News and events

YAA juniors perform well at National Indoor Championships

Nick Beeson - 4 December 2006

At the Junior National indoors Champs at Lilleshall on Sunday 3rd December, pride of Yorkshire place went to Paul Singleton of Bronte, who shot a National record of 447 (Portsmouth) in the Longbow. Yorkshire also provided another Champion in Matt Arnold, who took the Boys compound title.

Many other Yorkshire archers took part, but special mention should be made of Georgina Brown (Aire Valley), who shot while standing on crutches after damaging an ankle, and put in very a creditable score.

A successful year for Yorkshire field archers

Chris Parkin - 1 December 2006

Michelle Kiddy and Amy Oliver of Dearne Valley Archery Club have had a fantastic year shooting both nationally and worldwide with an impressive list of results at the top level in our sport.

Michelle won both the National Target Championships in August at Lilleshall and the National Field Archery Championships held in Ireland in July this year. Michelle has also qualified for next year's European field archery championships and is hoping to be selected to represent Great Britain.

Amy has also had a hugely successful year, winning several National level Fita field shoots as well as the NCAS and Yorkshire Championships. Perhaps more impressively, she is now ranked 1st in the UK and has been invited onto the National Field Archery Squad.

Saving the best until last, this year saw Amy qualify and be selected to represent Great Britain at the World Field Archery Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden where she shot a personal best score over the 2 days to finish a very impressive 13th, in the World!

Congratulations to both of them on an outstanding year of success.

YAA archers do well at Commonwealth Championships

Kath Fitzpatrick and Tim Mason - 10 November 2006

YAA archers have achieved good results at the 2nd Commonwealth Archery Championships in Jamshedpur, India. In the ranking rounds, Linda Garner finished 4th in the Ladies Compound, Stephen Dixon finished 5th in the Gentlemens Compound and Grant Womack finished 10th in the Gentlemens Recurve.

The final results for British archers in the individual rounds are:

• Gents Compound, Stephen Dixon, Bronze Medal
  
• Ladies Compound, Linda Garner, Bronze Medal
  
• Ladies Compound, Andrea Gales, 4th place
  
• Ladies Recurve, Naomi Folkard, Gold or Silver, shooting tomorrow.
  
• Ladies Recurve, Alison Williamson, Bronze Medal
  

Thanks to Linda Garner and Neil Crickmore for providing these results so quickly.

The team rounds take place on Saturday 11th.

Our congratulations to the archers!

Stephen Dixon in the England squad

Kath Fitzpatrick - 6 November 2006

Stephen Dixon of Savile Bowmen is now in the England squad that left for India on the 4th of November to compete in the Commonwealth Archery Championships. He is the third YAA archer to join the squad. He replaces a compound archer who had to drop out.

This is Stephen's first international event. Our congratulations and best wishes to "Big D".

Senior and junior rankings 2006

Kath Fitzpatrick - 6 November 2006

10 of the 12 current youth Performance squad members are in the national rankings this year, with two in first place. Some of our younger and newer archers are in the rankings, lower mainly because of their age group. Our congratulations to all those featured, but especially Matt Arnold and Nicole Allan, both in first place.

Summary placings are:

Name	club	rank	05-6 YAA squad	06-7 YAA squad
Recurve
Nicole Allan	Selby	1	Performance	Performance	National squad
Helena Beeson	Bowmen of Adel	29	Development	Performance
Joe Birley	Scarborough	32	Development	Performance
Tim Arnold	Bowmen of Adel	35	Development	Performance
Michael Wallhead	Spen Valley Bowmen	36	Development	Performance
Tom Price	Wakefield	44	Development	Development
Compound
Matthew Arnold	Bowmen of Adel	1	Performance	Performance	National squad
Georgina Brown	Aire Valley	5	Performance	Performance
Hannah Jones	Barnsley	10	Development	Performance
Rachael Smith	Barnsley	14	Development	Performance
Chris Smith	Barnsley	17	Performance	Performance
Jake Wainwright	Wakefield	19	Development	n/a

Also placed, Yorkshire junior Carl Gray from Dearne Valley, recurve 20th rank.

Yorkshire seniors have also done well in the rankings this year.

Name	club	rank
Recurve
Nicole Allan (jr)	Selby	7	YAA Performance squad
Michelle Kiddy	Dearne Valley	14
Grant Womack	University of York	6	YAA Senior squad
Tom Duncan	University of York	19	YAA Senior squad
Neil Crickmore	Bronte	27
Compound
Linda Garner	Bronte	4
Danielle Brown	Aire Valley	8	YAA Performance Squad
Dawn Ducker	Selby	17
Stephen Dixon	Savile	14	YAA Senior squad (3 years on youth squads)
Matthew Arnold (jr)	Bowmen of Adel	35	YAA Performance squad
Terry Ducker	Selby	47
Richard Allan	Selby	62	YAA Senior squad
Andy Arnold	Bowmen of Adel	67	YAA Senior squad
Neil Horsfall	Bronte	68

Congratulations to all the seniors and juniors ranked nationally! That shows a tremendous increase on the picture a few years ago. For those involved with the county squads - we hope to continue to support you for another year - well done from all the squad coaches.

Kath Fitzpatrick

YAA juniors going to Mexico

Kath Fitzpatrick - 3 October 2006

Three YAA Squad members fly out to Mexico in 10 days time for the Junior World Championships. Matt Arnold, Danielle Brown and Nicole Allan will all be representing Great Britain in Mexico. Danielle has also been accepted onto the Paralympic Squad. Our best wishes to all three - good luck and good shooting.

YAA seniors going to India

Kath Fitzpatrick - 3 October 2006

Two YAA senior archers are among the England team competing in India at the first Commonwealth Championships. Linda Garner (Ladies Compound) and Grant Womack (Gents recurve) will be in India in November for this new event which we hope will support India's bid to have archery included in the Commonwealth games. For Linda this is a familiar experience as a GB international; for Grant this will be the first time he has represented England. Good luck and good shooting to both.

Yorkshire Squads 2006-07

Kath Fitzpatrick - 23 September 2006

Last year YAA successfully ran two junior squads (a Performance group and a Development group) and a new Senior squad. Building on this success, YAA Coaching intends to offer three squads again this winter, plus open coaching clinics for archers below Bowman.

Dates for the squads are as follows:

Youth development	Youth performance	Senior
21st October 2006	4th November 2006	14th October 2006 (Saturday)
	16th December 2006 10:00-12:00	26th November 2006
Joint Christmas fun shoot, 16th December 2006		18th February 2007
6th January 2007	13th January 2007	27th May 2007
18th March 2007	28th April 2007

Subs please!

On behalf of Dave Phillips - 28 August 2006

Most clubs will have received their subscription renewal paperwork from the GNAS by now. We ask that you complete the subscription returns promptly. Please bear in mind that there is a timeline involved, and that the subscription returns and payments must be processed by the YAA, then the NCAS, then the GNAS. This involves a substantial chain of people, most of whom are doing the work in their spare time. Leaving the subscriptions until the last minute can result in a large backlog of work that may take months to clear. In particular, membership cards for new members can be delayed by a considerable time.

So, the sooner the better for everyone, especially your club's new members.