Development of our Field Course and Creation of High Cross Archers
2007 saw us make real progress with the field course in trms of its devevelopment, its use and the level of experience
we gained. Paul Yeomans became the Chairman of High Cross Field Archery Club and will now lead both the GNAS and NFAS activities.
Paul organised a number of events and we had many visitors from other clubs, the owner also gave us permission to increase
the size of the course, which is currently 12 acres up to a possible 25 acres! The biggest event of the year was the GWAS
Regional Field Championships which is reported below;
Whilst this report is about the success of our own archers we had many entrants from other clubs and much help to organise
our first field competition.For most of our members this was their first field course competition and for Deer Park it was the first time we had organised a Field Archery Competition but the way members worked to get the day as good
as we could get it and the level of performance of our archers on the day was just excellent!
18 Regional Titles were awarded 9 of them Senior The Gents Recurve category had the largest number of competitors and
our own John Spear just beat fellow Deer Park Archer Bernie Woods to 8th place. Deer Park won 4 Senior Titles, Steph Crang winning the Ladies Compound with 334, Paul Yeomans and
Vanessa Crang winning the Longbow titles and Keith Baker winning the Traditional category.
The 9 junior titles saw Deer
Park winning 6 of them, John
and Eliza Cass, Callum(330) and Alex Fraser(314), Lukas Baker and Harry Evans all competing in their first field archery competitions.
Another excellent performance came from our own Beckie Hutchings who was narrowly beaten by Eliza into the Silver position,
Beckie has only recently started shooting and this was her first competition of any sort!
