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  Sept 2009 Club champs 2009 - The weather was generally pretty good, and we had a very good turn out with a lot of our new members coming along. It was the first outing for the new Club Colours, and as can be seen from the photo on the homepage made for a spectacular sight.  Nigel Birchenough won the Gents Recurve, with John Dagnall taking the Longbow title.  Sophie was Lady Champ, with Alex Henman taking the U18s, Luke Wanden with an impressive score for the U16s, and Harry Tunstall for the U14s.  Alex Gibbs and Jane Ballentine did the honours respectively for the Junior Ladies.  Results..
  Aug 2009 Tri-Counties Match - Jane and Sophie both were members of the Tri County team in a match against Bucks and Herts.  Jane made her debut on the winning Junior Team, and Sophie shot as an adult.
  July 2009 Crowthorne Nationals - Our third year of running, and once again a great tournament, organised by Shirley. The Mayor of Bracknell Forest attended and started the proceedings with a gold!  The weather wasn't quite as good as last year, but yet again a new National record as set by Mari Jones of Warfield.

Berkshire Champs. Another great turnout for our juniors - Sophie, Grant, Jane, Harry, Robert and Douglas. Sophie was shooting as an adult, and won becoming the Berkshire Ladies Champion.

Junior Nationals - A strong contingent of Juniors attended the Junior Nationals this year - Sophie, Matt and Grant for both days, and Harry, Jane, Robert, and Xander for the Sunday. The GNAS made the whole weekend extra fun with having music playing between each ends, and various YouTube videos have been posted with all the kids singing on mass!  the whole weekend went down extremely well, and hopefully will encourage those first timers to go again. Grant won the Metric 1 on Saturday, and was runner up on the Sunday, shooting a York! Sophie was 3rd on the Saturday, shooting a Ladies FITA, and third again on the Sunday shooting a Hereford.

Euronations - Matt will be shooting for England in the 2009 in both the Home nations and the Euronations tournaments this year
  June  2009 A large contingent descended on Windsor Forest's ground for their annual Windsor @ Windsor tournament.  Nigel and Sarah Birchenough joined Andrew Henman, Barry Rose, Charles Jeffrey, Paul O'Neil  Gibbs and Ian Mallins in the adult recurve class, with John Dagnall coming second in the Longbow section. A strong Junior representation saw both Jane and Grant Ballentine and Alex Henman winning their classes, whilst Douglas Evans came second in the Short Windsor, and Harry Tunstall third in the Junior Windsor Section. Robert Urquhart and Benny Deacon completed the Crowthorne flock of Crowthorne archers.  The team of Alex, Nigel, Charles, and Dennis took third place.
  May  2009 At the Middlesex County Champs Robert Urquhart and Harry Tunstall both achieved their Black Roses, coming 2nd and 3rd in their class. Grant won the U18 Longbow Bristol 1.

Congratulations to John Dagnall for achieving his Bowman Longbow Classification.
  April  2009 The Richmond Pagoda Shoot was attended by eight members of Crowthorne: Barry Rose, Dennis Gibbs, Andrew and Alex Henman, Matt Brighton, Grant Ballentine all shooting an Albion, with Xander Pike,  and Sophie Meering shooting the Windsor round.  Matt and Grant won their sections, with Alex coming second, and in the Windsor side Sophie won the Junior Girls (and beat all the ladies) with Xander coming second.  It was a truly gorgeous sunny day and a great start to the season. 

 

 
  January    2009 The AGM was held on the 17th January, all the current officers being re-elected to their positions, and Nigel Birchenough being elected as a new member of the Committee.  Matt Brighton was awarded the 2008 GNAS Handicap Improvement Medal, together with the suitable warning of displaying at at all Club and Target days.  The meeting was followed by the now traditional quiz evening, which together with the catering, was wonderfully organised by Andrew Henman.
  December    2008 Junior Nationals: :Six of our Juniors attended the Junior National Indoor Championships at Lilleshall - The largest contingent for a number of years.  First timers were Jane Ballentine, Ashley Warwick and Xander Pike, and the old stagers of Grant Balletnine, Matt Brighton and Sophie Meering.  Grant took silver in the U18 Longbow and Ashley Gold in the U18 Longbow. Well done all!
  November    2008 Berkshire Indoors: :A very successful Berkshire Indoors saw Crowthorne gaining much gold and silverware!  Matt Brighton took the U18's and overall Junior Gents title, with Robert Urquart, Douglas Evans and Harry Tunstall cleaning up the U12 section. Sophie Meering took Gold in the U16's, with both Ashley Warwick and Grant Ballentine winning their respective U18 Longbow sections.  In the adults, John Dagnall was narrowly pipped for the Gold by Mick Tappin of Harlequin. In the team section Crowthorne took the Longbow and Junior Crowns.
  October    2008 National Record :Grant Ballentine broke his second National Longbow Record for the year, with a score of 241 at the Laleham Albion. Sophie and Matt Brighton took the Junior Pairs trophy, with Matt taking the Junior Gents title and Sophie 2nd in the Junior Girls.
  September 2008 World Field Champs - Chris Wells won the bronze medal at the World Field Champs, under very challenging conditions - with one of the days cancelled due to appalling weather.

Sophie Meering and Matt Brighton went to the SCAS Junior Champs, Matt coming 2nd in the Bristol 1, and Sophie 3rd in the Hereford Championship round.

The club champs were held on a dull drizzly day, with a good turnout of archers. Many thanks as always to Shirley for organising it.
  August 2008 Farewell! - Chris Wells is leaving Crowthorne Archers as he is off to Warwick University to study Ancient Civilisations. Chris joined Crowthorne as a Junior, and rapidly progressed to become an international archery as a member of the GB Field Archery team, and will again be representing his country at the World Field Championships next  month in Wales.  We will all have our own distinct memories of Chris, and we will  all miss the exuberance that is Chris. He is joining Lakeside archers, so he can continue to shoot for Berkshire. Good luck at Uni!

Crowthorne Juniors represented the county in two matches in August : Matt Brighton and Sophie Meering winning at the Tri Counties on 9th August, with  Sophie and Robert Urquhart forming part of the Berks team that came a very credible third place at the Junior Intercounties the following weekend. Well done to Robert in his first outing for Berkshire!
  July 2008 Crowthorne Nationals - the sun shone, the buttercups(?) came out and our second Nationals Tournament was an even better success than last year.  Jane, Robert, and Harry won the inaugural Junior team trophy, and Grant put nearly one hundred points onto his National record from last year. Many thanks to all those who helped on the day, but especially to Shirley, who organised it so well.

Junior Nationals - 3 of our Juniors went to a very challenging weekend at Lilleshall on 5th and 6th July - Matt Brighton, Grant Ballentine and Sophie Meering.  The weather on the Saturday (metrics) was truly awful - very windy and squalls! Despite this Grant saw off his opposition to win by a handsome margin. Sunday was only marginally better - less wind, but heavy showers intermingled with sun.  Again Grant shone, and beat his nearest rival by 64 points to be U16 National Longbow Champion.  Matt shot a Metric 2 and Bristol 2, whilst Sophie shot a ladies FITA and Hereford.

Euronations - Sophie and Chris will be shooting for England in the 2008 Euronations tournament in Wales at the end of July. It will be Chris' last tournament as a Junior, and Sophie's 2nd year on England Euronations duty.
  June 2008 Five of our adults and five Juniors turned out for the Windsors @ Windsor on the 8th of June. Windsor Forest's ground must have one of the most impressive views of any ground in the country - Windsor Castle itself. In the Junior sections there was Gold success for Grant Ballentine and his younger sister Jane, as well as Alex Gibbs. Alex Henman and Harry Tunstall completed Crowthorne Junior's medal haul with bronze apiece.
  May 2008 Seven of our adults and four of our juniors went to the West Windsor May Day Open tournament, coming away with 3rd place team. Gold medal winners were Alex Gibbs, David Race and Grant Ballentine, with Alex Henman bringing home a silver medal.
    Six of our juniors went to the Adam Roberts memorial shoot at Lintman Archery Club (formally the AAS Southern shoot). In the Junior Western Round Robert Urquart came 1st in his first competition - a fantastic achievement! Abbie Wanden similarly took gold in her class, with Grant Ballentine runner up in the longbow section. The Crowthorne team came a very credible fourth overall.
  Dec 2007

Junior National Indoor Championships 8th and 9th December 2007

Grant Ballentine  became the Overall National Junior Longbow Champion, to add to his National Record for the Short Junior National round from back at the Crowthorne Nationals back in the summer.  To crown his fantastic year, he also won the GNAS Handicap Medal for 2007.
  Nov 2007 Following his success in Croatia in the European Field Championships, Chris Wells is now listed as the World No 1 Under 18.

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