Five Wilford Members were in action on a very windy day at Bingham. Well done to Mike who was third compound and Steve who was first recurve (and won a couple of items in the raffle). A special mention to Ben who was in front of Steve at the halfway mark and in the end missed third by just two points. Jade had a great day for her first competition.

Last weekend the Nottinghamshire recurve team won the East Midlands championship tournament on a blustery day at Bramcote Archers, for the first time in ten years.

Well done to Emma, Andy, Matt and Steve

Wonderful sunny weekend in York for Notts archers, where members from Wilford Bowmen and Bramcote took part in a Double WA1440 and Double AGB Metrics organised by York Archers Society. Started with Anna helping present flowers to the Civic Party (which included the Mayor and Sheriff). It was a long 2 days, but inspired efforts led to awards for Anna, Eleanor, and Jav, plus Thomas and Nigel from Bramcote, not to mention several personal best scores.

Our junior recurve archers did really well at yesterday’s Sidney Bond inter counties tournament. Teams from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire and Rutland were competing. Nottinghamshire recurves won for  th first time in seventeen years and with the second highest score since the tournament started in 1981. Of the eight members of the team, six were from Wilford: Tobias, Eleanor, Lois, Anna, Henry and Poppy. Charlotte coaches all the recurve team, so she’s really pleased with how they all shot in the variable conditions.

Yet another busy and successful weekend for Wilford Bowmen. The main event was the National weekend at Lilleshall in Shropshire. On Saturday in the Metric rounds, Poppy was narrowly beaten into 4th place, in what was her first national tournament. On Sunday Tobias was 3rd, Poppy was 7th, Lois was 12th and Henry was 15th. All shot well with several personal bests and Junior Master Bowmen qualifying scores.

Its great to see so many taking part at this level.

Meanwhile nearer to home, at the Sherwood Archers competition in Southwell, Will was 1st, Charlotte C was 3rd recurve lady and Mike T was 3rd compound gent.

Well done everyone.

Today at Sherwood Archers was the second and final leg of the Oregon challenge against Sylvan Archers club in Oregon, USA.

Steve Attwood, Emma Thomason, Jamie Gordon and Ben Viney made up half of the recurve team. Mike Thomason was in the compound team. Adam Dewsbury was in the Masters Recurve team. Henry Tien, Sarah Humphries and Tobias Tien were in the junior recurve team of four archers.

Well done everyone. 

As well as that Steve was presented with a birthday cake for his 60th birthday.

Well done to Sharon, Charlotte C, Jav and Ben, who won the team trophy at the Nottinghamshire Golden Arrow yesterday. 

The provisional target list for Sunday’s shoot is  here.