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SAA News & Articles 2015

29 Dec 2015 - Hall of Fame and Annual Volunteer Awa rds 2015

We inducted three archers - Jim Buchanan, Simon Needham and John Murray - into our Hall of Fame today at the AGM.

The Hall of Fame recognises those members of the organisation who have been an inspiration to the sport over a prolonged period and who are recognised as havingachieved a standard that should be seen as aspirational by our membership.

Congratulations to all the winners of the Scottish Archery Coaches and Volunteer Awards, also presented at the AGM today.Coaches Award: Colin DownieVolunteer Award Highly Commended: Phyllis PettettVolunteer Award Winner: Kathleen MaleDavid Christie Award Highly Commended: Alan WoodDavid Christie Award Highly Commended: Josie HerdDavid Christie Award Winner: Muriel Kirkwood

04 Dec 2015 - Thomas Miller, Senior Coach, 1959-201 5

We share the sad news that Tommy Miller, Senior Coach, passed away peacefully in hospital on Tuesday 01 December 2015.

Tommy was one of Scottish Archery’s longest serving members. He was a County judge for a number of years and was a Senior coach for some 25 years.He was involved in coach education and development for as long as any of us can remember, not only in Scotland but throughout the UK including NorthernIreland, involved in the development of courses at all levels and being a member of the Senior Coach renewal panel. He was involved in the training ofCommunity Sport Leaders in Archery for many years. Tommy gave of his time freely to archery, and also managed to be a trainer for the Red Cross for morethan 30 years. While his illness had progressively limited his ability to deliver courses and do assessments, he continued to act as adviser and mentor until

the last. His contribution has been immeasurable and he will be greatly missed by his colleagues.

Tommy is survived by his wife Rosie and sons Angus and David.

15 Nov 2015 - British Indoor Senior Team Announceme nt

10 Nov 2015 - British Indoor Junior Team Announceme nt

30 Oct 2015 - Junior, U21 and Novice Indoor Champio nships

It was standing room only when 96 archers assembled for the SAA junior, U21 and senior novice championships in Montrose. By the end of the day a total of 44 medals wereawarded in 25 categories and 3 Scottish records broken. It was wonderful to see such a range of competitors making the journey, especially the 13 juniors who travelled fromShetland to compete. A big thank you from me to all that made this such a great day and I look forward to seeing you all back again next year.Alan Wood, Links Archers

Congratulations to our Junior Champions Megan Logan and Gregor Stevenson, (recurve) Liam Wakefield and Robyn Geddes, (compound) Ryan Murray and Morven Pride(barebow) - Fulll Results are available from the Indoor 2015/16 calendar

25 Oct 2015 - Eleven New Coaches

Congratulations to the 11 candidates on the recent Level 1 course held at Grange AC, whoall passed their assessments yesterday. Pictured are the new coaches, together withcourse tutor Bill Mackay, assessors Peter Lennon and Iain Wilson. A big thanks to courseadministrator Josie Herd, who not only organised this course, but also the current level 2course.

03 October 2015 - Congratulations and Good Luck!

Congratulations to Victoria Barby - Edinburgh University Archery Performance and Phillip Tucknott - EdinburghUniversity who have been selected to shoot for the Archery GB Field Team and will shortly be heading off torepresent GB at the World Archery European Field Championships in Rzeszow, Poland from the 05-10 October.There is a 34 archer strong team going and Stuart Barby is a non travelling reserve

Keep up to date with how the field teams in Poland are getting on via Archery GB http://www.archerygb.org/news/6555.php#.VhVQ0SvlI20

and follow the results on Ianseo...http://www.ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=824

16 September 2015 - Report from Samoa Commonwealth Youth Games 2015

A team of 28 young Scottish athletes from 8 sports competed last week at the Commonwealth Youth games in Samoa. Archery was included in a Youth games for the firsttime and Scotland was represented by Struan Caughey and Evelina D’Arcy. The archery competition was held at Samoa’s main shooting ground with archers from 16different countries participating. Struan qualified in 4th place with a score of 627 in warm and blustery conditions with Evelina qualifying in 5th position

The next day saw the archers competing in a non-medal, mixed team event with Struan paired up with Lusitania from Tonga and Evelina shooting with Brandon fromBarbados. The Scotland/Barbados duo eventually finished in second place narrowly losing to India/Cyprus in the final. In the individual event both archers were knockedout in the quarter finals and the individual victors were Prachi Singh from India and Mohammad Islam winning the first gold medal of the games for Bangladesh.

Scotland returned with 21 medals overall and finished 11th in the medal table. Evelina and Struan would like to thank Commonwealth Games Scotland for this fantasticopportunity and Scottish archery for all the support given in their preparation for the event.

Photos and report - Claudine Jennings; left to right The archery field; Struan Caughey; Evelina D’Arcy and Brandon from Barbados

01 September 2015 - Congratulations to our newest C hampions!

The Scottish Archery Combined U21, Junior, Novice and Disability Championships took place at Craigholme hosted by Glasgow Archers last weekend on 23rd August. TheChampion placings are :-

Lady RecurveNovice - Jessica Nirkko - Edinburgh University; U21 - Sarah Fraser - Links;U18 - Kayleigh Ivanov - Balbardie Archers; U16 - Heather Hughes - Nethermoss Archers;U14 - Kirsten Scoular - Balbardie Archers and U12 - Caitlyn Aiken - Broch Archery Club

Gent RecurveNovice Recurve - Antony Kitchen - Edinburgh City Bowmen;Barebow - Jim Granger - Ayr Archery ClubU21 - Jacques Janos Peters - Edinburgh University; U18 - Gregor Stevenson - Abbey Archers;U16 - Craig MacCorquodale - Oban & Lorne;U14 - Joe Seez - Penicuik Archers; U12 - Geordie Harrow - Disability Sport FifeLongbow - Gent U21 - Edward Pike - Edinburgh University

CompoundGent U12 - Mack Seez - Penicuik Archers; Lady U16 - Robyn Geddes - Lethen Archers

Disabled ChampionshipsCompound Gent - Murray Elliot - Balbardie ArchersCompound Lady - Karen Jamieson - Balbardie ArchersRecurve Gent U12 - Geordie Harrow - Disability Sport FifeVisually Impaired Gent - Bennet Ward - Ayr Archery Club

01 September 2015 - Samoa 2015 is about to begin

We announced at the end of May that Struan Caughey and Evelina D’Arcy were going to represent representScotland at the Samoa 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games and that it was the first time Archery has beenincluded in the games. If you follow Scottish Archery on Facebook (you don't need to be signed up to facebook toview the page) you'll know the teams flew out on Sunday including out two young archers.

Commonwealth Games Scotland have a a lot of information in their Summer newsletter - Countdown. In it you cancatch up on the story behind the Youth Games and profiles of all the young athletes that are on the Scottish Teamincluding Struan and Evelina who are accompanied by Scottish Archery Performance Director Claudine Jennings.The newsletter also contains the full schedule of the games - the Archery Takes place on the 8th, 9th and 10thSeptember.

Keep up to date on the Games website - http://www.samoacyg2015.ws/ and we'll keep you posted on how theyget on

01 September 2015 - A Thank You from NUAC

Napier University Archery (NUAC) was formed in 2004 by Stewart Barclay and has been a constant competitive sports club within Napier. When first formed NUAC wasnothing but a few friends who loved Archery, wanting to have a way to both teach others and a way for them to compete. NUAC attended their first competition in January2005 (British University Indoor Championships) and within 6 weeks had won their first medals as a club. NUAC formally joined the Scottish Universities League in 2005/06and have been regulars at UK-wide Open as well as Student Competitions.

NUAC has faced many issues over the years ranging from constantly finding and changing venue, to the rapid membership turnover. NUAC has a very rapid turnover of

members, with many students doing 1 or 2 year courses, post grads or studying from abroad. Archers from around 30 different countries have competed for NUAC. Howeverthis lack of long-term members meant there were very few who could help teach and pass on their experience to the club’s novices. Despite its many problems NUAC hasquite done well in terms of results:

NUAC's Best Results:BUCS Indoors - 10th in 2014BUTC - Round of 16 in 2014E-League - 8th Division 1 in 2015BUCS Outdoors - 7th in 2014SSS League - 2nd in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014

Novice TeamsBUCS Indoors - 2nd in 2013E-League - 3rd Division 1 in 2013BUSC Outdoors - 3rd in 2013SSS League - winners in 2008, level on points with first in 2013plus 2nd in 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

However on the 23rd of April 2015 tragedy hit the club. They were victim to a horrendous arson attack. A handful of teenagers set alight to the club’s Equipment shed,containing over 7000 pounds worth of equipment. This was a hard blow to the club, with very little time available for them to rebuild before the new academic year. Thiswasn’t helped when they were recently notified by their Student Union that they would receive no insurance claim to cover the damages.

Now the club’s committee are pushing hard to reconstruct a club with over 10 years’ investment. They have received huge support from Archery societies from all overScotland and the whole of the UK. Scottish Archery has been one of the biggest supporters of NUAC, investing both money and equipment. NUAC still has many challengesahead of them but with continued support from both their University and Scottish Archery, NUAC's future is beginning to look a little brighter.

By John Ballantyne

NUAC President

10 August 2015 - Congratulations to our new British Champion

The British Outdoor Target Championships took place at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre last weekend - 8 & 9th August. Theevent consisted of the qualifying rounds at 70m or 50m followed by Individual matches on Saturday and the 1440 Round on theSunday.

Lady Compound archer Hope Greenwood of Edinburgh University Alumni came first on Saturday and placed 2nd on Xs scored on theSunday giving her the overall Championship title and the Barnett International Cup, she was also awarded the Oxby Cup; for the longdistance; Club mate Stephanie Clason came 4th.

Also on Compound the Eastern Area won the County Mixed Team Hoyt Cup with Alistair Wittingham, Hope Greenwood, StephanieClason and Victoria Barby.

In the Home Nations Match on the Sunday Scotland came 2nd. Full Results available on the Archery GB website. Photo courtesy ofAndrew Hoyle - AGB National Tournaments.

10 August 2015 - Summer Universiade Experience

The 2015 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXVIII Summer Universiade, was held in the city of Gwangju, South Korea. It took place from July 3 to July 14, 2015and three Edinburgh University students from Scotland - Hope Greenwood, Stephanie Clason and Phillip Tucknott - were part of the 10 strong archery team, with the GreatBritain delegation being made up of 100 athletes and support staff. Competition at the event was fierce as all the top archery nations had student archers attending. Hope ,Stephanie and Phill have written about their experience at the event

"The opportunity to participate in a multi-sport games such as the Summer Universiade was something that was equally new and exciting for all three of us. We therefore didnot know what to expect from our time in Gwangju, South Korea but we were very eager to find out! The immensity of the event struck us as soon as we stepped foot insidethe Athletes’ Village which quickly filled to capacity, accommodating 13000 other athletes and staff from 149 countries. The moment we walked into the Opening Ceremony ina stadium full of spectators, fireworks, light displays, and speakers blasting K-Pop was the point at which it became apparent that competing in the world’s second largestmulti-sport event, only behind the Olympics, would be something that none of us would ever forget.

The archery competition itself was held in a new custom-built facility for the Universiade. With the sun beating down, the stands of the Gwangju International Archery Centrefilled – a rare occurrence for us and a reminder of the enormity of the event – for the beginning of the ranking round. Qualification finished with Hope in 29th and Steph in36th in the Ladies Compound division and Pip in 46th in the Gents Compound division. The ladies’ rankings unfortunately meant that they would meet each other in the firstround of individual eliminations with Hope taking the match in a closely fought 141-140. Pip was unable to see off a highly-ranked Turkish archer which gave him anindividual finish of 33rd. Hope and Steph finished 17th and 33rd, respectively.

We also took part in team rounds, with Hope and Steph being joined by Georgie Brown, narrowly losing to Italy 222-224 in the first round, and Pip, Jordan Mitchell and MattDale losing to a strong team from the USA. Hope and Jordan then went on to play the Korean mixed team live on Korean television, eventually losing to the number 1 seedsbut with great support from the British contingent. We return to Scotland with fond memories of our time in Gwangju and a drive to push ourselves to take part in futureevents and build on our results this summer. We would like to thank Scottish Archery for helping us to participate in this amazing event!"

02 August 2015 - Congratulations to our Scottish Ch ampions

Ladies Recurve - Lizzie BellLadies Compound - Hope GreenwoodGents Recurve - Stuart BarbyGents Compound - Mike AlexanderMasters Category - Bill MurrayRecurve Team - Claudine Jennings, Lizzie Bell, Johanna MayerCompound Team - Hope Greenwood, Steph Clason, Harrison OoiThank you to Ayr Archery Club for hosting the event this weekend - 1 & 2 August 2015.

27 July 2015 - Senior Team Announcement

8 July 2015 - Records Galore for Scottish Juniors a t AGB Nationals

Last weekend was very busy with the Junior Nationals alsotaking place down at Lilleshall. The Home Nations day,Saturday was a difficult one for most, with high temperaturesand tricky winds. The oppressive heat took it out of everyone.

There were 11 Scottish Records broken and Caitlin shot 2British Records and came 1st in her category. The ScottishTeam came 2nd in the Home nations with England 1st, andWales 3rd. The full results for Saturday will be available bythe end of this week

Sunday was much cooler and damp with thunderstorms

around lunchtime and very heavy rain for a few ends, again atricky breeze across the field.Full Sunday Results - http://ianseo.net/TourData/2015/1215/IC.phpDay 2 results in brief :Struan 4th, 1154; Sarah 5th, 1129; Emma M 14th 1098; Joe

9th, 1132; Caitlin 1st, 1276; Geordie 5th, 1092

Photos are courtesy of Murray Elliot and show the Scottish, English and Welsh Team Managers and the Scottish JuniorTeam.

8 July 2015 - Kate Lines up for GBR at WA Para Even t

Scottish archer Kate Murray lines up for the GBR Para Archery team at Nove Mesto World Ranking Tournament CZE - which runs from 6 to 13 July.today was the qualifyer and all the GBR archers are through - See new article from Archery GB - http://www.archerygb.org/news/6433.php#.VZ1HgFKiiaw

Kate will also represent Great Britain at the World Archery Para Championships and Paralympic qualifier in Donaueschingen from 23 to 30 August. See new article fromArchery GB - http://www.archerygb.org/news/6425.php

6 July 2015 - Scotland wins on Home Turf!

Scotland has won the Archery European Commonwealth Championships for the first time since records began!

Scotland pulled out all the stops to host the European Commonwealth Championships this weekend in Edinburgh. TheChampionships, commonly called the Euronations, invites teams from across the commonwealth counties in Europe including theHome Nations and Ireland to compete in a World Archery 1440 round. Competing countries take it in turns to host the competitionand this year it was Scotland’s turn. The competition was held at the Edinburgh University Playing Fields at Peffermill and includedcompound and recurve bow styles for men and women.

Archers shoot 144 arrows at distances for 90m, 70m, 50m and 30m for men and 70m, 60m, 50m and 30m for women. The maximumscore possible is 1440 as the center of the Gold is worth 10 points.Each country can enter four competitors for each category, and the top three scores are added together to form the team score.

The teams were;

England Recurve MenGerry Tuck, David Timmins, Michael Judd, Mark Smith

England Compound MenMatthew Tuck; Carl Richards

England Ladies CompoundPauline Burfitt, Teresa Bridges, Nicola Simpson, Linda Townsend

England Ladies RecurveCharlotte Birch, Lizzie Cantopher, Lisa Cooper, Jeanetta Braun

Northern Ireland Recurve MenPartick Huston, Mark Nesbit, Conner Hall

Northern Ireland Compound LadiesRebecca Lennon

Isle of Man CompoundRhys Moore

Scotland Recurve MenStuart Barby, Matt Nowicki, Gareth Fleming, Roy Hotrabhvanon

Scotland Compound MenMike Alexander, Stuart Stanger, Martin Krusche, Fraser Chape

Scotland Lady RecurveFiona Hirst, Lizzie Bell, Rebekah Tipping

Scotland Lady CompoundVictoria Barby, Muriel Kirkwood, Kirsty Robb, Jacqui Alexander

The results were are follows;

Scotland – 14732England – 13990Northern Ireland – 6396

Scotland also beat England in the Compound Division with a score of 7864 to England’s 6715. However the recurve result was reversed with England beating Scotland7275 to 6868.

Northern Ireland won the men’s recurve division with 3722, followed by England and then Scotland.

Scotland won the men’s compound division, convincingly beating England who only fielded two competitors.

For the ladies England won both recurve and compound divisions with Scotland taking silver.

In a spectacular finish to the competition, two pipers in full highland dress marched onto the field to serenade the archers.

Presentations were made at a banquet during the evening, where the archers were treated to a delicious dinner and the chance to socialize with the other teams. Thepresentations were awarded by Derek Lovell MBE, President of Archery GB.

Although not part of the official Euronations competition, there was more drama on the Sunday as competitors competed individually head to head. There were some closematches with several single arrow shoot offs, with plenty of cheering and support from fellow competitors.

The winners were;

Ladies Recurve1st Charlotte Birch, England2nd Rebekah Tipping, Scotland3rd Lizzie Cantopher, England4th Lisa Cooper, England

Ladies Compound1st Rebecca Lennon, Northern Ireland2nd Victoria Barby, Scotland3rd Pauline Burfit, England4th Linda Townsend, England

Gents Recurve1st Conner Hall, Northern Ireland2nd Stuart Barby, Scotland3rd Matt Nowicki, Scotland4th Patrick Huston, Northern Ireland

Gents Compound1st Carl Richards, England2nd Matthew Hall, Northern Ireland3rd Matthew Tuck, England4th Martin Krusche, Scotland

The competition was a fantastic occasion for all involved, and highlighted how much interest there is for competitive archery, locally within Scotland and also within the HomeNations. Ireland are due to host the competition next year, and we really hope that they will be able to. We would love to see archery return to the commonwealth games, andhopefully by holding events such as the Euronations we can persuade future host nations to consider archery as a core event.

A big thanks to Scottish Archery for hosting the event, all the competitors and team mangers for the fantastic team spirit demonstrated over the two days and also to thesponsors, Clickers Archery, Edinburgh University, CSE, MRM Archery, Modova Archery, PSL Team Sports, Kudos Sports, Penicuik Archers and Sportscotland.

Photo shows the Scotland Team with the pipers

29 June 2015 - County Team Triumph

The Eastern Area Men's Recurve Team won Gold at the National County TeamChampionships. This annual Mid Summer event is run at Lilleshall by the NationalTournament Committee and attracts County teams from all over the UK. The trio ofVladimir Hurban, Matt Nowicki and Gareth Fleming came first in the Qualifying 720and then won through to Gold in the Head to Heads. Their team placing of 3rd in theSunday's 1440 round was enough to give them the overall win for the weekend.The Archery GB news story - Full Results can be found here

23 June 2015 - Senior Team Announcement

14 June 2015 - Pentangle Winners

Northern Area expertly hosted the Pentangle competition on 14th June at Laurencekirk . The winners were;Ladies Recurve - DNAALadies Compound - Eastern AreaGents Recurve - Eastern AreaGents Compound - Northern AreaGents Longbow - DNAARecurve Team - Eastern AreaCompound Team - Northern AreaOverall winners DNAAWell done all who shot!

Photos show the teams: - Eastern Area Ladies Compound, Northern Area Ladies and Genst Compound and Eastern Area Ladies and Gents Recurve

03 June 2015 - Junior Team Announcement

30 May 2015 - History making duo head to Samoa

Struan Caughey and Evelina D’Arcy become the first archers ever to represent Scotland at a Youth Games and will compete in IndividualRecurve events and the Mixed Team competition. Samoa 2015 will be the fifth edition of the Commonwealth Youth Games and the first timeArchery has been included.

2 May 2015 - Scottish Field Champs kicked off the s eason

The outdoor season kicked off with the Argyll Open and Scottish Field Champs. It was a beautiful weekend, with glorious sunshine and temperatures reaching up to 18degrees. A stunning, challenging course, well organized by Argyll Archers drew archers from across Scotland, Ireland and England. The Scottish Champions are; LadiesCompound – Hope Greenwood Gents Compound – Philip TucknottLadies Recurve - Migle Petruskeviciute Gents Recurve – Stuart BarbyLadies Recurve Barebow - Irene Biddulph Gents Recurve Barebow - Huw Vaughan - JacksonGents Traditional - John Tait Gents Longbow - Edward Pike Gents Flatbow - Iain MorrisonFull Results on the Outdoor 2015 calendar

29 Apr 2015 - Success for Scotland at Archery GB Se lection Shoot

Naomi Jones led the qualification and has been selected for the senior compound ladies team at the World Championships. Hope Greenwood and Steph Clason have beenselected for the GB team at the World Universiade in Korea in July, and Struan Caughey has made the GB Junior team for the World Youth Archery Championships inYankton, USA in June. Also Nathan Macqueen and Kate Murray both finished second in their divisions and are progressing to the next stage of qualification for the GB teamat the World Para championships in August. Full results booklet

14 Apr 2015 - Robert wins medals in Brighton

Congratulations to Robert "MacRab" Harvey who won gold and bronze medals at the Blind Veterans UK championships recently heldin Brighton. Robert, who is a spritely octogenerian, was one of the last National Service fighter pilots. He joined Penicuik Archers inNovember last year. Although suffering form very limited vision, his scores put many club members to shame. The club was recentlycontacted by David Poyner, Chairman and webmaster of Blind Veterans UK Bowmen, about Robert's success. In his emaiL, Davidsaid: "The Blind Veterans UK Bowmen, formerly St Dunstans, is the archery club for ex-servicemen and women who have lost theirsight. This is the club where blind archery was founded. Robert Harvey, a member of Penicuik Archers, attended his first archery weekdown at Brighton with Blind Veterans Uk Bowmen as he has now become a member of them. All competitions are held on a handicapscoring system to make it equal for all level of sight impairments. Once Robert had attained a valid handicap he was eligible to entercompetitions. He shot extremely well coming first in one and third in another. For more information about the Blind Veterans UKBowmen visit their website

13 Apr 2015 - Commonwealth Youth Games 2015 Selecti on

The archery selection shoot for the Youth Commonwealth Games 2015 was held at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena in Kilmarnock onSaturday 11th April. The selection shoot was open to all Scottish cadet archers and will form a key part of the selection process forthe archery team.

Due to the unpredictability of Scottish spring weather the shoot was held at an indoor venue with the archers shooting two WorldArchery 60m rounds (each round consists of 6 dozen arrows). Despite cold conditions in the hall and it being the first outdoor shootof the season for the archers a good day was had by all.

Final results:

Cadet boys: 1st – Struan Caughey2nd – Aidan Hughes

Cadet girls: 1st – Evelina D’Arcy2nd – Emma McLachlan

11 Apr 2015 - All your eggs in one basket - winner!

Congratulations to Jenny Marsden who won our Easter Competition by signing up to receive our newsletter. Enjoy all that Chocolate Jenny!

The email newsletters are a great way to keep in touch with everything that has been going on in archery in Scotland including competition results,rankings, coaching days and other interesting news items. To sign up, just complete your details here on the Mail Chimp sign up page

11 Apr 2015 - 40 Year old Ayrshire Archery League S till Going Strong

The 22nd of March saw close on 80 archers taking part the final leg of the Ayrshire League for the Winter Season 2014/15. The event was hosted by Largs Archery Club atthe National Sport Centre in Inverclyde. Participating Clubs where: Ayr, ASKA, Clyde, Inverclyde, Irvine Tox and Largs.

The President of The Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers(ASKA) Stuart Wilson remembers the history.The league started as a series of indoor competitions in the winter of 1975-76 but at that stage it was not as structured as it later came to be. In the previous winter season,1974-75 ASKA held a number of indoor competitions - four I think - at Ardrossan Academy, which was where we shot then, Kilwinning Academy having yet to be built, and weinvited clubs in Ayrshire only. The round shot was a Portsmouth because that was what we practised at and we already had the 60cm faces for it. It was also a nice simpleround with no requirement to mark targets and the 20yard distance fitted well into the sports hall.

The primary function at that time was to continue to get shooting going over the winter and to keep the interest alive. The clubs participating, again from memory, were Ayr,Irvine, Kilmarnock and Dreghorn as well as ASKA. I remember this quite well because it was myself and Bill Petrie that organised them. The following winter 1975-76 we didthe same thing but this time Ayr held one of them as did Irvine I think, but the only evidence that I personally have are two medals that I won, a 3rd at an ASKA one and a 1stfor the Ayr one both dated 1975. Both of these simply say indoor shoot, I may well have others but not many were being engraved as the costs were being deliberately keptlow - again from memory, the entry fee was only £1.00.

Following on from this the other clubs began to host an event each and Largs had also joined in by then primarily because a number of us at Kilwinning, myself included,were also members of Largs and we pushed them along. Shortly after this we all got together as clubs to create the format that is still in use today, i.e Teams taken from thebest four archers in each club, male or female. This was no accident as it was modelled on the existing system used for the Home Internationals that is we sent six and thebest four were the team, though there were both male and female teams in that. I was involved with the Scottish team myself at this stage so was familiar with the conceptand pushed for this format as I could see that it was a pretty good one allowing as it did for new archers to compete without any pressure.

Right from the beginning we treated it as a friendly shoot designed to promote archery in Ayrshire, we didn’t think much bigger than that in those days, but gradually it grewsomewhat as time went on and Inverclyde (Greenock) joined hosting a shoot at James Watt college.

Some time after the league, as we called it by then, had been running a colleague of mine at work, Ross Strachan, who by then been recruited into archery by me,manufactured the brass trophy in the form of a target boss specifically for the league. From memory Ayr were the first to get their names on it but the league had been goingfor a number of years prior to that with no awards other than medals. I can’t remember exactly when the trophy was presented now but that date will be on it.

Photos by Frank Schallmoser, President of LargsArchery Club

25 March 2015 - SportsAid for 5 Scottish Archers

Scottish Archery are delighted to announce that five Scottish archers have been awarded SportsAid grants of £1000 each. Competition was extremely tough this year and wewish our archers every success for the coming season.

Grants were awarded to Gareth Fleming, Struan Caughey, Nathan MacQueen and Brad Stewart from The Robertson Trust and to Fraser Chape from the Moffat CharitableTrust.

Struan says "I feel very privileged to receive this award from SportsAid Scotland. This will help support my training and competitions in what is going to be a very busy andpromising year Many thanks again Struan".

Photos are Left to Right : Struan, Nathan, Brad and Fraser

23 March 2015 - New Scottish Archery On-Line Shop

Looking for your new clothing for the outdoor season? Look the part with Scottish Archery official clothing, available now from our new Scottish Archery shop. See link on leftand in main menu.

21 March 2015 - New Scottish Archery Medal

The Board are pleased to announce that following the competition to design a new SAA medal, one of the submissions has been selected. We wouldlike to thank everyone who entered. The number of entries provided us with a wide range of options to choose from. The winning design, picturedbelow was submitted by Muriel Kirkwood. The Board hope that the new medal will be available for the Euronations 2015 and the remaining 2015SAA National Championships.

20 March 2015 - Falkirk Council Honours for Moira T aylor

On 19th March the annual Falkirk Council Sports & Arts awards incorporating the FalkirkSports Council Annual Sports Personality of the Year Awards were held. Moira Taylor ofFalkirk Company of Archers was nominated and received a certificate and medal fromFalkirk Council in recognition of her services to Archery within Falkirk.

In the categories for the Sports Personality of the Year Awards she was nominated forCoach of the Year and Service to Sport. Due to the high levels of talent the awardscommittee had a difficult job deciding on an outright winner and so Moira was awardedjoint winner of Sports Personality Coach of the Year 2014. All at her club ere very proudof Moira as she is such an inspiration as well as being a fantastic coach!

26 Feb 2015 - New Level 1s for Shetland

Shetland now has 7 qualified UKCC Level 1 coaches in Archery. KeithLobban, Dave Williamson, Rose Williamson, Martin Krusche, SuzanneMalcolmson, Simon Clarke and Colin Gillie all passed the intensiveassessments last weekend after working towards the qualification for over3 months. Senior Coach Iain Wilson was in Shetland in November andDecember last year delivering tutorials to the learners.

Archery GB lead assessor Bill MacKay said after the assessments “it is ahuge step forward for archery in Scotland. It proves that archery has alegacy from the games. The most important legacy is the volunteercoaches who have enabled sport to flourish on the Islands. Well done to allthe successful Coaches who have proved they can develop performancearchery technique for all.”

Peter Lennon, the Director of Coaching for Scottish Archery was also inShetland for the Assessments, and added “Coaches are key to thedevelopment of our sport. It is always a privilege to work with talentedpeople like those I met in Lerwick who give up their time to gain this

qualification and to help archers progress. As a result of the successful assessments last weekend, I believe that Shetland now has the highest density of licensed archerycoaches per head in the UK.”

Course Administrator Keith Lobban said “Both the Senior and Junior Archery Clubs in Shetland continue to grow from strength to strength with a steady number of newmembers taking up the sport. Having a pool of qualified and dedicated coaches to develop archery in Shetland is going to give us the opportunity to run beginners coursesmore regularly and give those attending the best possible start in the sport. We should also be able to accommodate more community and corporate come and try sessions.Running a course like this would not have been possible without the help of many people and organisations and we would especially like to thank Maurice Haining for hisenthusiasm and help at the start of the process of getting the course in Shetland, and Michael Mather (Chairman of Scottish Archery) for supporting us from the start andliaising with Archery GB on our behalf.”

This UKCC Level 1 coaching course has been supported by Archery GB, Scottish Archery Association, The Scottish Archery Coaches group, Shetland Islands Council,Sports Coach UK, The Zero Cost Coach Education programme through the Big Lottery Fund and SportScotland.

Back L – R: Martin Krusche, Keith Lobban, Dave Williamson, Simon Clarke. Front L – R: Rose Williamson, Colin Gillie, Suzanne Malcolmson. (Photo by Ryan Leith)

23 Feb 2015 - Scotland's Students in the medals

Scotland's student archers have just completed a very busy series of weekend student competitons. First up was the British Universities & Colleges Sport IndoorArchery Championships held at the International Arena in Telford on 7-8 February. It was great to see Aberdeen University come into the mix as well as EdinburghUniversity win a cretitable number of medals again and also Rising compound star Fraser Chape come out as top man in his division. Scottish results were:

Lady Recurve - Bronze - Johanna Meyer (EUAC)Gent Compound - Gold - Fraser Chape (RGUA)Lady Compound - Gold - Stephanie Clason (EUAC) Silver - Hope Greenwood (EUAC)Gent Barebow - Silver - Huw Vaughan-Jackson (EUAC)Novice Lady Recurve - Gold - Neringa Siugzdinyte (EUAC)Ladies Team - Silver - AUAC - Rebekah Tipping, Hannah Worthington & Amy Bode; Bronze - EUAC - Johanna Meyer, Julie Saigusa & Neringa SiugzdinyteNovice Team - Gold - EUAC - Neringa Siugzdinyte, Ariana Quisenberry & Franz Huber

Above photgraphs are courtesy of Malcolm Rees - all right reserved. The full story can be found on the BUCS website -http://www.bucs.org.uk/news.asp?itemid=16866&itemTitle=Archers+on+target+as+BUCS+records+fall!&section=8&sectionTitle=News

On the next weekend 15th February the Scottish Indoor Championships took place at the University of Strathclyde - the full results are not available yet

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The students headed off to the British University Team Championships hosted by East Anglia on 21-22 February

There are 32 mixed teams of three archers. Universities can enter up to two teams, an 'A' team, and if there are spaces still available all 'B' teams are then drawn from a hatto see which ones will also get a space.

All the archers shoot a Bray I round, and then the scores are combined to rank the various teams who then have a head to had on Beiter Hit/Miss targets - described aspossibly the loudest and most enjoyable shoot on the circuit!! The format is very simple. Four ends of six arrows, each end lasting two minutes, each archer shoots twoarrows, the winning team is the one that scores the most "hits". - in the case of ties, well, shoot-off time! Each archer shoots one arrow and the team only has one minute.

3 Feb 2015 - Indoor Championship's Champions

Many Congratulations to the Champions and medals winners from this year's Indoor Championships. Full results are available from the Indooor Calendar and there are somephotos on the Facebook page

Recurve - Malcolm Alexander(Grampian) & Johanna Meyer(EUAC). Compound - Alistair Whittingham(EUAP) & Kirsty Robb(Balbardie).

Highest scoring Juniors - Recurve - Struan Caughey(Forres), Compound - Thomas Groom(SAA).Barebow - Stephen Havranek(Perth), Longbow - George Blyth(Balbardie).

Ladies Recurve Team - Johanna Meyer, Migle Petruskevicuite(EUAC)Gents Recurve Team - Erik Rowbotham, Douglas Jardine(EUAC)

CompoundTeam (Mixed Gender) - Alistair Whittingham, Pip Tucknott & Stephanie Clason(EUAC)President's Prize (1st Scottish Indoor Championship)- Pip Tucknott(EUAC)

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11 Jan 2015 - Sad News

It is with regret that the Board has to advise members of the death of David McPherson of Monklands Archers. David was a long time member having started archery in theearly 1970s and continuing until illness made him stop shooting in the late 1990s. David was a great coach and an advocate of Scottish Archery although illness restrictedthis in latter years. Our deepest sympathy goes to Margaret, his wife, a longtime member of Monklands Archers and Leslie, his son, of Quicks Archery.

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