2012 Olympics coming to Northants

Eric Jackson - Development Officer

Rushden and Diamonds Football Club (RDFC) submitted a bid to host a training
camp for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Their bid included the ability to
host the following sports: Archery, fencing, football, judo, table tennis
and wrestling.

RDFC were successful with their bid. They are the only one in Northamptonshire and
one of only four in the East Midlands (two in Derbyshire and one in Nottinghamshire).

On behalf of NCAS I approached the CEO of RDFC, Helen Thompson,
to see how we, Archery and RDFC, could benefit from the success of the bid.
A Photo shoot with some of the county team and archers from WOAC, was the
first of a few ideas floated. Others include a 'Have a Go' and a 'Come and Try'
session for the RDFC over 50's supporters.
03/07/2008

ENGLAND CALL UP FOR DAVID!!

Junior county archer David Forster has been selected to shoot for the England Junior Team at this years Euro Nations Tournament in July. This comes on the back of some great shooting this year, a really big congratulations to him.
30/06/2008

EMAS Double FITA Star

Well done to county team member Dean Edwards for winning the gents recurve at this years EMAS Double
FITA Star tournament hosted by Lincoln Archers on 28th/29th June. His scores of 1126 and 1134 were enough
to win the event in difficult conditions. He also claimed his 1100 FITA Star award.
Results
30/06/2008

Good Results for County Archers at GNAM

Congratulations to John Inkley on coming third this years Grand National Archery Meeting on 25th-27th June.
The conditions were very bad indeed with the second day being stopped for safety reasons the remainder of the shoot was shot on the third day to complete the tournament, no National round was shot this year.
Nick Forster finished in a very respectable 9th place overall.
29/06/2008

Long Metric County Record

Well done to John Inkley for breaking the Long Metric (Gents) recurve county record with 593.
John shot the round as part of a Nene Bowmen target day on 1st June 2008.
The previous record was 577 shot by Stuart Morris in September 1997.

EMAS Senior and Junior Championships

There were Rose Awards galore for Northamptonshire's Archers at the
EMAS Regional Championships on 15th June 2008.
Tim Bull 1000 Rose
Alison Taylor 800 Rose
Tom Taylor 900 Rose
Nick Forster 900 Rose
A bit of self congratulation here, well done everybody.
Results

Nick Forster - County records officer.

More County Records for David and James!

David Forster has broken his Metric 2 record again!!! That is three times in just over a month.
The record now stands at 1190 set at Sherwood Archers Record Status Fita weekend on the 8th June.
Well done again to him on this achievement.

I have also received a whole bunch of records from James Mason, including junior rounds shot before he
turned 18 years old. Including his York round score of 1214 which won him the Junior Nationals at Lilleshall.
He has already broken several senior compound records as follows: 587 Portsmouth, 564 FITA 25
and 1274 Hereford. Well done Jamie on setting some brilliant records.

Nick Forster - County records officer.

EMAS/NCAS Inter Region Junior Competition

Metrics 4 to 1 Held at Wetherby in Yorkshire on 31st May, as part of the YAA single Fita star.
Four of our Junior team were involved in the emas team for this shoot.
Jon Bull
George Avril
David Forster
Tom Taylor
Jon Bull took a Individual silver medal in the Metric 3 competition, with David Forster taking a Gold in the Metric 2.
The Emas Juniors also won the recurve Male and Female events and the Longbow event.

David Forster also broke the county record with a score of 1172
Well done to him and the rest of the team for there brilliant achievement.