22nd December 2011

The January Challenge

You may (or may not) have heard of the January Challenge. I have run it for several years now on behalf of GNAS/ Archery GB. After some confusion (because some people had never heard of it!) I have been asked to run it once again in January 2012.

It is very simple. Archers should submit their best score for an indoor Portsmouth round shot in January 2012, and I then sift them into a ranked table. There are various categories, covering sex, bow style and archers’ experience. All the various combinations are detailed in the attached flier. There are no physical trophies, just the glory of knowing where in the list each archer came. I will accept scores by post or email, and spread sheets with all the scores from one club are particularly welcome. They should be submitted to me by the end of the first weekend in February, and I send the results to the AGB website as soon as I can

So far so simple. However, as the decision to run the competition has been delayed to the last minute, no notice was placed in Archery UK. Could I ask you all, therefore, to forward this email on to the counties in your region (and ask them to forward it on to their clubs). With the wonders of modern communications, this should reach most potential competitors with plenty of time to take part.

Thank you for your assistance – and Merry Christmas

Nick Beeson

12th December 2011

L1 Coaching Course

Mario Stankovic is running a Level 1 coaching course in Nottinghamshire.  The price is £250, of which he needs a deposit of £90 by 1st January 2012 so that he can register the students with GNAS.

Closing date for the course is 6th Jan 2012.

Course dates are 12th Feb, 4th March, 18th March and 29th April.  The course will be run at Joseph Whittaker School, Rainworth, NG21 0AG

Anyone wishing to attend the course are encouraged to register ASP. 

6th December 2011

Judges

A reminder to all pre 2011 judges that wish to claim an EMAS grant of £50 towards their new GNAS Judges uniform have until March 2012 to place a claim.  More details contact Mario.

English Archer Federation (EAF)

The EAF are looking for volunteers to stand as secretary and treasurer.  For more details, contact Liz West

1st December 2011

TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR INTERCOUNTIES RECORD STATUS SHOOTS

EMAS require host clubs for the 2012 intercounties shoots as detailed below.  You need a minimum of 6 months to apply for record status shoots, The Sydney Bond is only 8 months away.

August -  Sydney Bond - Junior Inter Counties - Lincolnshire

September -  The Thoresby Trophy - Senior Inter Counties - Northamptonshire

Aug - October - EMAS Clout - Leicestershire

  Anyclub that is willing to host the above tournaments please contact

Mario Stankovic ASP

25th October 2011

REQUIRED : VOLUNTEER FOR EAF ROLE
The English Archery Federation (EAF) is in need of a new secretary.
The current post holder is having to retire due to ill health.
If you are interested please follow the instructions on the EAF website and submit your CV for consideration.
www.englsharcheryfederation.org

27th September

Alan Staples (1953 - 2011)
 
Archery was well represented at the service to celebrate Alan's life held in Lincoln on Wednesday 14th September.
Archers from Lincoln, Stafford and members of the EMAS committee were all in attendance at the bright, if somewhat over warm, service.  It was standing room only as friends & colleagues representing all aspects of Alan's varied work & interests joined with his family for a rousing rendition of Jerusalem.  Ann Marie thanked everyone for their kind messages of sympathy and support following Alan's sudden death.
In accordance with the families wishes, in lieu of flowers, EMAS has made a donation to the British Heart Foundation.  The Leukaemia & Lymphoma society will also benefit from the collection made at the service.

2nd September

EMAS 53rd Senior Intercounties  - Thoresby Trophy

Due to the sad and untimely death of Alan Staples (EMAS Chair and member of Lincoln Archers) earlier this week the following will occur before sighters:

-          Shooting of a single black arrow;

-          One minute’s silence to remember Alan’s life; and

-          A round of applause to commemorate his contributions to archery.

Lincoln Archers will also be wearing black armbands.

Please also be aware that the A46 is closed from 8pm on Saturday 3^rd September until 6am on Sunday 4^th September 2011 at RAF Syerston – we do not believe that this will affect anyone unless they are travelling really early!

Target List

26th August 

Tickets for Olympic Archery Test Event at Lords

The London Classic Archery Tournament is the test event for the London Olympics in 2012 and is being held at Lords Cricket Ground, London from Tuesday 4 to Monday 10 October.

Archery GB has been allocated tickets for all days of the competition. Members can obtain free tickets for themselves, their friends and family using a reply form, which  should be returned to Membership Services together with a stamp addressed DL (22cm by 11cm) envelope (SAE). Each member can order up to 10 tickets in total.

Based on the initial date information provided to us LOCOG, we would ask that you return your form to arrive with us by as soon as possible and no later than Friday 16 September. We will process requests in the order they are received  and we expect that all tickets will be posted by Friday 23 September. If you are unsuccessful, we will use your SAE to inform you of that.

These tickets are being despatched during the annual renewal time and that is the priority for us. We thus regret that we will be unable to handle email or telephone enquiries about whether you have been successful in obtaining tickets and ask members to wait for the return of their SAE.

If you have applied, please check this web site for any updates on timings.

The London Classic Archery Tournament at Lord’s Cricket Ground is part of the London Prepares series, the official London 2012 sports testing programme

For more information and current ticket status go to

http://www.archerygb.org/ArcheryGB/index.cfm/performance/2012/latest-news/tickets-for-test-event/

26th July

24th July saw 2 important Junior Competitions in the region, the EMAS Junior Intercounties - Sydney Bond held at Burton Joyce Archers in Nottinghamshire and the Junior Euro Nations held at Sherwood Archers in Nottinghamshire. Both events had archers from the region.  More information can be found on the new EMAS Juniors page as and when information is sent to me, but there are alreay some photo from the weekend.

Burton Joyce Archers hold first record status shoot for twelve years

On Sunday 24th July Burton Joyce Archers held the East Midlands Archery Society Junior Intercounties team Tournament which saw teams of junior archers from Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestshire and Rutland, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire all competing for the Sydney Bond and Bingham Ceramics trophies.

Each County sent a team of eight recurve and four compound junior archers to challenge for the EMAS intercounties junior awards at an event held with the kind permission of Burton Joyce Parish Council at the Poplars Sports ground complex, a facility that is currently under threat from a planning application by Severn Trent Water to erect a massive wind turbines complex which if granted will stop any future archery events from taking place at this venue.

Leicestershire and Rutland won both the Compound team trophy, and the recurve team trophy so a clean sweep for their highly skilled archers.

Individual awards were won by Nottinghamshire's Holly Smith (Highest scoring compound lady), and Lizzie Warner from Leicestershire and Rutland (highest scoring recurve lady)

Gentlemen taking honors were Josh Hall (highest scoring compound gents) and David Forster (highest scoring recurve gents) both from Northamptonshire.

Well done to everyone who took part, and thank you to all our County and club helpers who assisted in running this annual event in the EMAS calender.

Burton Joyce Archers hope to continue to hold record status events at their shooting ground but this may dependant on ongoing planning applications.

Junior Euronations Archery Tournament 23^rd 24^th July 2011

In keeping with archery traditions of Nottinghamshire a Home Nations competition event was held in the County this weekend.

Sherwood Archers had been chosen by The English Archery Federation to host the 2011 Junior Euronations Tournament, an event held in England on a five yearly cycle between the GB Home Nations. This year we had competitors from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Sherwood Archers’ excellent history and reputation for managing archery tournaments made them EAF’s first choice to host this prestigious event and every aspect of the two days reinforced how right that decision had been. Team accommodation was arranged at Brackenhurst College.

The tournament was run over two days – The young people shot as teams representing their country on Saturday and as individuals on the Sunday.

The weather was fine, if some what blustery at times and all the competitors enjoyed a full two days of challenging and friendly competition. The England archers did very well on both days taking both the team trophies.  On the Sunday they again acquitted themselves very well taking four first places out of the six that were awarded – and this despite difficult times for their team manager Adam Guest (from Notts!) and mascot George: the following is taken from the report back to the EAF committee by the Chair of EAF, and joint Lady Paramount of the competition - Karen McMillan, the other Lord Patron being Les Smeeton.

“Good Evening all, I have just arrived back after a brilliant weekend at the Junior Euronations, England Juniors were fantastic, well behaved I never heard any complaints about any of them, just brilliant, even after severe provocation (The England Mascot George the monkey was kidnapped by the Irish Team and held for ransom they held their cool, then slaughtered them on the field, I understand the Irish team also kidnapped Adam Guest Saturday night but sent him back when they realised they may have been stuck with him (only joking Adam, you did a fabulous job,)”

Attending officials from English Archery Federation were Karen McMillan (Chair) and Les Smeeton the local (East Midlands) EAF representative.

25th July

GNAS / ArcheryGB annual affiliation returns are now in circulation.
Any club officer in any doubt about the correct procedure and payments (Note: not as per the photocopying instruction from GNAS) should contact their county officials to verify the situation.  Look also on your county website for further information.

16th July

 ALL SYDNEY BOND AND BELVOIR ARCHERS WINDSOR COMPETITORS

If you are travelling to the Sydney Bond at Burton Joyce Archers or the Belvoir Archers Windsor Tournament on Sunday 24th July, make sure that you leave with plenty of time.  There are warning signs around the East Bridgford & Gamston area warning of a tri-athalon and cycle event which may close some roads in the area

For a full description of the road closures and or disruption, go to the Notts County Council web site article

13th July

Nottinghamshire and EMAS would like to welcome yet another new club - Harworth Archers, who are based in Bircoates.  The club is being run by Steve and Jan Sargent and starting their year off with a beginners course on Thursday 21st July, 7pm, at the Sports Ground, Scrooby Road, Bircoates.

To register for the course or more details on the club, please contact the club secretary on 0777 900 7804 or email   The Course is for 8 year old and upwards, Adults £35, Juniors/OAPs £30, course duration 6 weeks

7th July 2011

Hollie Smith (10) and Rebekah Lowe (9) took part in the Junior Fita Star and the Junior National Open Championships at Lilleshall on the weekend of 2nd and 3rd July 2011.  It was a lovely weekend, with unbroken sunshine throughout and soaring temperatures. With 70 targets and over 300 junior archers competing over the course of the weekend it was an impressive sight if not a little overwhelming for two young girls who had never taken part in an Outdoor National competition before.

Shooting the Metric V round on the Saturday, Hollie shooting a Compound Bow broke the existing national record for the 15m distance with a score of 337. She also broke the existing EMAS and Nottinghamshire County Record for the round of 1291 by shooting an impressive 1345 and was awarded the Willson Trophy.

On the Sunday, Hollie was successful in shooting a new EMAS and Nottinghamshire County Record of 1250, for the Bristol V round, giving her second place to
Lucy Mason who managed to put in a perfect score of 1296.
Rebekah found the conditions on the Sunday challenging after her Saturday performance, but managed to complete the competition, achieving a silver medal place.

Not a bad weekend for them both: 1st place, 2nd place, National, Regional and County records and in addition a purple Rose for Hollie and a purple Cross for Bekky. 

Congratulations to both girls. 

7th July 2011

The new Field Archery page is now live, so if you have any information regarding Field Archery, please let me know

27th June 2011

Congratulations to 9 year old Bekky Lowe of Burton Joyce Fletchling Archers who broke 6 national barebow records and set a new national record over the weekend whilst shooting at the EMAS FITA Star hosted by Lincoln Archers.  She also was able to claim her Red and Purple English Crosses, a very good weekend for an up and coming young archer

Sat 25^th June 2011

Metric V                  952    National Record

15m                        239    National Distance Record

Sun 26^th June 2011

Metric V                 1018   National Record

Double Metric V      1970  National Record

20m                        253    National Distance Record

15m                        249    National Distance Record

10m                        299    National Distance Record

Congratulations also go to Hollie Smith, who shot a National record for the 15m FITA at the Sherwood FITA STAR on 5th June.  Hollie has also been selected as first reserve for the England Team for the home nations match this weekend at the Junior Nationals

27th June 2011

Calling all Junior Archers ARCHERS

During July, there will be a National Postal Tournament for all juniors to enter.  You are to shoot a National Round applicable to your age group, and email the results to Chrissie Mortlock purplemania@ukarchery.net

for more information, download the info sheet

10th June 2011

All EMAS Judges - a message from Mario - Judge Liaison Officer EMAS

"Hi All just to let you know i have just got  £50 for each of you from Emas for new uniform ie jackets if you let me have your receipt for anything other than shirt or trousers     Mario JLO"

4th June 2011

EMAS Juniors v NCAS Juniors at the Weatherby FITA

11 of EMAS Youth Squad represented the Region on the 4th June at Yorkshire Archery Association FITA Star at Wetherby.

The day started out warm and sunny with no wind promising to be a perfect days shooting but by the time official practice had ended a brisk wind had wipped up bringing in cloud from the North. By the end of the day every glimmer of sun had been extinguished and cold wether gear was in order. Despite the conditions there was some strong shooting with some personal best scores. As usual the team were a credit to their parents and Region.

EMAS won the Compound mixed team 5125 to NCAS 4756

EMAS won the Recurve mixed team 4739 to NCAS 4314

I would like to thank the YAA for their hospitality and the team from Northern Counties for giving us such a sporting and good natured event and look forward to 2012.

3rd May 2011

EMAS Juniors selected to shoot for GB

19th April 2011

Congratulations to Les Smeeton of Bingham Leisure Centre Archery Club on being awarded the HartwelL Trophy at the GNAS AGM at the weekend.  Les was nominated by Nottinghamshire and EMAS in recognition for his work with the English Archery Federation (EAF) Commonweath Games Squad 2010.  Les was heavily involved with the setup, training and selection of the compound team.

4th April 2011

Congratulations to Mike Boyce for being awarded the Ron Smith Trophy at the EMAS AGM on 2nd April 2011

3rd April 2011

Saturday 2nd April saw the EMAS AGM at Leicester.  The turnout for the event was around 20 people, lets try to get more for the event in 2012, if you want to have your say on what EMAS does for you, then come to the AGM or speak with your club/regional Reps to bring your ideas and views forward.

8th February 2011

It is with sad regret that we have to announce the passing of one of Nottinghamshire's prominent archers Dave Riley

attached is an email from his Daughter, Jessica Riley

"It is with deepest regret and heavy heart that I have to inform you that my dad sadly passed away this morning.

Anyone who knew him, knows what a gaping hole this will leave in our lives.  He will always remain in our thoughts and hearts.

I only have a few email addresses so please pass this on to anyone who knew dad.

I will send further details regarding the funeral when everything is arranged.

Jess, Judith and Joanna "