Deer Park Archers Annual Inclusion Shoot – Another Success but we need more clubs to follow!
We are pleased to say we again increased participation in our annual tournament supported by the Worshipful Company of Fletchers. We were also proud that we had a great number of entries from this year’s GB Invictus Team and members of the WIZards. The positive feedback was fantastic and the raffle raising £250 for Help the Heroes was “the icing on the cake”! We would encourage many more clubs structure their tournaments to be more inclusive, the fact is…
Social. Recreation. Competition.
Our Winter Mini Field League has come to a conclusion. Congratulations to the division winners (Paul Hawker (Div1), Imogen Colenutt (Div2), Michelle Orme (Div3) ). Top 3 Division 1 Winner Division 2 ). Full results can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vRFgUP568DWmb-PZA-QXMsU0kVL2qnL1vlvCv4KJHtOO-aJss58C9vwdGEf_MhqUTvO_PSOrx3Eb_FV/pubhtml Division 3 Medalists Some of our junior squad had recently been involved in a successful Club Laser Tag…
New Indoor season footfall record!
Last week saw us break the 300 barrier for footfall at club sessions in a single week! With a virtual array of activities including multiple indoor practice sessions at 4 venues, outdoor practice sessions at our ground, field mini League, clout practice, beginners and improvers sessions. Men-in-sheds and even a record attendance for our Short Mat Bowls section all added up to more than 300. More than 40 at Balcarras practice session on Sunday morning This figure did not include our…
Let the tournaments begin!
Our Annual New Year's Target Day kicked off what is going to be a very busy schedule of more than 20 competitions planned during 2020. A healthy mixture of record status, club target days, field league and mock head to heads, all open to guests as well as club members! This event was a mixed Portsmouth and WA18, fully booked online and managed to squeeze in an extra target. Only one County Record, well done to Kevin Macey shooting a WA18 using longbow, recording 402 beating the…
Super Saturday! Fantastic Sunday!
What a great day at the British Junior Championships, 18 members (the most of any club) competed at Stonleigh Park and without exception everyone performed above expectation or won a medal! The impressive medal haul of 5 Gold Medals for Individual Category Champions, 3 of which were Overall British Champions (our best ever return), 1 Silver and 3 Bronze does not tell the whole story! A number of our unrewarded archers recorded personal bests with some impressive…