8th December - Naomi is British Indoor Champion

Just to say many congratulation to our Scottish Archers who did so well at the British Indoor Championships

Naomi Jones is British Champion in Ladies Compound and Jenny Jeppsson came first overall in Ladies Recurve but being a Swedish National is not eligible for the British Title. Naomi also won Silver in the Face2Face. Stuart Barby took 1st place in the Ranking round and came 4th in the Head to Heads for Gents Recurve and Ranald hutton came 3rd in Compound Gents
Catch up with the story on the archeryGB website and the Results

Congratulation also to Claudine Jennings who is going of to the World Cup in Shanghai in April 2012 to compete for ArcheryGB. News story on AGB website

8th December - Manager's Report from British Indoor

This was the second year that the British championships were held at the International Exhibition Centre at Telford following the move from Lilleshall to a larger venue. The British Senior Indoor championships were held on Sunday 4 December and they followed on from 2 days of intense competition which had attracted some of the world's top archers to the Face2Face and also the Junior Championships.

This year's Home Nations Senior Championships was again between the auld rivals with Scotland and England battling for the top two places in both divisions. Scotland's team comprised of archers from two clubs: Penicuik Archers and Edinburgh University Archery Club. The recurve team comprised of Lizzie Bell, Migle Petruskeviciute, Eric Rowbotham from EUAC and Stuart Barby of Penicuik. The compound team involved Claudine Jennings, Naomi Jones, Alistair Whittingham (EUAC) and Ranald Hutton (Penicuik).

There were good performances from members of the Scottish team with Stuart topping the overall individual competition in the gents recurve ranking round with a personal best and Naomi a close second to England's Nicola Simpson in the ladies ranking round.

It was Migle's first representative appearance for Scotland and it was nice to welcome Ranald Hutton back in the team after an absence of several years in participating in target archery.

Scotland came a creditable second in both divisions, narrowly missing out to England by six points in the compound competition with the recurve team also putting in a creditable performance against a strong English team.

I would wish to take this opportunity to thank all of the team for their commitment during the competition. This was a hotly contested competition where there is a fine line between great and superb performances and I am aware that Scotland's teams were disappointed not to conquer England on this occasion. I should also mention that this was the first outing for the senior team wearing the new Scotland tops which attracted numerous positive and admiring comments from members of the England team and management as well as from other archers and Archery GB officials.

Whilst not part of my remit it would be remiss of me not to make mention of the superb individual performances of members from Scottish Archery who competed in the Face 2 Face competition and also in the head 2 head component of the indoor championships although these have already been highlighted on the SAA website. Watching our archers compete in these competitions and seeing them progress over the 2 days of competition was a real experience. I would also wish to congratulate Naomi who not only took the silver medal during the Face 2 Face competition but also twice defeated Albina Loginova, winner of the ladies compound 2010 world cup final in Edinburgh, during her progression route through to the final medal match.

Norrie McLean
Scottish Archery - Senior Team Manager

4th Dec - Team and individual successes at the British Indoors

Scottish archer results - Ladies Compound - Naomi Jones - Gold; Gents Compound - Ranald Hutton - Bronze; Ladies Recurve - Emma Downie - Bronze; Gents Recurve - Stuart Barby 4th.

Stuart Barby, Penicuik Archers, shot strongly on his 3rd day in Telford to take first place in the FITA 18

Congratulations too, to the team from EUAC taking the club first place for recurve (David Lange, Jenny Jeppson, Matt Nowicki, Erik Rowbotham) and compound (Alex Lamb, Naomi Jones, Alistair Whittingham, Claudine Jennings), and to the Eastern area team (Stuart Barby, Jenny Jeppson, Erik Rowbotham, Matt Nowicki) for taking the county recurve first place

Full results at the IANSEO site

3rd Dec - Bronze for Gareth at the Junior Nationals

Gareth Fleming, Penicuik Archers, showed impressive form at the Junior Nationals this weekend putting in a great performance against tough opposition to take 3rd place in the Under18 category. Full results on the IANSEO site

3rd Dec - Silver for Naomi at the Face2Face

Naomi Jones, Edinburgh University, took the silver medal in the women's compound tournament, putting up strong display against the top American Jamie Van Natta, taking her to five sets. Well done Naomi! Full results on the IANSEO site

 

24th November - Scottish Team for British Indoor

Congratulations to Gents Recurve - Erik Rowbotham (EUAC) and Stuart Barby (Penicuik); Ladies Recurve - Migle Petruskeviciute (EUAC) and Lizzie Bell (EUAC); Ladies Compound Naomi Jones (EUAC) and Claudine Jennings (EUAC); Gents Compound - Alistair Whittingham (EUAC) and Ranald Hutton (Penicuik) who will all be representing Scottish Archery at the Home Nations event during the British Indoor Champs.

24th November - President's Medal for Richard

Richard Vallis is an enthusiastic coach and longbow archer at Lasswade Archery Club. He is also disabled and runs midweek archery sessions in East and West Lothian so that other disabled archers can enjoy the sport. It was this work that earned him one of the coveted 150th anniversary President's Medals.

Club member Adelle Fleming said: "These archers are never likely to aspire to paralympic success, but each arrow that hits the target at 10 metres is a story of success. The archers often need one-to-one help, and Richard has a host of helpers that enable many disabled people who would not otherwise be able to shoot. Richard has also run archery courses at Saltersgate School in Dalkeith where the youngsters have had a great time and benefit hugely from shooting.

"Richard's work is largely unnoticed but opens archery up to a whole range of people, giving both great enjoyment and a social outlet and, for that reason, Lasswade Archery Club felt that he was more than worthy of one of these special medals."

8th November - Cracking Start to Indoor Season for Edinurgh University Archers

8th November - Claudine Jennings broke the 18m, 25m and Combined FITA Scottish Records at Lasswade in October and has been selected for the GB Compound target squad for the second successive year.

Naomi Jones broke the 18m record the following week at Bedford shooting 3 scores in excess of 570 over the weekend, she followed this with a 589 portsmouth at Glasgow to increase her Scottish Record by 9 and leave the Scottish Record 7 points greater than the British record. This has been the perfect start to an indoor season that will see her also compete for GB, but this time at the World Indoor championships in Las Vegas in February.

Also from Edinburgh University, Alistair Whittingham, has been invited to British Compound target squad for 2012.

28th September - President's Medal for Josie

Tournament organiser Josie Herd was presented with a 150th Anniversary President's Medal at the Eastern Area Champs. Josie has been organsing the champs at Bathgate for 6 years now and has had to cope with all sorts of setbacks including the containers getting separated from the shooting field when 5 aside pitches got built and last minute demands from some Council officials for a risk assessment before the shoot could go ahead. Josie and her son David are often early on the field at other local shoots helping out.

21stSeptember - Edinburgh World Cup a Winner

Last year’s Archery World Cup Grand Final in Edinburgh has been named Scotland’s Best Sports Event of 2010. The event fought off strong competition from another Edinburgh contender, the World Youth Climbing Championships – both events took place in what was dubbed Edinburgh's 'Super September of Sport' and were organised by EventScotland.

18th September - Penicuik Archers hit the mark with fundraising

Every year, Penicuik Archers select a charity to support. This year the club has chosen to support The Mark Wright Project (www.themarkwrightproject.org.uk), a local charity to Edinburgh and the LothianÕs. Corporal Mark William Wright GC of the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment was awarded the George Cross for his bravery on 6th September, 2006, in Kajaki, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when he entered a minefield in an extraordinary attempt to save the lives of critically injured soldiers. Sadly, he lost his life during the incident. The George Cross ranks with the Victoria Cross as the highest award in the UK for acts of gallantry.

The Project centre was set up by Mark's parents, Bob and Jem Wrigh to actively support ex-Service men, women & their families in addressing the invisible wounds of war, easing ex-Service men & womenÕs transition into civilian life. The project is run by volunteers and every penny raised by them goes towards helping its clients.

On 8th July, Martin Symonds, club chairman and Jim McCrae attended at the Centre and handed over a cheque for £600 to Jem Wright, MarkÕs mother. The money was raised from several have-a-go sessions, raffles and the sale of food and drinks at competitions. A large portion of the money was raised during the second leg of the National Series held in June.

Bob and Jem were invited be Lady Paramount and Gentleman Patron at the double FITA Star hosted by Penicuik Archers on 3rd and 4th September. After presenting the prizes and medals, another cheque for £400 was handed over to them, bring the total raised to £1000.

Club chairman Martin Symonds said, ÒOn behalf of Penicuik Archers, I would like to thank all those archers how have shot at competitions at the club over the last few months, especially those who travelled form far a field for the National Series. With out your support, we could not have helped the Centre to the extent we have.Ó

 

30th August - President's Medal for Alan

The oldest prizewinner at the Scottish Juniors last Sunday was Alan Wood who was presented with a 150th Anniversary Presidents medal by the juniors for all of his work with the junior team.... from keeping them keep their heads up when things went wrong ........to buying them Pizza!
Picture is Alan with assistanr junior team manager Isobel and some of the SAA Junior Team (clicking on it will give you a bigger image
Adelle

17th August - More Medals for Murray and Kate

Scottish GB Paralympic Team members Kate Murray and Murray Elliot have just returned from an international shoot in Nymburk, Czech Republic with a haul of medals. Kate won an individual and a Team Gold; and Murray won an individual Silver medal and Team Gold. Fuller story from Archery GB website

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15th August - Home Nations at British Champs

The Home Nations Tournament was held on Saturday 13th August 2011 within the first of two days of the British Outdoor Championship Tournament held at Lilleshall.

The Scottish Team comprised of Erik Rowbotham, Kyshiea George, Naomi Jones (Edinburgh University); Matt Nowicki, Emma Downie, Alistair Whittingham, Claudine Jennings (Edinburgh University Alumni) & Mike Alexander (Moray Archers). Unfortunately Tracey McGowan (Balbardie Archers) was at the last minute unable to take up her place and I am grateful to Naomi for stepping in and represent Scotland as a member of the Compound Ladies Team.

This year it was again a close run competition in the Compound division although England eventually took the honours and won by 20 points over the Scottish team. The Scottish recurve team was 2nd overall to a very strong English team. Full Results available on the Archery GB website
Norrie McLean - Team Manager

15th August - Edinburgh University Archers ride high at British Championships

Jenny Jeppsson of Edinburgh University Archery Club scored the Double with a British Championship win in the Ladies Recurve at the British Outdoor Championships at the Lilleshall National Sporting Centre this weekenhaving won the Scottish Championship the weekend before.Jenny also joined with her University Club mates of Elizabeth Bell, Erik Rowbotham and Kyshiea George to take the GNAS Club Trophy for the Mixed Club Team.

Not content with that, Edinburgh University ladies Jenny Jeppsson, Elizabeth Bell, Emma Downie (Edin Alumni) and Kyshiea George also won the Ladies Recurve County Team award for the Eastern Area; and Eastern Area again won the Mixed County Team in the Compound discipline with Claudine Jennings, Alistair Whittingham (both Edin Alumni), Naomi Janes and Susan Maitland (Penicuik).

Edinburgh University archers also made up seven out of the eight archers competing for Scotland in the Home Nations challenge, with both the Recurve and Compound teams coming second to England. The Compound Team challenged England all the way only giving up 20 points over the 488 arrows. Full Results available on the Archery GB website

Congratulations to our Scottish Champions

Ladies Recurve Jenny Jeppsson(EUAC) Ladies Compound Naomi Jones(EUAC) Gents Recurve James Laing(Links) Gents Compound Alistair Whittingham(Edin Alumni), the event was an Open and Tom Duncan was outright winner in the Gents Recurve. Other awards were Longbow-Ivor Welsh-Nelson, Barebow-Trish Lovell, Veteran Recurve-James Laing, Veteran Compound-Frank McGuire. Gareth Fleming won the George Green Memorial Trophy and Brenda Williams won the Wilkinson Sword

The event was a Double Fita Star but was truncated with only a Short Metric being shot on the Sunday due to conditions on the field. Results will be published as soon as possible. Trish Lovell President of GNAS (Archery GB) presented the awards and Glasgow Archers were the organising Club with Bill McKay Director of Shooting. Full Results.

Ross Takes Gold at Jr Euronations

Ross Blackwell took individual gold in the cadet division at this year's junior euronations. This was the first year of a new 70m round (60m for cadets) format for the tournament. The format is still under devlopment but included a fun head to head pairs competition after the team event on Saturday which was much enjoyed by the archers.

A new award was donated by the Irish team to comemorate Jim Gordon's work as Scottish team manager. The team managers decided it should be presented to the best unrewarded cadet archer who, coincidentally, was Frankie Keenan. Jim was Team manager when Frankie first shot for Scotland.

Scotland only had 4 team members for the tournament but hopefully next year we will have a full team for the trip to Ireland. Remember we are now using FITA age groups so U21s are eligible (year of your 20th birthday)

Alan Wood -Team Manager
Full Results here

2nd August - Scottish Team head off to British Champs

The British Outdoor Championships takes place over the weekend of 12 & 13 August 2011. Within that tournament is the Home Nations competition where a team of nominated representative from each country compete in a match which takes place during the Saturday of the British Championship event.

Congratulations to the team selected to represent Scotland

Gents Recurve: Erik Rowbotham, Matthew Nowicki
Gents Compound: Alistair Whittingham, Mike Alexander
Ladies Recurve: Emma Downie, Kyshiea George
Ladies Compound: Claudine Jennings, Tracey McGowan.

 

26th July - Unsung Hero Duncan

Duncan McKelvie from Isla Archers was revealed as the Scottish Region's Unsung Hero as the Grand National Archery Society celebrated its 150th anniversary with a gala dinner at the site of its first meeting, the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool.

Duncan, 80, started shooting in the 1950s and founded Isla Archers in Keith in 1974 and, during that time, he has introduced hundreds of people to the sport.

He was praised for his enthusiasm and dedication by the society’s chairman, Dave Harrison who said: “It is a testament that Duncan was nominated for this award by someone who he introduced to the sport, at a have-a-go session, 20 years ago. “His ingenuity has become legendary and has seen him make use of everything from old music stands to old settees in his production of archery aids. He even used to build his own equipment by requesting samples from different manufacturers and linking them all together to make, certainly unique would be the word, bows. “What’s more, He is still coaching and still getting people excited about archery.”

One of Duncan’s more unusual inventions was an aid for blind archers. He taped a paintbrush to a music stand so the archers could feel it gently brushing their hand when they were at the right height. And he has worked hard to help others overcome obstacles, once even helping a one-armed archer take up the sport, saying ‘I’ll hold the bow and you pull’.

Duncan was characteristically modest about the award, a one-off to celebrate the Society’s anniversary. “I feel greatly honoured,” he said. “I didn’t know it was happening – I hadn’t a clue. It was ever so nice. Everyone was so welcoming. ‘You get real satisfaction in archery. Anyone can have a go and enjoy shooting at their own level with no real worries about winning - unless, of course, they want to. ‘I’m now dealing with my third generation of archers and I have people coming through saying that I taught their grandfathers to shoot. Yes, I’m very honoured.”

Picture: Duncan McKelvie receives his award from The Society's President Trish Lovell

12th July - Euronations 2011 - Report

Scotland sent a total of fifteen archers covering all four disciplines, with the gents compound & recurve together with the ladies compound each having a team of four and the ladies recurve with a team of three. The clubs represented were Edinburgh Uni and Alumni (Alistair Whittingham, Tim Keppie, Claudine Jennings, Emma Downie, Matt Nowicki, Naomi Jones, Erik Rowbotham, Lizzie Bell and Kyshiea George); Penicuik Archers (Elayne McLean, Susan Maitland and Stuart Barby); Links Archers (James Laing); Moray Archers (Mike Alexander) and Clyde Arrows (Ted Hughes).
The weather was dry and overcast with a tricky wind which had a tendency to swirl. Despite these conditions the four teams, gave commendable performances and pushed England all the way with Scotland finishing second in every category.

Tim, Mike, Erik & Lizzie shot personal bests with Kyshiea, Emma and Matt shooting seasons bests. Emma Downie won the ladies individual recurve, Kyshiea George 3rd recurve lady, Tim Keppie was 3rd compound gent and Claudine Jennings 3rd in ladies compound. As you can see from the scores a commendable effort against strong competition and I think Scottish Archery should be very proud of the team achievements. Pictures of the teams can be found in the "Gallery" link on the English Archery Federation website

The final scores were:

Norrie
SAA Senior Team Manager

6th July - Double Silver for Amber at Junior Nationals

Amber Smith from Links Archers took U14 silver medal both days at last week's Junior National Outdoor champs, setting new Scottish records of 1269 for Metric 4 and 1192 for Bristol 4 in the process. The team did well but with one member short came 4th in the home nations match. With a full team we would have come a close 2nd to England. Special mention should also be given to Corran Duthie Gray, who came 4th in the U14 girls on Saturday, and 8 year old Darcy Davidson who was only 40 points from bronze medal place in the U12 girls metric 5. Darcy was a late addition to the the team after a dispensation was given to take an Under 10yo with the team. This was the first JNOC for all three girls. Alan Wood - Junior Team Manager

 

28th June - Senior Team off to Euronations

The Euronations is being hosted by England in Andover this year on the 9th and 10th July - its a FITA Star on the Saturday and a FITA70m on the Sunday
The Team selected to represent Scottish Archery at this event is: are
Gents Recurve: James Laing, Erik Rowbotham, Stuart Barby & Matt Nowicki
Gents Compound: Alistair Whittingham, Mike Alexander, Ted Hughes & Tim Keppie#
Ladies Recurve:  Emma Downie, Kyshiea George & Lizzie Bell
Ladies Compound:  Claudine Jennings, Naomi Jones, Susan Maitland & Elayne McLean

28th June - SAA Coaches make GB Selection Process

We are absolutely delighted to announce, our very own SAA Coaches, Lana Needham and Andrew Kelly have successfully passed the screening and interview process at ArcheryGB.

This is very good news for the SAA and an extremely exciting time.  We still have lots to do, in partnership with ArcheryGB and Sportscotland, to get the whole process moving, so we will keep you all informed as plans progress. Congratulations, Lana and Andy!
Tracy, Chair; Peter, Performance Director

27th June - Claudine takes the 3rd Leg of National Series

GB Squad archer Claudine Jennings of Edinburgh University Alumni won the 3rd Leg of the Archery GB Series in the Ladies Compound Individual event gaining 50 points towards acheiving a place in the Grand Final in September. The weekend was also a mixed team event with a handicap allowance for the Team Head to Heads. Recurve Team “Tea Party” from EUAC consisting of Erik Rowbotham, Alex Lamb, Jenny Jeppsson and Emma Downie came 3rd on Saturday and 1st overall the weekend. The Edinburgh Alumni Compound Team of Alastair Whittingham, Claudine Jennings, Naomi Jones and Tim Keppie came 3rd.

27th June - Award for Argyll Field Archers

Brian Kupris and his club mates are the proud recipients of Argyll and Bute Council's "Sports Event of the Year Award". They won this award over others in their category as they had successfully revived the Scottish Archery FITA Field Championships which had attracted entries from all parts of the UK. The Award was presented at a special gala evening.

27th June - Junior Team off to Junior Nationals

The 2011 Junior Nationals incorporation the Home Nations Event is this coming weekend at Lilleshall. 7 Archers have made selection for the Scottish Junior Team, some shooting well above the qualifying scores for their age group. Junior gent recurve are - Gareth Flemming and Frankie Keenan - Junior Lady recurve are Amber Smith, Corran Duthie Gray and Darcy Davidson; Junior Compounds are Ross Blackwell, Alex Blake. Congratulation and Good Luck!

20th June - National Series at Penicuik - Results

Peter Jones reporting on this weekend's National Series 2nd Stage hosted by Penicuik Archers clearly thinks that weather was a factor with a headline on the Archery GB website mentioning rain! Those that were there know that Saturday started out damp but the shooting conditions after practice settled down to calm and dry as we watched the Pentland hills appear and dissapear under travelling rain clouds. Sunday brought a rainy episode during the break and some squally showers in the earlier elimination rounds. Full Results

17th June - Murrays in the Medals

The Stoke Mandeville Invitational tournament reached it climax today with Murray Elliot claiming an Individual and a Team Gold for the ArcheryGB Paralympians. Kate Murray helped the Ladies Recurve Team to a Bronze Medal. Full story on the Archery GB website (note that some details are currently incorrect on Archery GB site - John Murray did not shoot with the Gents Compound team this time round)

 

4th April - Great kick off for Scottish Archery Field Champs

The 1st Scottish Field Championships and Open Competition got the season off to a great start on the weekend of 2nd and 3rd April at the Argyll Field Archers Course. The weather being reasonably kind despite the weather forecast. Alan Convery from Ballyvalley took the Genst Recurve Open title with David Lange from Edinburgh Alumni in second place and lifting the Scottish Championship Trophy. Jenny Jeppsson - Edinburgh University - came first in the Ladies Recurve to lift the Scottish Title as did Alistair Whittingham and Claudine Jennings - Edinburgh Alumni - in the Compound.

Two of the Ballyvally junior girls - Gina Woods and Aimee Convery - have applied for 4 British Records (to be ratified). Three for Gina and 1 for Aimee. Also 21 new Scottish Field records have been awarded.

 

19th March - Even More Level 1's

A clutch of new Level 1 Coaches recently qualified in the Eastern Area - so congratulations to - Mark Book, Iain Hogg, Gilbert Jamieson and Kevin Young - all Balbardie; Tom Lithgow and Bernhard Trace - ArcheryDuns, Michael Murray - Border Bowman; Michelle Phillip and Robert Walber - Cupar Bowman; Maxine Dodds - ArcheryGB; Graeme Mitchell - Penicuik; Ray Thomson - Lanark ATC and Tom Whalley and Ralph Gillingham - Grange Archers

At an earlier course in the Northern Area - Bryan Bream, Brian Regan, Mike Voyzey, Paul MacGregor, Mike Alexander, Morag Reid, Dave Dunkley and Derek Samson all passed their Level 1 course as reported earlier.

Further courses in the West and another in the North are ongoing with another planned for the Eastern Area later in the year- and a wee birdie tells me that the Marketing & Development Director of ArcheryGB and from Pentland Archers is also well on his way through a Level 1 course being run at Lilleshall.

10th March - World Indoor Beckons

Naomi Jones (Edinburgh University) completed a fantastic indoor season last weekend at the British University indoors final. In the ladies compound division she set a new British University ladies compound Portsmouth record of 585 beating Archery GB and Commonwealth Games archer Lucy O'Sullivan into second place on 583. This result completes a season where Naomi has become Scottish Indoor Champion and qualified for the Great Britain senior shoot off for next year's World Indoor Championships.

3rd Mar - ArcheryGB/GNAS Range Safety

ArcheryGB/GNAS Range Safety rules have been updated with effect from 1st April. The side lines have been redrawn and now extend from 10 yards either side of the shooting line to 20 yards either side at 100 yards (target line) but continue at that angle to the overshoot area (which at 150 yards means a 25 yard safety margin).

2nd Mar - New "relaxed" Dress Regs

The ArcheryGB/GNAS Dress Regulations have been relaxed from 1st March. Read the new rules...>

 

23rd February - PDA Indoor Champs

In 2011 Scottish Archery and Scottish Disability Sport revived the Scottish Championships for Physically Disabled Archers. The Portsmouth competition was held at Cluny Clays on 19th February and was also supported by MRM Archery.
Whilst the entry was not as high as we would have liked the atmosphere was competitive yet relaxed.
Archers from as far afield as Peterhead and the Borders competed and Kate Murray, a GB Paralympian showed the recurve shooters how it should be done. The compound shooters also shot to a very high standard with only 11 points separating the top 5 scores. We even managed to have a Robin Hood shot!
Congratulations go to Frank Maguire – Open Compound Champion; Kate Murray – Open Recurve Champion and Brad Stewart – Intermediate Recurve Champion.
Thanks go to Bob Provan who acted as Judge for the day.

23rd February - Level 1 Success

On the 19th and 20th of February 8 candidates passed their Level 1 Coach exam in Elgin.

Congratulations go out to our new Level 1 Coaches, Bryan Bream, Brian Regan, Mike Voyzey, Paul MacGregor, Mike Alexander, Morag Reid, Dave Dunkley and Derek Samson.

Thanks must go to Frank Reid for being lead tutor, Tommy Miller for being moderator and Iain Wilson and Neil Scott for being the examiners.

Andrew Kelly
Course Manager

6th February - Indoor Champions

The SAA Senior Indoor Championships took place 6th February at Lasswade Sports Centre. Congratulations to the Champions who are :-
Ladies Recurve Migle Petruskevicuite(EUAC) 556, Gents Recurve Erik Rowbotham(EUAC) 568
Ladies Compound Naomi Jones(EUAC) 574, Gents Compound Alistair Whittingham(EUAC-Alumni) 579
Team Ladies Recurve EUAC, Gents EUAC-Alumni Mixed Compound EUAC
Longbow Tony Peacock(OLA) 318, Gents Barebow Ciaran Murphy(Bannockburn) 456 (new Scottish Record)
Ladies Barebow Adelle Fleming(Lasswade) 329
Highest Junior Recurve - Gareth Fleming(Penicuik), Compound, Alex Blake(Links)

Full Results

 

26th January - In Memory of Heather Urquhart

Since we notified you of Heather's death on Monday morning of 17th January tributes have been made by her Club, her coach and many friends she had made from the target, clout and flight circuit. Latterly she didn't keep good health but was still competing and the sudden downturn in health at Christmas that led to her untimely demise was unexpected.

Heather was from Laurieston near Castle Douglas and over the years she gave a lot of time, effort and commitment to all aspects of the running of her Club Loreburn  Archers, including looking after their website and most recently as child protection officer.

Her coach from Stewartry Archers remembers her saying to him once in the early days when he was worried about her progress, "Don't worry, I am not competitive"!

Heather then went on to ammass a rather impressive tally of Scottish Records - 3 Longbow Indoor Target, 5 Compound Flight, 11 Longbow Clout and 12 for Compound Clout. She also holds 2 UK Flight Compound Target bow records and 1 Compound Flight Bow. In Clout Heather also has 10 UK Records - 6 with the Compound Bow and 4 with Longbow. She also won the British Clout Championships with her Compound Bow 3 times, in 2005, 2007 and again in 2008 until retirement from full time work curtailed her travelling. In 2009 she was Guest of Honour at ASKA's annual Club Captaincy and Papingo shoot, she is seen here in the photograph presenting the Rose Bowl to the Captain.

She was never happier than when shooting clout, travelling the  length and breadth of the UK to compete. Heather had a wonderful character and was a pleasure to shoot with, always relied upon for some good crack and some helpful advice if you needed it and her enthusiasm was infectious. She will be greatly missed by all her family and friends.

RIP Heather Urquhart

It is our sad duty to report the death of Heather Urquhart on Monday morning (17th January). Heather was a well known and colourful chartacter, taking part in many field, clout and target events every year. She set 3 scottish records in 2010 with her longbow and an impressive 21 scottish flight records in the last few years with both longbow and compound

20th January - UK Record for Alistair

Commonwealth Team archer Alistair Whittingham broke a 10 year old UK Record at the Eastern Area Indoor Championships at Lasswade on Sunday 16th January. Alistair pipped the old UK Portsmouth round record for Compound Gent by one point shooting a score of 594. Many Congratulations Alistair

15th January - Northern Area Coaching Workshop - Rescheduled

This Workshop will now take place on the 20th February. For archers of all abilties and bowstyles - Recurve, Compound, Barebow and Longbow - with priority to Northern Area archers. See 2011 indoor calendar for more details