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Mayflower Junior Archers Issue No. 5 July 2008 Junior News Inside this issue: From the Editor Achievements 2 We’re now halfway through the outdoor season and quite a few of you have JNOC Lilleshall 3 been very busy with competitions and claiming awards. This has given me More Achievements 4 quite a lot for the achievements page(s). Well done to those who entered July Nationals some of the tournaments and the good results they won from Havering Youth Games, West Essex invitation shoot and especially the Junior Na- Tournament Diary 5 Junior Committee tional Outdoor Championships. More details on the inside pages. Update FITA Award scheme 6 There are a few tournaments left so keep up the good work and give lots more to write about. The next issue should include results from Essex Lynne Burton, my 7 FITA, Southern Counties Championships at Colchester, and at Runwell and road to Beijing the Essex FITA Field Championships. Club Diary Back Now there’s a challenge, enter the field champs and you might spot me with July Nationals page a bow in my hand. Yes, mine this time. National Awards Congratulations also to: Luke Willett of Rayleigh Town AC for wining the York round at JNOC to become National recurve Champion at Lilleshall. Well done Luke. Tom Barber of Thorpe Hamlet AC for winning the Gents FITA round at JNOC. Several Mayflower members know 16 year old Tom and are probably aware that he has been se- lected as the 4th member of the GB Olympic team for Beijing. That’s fantastic! We wish Tom and all our British athletes well for the Olympic games. Olympic News The Olympic Archery team will be: Ladies: Alison Williamson, Naomi Folkard, Charlotte Burgess and Emma Downie Gents: Simon Terry, Larry Godfrey, Alan Wills and Tom Barber We should not forget Lynne Burton’s difficult journey to qualify for the Paralympic Archery team. Lynne, from Chelmsford, has an amazing story to tell, which has been published on Essex web pages and reproduced on page 7. Olympic coverage can be found on digital and satellite television. I hope! It was last time. Achievements Havering Youth Games—26th April What a success! Shooting ‘National’ rounds, five members attended and each came home with an a ward. Fantastic! Alastair Hunphreys National Compound Gold Sam Yeates Jun National Recurve Silver Alex Croft Short Jun National Recurve Silver Nicole Scorah Junior National Recurve Bronze Tom Sutherland Short Jun National Recurve Bronze Mayflower team at Well done the team. Full report on the club website. Havering Youth Games West Essex Junior Invitation shoot - 10th May Shooting ‘National’ rounds again Mayflower fielded a team of five to bring home the silver medals Well done Nicole Scorah, Katie Ward, Sam Yeates, Alex Croft and Lewis Jones. Essex County Target Championships—14th June Hmm! No medals this time, but they did get some good scores in this highly competitive event. However, Alex claimed a Black Rose, missing a Blue Rose by 2 points and Sam claimed a White Rose while Aaron won the Lord Paramount Prize. See more on the ‘Achievements News’ page in ‘Archery UK’. In the meanwhile Joe Elvidge, with mum Rachel, both won Gold medals at Greenwood Osterley Archers on 1st June. This is a junior shoot where parents can join in as long as they bring a child. Mum was shooting an Albion and Joe, with his Longbow this time, a Short Junior Windsor also winning a Badminton racket in the raffle. They didn’t quite manage the family team prize, but you can’t win them all. Well done both of you. Full report on the club website. Mayflower Archers Albion & Windsor open shoot—28th June What a glorious day for a friendly shoot. I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to Steve for com- ing up with the idea. And loads of Mayflower members for helping out to make a very memorable day. Did you enjoy it? Were you there? As this was a friendly relaxed shoot, there were no medals to be won. But had there been then members would have won the following: Alex Croft under 16 Albion recurve Gold Alastair Humphreys u18 Windsor compound Gold Lewis Jones u 16 Short Windsor recurve Silver Matt Andrews u16 Short Windsor recurve Bronze Mitchell Wilk u14 Jun Windsor recurve Gold Katie Ward u16 Junior Windsor recurve Gold Nicole Scorah u16 Jun Windsor recurve Silver Joe Elvidge u12 Special Windsor barebow Gold I won’t mention what our senior members achieved, because we juniors don’t worry about them. Results, reports and photographs can be found on the club website, www.mayflowerarchers.co.uk and Essex County website, www.ecaa.org.uk and they’re well worth visiting. Any more news you didn’t tell me about? I’m always willing to publish news and views. Contact Roger Glover on 01277 650358 or mail me at [email protected] Page 2 Junior National Outdoor Championships—Lilleshall 5th & 6th July Despite the wind and rain, it seems like all those attending had a very enjoyable weekend. Appar- ently meal times were a laugh as well. There are some fantastically good juniors attend this event who make it very competitive so unfortunately, no medals were won this time, but nobody dis- graced themselves either and returned some good places. However, everybody made claims for various achievement awards. English Archery Federation—English crosses: Alex Croft 13th, Blue cross for Metric 1. Lewis Jones, Green cross for Metric 2. Sam Yeates, Black cross for Metric 3. Nicole Scorah, white cross for Metric 3. Katie Ward already has her Black cross. GNAS—Rose Awards: Sam Yeates, Black Rose for Bristol 3. Nicole Scorah, with a massive pb of 979 for a Black Rose. Well done one and all and glad the trip was enjoyably worthwhile. Rob Markham’s report Having lost son Michael from the world of archery to the world of girls, I jumped at the sugges- tion from Steve Fenton of renting a few of our juniors archers, sticking them on a mini bus and ferrying them up to Lilleshall for the Junior National Championships. Steve was similarly pining for the Junior Championships after George became a senior last November and we figured the only way we could get there would be to press gang a few of our kids from the club. Having realised I had messed up my work diary which put me in Sandown Park for all of the Fri- day, it was left to David Scorah to hire a bus and drive our kids and their parents to Lilleshall (Steve also came up with an excellent excuse not to travel in the mini bus). We took five junior archers from Mayflower, four of whom had never shot at this level of tour- nament before. They were joined by archers from RTAC, Oakfield, Chelmsford Tudor Rose, HNA, Burntwood, Noak Hill and CADAC. This was an impressive turnout for Essex Juniors and a long way from the poor showing in 2002 when we had just two! Page 3 More Achievements …. Congratulations to Sam Yeates who raised over £600 for St Francis Hospice at Noak Hill Archers charity fun shoot on 25th May. That’s the spirit Sam, well done! Alex Croft breaks u16 Club record for a York with a score of 868. This record has been held by Alex Purser since 2002. Hmm! Another Alex holds the record. Mayflower Juniors at Lilleshall Katie Ward ranks 5th in the County Outdoor, top 10 juniors. However, Nicole Scorah’s absence from the top 10 is to be questioned. Some pictures from JNOC at Lilleshall GNAS ‘July National’ postal tournament If you haven’t been able to join in the ‘National’ rounds or wish to improve your score, you are still able to shoot the round any time you like in the remainder July so long as a supervising senior is present and willing to sign your score sheet. Then please give it to Roger or Steve. Roger will then send it with the others for the national postal tournament. With any luck, results should be in October Junior News. Six dozen arrows, 4 at the longer distance and 2 at the shorter distance. Age as of 30th June. Boys Girls Under 18 60 & 50 yds Round 1 Under 18 50 & 40 yds Round 2 Under 16 50 & 40 yds Round 3 Under 16 40 & 30 yds Round 4 Under 14 40 & 30 yds Round 5 Under 13 30 & 20 yds Round 7 Under 12 30 & 20 yds Round 6 Under 9 15 & 10 yds Round 9 Under 9 15 & 10 yds Round 8 Longbow archers may shoot one distance down. Good shooting, Roger Don’t forget, all Mayflower members are entitled to a 20th Anniversary commemorative badge. There is no cost for this, but if you wish to own your share of this rare piece of history, they are available from Steve at Junior club afternoons. Page 4 Tournament Diary (a selection of shoots, which may be of interest) Local events 3rd Aug East Anglian Champs alongside Beds County Championships Ampthill, Beds 3rd Aug West Essex Bowmen St. George, Albion & Windsor Upminster 9th Aug Noak Hill Archers Open Western Rounds Harold Hill 31 st Aug Oakfield Archers Open Western Rounds Hainault 6th Sept SCAS Junior Champs Open tournament Runwell, Essex York, Hereford and Bristol rounds. Get your entry in now! 20 th Sep Malgrave Bowmen Open Moonlight shoot Basildon 28 th Sep Havering NALGO Archers Open Albion & Windsor Romford 5th Oct ECAA FITA Field Championships FITA Field rounds West Hanningfield Marked distances, paper faces, through the woods.