Somerset News Archive (2005)


Date: 1st December 2005

SCAA Message Board

The SCAA message board on this website has had to be removed, as it has been attracting a large amount of spam postings over the last few months.  Apologies to the genuine users of the message board, but you are now in the minority compared to the spam users.  For the short term, please send any items you want announcing to the address at the top of this page, and I will add them to this page.


Date: 19th November 2005

Danesfield Creates Disabled Club

The Bowmen of Danesfield have introduced a special club evening for disabled archers.  They meet at Danesfield School on Thursday evenings.  Wheelchair archers are requested to go for 6.15pm, and free standing archers for 7.30pm.  Danesfield has specialist equipment and several trained coaches to support the sessions.  Please contact Doug Human before hand: doughuman@geas.co.uk.


Date: 29th June 2005

Junior GWAS/SCAA Championships Results

The results of the GWAS & SCAA Junior Championships are available here.


Date: 1st June 2005

Ballands Field Archers Success

At the All British Field Championship at Pentref last weekend, Jane Rees successfully defended her title and has ended this selection round as G.B. No.1 Lady Barebow.  She has been selected for the World Games in Duisburg in July and the XVI European Field Archery Championship in Slovenia in September.  The World Games is a FITA invitation event open only to the top 12 in the world. These will be Jane's sixth and seventh appearances for G.B. in international events.

Andrew Rees has been selected to represent G.B. for the first time at the XVI European Field Archery Championship in Slovenia. This will be Andrew's first appearance for G.B. in an international event.

Andrew will become the third international from Ballands, following Jane and Val Pooke, who represented G.B. at the VIII World Field Archery Championship in 1982.


Date: 31st January 2005

Somerset Level 1 Coaching Course

The Somerset Coaching Group are organising a Level 1 Coaching course, which is due to start on 19th March 2005.  For more details, see the coaching page.

Date: 31st January 2005

SCAA AGM

A reminder to all clubs that the SCAA AGM will be held at Puriton Sports Centre on Wednesday 9th March at 7.45pm.  Nominations are now open for committee membership for 2005, so if you want to get involved in running the county, please email the secretary.

Date: 30th January 2005

New Somerset Tournament

To: All Somerset Archers

From: Coastal Archers, Berrow

Due to the disinterest shown in Coastal Archers' York/Hereford last summer we now propose to change the round to a FITA.

This will be run as a friendly, with only one detail, 3 archers to a boss, 6 arrows an end at the 2 longest distances, no face marking and gnas bouncer rule.  No practice but 6 sighter arrows.  The archers to move their own targets.

This round will start at 10am and finish at a reasonable time. If space permits we will run a short metric starting late morning / early afternoon.  We will make awards and the date is Sunday 24th July 2005.  We expect to make barbecued food available.

Coastal archers request that you place this information on your club notice board or make your archers aware of it. It well be an ideal friendly way to introduce your new archers to full distance tournament shooting.

Entry forms will be available from mid march from Marion Kerby, telephone 01278 751 277