NEW ULM, MN — The Archery Commerce Affiliation is happy to announce Colin Berg and M.J. Rogers because the 2025 ATA Influence Award winners. Recipients of this prestigious award have been introduced on Jan. 8 throughout the 2025 ATA Business Celebration occasion, introduced by Mossy Oak, for utilizing their voice and/or platform to encourage others to take pleasure in and take part in archery and bowhunting.
“We’re excited to announce these excellent people as this 12 months’s award recipients for the immense affect they’ve had on the business and the game of archery,” stated Jeff Poole, ATA president and CEO.
ATA’s Influence Award Recipients:
Colin Berg | Morrell and Archers Berg spent 32 years with the Oklahoma Division of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC), together with 26 years as schooling supervisor. Throughout his tenure, greater than 500,000 Oklahomans participated in ODWC-led introductory fishing packages, 260,000 hunters accomplished hunter schooling and over 500,000 college students took half in ODWC-led faculty packages. These packages included NASP, Discover Bowhunting, Discover Bowfishing, Scholastic Taking pictures Sports activities, the FFA Clay Goal Program, Hunter Training in Faculties, Oklahoma Fishing in Faculties and Archers Varsity Archery.
Berg presently serves because the Nationwide Youth Growth director for Morrell and Archers. He maintains ties with ODWC as a contract grant author and fundraiser, not too long ago securing a $250,000 grant for ODWC from the Easton Basis.
M.J. Rogers | Archery Sources Middle Rogers has served as an archery coach for 30 years, whereas touring extensively all through the world. Along with his international travels, Rogers coached on the Olympic degree and the Paralympic Video games in 2012, 2016 and 2020, main Group USA to 6 World Area Championships and one World Indoor Championship.
Rogers’ advocacy for archery has taken him to South America, Asia and Europe, the place he has taught and promoted the game. He additionally helped launch the Nationwide Archery in Faculties Program in 5 states. In his teaching and advocacy efforts, Rogers has prioritized working with each able-bodied and challenged athletes.
By means of his work with Paralympic athletes, Rogers coauthored an Adaptive Archery Handbook, underwritten by Disabled Sports activities USA and the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs, which has been distributed worldwide.
The ATA Awards Program was created in 2020 to acknowledge people and corporations that make important contributions to the way forward for archery.
For extra details about the ATA’s awards program, please contact Jennifer Mazur, ATA’s senior director of outreach and schooling, at jennifermazur@archerytrade.org or (507) 233-8139.
Serving our members since 1953, the Archery Commerce Affiliation is the main group for producers, retailers, distributors, gross sales representatives and others working within the archery and bowhunting business. The ATA works to extend the recruitment and retention of latest, present and once-active archers and bowhunters, whereas serving as a driving pressure in defending, educating and lobbying for the higher good of the business and sport. The ATA preserves and promotes archery and bowhunting’s wealthy heritage to make sure energetic shopper participation, and profitable manufacturing and retailing for generations to return. The ATA owns and operates the ATA Present, the archery and bowhunting business’s largest and longest-running commerce present worldwide.
