Frank Addington (FA): Tell us about your backgrounds, where were you born, grew up, and got involved in archery.
Ralph Cianciarulo: I was born August 20th, 1960 in Chicago IL. Mom & Dad always told me the table was lopsided, and that explained a lot to them – Hmmmmmm!
I can recall getting my first dime store bow & arrow set at about 6 or 7 and can remember being fascinated by watching the my arrows fly through the air. Sometimes hitting the target, but most of the time not the right ones. My parents got a small summer home on a little lake less than hour from the city and every summer we would spend it up there fishing and flinging arrows at everything you could imagine. My Mom’s family was really into hunting & fishing and my uncles took me out a lot and I was hooked.
Vicki Cianciarulo (VC): I was born and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago IL. I have 2 sisters and I am the middle child, (don’t believe all of the middle child research!) No one in my family hunts, but I have always been a tom boy. When I was nineteen, I purchased my first Toyota 4×4 pick up truck!
RC: As long as I can remember I was always fascinated with wild life and the outdoors. I told many I would become a veterinarian; little did they know I would really be working on animals but in a very different sense.