7th December - British Indoor Champs Success

I must first of all pay tribute to the entire Senior team for braving what were challenging travelling conditions to attend this event. Their efforts were not in vain.

The event took place at a new venue within the International Centre, Telford. The event was held over a single day on Sunday 5th December with both recurve and compound championships taking place at the same time. This differs from past years when the respective championships were held on separate days. The competitors gave the arena the thumbs up which was very impressive with over 60 bosses in the one hall.

The home internationals were held on Sunday afternoon. The recurve team consisting of Matt Nowicki, Erik Rowbotham, Kyshiea George and Lizzie Bell were creditable runners up scoring a combined total of 2168 to England's combined total 2194. Lizzie then went on to the H2H rounds where she finished in 4th place.

The compound team consisting of Alistair Whittingham, Tim Keppie, Claudine Jennings and Tracey McGowan finished in first place and beat England into second by a margin of three points. Both teams were level going into the last dozen with Scotland holding their nerve with a combined score of 2282 to England's combined score of 2279. All archers went though into the H2H phase where the highest placed was Claudine who finished in 4th place.

In addition to this, the Recurve team trophy for best club performance was won by Edinburgh University with the equivalent compound team trophy being won by Edinburgh Uni Alumni. Jenny Jeppsson of Edinburgh Uni finished in 2nd place after the conclusion of the H2H round. Full results available on the ArcheryGB website

Norrie McLean
Senior Team Manager

18th November - National Series 2011 - Scottish Leg

Archery GB's National Series has announced dates for the 2011 campaign with Penicuik Archers hosting Stage 2 on June 18/19.

8th November - Level 1 WEST

The next Level 1 Coaching course for the WoSAA will be held as a residential course at the National Centre, Inverclyde in Largs.

The schedule for the course is:

Friday evening 25.02.2011 - arrival (at about 19:30)
Saturday 26.02.2011 - 1st day of the course
Sunday 27.02.2011 - 2nd day of the course

Friday evening 25.03.2011 - arrival
Saturday 26.03.2011 - 3rd day of the course

Friday evening 22.04.2011 - arrival
Saturday 23.04.2011 - Assessment whole day

In addition we will hold a Pre-Course meeting on the 12.02.2011 in Renton. If a candidate can not travel to Renton for this meeting on a single day (because of the distance) we will try to arrange a remote session to help you fill out important paperwork (including CRBS)and give you an overview of the course.

The total cost of the course (including the residential costs) per candidate will be £320. We would require you to pay us a non-refundable deposit of £100 by the end of December to cover your course fees to GNAS.

Any possible candidate should check for available grants towards their course fees.

Please contact the course administrator Kerstin Elmendorff - kelmendorff at hotmail dot com or 01475 521105 (evenings and weekends) if you are interested or need additional information.