Archery GB have this week awarded Nonsuch Bowmen the On Target Performance specialism. Specialisms were developed so that AGB could recognise clubs that work hard in specific areas of the sport in order for the sport to grow.
Team Nonsuch took part in the Surrey Archery competition at Rivernook.
Saturday we enjoyed some glorious weather and shot a double WA 70 qualifying round and then head to head rounds in the afternoon – unfortunately we were all eliminated before the finals.
The Sunday shoot consisted of the full FITA WA1440 round, despite some appalling weather we all enjoyed the day & representing the club were:
Linda, Les, Amie, David, Richard, Jane & Harry.
Thanks also to the club members that turned up to wish us well in the afternoons: David, John, Martin, Nadine & Julie plus Barry& Maxine Holland , who were helping out at Rivernook on Saturday morning.
Congratulations to Amie who won Spelthorn Barebow with a score of 694 and achieved a MB score and her third Master Bowman score to confirm the classification achievement.
Well done Amie !!
Well done to Amie and Linda for last weekends competition shoot at Middlesex.
Massive congratulations to the Nonsuch archers who took home this tremendous haul of medals from the CSAA 2015 Indoor Championships …… 5 Bronze, 1 Silver, 7 Golds, 1 winners trophy, 1 winners Salver trophy.
Photo Credit: Linda Skeet
Results are as follows:
*one of these may actually be silver, formal results will confirm when available
Quite a few of Nonsuch archers took part in the event – organiser John Pettet was helped in the planning by our field specialist Dave Morris, and the Lord Paramount was our very own Secretary (and Surrey President) Les Bashford. This must have spurred on a few of our archers, with some great results (full results on the CSAA website):
Paul Brewer: 1st place County Archer and 3rd overall, Gents Traditional
Linda Skeet: 3rd in County, Ladies Recurve (Linda would have been 1st in county Ladies Barebow if her bow had gone through the 10cm hoop!)
Jane Hodgson: 4th in County, Ladies Recurve
Sam Hodgson: 1st place, Gents U18 Compound UL
John Croft also shot in the Gents Longbow
Well done everyone, maybe this experience will get a few more of our archers having a try at Field next year.
The latest Archery GB magazine lists some great achievements by Nonsuch archers:
Tor Fox: World Archery 1000 Star, WA White Target Award, Archery GB 900 Rose Award and 800 Rose Award
Richard Beenham: 900 Rose Award
And also Nonsuch Associate Member Tania Nadarajah: WA 1000 and 1100 Stars, WA Black Target Awards and WA White Target Award, and Archery GB 6 Gold End badge
Great shooting!
Congratulations to Linda and Dave, who successfully passed their assessment and are now officially Level 2 coaches! This doubles the size of our Level 2 coaching contingent. We now have Andy, Bea, Dave and Linda at Level 2, Martin, David and Laura at Level 1 and Richard currently awaiting his Level 1 assessment.
Whilst the majority of club members were competing in our annual Club Championships on the 5th and 6th of September, we had one archer who was in Nottingham for the weekend competing at the English Archery Federation Championships for 2015!
Congratulations to Martin Creasey who is now the Compound (Masters), Champion of England for 2015.
Photo Credit: Martin Creasey
On Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2015, we held our annual Club Championships. Recurve and Longbow archers competed on Saturday, whilst Compound and Barebow archers waited to compete on the Sunday. Both days were also open to club members of any bowstyle to shoot Short Metric rounds in the afternoon.
A BBQ followed Sunday’s shooting, at which the results of both days were announced. Awards and Trophies were presented to archers by fellow club member and international GBR para archer Tania Nadarajah. Congratulations to the following Club Champions for 2015:
Victoria Jeffries: Ladies Recurve, Club Champion 2015
Richard Beenham: Gents Recurve, Club Champion 2015
Linda Skeet: Ladies Barebow, Club Champion 2015
Mike Fox: Gents Barebow, Club Champion 2015
Ian McLenaghan: Gents Longbow, Club Champion 2015
Mark Fitch: Gents Compound, Club Champion 2015
Sam Hodgson: Junior Gents U16 Compound, Club Champion 2015
Amie Williams: All Day Handicap Adjusted Score Winner (Saturday and Sunday) and Saturday Afternoon Handicap Adjusted Winner
Martin Argent: Sunday Afternoon Handicap Adjusted Winner
Os Hancox: Lady Paramount Prize
A big thank you to all who organised and helped over the weekend and made it such a great success! For more photos from the event, members please log in to view the photo gallery.
Lets do it all again next year!
Photo Credit: Bea Taylor
