Mackenzie Geyton, Author at Northampton Archery Club

The NAC Nominate Lizzie Cantopher for the Sports Women of the Year Award.

The NAC recently nominated Lizzie for the Northampton Leisure Trust Sports Award. Lizzie was accepted and was successfully put into the final round which she (and others) attended at the Northampton Guildhall in which she achieved a very respectful second place losing out by one point to a local triathlon athlete. The NAC committee chose Lizzie for the award because of her dedication to archery and her achievement since taking up archery. This website already has previous posts regarding her successes this year. In December of 2013 she represented England. Reached the final eight of the National Series Final Outdoor season where she won the bronze medal in the final shoot-off. Also she is ranked 18th in the 2013 Outdoor Season and presently we are awaiting her Ranking for the 2014 season which at the time of writing has not been published. We at NAC are proud of her achievements and we feel it is only time before she goes on to even greater things. .

Portsmouth Badge Awards

Now that we are back indoors I’d like to remind everybody about the Portsmouth badge award scheme. Portsmouth round being the predominant target archery shoot during the indoor season. Shot on a 60cm face with 10 zone scoring.60 arrows with two ends of sighters ,arrows shot in threes.

The badges start at 300 and rise in increments of 25 up to the max.score possible of 600. An application form is to be found on the website,simply follow the drop down menu from”Records & Awards”,click on “awards”,and a link is provided within the text.

Obviously scores need to be provable, our internal and open competitions around the county give opportunity to improve your personal badge status,however you may also use a normal practise day as long as you have a signed witness to your scores and have informed the line captain of your intentions.

The cost of the badges are a humble £2, and you are welcome to exchange your existing badge if you wish.

Tight groups !!! & happy shooting..

Ian Hyde(records officer)

Chris Mason

On Saturday, Sarah passed on the news to the Club that Chris Mason had passed away on the 10th of this month. Chris has been a huge part of archery within the county for many years, working tirelessly not least as County Chairman but in everything from running shoots to simply helping others whenever they needed it. He was always there to offer advice to individual archers and clubs as a whole – and very much to NAC. This gentleman of archery will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with his family at this very sad time. Members wishing to share condolences can do so on the NCAS web-site here.

End of Season shoot and move to Moulton

It seems almost impossible that it is this time of year when we move indoors for our shooting. We have however, had a good summer season with favourable weather. Our last session at Sywell on Saturday 4th October was a fun shoot of Archery Crazy Golf led by Mick Lovell who did an excellent job of organizing the affair. The results are here. Wet morning weather gave way to drier weather just especially for the start of the shoot.The enjoyable game was followed by hot dogs and medal presentations for the season’s Target Days – overseen by David Stephens our Deputy-Chair. (results found here). For the first year we have also presented Novice Awards for our promising and inspiring new archers. These went to Bailey Bridgewater, Hazel Dalley, Triv. McCarlie and Kelly Pearce. Bailey has shot well through the year and has represented NAC at some County Shoots, whilst the enthusiastic Hazel shot in all four of our target days. Her smiles are a lesson to the older archers who get a bit frustrated when things go wrong. Triv. and Kelly have both progressed really well with their shooting and we wish them well for the up and coming indoor season. Classification badges were awarded to Ryan Boot (2nd Class), Mark Dalley (3rd Class) Pam Joseph (1st Class), Heather Major (1st Class), Triv McCarlie (3rd Class (not present)) and Beryl Tabberner (3rd Class).

NAC Archers bring back medals and trophy from the County Championships

NAC archers performed well at the County and Open Outdoor Championships held at Wellingborough on Sunday 14th September. Ian Hyde came third overall (second in county) in the long distance York Round with his longbow, whilst in the Hereford Round, Susan Corless took gold and a trophy in the ladies’ compound. In the National rounds, Dave Quemby took gold followed in second place by Ryan Boot; whilst in the ladies’ Pam Joseph took gold – all three shooting compound. In the Short Junior National, novice shooter, Bailey Bridgewater took gold with barebow. Great results for NAC. The full results can be found here.

Lizzie wins Bronze at National Series

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.