News from 1st quarter of 2009
Leamington Juniors in Staffordshire
Two of our juniors, Caitlin and Michael McCarthy took part in the Staffordshire county and open junior championships at the weekend. It was a FITA 18, held in Stoke-on-Trent. Unfortunately the shoot was not well attended and the venue was unheated, but both archers shot well, Caitlin scoring 479 and Michael 259, reducing both their handicaps. Both were awarded silver medals in their respective categories.
Leamington Archers help Warwick University to Silver
The Warwick University team, with some very talented young archers shot its way to the silver medal in the British Universities and Colleges Sport Indoor Archery Championships last weekend. The event, held at Loughborough University, which attracted students from all over the British Isles, involved the Portsmouth round.
The Warwick University recurve team comprised Chris Wells (578), Phil King (570), Alex Stuart (569) and Matt Dale (560). Both Phil and Alex shoot regularly at the Leamington club, where they are members. The Warwick team, with a combined total of 2277 points was on hard on the heels of Edinburgh University who took gold with 2292. Oxford was third with 2230.
‘Archery GB’ team to face BBC’s Eggheads
Robert Potts (reserve); Hilda; Ollie; Naomi; Graham and Danielle
Leamington’s Naomi Folkard was a member of the ‘Archery GB’ team to face BBC’s Eggheads.
Olympic archer Naomi, together with paralympic gold medallist Danielle Brown, GB Team Manager Hilda Gibson, international judge Graham Potts and coach project development manager Ollie Holt appeared before the cameras at the BBC's Television Centre in West London, to take on the team of Eggheads, made up of five people who have achieved fame and notoriety by winning other TV quiz shows, such as ‘Mastermind’ and ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’.
"It was terrific fun and we all had a great day” said Naomi. The programme will be broadcast later in the year, probably in August, and until then the result of the contest is secret.
Leamington Juniors at Clophill Junior Tournament
Isobel, Bethany, Caitlin & Michael
Four of our juniors took part in the 14th annual Junior Portsmouth tournament held by Clophill Archery Club at Ampthill in Bedfordshire on Saturday 7th March.
Caitlin McCarthy was competing in the under-16 girls recurve category where she came 3rd with a score of 503.
Bethany Roberts and her sister Isobel shot in the under-13 category which Bethany won with 445 and Isobel was 3rd with an excellent 389.
Michael McCarthy came 4th in the under-12 boys with 362.
Both of our younger archers, Isobel and Michael, excelled themselves with 'personal best' scores.
Paul McCarthy gets a Robin Hood
During a recent practice session Paul McCarthy joined the happy band of merry archers who have shot a Robin Hood. He managed to shoot one of his carbon arrows straight down the centre of Paul Roberts' aluminium arrow as shown in the picture.
Not to be outdone, a couple of nights later Paul Roberts managed to Robin Hood one of his own arrows. Bit of an expensive week.....
Leamington Archers win at County Indoor Championships
Dawn, Paul, Brian, Pete, James, Chris, Phil M
Bethany, Henry, Caitlin
Michael & Isobel
The County of Warwick Indoor Championships were held in Smethwick on 1st February 2009. For Juniors this was also combined with the West Midlands Regional Championship. All archers shot the Portsmouth round (5 dozen at 20 yards) and Leamington fielded a good team of 8 seniors and 5 juniors.
The Gents Recurve Championship was won by Phil King who on this occasion was shooting for Warwick University with a score of 575. Brian Tustin was second with 568 and Phil Moore was third with 560. Chris Earp won the medal for the highest handicap adjusted score. Brian Tustin, Phil Moore, James Scott and Pete Hunnisett combined to win the County Recurve Team Trophy.
Dawn Leide was our only compound archer competing but she won the Ladies Compound trophy with a score of 560.
Of the Juniors, Caitlin McCarthy won the County under-16 girls trophy with a score of 519 and was second in the region. She also won the award for the County Girls Champion. Bethany Roberts, with a score of 495, won both the County and the Regional under-13 girls trophy. Isobel Roberts won the under-9 girls awards with 230 and Michael McCarthy won the under-9 boys awards with 345. Henry Scott was second in the boys under-14 category with a score of 526. The County Junior Team Award was also won by Leamington, the team being Henry, Caitlin, Bethany and Michael.
