Dec 04
26 entries on the Saturday and 10 on the Sunday, our biggest number so far, many of them competing at that level for the first time at the Coventry Ricoh Arena with over 900 Archers competing over the 2 days making it one of the top 3 events in the world! Our team did us …
Nov 26
Club Annual Awards Evening and Beetle Drive – Reserve your places NOW. Friday 7th December at Hatherley & Reddings Cricket Club. Entry is free, Includes beetle drive with excellent prizes, food etc. There will be a raffle on the evening. This is a family celebration of our club, so bring all the family and we …
Nov 22
Thank you to the Echo, they certainly promote local sport and in this issue there were 2 whole pages dedicated to archery, not to mention more pages on the Gloucestershire Sports Media Awards. Lucy has a full page picture and there was another page featuring the Club and James Lawton. There was also an excellent …
Nov 20
Gloucestershire Senior Sports club of the Year 2012! The Gloucestershire Sports Diamond Jubilee Media Awards held in Centaur at Cheltenham Racecourse was the biggest and best yet and what a night for all those that attended! The great news is that we again picked up 2 awards, the Club winning the Senior Sports club …
Nov 13
Regional Championships Last weekend we won 7 more Regional Titles, 4 of them Compound with wins for James Howse, James Lawton, Callum Fraser & Lucy Mason. Martin Hutchings won the Men’s Longbow with a new County Record! Hamish Ponton the Junior Gents Barebow, again with a new County Record and Tom Howse the Junior Gents …
Nov 10
Lucy Mason has become the latest member of Deer Park Archers Juniors to join a National Squad! She joins Tom Howse and Liza Hadley who are part of the Recurve ‘World Class’ Programme. Lucy has had a fantastic outdoor season, breaking more than 10 National Records, at the age of 12 represented the County Senior …
Oct 24
Liza joins the ‘Archery GB ‘World Class Programme!’ Liza Hadley has become the second of our junior members, Tom Howse is the other, to join the programme and she starts this weekend! This decision followed Liza’s attendance at the Archery GB Talent ID follow up sessions last weekend and we understand that she was …
Oct 13
Development Centre Assessment Afternoon – 14th October More than 30 of our juniors and 8 coaches will be meeting this Sunday afternoon (after the morning open practice session) at Balcarras to work together to develop personal action plans and to identify which group workshops and seminars we need to prioritise. Archery GB Talent Selection …
Oct 04
Inter-schools Competition starts this week During the Autumn Term we have members working in 12 different Primary & Secondary Schools supporting after-school clubs; KLB, Rendcombe, Balcarras, Shurdington, Hillview, Archway, SWR, Stroud High, Kingshill, Pates & Cleve. This week sees the start of the inter-schools Autumn Competition with the Senior schools shooting on a Portsmouth …
Oct 01
What is the difference between a good club and a great club? What is the difference between a good team and a great team? The answer is team spirit and that just does not happen, it has to be nurtured and there is an essential ingredient: members who are prepared to give something to each other. …
