Please note that the next Performance Squad session is 27th February, not the 6th as shown on the YAA website.
Apologies for any confusion - the correct dates were given at squad, but it seems when the coaching group finalised dates I neglected to make this change on the website.
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
YAA had intended to offer a L2 coach course starting in February. However, the course is currently under review by National Coaching Committee and significant changes may result. I am reluctant to start a course when the final format might be unknown or change mid-course, especially the assessment format which is proving almost impossible for many people to fulfil.
If you would like to progress to Level 2 please send your name, club, GNAS number, address, email and telephone number to me and I will send you the application pack so that once we have clarity on the course and assessment formats we can make a start.
Please note that applicants must be qualified at L1 and have received their certificates; evidence will be required of this, which also acts as evidence of current CRB unless L1 was achieved three years ago and you have not yet renewed.
Similarly, the L2 update process for current Coaches is far more onerous than was intended and I have asked NCC to consider a revision of this to match the changes to L2, also removing what appears to be re-assessing Coaches on elements they have already passed. If you do wish to update and can fulfil the requirements, which includes an online questionnaire / test and a portfolio of over 20 pages, then please contact GNAS office for an application pack, which costs £10 and provides the required paperwork on CD.
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
YAA Coaching is planning a series of CPD events which will provide a stepping stone for L1 coaches in moving towards L2, and a refresher for L2 coaches. Each will also provide CPD points to support renewal. Details and booking procedures will be advertised shortly. This will include sessions on compound bows, coaching juniors, coaching disabled archers, observation skills, bow set up and tuning. All sessions will be delivered by qualified YAA Coaches. Details and booking procedures will be advertised shortly. Bookings will be coordinated through Andy Arnold on behalf of the YAA coaching group, providing Andy with a great development opportunity to gain valuable experience to contribute to his Senior Coach training programme!
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
I will be running a first aid training course at Barnsley Archery Club on Sunday the 16th of May. Cost will be £25 per person, including materials and certification. Any surplus will be donated to YAA squads funding. If you'd like to join the course, please contact me to register your interest.
Regards
Grahame Cotterill
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I am told that the new Level 1 course is unlikely to come on line before April and that there might be a significant price increase when the course is contracted out. I already have two people on the waiting list for another Level 1 course. If we have sufficient interest I could register another course this year and start it in the New Year. We need a minimum of eight to be cost effective (maximum of 12). Cost will be about £150 because of fee increases to headquarters etc.
Regards
Grahame Cotterill
Course Manager
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07796 640563
 | junior development for those newer junior archers keen to improve; |
| youth performance for those more experienced archers keen to progress; |
| senior for existing and aspiring MB and GMB archers who need support to either reach their goals or maintain levels of performance. Please note, senior squad archers must have achieved at least one Bowman score this year. |
| Junior Development | Youth Performance | Senior |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 24th October 2009 | Saturday 14th November 2009 | Saturday 28th November 2009 |
| Squads Christmas fun shoot & ***party*** Saturday 19th December 2009 | ||
| Saturday 30th January 2010 | Saturday 23rd January 2010 | Sunday 31st January 2010 |
| Saturday 6th March 2010 | Saturday 27th February 2010 | Sunday 28th February 2010 |
(Note change of date for the first Senior Squad meeting.)
If you wish to apply for a place on a YAA squad, download the application form below, complete it and return it:
YAA squads 2009-2010 application form (Word format)
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
The NSPCC has launched a free online film - 'Play Sport Stay Safe' - for sports club staff, volunteers and parents. It shows examples of how to recognise, respond to and report any concerns over the safety and well being of children involved in sport.
NSPCC press release
NSPCC video
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
Two new county coaches qualified today at Lilleshall after a course tutored by Senior Coach Kath Fitzpatrick. Congratulations to Grahame Cotterill from Phoenix Bowmen and Mary Hannan from Cobra.
Kath is second from left, Grahame is third from left (at back) and Mary is fourth from left.
The Framework England coaching development group has issued an update of what it's been up to, and invites clubs to share best practices in coaching:
YAA Coaching site: Framework England update
Thanks to the hard work of the YAA coaching group over the two YAA weekends at Wetherby, we have raised a total of £834.28 towards the cost of the squads.
Many thanks to Mick, Jean, Harry, Grace, Michael, Grahame for their work in the refreshments tent, also to Sheila on the YAA weekend, to all those people who brought goodies/drinks to sell, donated raffle prizes and to Andy for providing the extra gas rings. Massive thanks to the Smith family for the barbecue, fridges etc on the first weekend.
A great team effort.
Let's just fill those squads this winter, develop some cracking good archers and make it all worth while.
(Squad forms are downloadable from the website)
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
The NCAS Coaching Conference took place today. It was Yorkshire's turn to host, and Barnsley Archery Club acted as our excellent hosts for the day.
Kath Fitzpatrick welcomed 37 coaches to the conference. Every one of the five Northern Counties - Cheshire, Cumbria, Durham & Northumberland, Lancashire and Yorkshire - was well represented.
Tom Musgrove made a presentation that gave the attendees a better understanding of back tension ("Muscular Patterns Within a Closed Cyclic Sport - Archery Movements Explained").
Helen George gave a presentation on coaching archers with disabilities and medical conditions, drawing on her extensive experience with the GB Paralympic squad.
Beverley de Toeuf talked about archery injuries and their causes. After the excellent buffet lunch laid on by Jean Clarkson, Beverley continued with her presentation, switching the focus to the prevention of injuries through specific exercises.
Mick Fitzpatrick explained how a compound bow works, then showed us how to set up a bow and perform the initial tuning.
Kath Fitzpatrick discussed the coaching of compound archers and juniors, shooting down many misconceptions.
After a question and answer session, Kath wrapped up a very productive and informative event.
YAA Coaching has launched a new website:
YAA Coaching website
At present the site has limited information, but it will grow over time into a useful resource for Yorkshire's coaches and archers. We would be very interested in hearing your views on what the site should contain. Please send feedback to Tim Mason via yaa@phoenixbowmen.co.uk.
To all candidates from last year's and this year's Level 1 Coach Courses and any other members who need to complete a child protection course.
YAA Coaching has booked a course for Sunday 26 April 2009 at Scout Hut, Butterbowl Garth, Old Farnley, Leeds LS12 5BN.
Two sessions have been booked - 09:30 to 12:30 and 13:00 to 16:00. Priority will be given to last year's candidates. If demand exceeds places another course will be booked for later in the year.
To book a place please contact Grahame Cotterill and book before 3 April 2009.
Grahame Cotterill
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07796 640563
Tom Musgrove was presented with the Jack Flinton Helping Hand Award at the National Coaching Conference, which took place from the 7th to the 9th of November 2008. The award of this annual trophy to Tom was announced at this year's Archery GB AGM following nomination by the Yorkshire Archery Association.
Tom's archery career began in 1954 with Harvester Archers in Doncaster. In 1956 he started to coach and rapidly progressed to a Regional and then National (now known as Senior) coach.
Tom has worked within the sport as a coach education tutor in Yorkshire and the East Midlands and as a coach, most notably working with the National Youth Squad. Tom is also largely responsible for the development of the Archery GB Leaders coaching award. In the early 1990s he was the first person to complete the Sports Coaching degree from the National Coaching Foundation (now sports coach UK).
Tom continues to work with archers of all standards from beginner to international level, and also happens to be a national table tennis coach! Kath Fitzpatrick, Archery GB Senior Coach and Northern Counties Regional Coaching Organiser said "I don't believe you could find anyone more committed to archery coaching than Tom - he still has a great enthusiasm for coaching and a thirst for learning to this day, he is a truly inspirational and a worthy recipient of this award".
Sue Thomis gave a presentation in Barnsley to YAA coaches on Sunday the 19th of October. The subject was drugs in sport.
The Powerpoint presentation that was used is available to download. It may take a minute to launch, so please be patient:
Presentation on drugs in sport (Powerpoint, 808kb)
Archery GB (which some do call The GNAS) has launched a coaching newsletter, Shooting Forward. For more details and to subscribe, go to the page below:
GNAS coaching page
Below is some information taken from the newsletter.
Shooting Forward is Archery GB's first online coaching magazine bringing you the latest news, coaching guidance and grass roots reporting. Within each edition of Shooting Forward you can expect to find regular features including C.A.S.E and Coaching Stars (see below) and club and coach development updates, in addition to the latest news and interesting interviews.
We believe that all coaches have a responsibility to share their coaching, ideas, techniques and methods with other coaches, and to seek better practice for themselves. In this vein, we introduce the 'Copy And Steal Everything' - CASE - guide to coaching!
To start with you copy and steal all the best coaching ideas that you can find. Then you share them with your coaching colleagues. Simple, and together we will improve our coaching skills!
It might be what they focus on or how they coach that makes the learning journey so dynamic and here's your chance to nominate your inspiring coach to be showcased in our regular feature 'Coaching Stars'. E-mail Hannah Bussey your 'Coaching Star' nomination along with the following information:
YAA have a new County Coach.
Michael Ward (University of York Archers) passed his County Coach exam yesterday at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, after a 2 day examination. Congratulations to Michael!
Examiner Pauline Pillans congratulates Michael
left to right - Michael Ward (YAA) with Senior Coach mentor Kath Fitzpatrick, Joyce Harrison (Cheshire) with Senior Coach mentor Martin Speakman
left to right - NCO Education, Bill McKay; Assessment manager Tom Musgrove; YAA County Coach Michael Ward & Senior Coach mentor Kath Fitzpatrick; Cheshire County Coach Joyce Harrison and Senior Coach mentor Martin Speakman; Examiner Pauline Pillans, Senior Coach; Peter SCT Trainee observer; Examiner Barry Molsom, Senior Coach
Kath Fitzpatrick presented her report as County Coaching Officer to the YAA AGM today. Follow the link below to read it:
CCO report to YAA AGM 2008
I'm trying to put a data base together of any coaches interested in going into schools to provide archery coaching, normally after school, 4pm-ish. Possibly with their own training equipment.
Please contact me on email via mary.skeet @ btinternet.com, or phone 01405 765347.
Mary Hannan,
YAA Coaching Schools Liaison.
YAA Coaching held a clinic at Wetherby on the weekend of the 26th and 27th of January 2008. 12 archers from Yorkshire and Lancashire took part.
A page of photos, with more information about the weekend, has been created:
Coaching Clinic January 2008
Congratulations to Andy Arnold, who passed his County Coach assessment on the weekend of the 26th and 27th of January.
15 new Coaches have graduated from the YAA Coach training course. The candidates spent seven full weekends in 2007 working on the course, plus a great deal of time working on practical coaching projects.
The successful candidates were:
Ben Jones, Merlin
Chris Jones, Merlin
Grahame Cotterill, Phoenix Bowmen
Gwen Smith, Barnsley AC
Ian Foster, Barnsley AC
Iain Smith, Barnsley AC
Louise Smith, Sheffield University
Malcolm Burgin, Dearne Valley AC
Marina Rose, Barnsley AC
Pam Hill, Dearne Valley AC
Peter Liley, Scarborough AC
Roger Greaves, Scarborough AC
Stephen Jones, Barnsley AC
Terry Ducker, Selby AC
Tim Mason, Phoenix Bowmen
The coaching staff on the course were Kath Fitzpatrick, Martin Holtby (senior coaches), Mick Fitzpatrick, Harry Drake, Jean Clarkson (County Coaches), Andy Arnold, Mary Hannan, Michael Ward and Chris Petchey (County candidates). Many thanks to the staff for their hard work and enthusiasm.
The assessors were Iain Wilson (Chairman), Rob Anderson, Barry Molsom, Tommy Miller, Colin Stopher and Richard Jones. Tim Swane was also present as a trainee assessor. Many thanks to them for their hard work and sacrifice.
The success rate on this course means that YAA Coaching has had a 100% record of passes at Coach level since 1990. We hope to continue this success rate with Level 2.
Congratulations to Martin Holtby, who passed his Senior Coach assessment at Lilleshall on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of August.
We are pleased to welcome 14 new Coaches and 1 new County Coach into the YAA Coaching organisation. On Sunday 28th of January at Wetherby the exam concluded after 16 months of hard work - with an excellent 100% pass result. The candidates worked very hard during the two day exam, which was rigorous - so we know they really made the grade! In fact, five were recommended to continue to County - so we have a County course starting shortly.
The successful candidates were (from left to right):
Sean Lockwood, Spen Valley
Steve Crabtree, Spen Valley
Michael Ward, York University
Mary Hannan, GNAS
Jean Clarkson - County Coach - Adel
Peter Welbourne, Chantry
Janet Wright, White Rose
Carl Morgan, Chantry
Angela Rowe, Spen Valley
Sabir Makda, GNAS
Julie Spence, Selby
Nigel Smethurst, White Rose
Barbara Phillips, Selby
Patrick Revell, Wyke Archers
Tony Juncar, Burton Constable.
The coaching staff on the course were Kath Fitzpatrick (senior coach), Mick Fitzpatrick, Martin Holtby, Harry Drake (County Coaches), Jean Clarkson (now County Coach) and Andy Arnold (County candidate). Many thanks to the staff for their hard work and enthusiasm.
The course is a little unusual in that:
5 of the 14 coach candidates were women - a high proportion
we had our second youngest candidate with Sean at 20 (the youngest was Stuart Kennaugh at 18)
it's the largest number in one go that I can remember - at least since 1988 when I first got involved in the training.
Thanks also to the exam team - I know it is hard work as I am also an examiner, and they gave candidates every chance to succeed. The examiners were Malcolm Penn, Barry Molsom, Iain Wilson, Helen George, Colin Stopher and Tom Williamson, assisted by two Senior coach candidates Tony Ferguson and Rob Anderson.
The next Coach level course will be the last in the country in this format, and starts February 24th - not much of a break for the staff! Level 1 is now full and starts in 2 weeks
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