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Ajay Scott wins silver at the National Tour Final

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At the start September the countries best archers gathered at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, for the national tour finals. Lining up with the best mens compounds was Kents Ajay Scott(Abbey Bowmen).

Qualifing 3rd Ajay faced Dillion Crow in the first round.

Ajays run to the gold medal match wasn’t the easiest, requiring two single arrow shoot offs, the first of which Erol Flynn would have been proud of, Ajay v Dillion Shoot off.

Up next for Ajay was 2nd placed qualifier Adam Carpenter, Ajay v Adam, after drawing the match 143 each after 15 arrows, Ajay produced another 10 to Adams 9.

Last up was James Mason, Ajay v James, the earlier ends were tight but after a couple of loose arrows James took the win 147 v 144

Picture (c) Archery GB and Malcolm Reese

Congratulations Ajay

4 way intercounty junior shoot results

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On Saturday 9th Sept a team of 11 Kent Juniors travelled to Sussex to compete in a 4-way match with Hampshire, Essex and Sussex. Unfortunately Essex couldn’t field a team so it became a 3 way shoot.

The Kent archers dominated the results achieving the highest score for four of the 8 categories.

Matt May – Highest gents recurve
Lucy Noar – Highest ladies recurve
Niamh Kelly-Halabi – Highest ladies longbow
Evan Clarke – highest gents compound and his 6-gold badge.

Kent won the event by over 200 points with Sussex in second and Hampshire in third.

The team shot amazingly well in the scorching heat and did the county proud.

If you would like to be part of the next county events, there is likely to be more opportunities for both seniors and juniors on the horizon, please submit your scores through Golden Records so we know what you are up to.

Hannah

All photos curtsey of Hannah Brown

Golden Records goes Live

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Please share with all club members and Kent members.

Score Submission – new online platform

The ARCHR.net score keeping programme is not being maintained so has fallen behind Archery GB’s changes to rounds, handicaps, & classifications.As a result, KAA have had to switch to a different platform: Golden Records.

Golden Records is up to date and is actively maintained.  It also includes field rounds, which were never catered for on ARCHR.net. 

Existing Kent records and ARCHR scores have been transferred to Golden records.  Scores that were submitted by clubs and individuals, since January 2022, have also been uploaded to Golden Records. Scores for 2023 havehad their handicap and classification updated in line with Archery GB.

To enable this,all Kent archers who have submitted scores in the past 18 months, either directly or via club record officers, have had a new Golden Records account created.

Golden Records is now live!

Next Steps:

Archers who previously supplied an email address in order to use ARCHR.net will be sent an email with log in details.  ARCHR.net will not accept new scores from 9th August.

Those who previously relied on their club records officer are asked to email the KAA records officer: records@archerykent.org.uk

Reminder:

The responsibility to submit scores lies with individual archers NOT club records officers. This change was made in 2020 because very few clubs were submitting scores so talented archers may have felt overlooked.

All scores should have proof attached,e.g., an official competition results sheet, an IANSEO screenshot, a signed scoresheet (app generated or paper based).

When selecting Kent teams,the selection committee will give priority to proven scores.

Notes from the Ops Meeting

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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

Success for Kent archers at two National Championships!

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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 2nd Place – Runner up.
Bob Beaney – Veteran Male Compound Unlimited 2nd Place – Runner up.
Isabella Bruguier – Under 18 Female Compound Unlimited 1st Place – NATIONAL CHAMPION.

UK 3D Championships.
Cecile Midrouillet – Senior Female Compound 1st 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)

Upcomming County Matches

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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.

2023 KAA Tournaments

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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.

Notes from the latest KAA meeting

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Good Afternoon everybody, please see below pointers from the recent meeting.

4 way Indoor match: the cut off date for you to submit scores for consideration for the team is the 13th January. The easiest way to scores is through Archr and we would like to see all your scores on a regular basis. Please remember that in order to be considered you must submit scores.

Archr: Archr is the programme we use for the submission of scores from members it allows for you to submit your score from a smart phone or computer onto the database each time you record a round. Please contact records@archerykent.org.uk to obtain the required code to enable access to the system. This is by far the easiest way to submit your scores but if you would prefer to send them in manually then KAA Score return is the required form.

Coaching: Invicta coaching is our sub group that supplies the opportunity for you to improve you shooting and are there to help. for further information and to contact them visit their webpage at Invicta Coaching Group (wkal.co.uk)

National County Team event: It is our intention to submit teams to this event and during the next 6 months we will be sorting out the details and important dates for you to get your returns into us by. Although we are waiting for more information from AGB regarding format and registration we will be looking to send teams from all disciplines and if possible both Gents and Ladies.

KAA Field Championships: The date for the 2023 field champs has been set for the 12th of March. The format is to be confirmed but is expected to be a WA24 mixed and the entry form is due out very soon. In honour of the many years of hard work, especially in Field Archery, that our own Mr Derrick Lovell MBE has given, this Tournament is to be known as the Derrick Lovell Field Tournament (incorporating the KAA Field Championships)

Development Plan: After many years we now have a development officer to look at ways to move KAA forward over the next 5 years. He has a few questions that he would like to put to you in order to know where to put his emphasis. If you could send your responses to development@archerykent.org.uk or comment on this post it would be very much appreciated.

1). Do you regulary attend competitions nationally or in Kent.

If yes, what do you feel would help you perform better physically or mentally (eg. Better information of events or coaching).

If no what doesn’t appeal to you regarding competitions.

2). Would you consider carrying out a coaching qualification?

3). Does KAA provide enough competition events info on their web browser?

4). Any further comments you feel we need to know regarding Kent archers development?

Please take a minute or two to send us your thoughts, we can’t include them if we don’t them.

Can all clubs please share with your members and encourage them to sign up for their own copy.