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2012
March President’s Challenge commences. To be held over a number of Sundays throughout the Spring and Summer involving many bow styles and different shooting styles. Fun for all. Entry information
The Club indoor championships will hopefully be held either at the end of April or during May 2012. April 22nd—Saint Georges Day Shoot—Shooting the Saint George Round or an agreed equivelent . Standard St. George is 3 dozen each at 100yds, 80yds and 60yds. May
June 17th—Waterloo Challenge—Knockout Tournament. July
August
September 9th Club outdoor championships October 21st—Agincourt—In memory of the great battle on the feast day of St. Crispin and St. Crispinian 25th October 1415. Approximately 6000 British men of which 5000 were archers stood against about 30,000 Frenchmen. At the end of the day over 10,000 Frenchmen were dead while the British force lost no more than 200 men.
Gordano Valley Archers Juniors excel at GWAS and SCAA Junior Championships
The County and Regional Junior Championships were held at Burnham on the 9th July 2011. Our juniors did exceedingly well.
Chessie Crook won the ‘George Batcock Trophy’ for the Bristol II Recurve and Rushda Booley came 2nd. George Brown came 3rd in the Bristol III Boys Recurve Hassenah Booley came 5th in the Bristol III Girls Recurve Ellie Boulton won the Bristol IV Girls Compound. Ethan Mustin-Twells came 3rd in the Bristol IV Boys Compound Thaakirah Booey came 9th in the Bristl IV Girls Recurve David Hazon won the Bristol V Boys Barebow William Shelton came 2nd in the Bristol V Boys Barebow Haajir Booley came 2nd in the Bristol V Girls Recurve Yusaf Booley won the Bristol S Boys Barebow Aasitaa Booley won the Bristol S Girls Barebow
Prizes were awarded by Lady Paramount Mrs Lynne Evans MBE.
Very well done to all those that entered and represented us so well.
Full results can be found by clicking here
Gordano Valley Archers win 2011 Somerset Frostbite League.
Yes, we are the Frostbite champions, for the first time ever GVA takes the Somerset Frostbite title by a whopping 11 points.
An excellent result and a fantastic club effort. Many folk have submitted and we have had a wide mix of folk in the first and second teams.
Paul has been the most consistent in the A team with 5 results and 1 for the B team, followed by myself and Dave.
The following is the list (in no order) of those that have made the teams (A & B) for the Frostbite:
Paul, Tim, Dave, Yvonne Jackson, Mark Jackson, Conner Williams, Mark Renouf, Mike, Nicky, Ethan, Ellie, Derek, Will Shelton, George Burns, Purdy, Paul Powell, Chessie and Karl
Well to done to Chessie as the highest scoring lady archer on 319 for the season.
The trophy will be presented in September at the Interclub Championships at Danesfield.
Somerset County Portsmouth League 2011 - 2nd Place
In our first season a very good 2nd place with 103 pts. Again thanks to all those who have shot and made this possible.
The teams have been fairly consistent and have been made up of:
Tim, Mike, Mark, Adam, John, Paul, Emily, Derek, Nicky, Neil, Keith, Purdy, Dave
Well done to Tim and Mike who made the A team for every month ably assisted by Adam and Mark who both contributed 4 months.
Also a well done to John who made the B team every month and was slowly closing in on some of the A team scores.
A big thanks for making this a very successful winter season. Well done.
Regards
Tim Mustin-Twells |