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We have updated the tournament dates on the Home page. Currently we have tournament organisers for the 720 with H2H, a junior tournament, Kent Para champs and the Kent Field champs. We are looking for volunteers to help organise the County Championship on the 18th August and a 1440 with the date TBC.

You can find links to local club events on the clubs tournaments page https://kentarcheryassociation.co.uk/club-tournaments/

The committee of the Kent Field Archery Group have published the dates for its 2024 calendar. You can find all the details on the KAF page, linked here.

Finally held at Medway Archers on Sunday 19^th November with 22 members from 11 clubs and one direct member.

Reports were submitted and discussed and those listed below have been elected for the fort coming year, unfortunately there are vacancies and the committee will be seeking members to fill the gaps, including the Tournament Organisers.  Anybody wanting to fill a gap and undertake a role please be assured that there will be full support to help you.

As it stands we only have one tournament organiser for a senior outdoor tournament so we may be seeking your thoughts on which shoot to hold if we can’t find a TO.

KAA Post Holders 2023 – 24
Position	Holder		Tournament Organisers
President	Bob Beaney		Championships	Vacant	Lewis Brown has undertaken to one of these shoots.
Chairman	Marc Carroll		WA 1440	Vacant
Secretary	Sarah Carroll		WA720	Vacant
Treasurer	Vacant		Longbow	Vacant
Development Officer	Paul Germaine		Indoor	Vacant
Records Officer	Mel Bruguier		Para Tourmament	Delegated to SCCA
Team Manager	Hannah Brown		Clout	Diane Pople currently working to re-establish.
Team Selection Panel member	Tony Harris
SCAS rep 1	Bob Beaney		Jnr Tournament	Toby Noar
SCAS rep 2	Anita Baily
SCAS rep 3	Vacant	N.Dimmock has since declared his willingness to stand again.
Ordinary Member 1	Toby Noar
Ordinary Member 2	Vacant

Firstly a massive congratulations to two of our juniors shooting the Youth World Championship, Silver for Isabella Bruguier and Bronze for Ajay Scott. Well done to you both.

Change of Team Manager Following many years in the role Peter Dallas has stood down from the position of Team Manager, every one at KAA would like to thank Peter for the relentless service given to KAA. Hannah Brown has kindly stepped up to fill the gap and we’re sure that you will all give her your support.

KAA introduces new award, following discussions with our former President Derrick Lovell we have set up an award in his name to recognise execelence from our juniors. This award is not limited to success with the bow but where a junior excels in any aspect in our sport. For more details dowload the outline here

A reminder that the KAA AGM will be on the 6th Aug 2023, 7pm to be held at Inrange Archery Wrotham.

Junior Scores, in the last post we notified you of a Junior County Match and in order to build a team to compete we need juniors to submit their scoers via the Golden Records platform. Please contact the records officer to get the access codes and submit your scores.

With one week to go don’t forget to get your entry in for the WA1440, details available here.

Good Shooting Everyone.

KAA Committee

In the past few weeks two of ArcheryGB’s National Championships have taken place.
Over the weekend of 28/29 May, the UK Field Championships were hosted by Avalon Archers, Bedfordshire and on hte 11/12 June Ballands Bowmen in Somerset, hosted the UK 3D Championships

Both events were attended by KAA archers, and we would like to congratulate the following on their successes. 

UK Field Championships.
Hannah Brown – Senior Female Compound Unlimited 2^nd Place – Runner up.
Bob Beaney – Veteran Male Compound Unlimited 2^nd Place – Runner up.
Isabella Bruguier – Under 18 Female Compound Unlimited 1^st Place – NATIONAL CHAMPION.

UK 3D Championships.
Cecile Midrouillet – Senior Female Compound 1^st Place – NATIONAL CHAMPION.
Cecile was also selected as part of the England Team competing in the home nations competition at this event.

Some great photos from both events can be found at the links below.

UK Field Champs;
All British – Saturday – Archery GB (smugmug.com)
All British – Sunday – Archery GB (smugmug.com)

UK 3D Champs;
British 3D Champs – Archery GB (smugmug.com)

Calling all archers, we have a couple of matches in the pipeline which we will be able to give more details soon.

4way field match to be held at Black Arrows AC, Overton. Date to be confirmed. This will be an expansion of the match that took place between Kent and Essex in March. All archers who are interested please submit your scores to records@archerykent.org.uk

4way Junior match on the 9th of September shooting the Western rounds. further details can be found here. So Please all juniors submit your scores to the records officer via the online upload website. for more details contact records@archerykent.org.uk

Club Secretaries Please forward this to all your club members.

Regards KAA.

Please Share with All members

We have today uploaded the entry forms for several tournaments that we will be running this year to the home page.

The Tim East Invitational this year is open to all KAA members and is free of charge to enter. It is a great opportunity for archers at any level to experience a larger event to see what goes on in a stress free environment.

The WA720 and WA1440 prospectus is also available. Both are open events available to all AGB members and entry is via the Sport80 platform with entries open for the WA720 on the 19th Feb. In response to members requests both of these events will be shot on Tenzone Foam targets and we hope this will encourage archers to enter.

Good Shooting Everyone.

The entry form for the 2023 Field Championships on the 12th March is now available at https://kentarcheryassociation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kent-Field-Championships.pdf

This is an open event for all AGB members. AGB cards will be required to be shown.