NAC archers came away with the metal at the EMAS Regional and Open Championships held at Targetcraft on 16th November. Lizzie Cantopher won gold in the Ladies Recurve, as did Paul Hyde in the Gents Longbow. Susan Corless came second in the Ladies Compound. Great shooting and congratulations to our shooters. The full results can be found here .
Author: Mackenzie Geyton
Three NAC Archers Represent England
Out of a team of eleven archers in the England Team shooting in the Senior Indoor Home Nations Match to be held on 7th December 2014 at the Ricoh Stadium, Coventry; no less than three are from Northampton Archery Club. Lizzie Cantopher (Recurve), Susan Corless (Compound) and Jamie Mason (Reserve Compound), all from NAC, will form over 25% of the team – amazing news . Details of the event can be found here, and the news of the selection can be found here. Fantastic. Thanks to Ian P for updating us on this info.
Halloween Ping Taty Bogle, 2014
The NAC held it’s Halloween Ping Taty Bogle at the Sywell range on Saturday the 1st November. The event always attract a host of members and visitors and a good time was had by all. Hot dogs and soup was the order of the day along with anything else that could be secretly stashed beneath the tables!……. The organisation of this event is probable one of the hardest in our calendar and we thank the many volunteers that took the time to make it again so successful. Our chairlady presented the prizes to the winners of the shoot and also the Pumpkin Carving Challenge and thanked all the members and guests for their support.
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IanP
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.