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Warwickshire County Championships: We Came, We Shot, We Conquered

February 3rd, 2012 by mattcranham in Uncategorized

After a trip into Birmingham last Sunday for Warwickshire County Indoor Championships, the University of Warwick Archery Club is now County Champions. Jorge Lindley and Rachael Hutchison both also became Gents and Ladies County Champions as well, with scores of 575 and 561. The team was made up of Jorge, Rachael, Matt Cranham (559) and Alan Dawson (553) to score 2248. 10 points more than second place Meriden.

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Club term 1 report.

December 20th, 2011 by mwaddoups in Uncategorized

It’s been an excellent term for the archery club, when we’ve welcomed a bunch of new novices and seen great success from some of the more experienced members.

Warwick has seen great acheivement at the two BUTTS legs this year so far. The experienced team has won both legs. We also took individual medals; In the male category Matt Cranham and Jorge Lindley took silver and bronze in the Trent leg and Matt Dale, Matt and Jorge took gold, silver and bronze in our leg. In the female category Rachael Hutchison has taken gold both times. We’ve won barebow gold at both legs, with good showings from Matt Proctor, Jack Nurpetlian, Anton Delgado and Jacob Kerr; the novice team are seeing some success as well, with some novice medals in all categories from Adam Lack, Luke Reiman and Emma Davis, beating competition from Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Loughborough, Birmingham and Derby.

We’re also doing well in the e-league, winning the novice league and taking a 3rd and 2nd in each month of the experienced e-league. We have also been successful in our bid to host BUTC at Warwick – arguably the most exciting competition of the year.

On the social side, we have combined regular circling at Pop! with some exciting bowling socials to successfully integrate new members into the club and reinforce ties with the elder ones. The Christmas meal was a great evening, with an excellent turnout from the whole club. Planning for Amsterdam tour has been completed, with a good number of sign-ups thus far as well!

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The Winning Continues

November 29th, 2011 by mattcranham in Uncategorized

Last Saturday was our turn to host three of our fellow BUTTS League universities, playing host to Birmingham, Nottingham Trent and Cambridge.

Our experienced team put in our highest team score since Warwick set the BUTTS League record of 2296 back at BUTTS Indoor Championships in 2009, with a score of 2271. This has put us three points ahead of Oxford after only two legs, so we are in a strong position to win the League this year. The novice put in a good performance, but the level of shooting by all novice teams this year is far higher than in recent years, so we could only manage fourth with a respectable 1826. Things are close in the novice league with Birmingham pulling away, but Loughborough, Cambridge, Nottingham and Warwick separated by only 2 points.

Individual successes were:

  • Matt Dale – Experienced Gents Recurve Gold
  • Matt Cranham – Experienced Gents Recurve Silver
  • Jorge Lindley – Experienced Gents Recurve Bronze
  • Rachael Hutchison – Experienced Ladies Recurve Gold
  • Matt Proctor – Barebow Gold
  • Anton Delgado – Barebow Bronze (Also a Novice)
  • Adam Lack – Novice Gents Recurve Bronze
  • Emma Davis – Novice Ladies Recurve Bronze
Many thanks to everyone who came along to help out during the competition, especially Anna who spent most of the day in the corner sorting out all the scores that had been shot so that we were able to give out the results shortly after everyone arrived for the post-shoot boat race, which we again won.


Full results here


PS. Since Saturday when he shot a new personal best of 447, Enrik Nako has since gone on to become our first (of hopefully many) novices to break the 500 barrier with a score of 501. Congratulations to Enrik, and a pint of his favourite beverage will be sent on its way by the president of the club, Chris, for being the first novice to do this.
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Success at first BUTTS Leg

November 16th, 2011 by mattcranham in Competitions

Hi Guys

Last Saturday saw Warwick competing in the first BUTTS Leg of the year at Nottingham Trent, with Nottingham and Derby also in attendance.

Nottingham Trent BUTTS Team

With an under strength Nottingham team not reaching the heights from the previous way, there was a clear path to success for our team. We won a variety of medals from both the Novice and Experienced categories:

  • Jorge Lindley – Experienced Gents Recure Silver
  • Matt Cranham – Experienced Gents Recurve Bronze
  • Rachael Hutchison – Experienced Ladies Recurve Gold
  • Jack Nurpetlian – Barebow Gold
  • Jacob Kerr – Barebow Silver
  • Luke Rieman – Novice Gents Recurve Silver
  • Emma Davis – Novice Ladies Recurve Gold
I’d also like to announce that Anton Delgado also won the Novice Gents Barebow category, but due to the way the medals are awarded for our league, all Barebow competitors compete against each other irrespective of experience and gender, so unfortunately Anton doesn’t receive a medal.

 

Both the Experienced and Novice teams, the best four scores from both categories, won their respective team competition as well. We’re waiting on the second half of this BUTTS Leg to happen this Saturday so we can see where both teams lie, but it’s looking like both teams are in with a good chance of leading both of their championships.

 

We’re hoping to continue our success at our BUTTS Leg which is being held on November 26th at Westwood Games Hall, and there will be an email shortly announcing who has made the team. If you want to be considered for the team, then please shoot a Portsmouth during a session as this is the only way we are able to  view your progress throughout the year, and we’d like to take as many people to competitions as possible as it’s a fun experience, with potential to win shinies (I got my first BUTTS medal this weekend).

 

Matt Cranham
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Pre-Term Sessions

September 18th, 2011 by mattcranham in Uncategorized

Hi all,

We’ve got some Pre-Term sessions booked at Westwood Games Hall:

Saturday 24 September 2.00 – 5.00 pm
Tuesday 27 September 4.00 – 7.00pm
Wednesday 28 September 4.30 – 9.30pm
Friday 30 September 4.30 – 9.30pm
Sunday 2 October 11.00 – 2.00 pm

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