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16th February 2012
Mario Stankovic is looking to run a Level 2 coaching course in Nottinghamshire at the end of the summer going through the winter months. Cost will be around £500 per candiate. This is in line with the EMAS development plan, so contact your county reps to see if partial funding may be available or ask Mario and he may be able to point you in the right direction.
If you are interested in attending the course, please contact him by email on homeandgardens@yahoo.com
EAST MIDLANDS ARCHERY SOCIETY
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE OF THEIR
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY MARCH 17TH 2012
AT
Belvoir Archers,
Barnstone Country Club, Works Lane, Barnstone,
Notts, NG13 9JN
COMMENCING AT 2.30PM
Travel Directions can be found at www.belvoirarchers.co.uk
ANY NOMINATIONS FOR POSITIONS ON THE EXECUTIVE OR GENERAL COMMITTEE MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE HONORARY SECRETARY ON THE APPROPRIATE FORM NO LATER THAN THE 10th March 2012.
ANY PROPOSALS (IN WRITING) TO BE PUT BEFORE THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING MUST BE IN THE HANDS OF THE HONORARY SECRETARY NO LATER THAN THE
25th February 2012.
ANY NOMINATIONS FOR THE RON SMITH MEMORIAL TROPHY MUST BE SUBMITTED
BY COUNTY COMMITTEES TO THE HONORARY SECRETARY NO LATER THAN THE
25th February 2012.
ALL MEMBERS OF THE EAST MIDLANDS ARCHERY SOCIETY ARE INVITED TO ATTEND
Anyone attending the AGM is invited to join the members of Belvoir archers for a shoot on the morning of the AGM, with a reduced guest fee of £2.50 for anyone wishing to shoot on a first come first served basis from 9.30am.
Contact Bryan ‘bryan@belvoirarchers.co.uk’ for details.
30th January 2012
Dehli success prompts the launch of new commonwealth championships
Guernsey Archers will be hosting this year’s Senior Euronations tournament, which will also incorporate the first European Commonwealth Regional Archery Championship.
Steve Yates, the organiser, is inviting archers from Cyprus, Gibraltar and Malta to join the seven UK Home Nations (including the channel islands), and Ireland, in Guernsey from 20 – 22 July.
Said Ted Burnham, the chairman of English Archery Federation: “This initiative follows the success of archery at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
“Indeed, so successful was it, that World Archery has set up a working party to promote archery as a core sport in future Games. Members of the working party are drawn from Africa, Oceania, Europe, India and the Americas.”
Other Commonwealth Archery Regional Tournaments are planned in 2012 in Africa and Oceania. It is hoped that these initiatives will lead to a Commonwealth Archery Championship in 2013
16th January 2012
Bekky Lowe, Age 9, Gains her Junior Master Bowman with her Barebow
Bekky has been shooting barebow since September 2004 when she started to shoot with the help of both Chris Mason and the now Finance Director for Archery GB Eric Jackson at WOAC in Northamptonshire.
Her first bow was a fibreglass green and yellow bow that she found on a trip to KG Archery in September 2004. She walked round with it for 3 hours while we sorted out bows for her brother and father. She proudly walked up to Chris and Eric the following week and told them she had a bow her size and could she now learn to shoot please. After the rest of the members had shot Bekky was taken down to the 10yd line and enjoyed her time shooting. Sometimes she even decided to sit on Chris's knee to shoot instead of standing up! Attached is a copy of a photo taken Christmas 2004 fun shoot.
The family moved to Nottingham in 2006, and joined Burton Joyce Archers who welcomed the little girl with the green and yellow bow into their junior club.
Over the next few years Bekky continued to progress as a barebow archer. Her reputation with a bow in the club was highlighted, when a picture of a broken longbow arrow was placed in the clubhouse, with a warning to other club members of the dangers of shooting with a young barebow archer who could effectively shoot longbow archers arrows out of the air.
Bekky has been shooting competitions since 2009 and has shot for the Nottinghamshire County Recurve Team since 2010. This year Bekky qualified for selection to EMAS but due to her age declined the place.
In the 2011 season Bekky has managed to set and break a total of 13 National and EMAS records and 15 County records in the Ladies Under 12 Barebow category.
Bekky loves her archery and one day would love to shoot for her country.
She is very grateful to Burton Joyce Archers, Christine Gascoigne and also Mario Stankovic for giving her the support and encouragement to continue to shoot barebow. She is also very grateful to John Wilson Chariman of the Junior Section of Archery GB for revising the Barebow classification to bring them into line with recurve classification this year and publishing them in time for claims to be made before the December 2011 deadline.
