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

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

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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. .

 

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

National Series 2014 Ladies Recurve Medal Winners

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.

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.

NAC Juniors Presentation at Sywell Shooting Range

Three of our junior archers left the Sywell shooting range last Saturday with very big smiles on their faces. Namely Grace Windram, Ewan Fowler-Jardine and Lizzie Lovell were extremely happy after receiving well earned Archery Awards.

Both Grace and Ewan had completed and passed their Archery Beginners Course and to top that Lizzie had completed and passed her FITA Black Arrow Award.

The presentations were made during the normal Saturday shooting session at Sywell. I’m sure you will all join me in congratulating all three of our juniors who had worked hard to complete their courses. Pictures of the three are shown here,

Lizzie
Lizzie

 

Grace
Grace

 

Ewan
Ewan