Latest Competition Reports

Report from the GWAS Regional Championships—13th November

With so much success it is difficult to know where to begin but this was our greatest success so far in the Regionals where Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire compete for honours.
The round was a FITA 18 and all our Compounds shot on 3 Spot faces. There were Regional titles for, Lucy, Beckie, Callum, James, Arron, Katherine, Austin, Victoria, Liza and Tom.
Special mentions for Callum, who returned to form and top scored for the juniors compounds with 558 and for Austin aged 8 who finished with an excellent score of 368 and won the Gents Under 14 Recurve Title.
Dan continues to improve and took silver in the Men’s Compound with an excellent score of 571 and Ian took Bronze in the Gents Longbow.
The day was a long one but the team still found time to finish off with the annual visit to the local MacDonalds.
This was great preparation for the National Championships!

Great Performances at the Gwent County Indoor Championships

Last Sunday saw a number of our members take the short trip to Chepstow to compete in a Record Status Portsmouth Round and the results were impressive to say the least!

It is difficult to know where to start but there were wins for Austin (Age 8) with a score of 453 and for Liza with 524 who also raised more than £200 for her charity. The Compounds had great success with all of them shooting on 3 Spots, Alex 574, Beckie 569, James H 565, Callum 564, Lucy 556 and Chloe doing her first competition with an impressive 536.

Dan finished second in the Gents Compound with 576. Victoria is returning to form winning the Junior Ladies longbow and Roger and Martin won silver and Bronze in the Gents Longbow.

Evesham Stafford.— A mixed day for our archers.

Nine of our members entered the Annual Stafford round (6 dozen at 30 metres) and top performance must go to James Howse who beat Rob Gruar’s long standing County Record (U18), which at the time was also a National Record at a time when Rob was shooting for GB, for our new readers James is just 12 years old!.

His score of 666 not only secured a medal for him but when combined with Dan’s score of 672, finishing second in the adult compound, meant that Dan & James won the Team trophy!

There were also wins for Austin (County Record) and Liza doing her first Stafford.

Lucy, doing very well had to stop shooting with a shoulder problem, with just 7 arrows to go.

Chippenham Archers Field Competition (October 2011)

Martin and Rosemarie went to the field shoot yesterday a 24 mixed FITA. Very compact course well laid out and had an enjoyable day.
They had Jeff Williams from Pentref with them who won the gents barebow. Their scores were, Martin 123 (winning score got 196)and Rosemarie got 155 (winning lady 225).

The Chippenham organisers seemed pleased to see us and said how they'd enjoyed shooting at Deer Park's field course a few years ago and asked when were we putting on another.

We said we had a new course now and that there was talk of a friendly shoot in February/March next year.
They were hoping to see it advertised and said that a crowd would come from them, as did Pentref!

We need a team of volunteers to organize it.

Last Weekends Competitions

Well done to all those that competed, Dan, Arron & Liza won their competitions at the Cheltenham Mixed Hereford, John took Bronze.
We are pleased that all our archers representing the County last weekend did well as did the County team, which picked up most of the individual winners and won the Gents Recurve Team and mixed Recurve Team Trophies, and Andy Melton was a members in both teams! Beckie in her first Senior Team appearance, beat all the archers on her target (all ranked 3 for their respective counties) and the longbows (Janet, Ian & Roger) all shot to their handicaps, unfortunately that was not enough to trouble most of the other counties longbow archers, who were very impressive!

Lucy broke her own National Record at the Meriden Windsor Competition with 966 but Meriden had failed to get the necessary Record Status for it to be validated.

Congratulations to all those juniors who sent their scores in to Archery GB for the Junior Nationals, there will be more in the Archery UK Magazine (probably the issue after next). Some top results and shows how strong our junior membership is becoming, even at a National level. All those archers in the top 3 places will receive engraved salvers which we hope to present at the annual awards.

Well done to Liza who broke County & Regional Records in Clout event that took place in Salisbury. As a club we need to follow Liza’s example and enter more events, they are grat fun, very different to target and there are lots of records just waiting to be beaten!

Dan and myself competed in the Gents FITA round at Chippenham, great day and we both got pb’s although Ian’s County Record is safe for another year.

I had the pleasure of shooting with David Smith a longbow archer trained by Richard Powell, has achieved GMB status and was just amazing at the longer distances, he scored 3 ends at 90m of over 35, got a 3 gold end also at 90m!

Redruth 6^th/7^th August – Congratulations to James who broke another National Record for the Double Metric 4. There were also impressive scores for Beckie, Tom and Sammy! Tom recorded a GB Qualification score. Martin representing our increasing number of longbows won his category.

Congratulations to Andy for finishing second from an entry of 41 at the American Tournament at Redhill last Monday to no less than Roy Nash.

We have had lots of successes over the last few weeks and due to lots happening have not been able to report in detail on them. The records keep rolling in at County, Regional and National level and weather permitting there should be some more next weekend at Cleve. Following National records for Katherine, Victoria and James, this week at Minchinhampton Lucy shot 142/144 golds to add another National Record and that helped a team of Andy, Lucy and Austin to win the team trophy. We had 33 members competing at the Minchinhamton competition, with 17 winning their category, some of them shooting for the first time, they all enjoyed it (despite the rain), we need to encourage more members to try a competition and I am sure they will be amazed at what they can achieve and get out of it.
Other highlights have been Andy winning the Gents Recurve at the Bath Albion and then finishing 17th in Stage 1 of the National Series at Evesham and winning again at Minchinhampton.
Lucy winning at the Cumbrian County Champs recording 1314 in very windy conditions and also receiving an award for the highest score of the day!
Our longbow archers are starting to do very well with event wins for John, Martin, Ian, Simon and Roger. Simon winning his first York at Black and Gold and Roger just winning the 2 way Western at Cheltenham. He also recorded an MB score at Minchinhampton. Ian, Nicky, John and Martin are shooting at Dunster this week and we wish them well.

Tom Howse spent a weekend at the National Performance Unit gaining considerable experience and he finished top of the H2H competition organised to run over those 2 days!

Too much to report in detail but all good competition preparation for our juniors that will be at the National Junior Championships wnd we will be sending a very strong squad.

Cheltenham Easter Bunny Shoot - 2 National Records for Deer Park!

Well done to Victoria Fraser (Longbow) and Katherine Frusher (Barebow) who recorded National Records (To be Ratified)by some distance at the Easter Monday Record Status Nationals. Victoria is already National Champion and Katherine is the first of our After-School Club (Archway - Stroud)pupil to break a National Record!
Also well done to Lucy Mason & James Lawton for recording 6 Gold Ends.
Full details to follow as soon as we get the results.
Also well done to our hosts, Cheltenham Archers for organising an excellent event in aid of 'Help the Heroes'.

Competition Reports - Outdoors 2011Outdoor season has just started, well done to Martin, Alex, Callum, John and Andy for wasting no time in getting started. Some excellent scores particularly from Callum (County Record) and Andy. Make sure all outdoor scores are sent in to the Records Officers please.

Easter Bunny Report will be published here. (30 members competing).

Brixham Clipper Tournament 6^th February …….What a day!
To say it was a great day was an understatement. Most of those shooting travelled down on Saturday, evening meal in Brixham, assembly at 9am, left at 6:45pm following the head to heads.

The qualification round was a Portsmouth and this saw wins for Rosie (with a personal best), Andy, Beckie, James for the single rounds and wins for John Craigie, Dan Gill, Tom Howse, James Howse and Lucy Mason for the doubles.
To qualify for the H2H archers had to generally finish in the top 8 of bow type (no junior categories).
Most of our archers qualified and earned the right to compete in the new FITA H2H format on FITA 18 3 spots.
Top performance was from Tom Howse who won all 3 of his rounds to win Gold, Tom was the only junior that qualified in the men’s recurve! Despite qualifying as No1 Andy was beaten by the Number 8 seed in the quarter final.
Dan despite qualifying 6^th in the Gents Compound again won all 3 of his rounds to win a closely contested final 8-6.
Another great performance came from John Craigie Gents Longbow who won his semi-final match despite being 1 -5 down and put up a good show in the final to win silver.
Beckie knocked out Lucy in the semi-final (Note all the other competitors were adults) and then Beckie won her final 8-0 to secure the Ladies Compound title. Kate qualified 7^th with a pb in the Ladies Recurve and lost with her final arrow to the number 2 seed.
Other excellent performances came from James Howse who again lost by the narrowest of margins to a very experienced adult in the quarter finals. With the exception of myself all our archers coped very well with the H2H format and I am sure our monthly H2H League has helped us in this respect.
Steph was invited to be Lady Paramount following past performances at that shoot and in a nice touch Sammy was awarded with a medal for being the youngest competing archer.
Great competition, great results and we have been invited back for the May outdoor competition!
There were 6 County Records broken by Lucy and 2 by Tom!

Other competition News
Well done to Andy Melton who traveled to Nimes, France for his first International Competition, this event had all the world top archers as it is part of the World Series, part 2 is in Las Vegas!
Andy finished a very respectable 122 out of 286 archers in that category scoring 546 on a Fita 18 target. Well done.
Beckie and Tom went to the Welsh National Indoor Championships at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. Beckie recorded a County Record of 559 and secured 1^st place visitor. Tom also recorded a personal best and finished 3^rd in his category. Well done guys.

Kingsmark - Fita 18 - Sunday 9^th January

Well done to John Craigie who won the Gents Longow, just beating Martin into second place. Beckie won the Compound recording an excellent 547, James H and Tom H also won their categories.

National Indoor Championships

9 of our archers are shooting over the weekend of the 4th and 5th December, report to follow. We wish them well, it will be difficult this year as most of our juniors will be the youngest in their category (2 year cycle) but they are all capable of putting in some great performances!

County Indoor Championships

We hope to have a very big number of Club Archers at this event to create a sea of blue. Report to follow.

Sunday 7th November

Great day for our archers at St Kingsmark Portsmouth. Rosie got a pb of 513, Lynn 450, Andy Melton 565 finishing 3rd in the Gents recurve, Martin 331 Longbow and Beckie winning the JL Compound with 565!

31st October

Beckie won her category at the Welsh National champs with a score of 562 on a Portsmouth.

24th October

Andy finished 2nd at the Droitwich combined FITA scoring 1087. Having recorded 658 on a Stafford the previous week.

County Junior Championships Report

A great day for everyone and the weather whilst blustery was kind to us. Cheltenham Archers were excellent hosts yet again. Our members teamed together to run excellent refreshments all day and thanks to the efforts of Steph the competition ran smoothly.

Whist this is a list of Deer Park Archers members who won titles, credit must go to all the archers that entered and to those members of other clubs who won their categories.

Rosie Benfield - Recurve Short National Girls Champion

Tom Howse - Recurve Short National Boys Champion

Callum Fraser - Compound Short National Champion

Aaron Pearce - Longbow Short National Champion

Beckie Hutchings - Compound Junior National Champion

Rosie Andrews - Barebow Junior National Champion

James Lawton - Compound Junior National Champion

Will Kurtze - Barebow Junior National Champion

James Howse - Compound Short Junior National Champion

Lucy Mason - Compound Very Short Junior National Champion

Rebecca May - Compound Very Short Junior National Champion

Victoria Fraser - Longbow Very Short Junior National Champion

Austin Whitmarsh - Recurve Very Short Junior National Champion

Perpetual Team Award - Deer Park Archers. Tom, Rosie and Beckie

Sunday 8th August - Bath Archers Mixed Hereford

Well done to Andy Melton who finished 4th with a new pb of 1136.

Sunday 1^st August
Competition Reports Despite lots of members being on holiday an excellent weekend for the club, 5 members shooting in the Devon and Cornwall Fita Star 2 day Championships in Redruth saw victories/medals for James, Sammy, Tom, Beckie and Martin, collecting a haul of 16 medals and saw James breaking no less than 8 County and Regional records!
Our team of archers at Black and Gold did equally well with, Phil, Andy, Alex, Callum, John, Roger and Andrew all wining medals and most of them gold. Simon doing his first competition elected to shoot a York round (100 yds etc) and recorded an excellent score registering a 1^st Class Classification.

Brilliant Display at Cleve Archers
10 of our archers won medals at Cleve Archers last weekend, 9 golds and one bronze. Top performances from Beckie (1260) who also achieved her 1250 Rose Award and 6 Gold End Badge. James Howse recorded 1249, which is a new County record (previously held by Jake Bunce), Alex Fraser shot an excellent score of 1184, this was his first competition since his enforced layoff due to broken boned in his hand. Andy Melton won the Gents National Recurve with John securing the Bronze. There were also wins for Ian, Callum, Tom Howse (good score of 1073), Joe Wilmott and Aaron Pierce.Thanks goes to Cleve Archers for organising an excellent Competition.

Match against Cheltenham Archers - 7th March 2010

A great morning with a 16 a-side match against our friends from Cheltenham Archers resulted in a 45 to 11 points win for Deer Park!

The match had 3 stages, the first was a 2 dozen teams of 4 competition with each club being represented by Gents, Ladies, Junior Gents and Junior Ladies. This produced 3 wins with our Junior Ladies being just edged out.

The next stage was a series of pairs matches, again over 2 dozen arrows, the pairs being decided on the ranked scores from the team competition. This produced a resounding 8 wins for Deer Park, although many of the matches were close.

The final phase were the 12 individual Head-to-Head matches. This resulted in 11 wins, one draw and 4 defeats but again many of the matches were close. All rounds were using a Portsmouth face, with 3 spots being used for compounds.

Both clubs have agreed to run a number of similar events next winter.
Earlier this year Cheltenham Juniors recorded a victory over our juniors, so honours have finished even!

Sunday 24^th Balcarras Club Target day - 8 more County Records!
Following an excellent turn out at Saturday evening practice, we thought things might have been a bit quiet on the Sunday morning, no such thing! New target faces, competition rules and fierce competition.
No less than 8 County Records were broken 7 junior and 1 senior. Well done to Joe, Aaron, Callum, Roger, Beckie, James, Alex and Sammy for breaking records. The pick of them were Beckie recording an amazing 285/300 on a Worcester and Alex’s 560 on a 3 spot Fita18.
There were 2 boys under 9 records for Joe (Worcester) and Sammy (Short Gloucester), well done to them. Jo Chamberlain recorded a personal best on a Portsmouth (516).

This is more evidence that all our efforts at practice, quality coaching, supportive parents and dedicated members are starting to produce the results.

County Indoor Championships Sunday 17^th Jan 2010

A day to remember!
What a fantastic day for the club, 28 entries, winning 13 of the 17 County titles awarded and 4 other members winning silver or bronze medals! The club won the team Trophy, 5 members broke County Records (Becky, Joe Wilmott, Callum, Rosemarie and Aaron and 2 broke Regional Records (Joe, Callum). This was an outstanding club performance, pictures and a full report will appear on the website shortly.Our Indoor County Champions for 2010 are; Nick, Vanessa, Steph, Rosie, Tom, Aaron, Matt, James, Callum, Alex, Beckie, Alex & Joe. Well done to all these and to all the other Club members who represented us so well.
The winning team comprised Ed, Tom and Steph.

Deer Park Archers And Cheltenham Archers Juniors Match Results

Sunday 13th December at Balcarras (3 dozen Portsmouth).

The scores were as follows;
1.     Ashe (Chelt) 341
2.     Callum (DPA) 337
3.     Alex (DPA) 337
4.     James H (DPA) 309
5.     Tom H (DPA) 308
6.     Becki (DPA) 308
7.     Jordan R (Chelt) 305
8.     Katie E (Chelt) 284
9.     Rosie (DPA) 266
10.                        Katherine (DPA) 252
11.                        Susie (Chelt) 247
12.                        Tom W (DPA) 231
13.                        Louise (DPA) 221
14.                        Lauren (Chelt) 217
15.                        Harry W (Chelt) 207
16.                        Kieran (DPA) 191
17.                        George (DPA) 190
18.                        Ben M (Chelt) 185
19.                        Joe (DPA) 175
20.                        Hannah (Chelt) 166
21.                        Marcus (DPA) 160
22.                        Sammy (DPA) 156
23.                        Amie (Chelt) 150
24.                        Maddie (DPA) 149
25.                        Amber (DPA) 146
26.                        Ryan (DPA) 141
27.                        James (DPA) 139
28.                        Jonathan (Chelt) 133

County Junior Championships
Thank you to all those members that supported the event which was certainly a success. Top club performances were made by Amber, who registered a huge improvement, to James who shooting his first Compound competition was just 2 points off a National record and also achieved his 6 gold end! Also to Tom who also registered an excellent score shooting recurve. Of the 70 entries Deer Park had 31, with 5 juniors, Aaron (who also got a Rose Award), Matthew, Alex, Callum and Joe winning County titles. Credit must go to Cheltenham archers Juniors who not only turned out in numbers but recorded some good scores and won a number of titles. Alex and Callum jointly won the H2H Compound and Joe Wilmott finished 3^rdin the recurve (behind two Great Britain Archers). As well as all the club members helping with the field layout, catering etc, can I record a personal thank you to Steph who did all of the preparation work and organized the presentation and scores on the day.

Inter-Counties
Gloucestershire finished behind Devon & Cornwall and Dorset & Wiltshire in this years intercounties. However there was an outstanding individual performance from one of our members, congratulations to Lawrence Gregory who recorded the second highest score on the York (946) for the 7 man Gloucestershire recurve team. We were also represented by Nick and Ian in the Longbow team with Nick again breaking the 300 barrier.

National Record

Congratulations to Aaron Pearce who achieved a National record at 40m, shooting longbow at the Cleve Archers Fita star event.

Cheltenham FITA

Well done to Joe, Becky, Alex and Callum for all completing the event in difficult blustery and wet conditions last Sunday and for all winning! Congratulations also go to Cheltenham Archers for organizing the event.

Alex & Callum Triumph at Regional Junior Championships

Saturday 27^th June was a great day for Alex & Callum at the Regional Junior Championships, both not just winning but recording outstanding scores!

Alex, shooting a Bristol 2 (60yds) recorded 1280 with 136 Golds and 8 reds to break the existing County & Regional records held our own Rob Gruar which was 1248 recorded in 2002.

Callum recorded 1274 on a Bristol 3, with 133 golds and 11 reds, fantastic shooting and hopefully a good sign for this weekends National Championships at Lilleshall.

Becky shooting in the Bristol Jnr Ladies Recurve, finished second with a solid mid 900 score. Good luck to all of them for the Nationals.

Steph gets another County Record and second Grand Master Score

At the team event at Lilleshall last weekend, Steph recorded 339 for 3 dozen arrows at 70m to break her own County record and then followed that up on the Sunday with her second Grand Master Score 1344 on a Ladies FITA.

Gloucestershire County Indoor Championships - January 2009

28 of our members competed at Stroud last weekend in the County Indoor Championships, 15 seniors and 13 juniors and we all had a great time! Our juniors won 8 of the 10 County Junior Titles on offer, the following are now County Champions;

Aaron Pearce – Gents u14 Longbow & Open Trophy

Callum Fraser – Gents u14 Compound

Tom Howse – Gents u14 Recurve

James Howse – Gents u10 Recurve

Rosie Benfield – Ladies u18 Recurve

Becky Hutchings – Ladies u14 Recurve

Chris Green – Gents u18 Longbow

The best unrewarded performance was an impressive 448 recorded by James Doolan, shooting his first competition and finishing second in the u18 Recurve. Alex, who has had his new bow for just over a week, turned in an excellent 554 in the gents u18 compound, beaten by Great Britain archer Jake Bunce. I have to say that I was proud of all our juniors and they were all a credit to the club and our sport, and this was commented on by both the judges and the organizers. So to all those already mentioned and also Amber, Kieran, Tom and Matt, a very well done.

The senior recurves saw all 7 of the 9 doing their first competitions, all performed well but the top performances came from Laurence Gregory recording 552, finishing 5^th, Edward Paddy with 527 finishing 14^th and in the ladies Jo Chamberlain was our best finisher and was placed 5^th with 431. In the Gents Compound Lawrence Devenish finished 5^th, Dan Gill 7^th and Karl Schneider 9^th.

There was a surprise in the Gents Longbow with Roger getting a personal best , scoring 422 and just piping Nick (412) to the title and Ian, the competition favorite finishing in 4^th.

Thanks go to the organizers for a great event, special thanks go to Andy, Vanessa and Steph for supporting our archers throughout the day.

There was a separate raffle to raise money for a Trust Fund, the prize was an Archery Teddy, complete with bow, quiver, arrows etc and to complete the day Mary won it!