positive outlet for a competitive kid.
- Archery can also be a great way for kids to develop new relationships like friendships with people of all ages and coaching relationships.
- As a parent if you shoot archery as well, then you and your kids can bond more by being coached together.
Maybe archery is the solution you've been looking for. Ohio Archery Center can provide your child with the structured program that will improve his/her skills, focus and self-esteem. Today is the day to sign up for lessons. No equipment is required.
Service Work ...
We service and tune most compound and recurve bows. New bow strings (Joey's Bowstrings), tuning, D-loops, minor repairs, inspections, etc. We also build arrows for hunting, target and traditional shooting. Arrows are custom ordered. We do not do any work on crossbows. We don't have a press for cross bows.
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Location:
8051 Mayfield Road
Chester Commons
Chesterland, Ohio 44026
Next to the La Mexicana Cantina & Grill
Hours: Monday - Friday: 1pm-8pm; Saturday: 9am-8pm; Sunday: By Appt.
