Category: General Club News

as the name suggests news about the club

James Mason National Indoor Champion

Huge congratulations to James Mason who became the National indoor champion on Sunday by winning the senior gents compound event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.  A full report on the event and especially James’ fantastic achievement will be reported on the NCAS website shortly.

Also congratulations to Lizzie Cantopher winning the England recurve team and Jamas Mason for the England compound team.

Fantastic news for NAC!

N.A.C. Indoor Season Portsmouth Series,16th November 2013

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On Saturday morning the 16th November the NAC commenced with their first in a series of Portsmouth rounds at their indoor venue John Ashby, Moulton. The competition was fully supported and thanks to all who arrived early to help set up.

The results will be published later and a few pictures of the event have been put together and will be placed on the “members” page protected with the usual password for a week or two before being moved into the public domain.

Thanks to all who took part in this first of 4 Portsmouth rounds.

Regards

IanP

Halloween Ping Tatty Boggle at Sywell, 2013

DSC_0012                   On Saturday evening of the 26th October we held our annual Halloween Ping Tatty Boggle at our Sywell base. This year we started a little earlier to get things set up and organized properly in readiness to start as it became dark.
 
Those of you who attended could see the amount of decorative work involved in making the old meeting hut “look the part”. There was also an awful lot of behind the scenes work involved in the preparation for the food where bread soup and sausages were supplied by the club for all the archers and family members who attended to support the event. Tea, Coffee, Chocolate and Pop were also available at our usual tuck shop which is run by Mick Lovell, all of which leads me to say a big thank you to all the members who gave up there shooting time during Saturday morning to ensure everything was in place for the evening event and of course we should not forget those who stayed late to make sure everything was taken down and put away in the containers.
Dave Quemby was are resident master of ceremonies for the evening shoot and of course our Chair lady Pam was also involved with the awards after the event so a big thank you to Dave and Pam.
 
With the approaching storm forecast we were lucky with the weather as it stayed dry whilst shooting and temperatures were not as cold as previous Halloween events. The winners of the event are shown on our picture gallery on the members webpage………..many thanks to our members who made this such a memorable occasion.
 
IanP
 

Our Last Outdoor Fun Shoot of 2013

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On Saturday 5th October our archers gathered at Sywell for our last outdoor event of this outdoor season. And what an event it was.Our own Dave Quemby had organised an event called “Pope Young” which for those who have never heard of it before is a speed competition where you have to shoot 6 arrows within 30 seconds at 6 different targets. This event was new to NAC archers but you can bet it will be on our agenda sometime during the next Outdoor Season as it was so much fun with a lot of laughter. Even the weather for this time of year was good for us,……. as the day went on the day got better and sunnier.

After the Pope Young event we finished of the day with our usual outdoor “picnic” where we all picked at nibbles on the tables and finally this outdoor seasons presentations were awarded along with classification badges. 

I have put together an album of pictures of the Pope Young and Picnic where the usual rules apply…………..we will send out a link when they are ready so that you can view them within the “members” category of our website under “password” protection before moving them into the main gallery section where they will be open to public viewing. During the interim period please give me details of any picture / s which require removal of members who do not want their picture/s publicized.

Many thanks to Dave and his helpers for the organizing of this event and to all who helped in any way on the day.

IanP.