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).
Author: Mackenzie Geyton
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.
And the sun shone down, but we didn’t bake.
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
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
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