Somerset News Archive (2002)

Date: 20th December 2002

Ballands Archers at the National Indoor Barebow Championships

The National Indoor Barebow Championships were held at Pentref in Wales on Sunday 8th December over a record status FITA 18m.

William Wade won the boys U12 with 334
Louise Rees was third in the girls U13 with 235, even though she is only 9!
Jane Rees was second in the senior ladies with 458
and Jane and Andrew Rees won the couples!

William also included in the Home Nations competition as the highest scoring English Junior.
William, Louise and Andrew are all claiming new Somerset and GWAS records.

Date: 27th November 2002

Somerset Archers Figure Well in 2002 UK Outdoor Rankings

The 2002 UK Outdoor Rankings feature several Somerset archers:

Ladies Compound 8th - Claire Davy - Bath Archers
Ladies Compound 11th - Dawn Davies - Bath Archers
Ladies Recurve 18th - Yvonne Oakshott - Bowmen of Hatch
Gents Recurve 41st - Damian Le Gresley - Bath Archers

For the full listing, see the GNAS website.

Date: 12th November 2002

Somerset Archer Selected for Great Britain Squad

Claire Davy of the University of Bath Archery Club has been selected for the Great Britain Compound Squad for 2003.  This rounds off a very successful year for Claire, who only started shooting Compound in July 2001.  Claire's achievements in the last year include collecting a full set of FITA Stars (except the purple, but that would require a world record) and smashing the county and regional FITA and Hereford records.

Date: 10th November 2002

We are the CHAMPIONS (AGAIN)

At the Inter-Counties Shoot in Exeter on the 15th. of September the archers representing Somerset managed to improve on the previous years' performance, and complete a near clean-sweep of the trophies. Not only did we win the overall trophy for the second year running (helped this year by our longbow archers), but we also won the Ladies Recurve team, Mixed Recurve team, Compound team and Longbow team plus individual prizes in both Gents and Ladies compound!

SCAA County Team 2002

The team consisted of the following archers,

The team manager was Ernie Chapman.

 

Date: 19th July 2002  

The Margaret Lewis Award

This is an annual award in Margaret's name for the most outstanding junior each year; this can be for achievement, perseverance, or any other special qualities. Nominations must come through Clubs with a breif resume of why the award should go to the nominee. Nominations must be received by the County Secretary before the 31st December for consideration at the January Management Meeting and the medal will be presented at the AGM or other suitable occasion.

This year we had a number of nominations to consider - difficult, but much better than just one! After a little discussion in was decided that the award for last year should go to Rachel Dring of Puriton Gold Juniors who, was very please with the award presented to her at the Junior Champs on the 29th of June.

 

Date: 20th January 2002

We are the CHAMPIONS

At the Inter-Counties Shoot in Exeter on the 16th. of September the archers representing Somerset put in a great team performance to win the overall team trophy. The team consisted of the following archers,

The team manager who spent most of his time walking up and down the line encouraging the team in many unique ways was of course Ernie Chapman.

This year there were some good scores shot by Somerset archers at the selection shoots and more pre-qualifying scores shot than ever before. We felt that if things went right we stood a good chance this year - though no-one was tempting fate by saying too much!! On the day, the weather was not conducucive to good scores - the wind was very variable, both in strength and direction - but everyone did their best and this was enough to win by a margin of exactly 100 points (The last time Somerset were the Regional Champions was 1988!)

 

WELL DONE EVERYONE!