NAC is one of Northamptonshire’s longest running clubs
Congratulations to Mick Lovell who won a bronze medal at Stage One of the Archery GB National Tour on Saturday 30th April, at Lilleshall. This is the first time that Barebow has been included in the National Tour as a separate category and Mick certainly made the most of this! The day presented us with near-perfect weather. This is an excellent start for Mick at the National Tour & we look forward to seeing him compete at others through the season.
On Sunday 6th March Archers of Raunds hosted the Northamptonshire County Archery Championships, where five members of Northampton Archery Club competed. They performed with excellent results with Mick Lovell, Paul Hopkins and Denitsa Dimitrova all bring crowned County Champions in their respective divisions, a big congratualtions to them. The full results of all five archers are –
You can view the full results here.
Mick Lovell was recently presented with the Northamptonshire Tri-Counties barebow trophy.
He won this by competing as part of the County Team on 3rd October last year and achieved the highest scoring barebow round in the winning team. Congraulations Mick.
It has been great to see our club back at John Ashby Sports Hall following the start of the pandemic. I was unable to make the two Saturdays, but joined in for the first session on Saturday 23rd November.
I was greated by warm faces, everyone seemed to be happy to be able to shoot inside. We had a mix of those who had recently finished their beginners courses, members who haven’t shot for a long time and our seasoned members – all helping out where it was needed.
Getting the hall set up is always a challenge for us to be able to start shooting at the advertised time of 9.15am, especially now we have a much shorter time to shoot in, so we welcome members to join us for 8.45am to begin this.
We look forward to seing more of you on a Saturday through the winter.
Lisa Owen was last week presented with her certificate and badge for taking part and coming first in the Short Metric 2 round as part of the inter county postal match between Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.
Lisa’s shooting has come on leaps and bounds over the last year, congratulations.
Usually the two counties have a in person match, but due to covid it was decided that we would do a postal match whereby any archer in the two counties can shoot the specified rounds and submit their scores.
The event was a great success with a total of 80 scores submitted across 5 bow style categories. In the same event Susan Corless took the highest compound score and Mick Lovell was second in the barebow category (by a mere 4 points).
Northamptonshire took the overall match win by 941 points – congratulations to the whole squad. The full results can be found here.
