USA Archery (USAA) has appointed four new staff members as they look to finish the year strong and lay the foundation for an even stronger 2025.
The four new employees and roles include Kyle Bissell (Education Manager), Allison Collins (International teams manager), Madison Cox (State and Local event manager), and Amanda Mangum (director of events).
USAA also promoted Brad Fiala to national events manager.
“We are excited to welcome four new staff members to USAA. Their experience and knowledge will contribute to furthering USAA’s strategic vision, contribute to sport growth and create more opportunities for participation for members,” stated Mary Emmons, USAA chief of sport performance and operations.
A USA Archery Level 4 coach, Kyle Bissell founded the Sattva Center for Archery Training in Florence, MA. He was instrumental in developing coach training curricula for USAA’s coach certification levels 1 through 4, led the 2024 USAA Coaches Workshop and was awarded the 2023 Doc Counsilman Coach of the Year Award through USAA. In his new role at USAA, Bissell will oversee the company’s online education programs and expand learning opportunities for athletes, coaches, judges, and club leaders.
Allison Collins, an experienced operations and logistics manager, spent the last nine years with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, where she managed program operations for teams visiting the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Most recently, she coordinated accommodations for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and other Team USA delegation events.
Amanda Mangum has served as the games director at Virginia Amateur Sports since 2014,, where she assisted sport coordinators and executed “over 40 events annually for the Virginia Commonwealth Games.” Mangum will lead the USAA events team and focus on USAA’s overall event strategy.
Madison Cox is a graduate of the archery powerhouse University of the Cumberlands, a former staff lead for communications and membership services at S3DA and part of the USAA gold medal-winning women’s compound team from World Cup Stage 1 in Turkey last year. She will assist USAA clubs hosting local events and focus on state championship offerings and participation growth in partnership with USAA’s State Associations and State Coordinators.
Fiala, who served as USAA’s event development manager since 2017, will now take the lead in planning USAA’s national events. In his previous role Fiala was reported to have been “instrumental in growing the number and types of state championship events offered, developed resources to assist events hosts and participants, developed the online state records platform, and helped to streamline marketing and promotion of state championship events to grow event participation and membership nationwide.”
Images courtesy USAA, Sattva Center
