Month: August 2014

Lizzie wins Bronze at National Series

Susan Achievements

National Series 2014 Ladies Recurve Medal Winners

Congratulations to Lizzie Cantopher of Northampton Archery Club who has won the Bronze Medal in the ladies recurve at the National Series held at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham today. In the battle for bronze, Lizzie beat Ruth Welsh. Amy Oliver won Gold with Naomi Folkard, Silver. A fantastic result for Lizzie. The day can be watched on You Tube – Lizzie’s Bronze match starts at about 4hr 43min. Two of her other matches can be seen earlier in the day.

Lizzie’s first match of the day against Sally Gilder went to a one arrow shoot off. Lizzie shot first with an 8 close to the 9 ring. Sally finished with a 7/8 liner taking Lizzie through to the semis, in which she was matched against the ultimate gold winner, Amy Oliver. Despite a great fight and good grouping, Lizzie lost 7 points to 3. Her final match against Ruth Welsh for the bronze medal was won 6 points to 2.

And the sun shone down, but we didn’t bake.

Susan Club Events

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NAC held their Annual Open Nationals Tournament at Sywell Range on Sunday 24th August, on a day that turned out to be ideal for Archery – comfortably warm and little wind. The tournaments team,  committee and other members pulled together to make the day go without a hitch and a splendid time was had by the 10 clubs represented at the shoot. Our thanks go to all who prepared for and took part in the competition, and of course our judge for the day, Sylvia Underlin. Sarah Fowler-Jardine undertook the role of Lady Paramount. It looks as if several records were broken at club and county level, but the success of the event was reflected in the positive comments passed on from our guests. The results of the day can be found here .

Lizzie Cantopher makes the National Series Grand Final

Susan Achievements

Many congratulations to Lizzie Cantopher of our club who has  qualified for the National Series Grand Final in Nottingham on 30th & 31st August. Lizzie came third in on the Sunday of the stage 6 event of the series at Exmouth, being beaten by Amy Oliver and Naomi Folkard. Fantastic news.

Our congratulations also to John Bull of Targetcraft in the county who has also qualified.

Read the full story on the Archery GB website.

NCAS/NAC Video on You Tube

Susan Club History

We have uploaded onto You Tube, a short clip of a  film shot by Pete Bond in the late 80s early 90’s. The NCAS competition was shot at Archers of Raunds and we would love to get a precise date for this. Can anyone help? We would also like to know the names of some of the archers not already identified. The clip features characters you may recognize.

Sorry about the video quality. Any information please to our History Team

New Club Records

Susan General Club News

Congratulations to our members who are out on the competition circuit around the county keeping me busy with new club  records.Dave Quemby (compound/longbow),Pamela Joseph(compound),Heather Major(recurve bare),Susan Corless(compound) and myself as it goes(flatbow).

To all members feel free to check the records section of our website after competing in our own internal competitions,you can download and print off the claim form and hand to me with a copy of the results.Alternatively submit your claim online. Give yourself and others a score to beat in the future.

Also well done to those participating in the 252 Badge award scheme and achieving success.Dave Fleming(30yds),David Taylor(50yds),George Bond(50yds),Nevile De Sousa(50yds) ,Heather Major(60yds) oh and lil ole me (80yds).

For newcomers to the club,all info can be found on our website regarding our indoor and outdoor award schemes,and they are a great way to plot your progress in archery.

Ian Hyde(records officer)