Due to the on going wet weather it has been decided to move the Kent Field championship to a time when hopefully we will have no issues with parking at the site. Those of you that attended last year will be aware of how wet the parking area was and we do not wish to further upset the land owner and risk having no where to park. We will notify the date as soon as confirmed.
Two Kent members were recently presented with awards by World Archery for there services to World Archery and the international archery community.
Hannah Brown received a silver plaquette for her time on the World Archery and 3D and Field Committee. As an international judge Hannah has a lot of other accolades to her name including being the first female chair or judges at the Olympics.
Derrick Lovell MBE, one of the countries most respected, Judges and previous president of Archery GB was awarded a Diploma by World Archery. During his time with World Archery Derrick severed on both the Field and 3D committees and most recently the Constitution and Rules committees. Derrick has now retired from judging and is greatly missed by all.
For more information see https://archerygb.org/news/gb-athletes-and-judges-recognised-by-world-archery
After her recent 3rd place in the seniors women’s national indoors, Sittingbourne Community College archer Mia McGuane has today been announced as a member of the GB squad attending the European Indoor Championship. See Archery GB Team Announcement.
Congratulations Mia. Shoot Strong.
Sunday the 31st December 2023 is the last date to submit scores if you want to be considered for selection to shoot for KAA at the upcoming 4 way inter-county indoor match, to be held on Saturday 2nd March 2024 at the Sittingbourne Community College. Submittions must be via Golden Records. If you require an account please contact the records office @ records@archerykent.org.uk.
For those of you that shot any of the Kent target events last year you will recall that KAA hired in layered foam targets from Tenzone targets. It was our hope to do so again this year. Sadly Tenzone’s workshop, along with a number of other businesses were destroyed by a fire. This took with it all of their tournament hire bosses, supplies, machinery and current customer orders. Steve is hoping to rebuild the business in time to support the archery community this summer. A lot of tournaments can only run now because they hire in these targets. Locally that includes the Crystal Palace shoot in April. In order to get up and running again as quickly as possible Tenzone have launched a GoFundMe page. If you would like to contribute you can find the page at Tenzone Targets GoFundMe
A number of Kent archers landed national titles at this weekends national indoor champions along with other success in both the senior and junior events. All results can be found at Senior Event and Junior Nationals Event.
Senior Longbow Men
Adam Nason-Smith of 1066 Archers in Tenterden qualified 2nd, with a score of 379 behind Noak Hills Harry Cossey with 432. This took Adam in to the last 16 head to head matches, where Adam started by beating 15th seed Cameron MacNaughton 7 – 3. Next up Ben Ledwick who Adam beat 6 – 0. In the semi-finals Adam faced Richard Hudson and in a closely though match he triumphed 6 – 4. In the Final Adam meet first seed Harry Cossey with Adam taking the match 6 – 2.
Congratulations Adam on your first place and national title.
Senior Compound Men
Two Kent archers competed in this category, Steve Griffiths of Medway archers finished 67th with a score of 550 and Ajay Scott of University of Kent archery. Ajay Scott qualified 7th with a score 587 ahead of some notable names in UK compound archery with many more years of experience.
Up first in the head to head matches Ajay faced Liam Peake, the 26th Qualifier, Ajay took the close match with a score of 146 – 145. Next match Ajay was matched against Luke Frearson with Ajay taking a more comfortable 147 – 138 win. Next opponent for Ajay was No 2 seed Adam Carpenter, in a very close match Ajay pipped Adam with a score of 147 – 145. In the semi-finals Ajay faced 3rd seed James Mason, this match went to the wire with both archers finishing the 15 arrow match on 147. On to the shoot off, which seems to be becoming an Ajay speciality. James could only shoot 9 with Ajay shooting a 10.
In the final Ajay faced no 1 qualifier, and current world no 2, Jozef Bosansky. Jozef took the match 147 – 148 leaving Ajay with 2nd place and the silver medal.
BUT….
With Jozef not being a UK resident the title of senior national compound indoor champion went to Ajay Scott. Very good shooting and congratulations on your title.
Senior Compound Women
Three Kent archers competed in the senior women’s compound. Hannah Brown of Medway archers qualified 15th with a score of 567. Erin Barkway of Fox archers scored 542 and finished 51st. Competing as a senior, Sittingbourne Community College Archers, Mia McGuane, qualified a superb 3rd, behind the current world number 1 Ella Gibson, with a score of 583.
In the head to head matches Hannah’s first opponent was Phoebe Paterson Pine. Hannah took the match 142 – 137. Next up 2nd seed and world no 32, Izzy Carpenter, sadly Izzy took the win a very tight match 145 – 144. Hannah finished with a joint 9th place over all.
Having qualified 3rd Mia faced 30th seed Lulia Petre, with Mia taking a tight match 140 – 139. Next for Mia was 11th seed Patience Wood, which Mia won 145 – 144. In the semi finals Mia faced the archer that sadly bought Hannah’s run to an end. Once again only a single point separated the archers after 15 arrows with Izzy taking the match 146-145. This put Mia in the bronze medal match against world number 13 Sarah Prieels, with ends of 30-29, 28-30, 28-28, 29-27 and 29-28 Mia took the bronze medal and 3rd place with a score or 144-142. Congratulations Mia
Junior Nationals medals
With no head to head matches to report on and with your reporter working on packing away the event I am sorry to say at this time I have no pictures of the medal winners. If I receive them I will gladly update this story.
U21 Women’s Longbow
Congratulations to Lara Green of SCCA who finished 2nd and a silver medal with a score of 250
U18 Women’s Longbow
Congratulation to Niamh Kelly-Halabi who took 1st place and the gold medal with a score of 258
U16 Men’s Compound
Congratulations to Evan Clarke of SCCA on his 3rd place and bronze medal with a score of 549
U16 Women’s Barebow
Congratulations to Simona Mockeviciute from EJA on her 3rd place and bronze medal with a score of 302.
U15 Men’s Compound
Congratulations to Baliey Yates of SCCA on his 1st and bronze medal with a score of 442
U15 Women’s Barebow
Congratulations to Imogen Burns from SCCA Archers on her 2nd place and silver medal with a score of 220
U14 Women’s Compound
Congratulations to Maetha Edwards from EJA on her 2nd place and silver medal with a score of 529.
The county team manager with the assistance of the selection committee and county committee are pleased to publish the procedures that will be followed in selecting all future teams to represent the county at all events.
You can find the procedure as a download from KAA Team Selection procedure.
The following is a list of some known typical submission dates
February indoor match – Dec 31st
March field match – Jan 30th
April outdoor match – February 28th
June outdoor match – April 30th
4-Way field – June 20th
National County Team – July 31st
If you want a Golden Records account in order to submit scores please send an email to records@archerykent.org.uk
Questions about the selection procedure should be addressed to the county team manager at captain@archerykent.org.uk
Kent judge Erin Barkway travelled to Archery GB headquarters today to sit and pass her county judges exam. Having taken and passed her practical exam at the Pocahontas Shoot at Gravesend Archers she is immediately promoted to county judge. Well done Erin we never doubted it.
We are always in need of judges. If its something you think you would be interested in trying judging we can arrange a taster day for You. Please contact the Judging Liason Officer at judges@scasarchery.org.uk
On Sunday 15th October a team of 8 field archers from Kent attended a trial inter county field match. The match was hosted by Overton Black Arrows at their spectacular field venue on the side of the South Downs in Kingsclere, Hampshire.
Teams were to consist of mixed gender by bowstyle, Compound, Recurve, Barebow and English Longbow. Shooting for Kent, archers were chosen from those that had submitted field scores to the county, where:-
Compound :- Chris Horan and Bob Beaney, due to the latest of confirmation no ladies where available
Recurve : Oliver Sandor-Brown, no other recurves that had submitted scores were available
Barebow: Geoff Barker and Tom Williams
English Longbow: Colin Hind, Michael White and Lindsey Coates
The day started bright, cold and dry as teams from Kent, Hampshire and Sussex shot an initial 12 marked target ranking round.
After the ranking round archers were ranked in 1st, 2nd,3rd and 4th by bow style and county. Archers then shoot a 4 target head to head match against the similarly ranked archers and bow style from the other counties. After 2 targets the lowest scoring archer dropped out, if we had a tie then a single arrow shot off would have been required. After 3 targets the next lowest scoring archer dropped out leaving us with 2 archers to shoot the final target. points where awarded to each county depending on their placing after the head 2 head matches.
Because of the mixed number of archers available from each county, some matches included more than 1 archer from a county. The results for Kent where:
Longbow Match 1 – Michael White 1st
Longbow Match 2 – Lindsey Coates 1st, Colin Hind 2nd
Compound Match 1 – Chris Horan 2nd and Bob Beaney 3rd
Recurve Match 1 – Oliver Sandor-Brown 4th
Kent places 2nd behind Hampshire
Thank you to all those attended.
Keep an eye on this website for have ago field archery sessions next year as well as information about the Kent Field Archery days that are held at Gore Wood, near Sittingbourne during the outdoor season. Kent are actively trying to arrange inter county team field matches. To be in with a chance to compete in these submit your scores via Golden Record. If you don’t have a Golden Records account contact the Kent Records officer at records@archerykent.org.uk.
This weekend, Exmouth Archers hosted the English Field Archery championship as part of their annual shoot near Exmouth, Devon.
The shoot consisted of a World Archery, 2 day mixed round, that is 24 targets, 12 with marked distances and 12 with un-marked distances, using the standard black and yellow field faces. Shooting 3 arrows per target, with scoring from 1 to 6. That means 72 arrows per round.
At the end of day 1, Chris, gents compound, lay 2nd with a score of 374, 1 point ahead of Hampshire’s John Foley.
At the end of day 2, Chris had stretched his lead over John to 16 points, cementing his 2nd place.
Congratulation Chris
All pictures courtesy of Chris Horan
Keep an eye on this website for have ago field archery sessions next year as well as information about the Kent Field Archery days that are held at Gore Wood, near Sittingbourne during the outdoor season. Kent are actively trying to arrange inter county team field matches. To be in with a chance to compete in these submit your scores via Golden Record. If you don’t have a Golden Records account contact the Kent Records officer at records@archerykent.org.uk.