Members of NAC smashed their target of shooting 10,000 arrows in 24 hours at Carlsberg Sports and Social Club on 23rd/24th March. The shoot started off at 10pm on the Friday and at 4.07 pm on the Saturday the magic arrow was shot, leaving another 6 hours of aiming. At the close of play at 10pm a total of 12,617 arrows had been slammed into the targets. Early indications are that sponsorship money raised could be in excess of £1,500 to £2,000 for Sport Relief. A great effort and lots of hard work and organising by many members of the Club. Our thanks also to the many kind-hearted folk and groups who have donated to or sponsored the event.
Category: Achievements
This category is for members achivements that don’t fall into categories such as awards. They may often be outside of the club such as county or personal life such as driving test
Deaglan enters club records and 4 other records set
Deaglan, our young junior, is a new name added to our record holders at NAC. Deaglan scored 171 shooting flatbow last Saturday at JASH in the last of our Portsmouth Series. Jacob also shot a new junior record for the recurve with a score of 484. Leigh Masters beat his previous senior record shooting flatbow with a score of 361 and Sarah Fowler-Jardine shooting compound beat her previous record with a new high of 541. Susan Corless beat her old record scoring 525, but this lasted just 24 hours -she scored 531 the following day. Great news and well done. The final positions for the whole series will be published in due course.
Medals for NAC in County Indoor Portsmouth Championships
NAC performed very well in the County Indoor Championships on Sunday 11th March at Rothwell. David Quemby received a silver in the Gents Compound with a score of 575, just two points behind Martin Ross who took gold. David went on to get a gold however in the double round with a score of 1136. Susan Corless won a gold for the ladies double recurve with a score of 1052, and Paul Hyde took a bronze in the gents recurve with a score of 1120. Mick Lovell also shot but despite scoring well, missed out on the metal. New club records were set and these will be included in the next records update later this month. Well done and thanks for representing NAC so well.
Bronze Medal for NAC Team in Targetcraft FITA 18 Competition
In the Targetcraft 4th Annual Record Status FITA 18 Competition on 26th February the NAC team – Paul Hyde, David Quemby, Mick Lovell and Susan Corless – came third and took a bronze medal.The team just missed a silver with a score of 2071, being beaten by Melton Mowbray (2089 points), and Targetcraft who took the Trophy with 2105 points. Individually Paul took a bronze in the Gents Recurve Double round with 1068 points, whilst Susan took a bronze in the ladies recurve (single round – 492 points) and a silver in the double round (967 points). Ian Pateman, shooting recurve, also shot for NAC and achieved respectable scores totalling 897. Well done.
GNAS January Challenge results are published
Nick Beeson has sent us the results of the nationwide GNAS January Challenge. The challenge, with no prizes or awards was for archers to submit their best Portsmouth scores for that month. The results can be found here . We would like to congratulate the four members of our club that took part, Paul Hyde, Susan Corless, David Quemby and Pam Joseph. All did us proud.
Nick has asked participants to check their scores, and forward any corrections to him.
An astounding month for new club records and awards
Our February Records Update has now been completed, and we have to say it has been an outstanding month for new club records with no less than 21 new or improved records, by the now usual suspects – David Quemby, Susan Corless and Paul Hyde.
For Paul there are new records for the Portsmouth Triple and Quad, the FITA 18 and FITA 18 Triple and the FITA 25 Triple.
For Susan there are seven new records for the Worcester, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Double, FITA 18, FITA 18 Double, FITA 25 and FITA combined rounds. The combined FITA score of 991 also set a new county record, beating the previous record of 976.
David Quemby has set no less than 9 new records for the Bray 1, Bray 1 Double, FITA 18, FITA 18 Double, Triple and Quadruple, FITA 25, Vegas and Worcester rounds.
David Quemby and David Taylor have now (at last) also been presented with there 1st Class Badges from the outdoor performances from 2011. The classification scheme is something the whole club can partake in once we move outdoors again.. The scheme is briefly explained on our site by clicking here.
Amazing stuff from our club and well done to you all.