Our Story
SGA was officially founded at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year after the founders decided they wanted to share their incredible experiences in archery with the rest of the UC San Diego and surrounding San Diego community. The first active year of the club (2013-2014), there was a little more than thirty members with a small competitive team of around ten members. In the following years, club membership boomed, quickly surpassing over 130 members annually, with over 50 members a year becoming UCSD Archery Team Members. In competition, SGA started developing high performance athletes who won local, regional, and national titles—almost all of whom started archery when they joined SGA.
As SGA has grown and has had more opportunities to understand the needs of its membership, and the role it can play in the UC San Diego and Collegiate Archery community, the club has developed a range of programs for members to learn and growth together—from community development through the family program, to leadership education through SGA LEADS, all the way through financial training through SGA FLIRT (because financial literacy is sexy).
In 2018, celebrating its five year anniversary, SGA launched the SGA Alumni Association—a separate 501(c)3 nonprofit who connects our community even after graduation and helps us learn how to translate the skills we learn in archery and through SGA to create positive impacts in our lives and communities. The Alumni community spans a wide range of educational backgrounds, careers, work industries, and outside interests and hobbies, and often leverages that experience to create programs such as SGA LEADS, as well as hosting seminars and workshops which better help our members prepare for their careers.
SGA continues to grow—searching for ways to better strive towards its mission, and examine how it can continue making a positive impact to its communities.
