Hi everybody, Sanjay here, Club Secretary, delivering you the below May club updates!
New Committee members
Please join me to welcome:
Kit Tang as the Chair of Bowmen of Harrow
Ayesha Malpas-Barb as the Treasurer of Bowmen of Harrow
Khuzuma Akhtar as the Safeguarding Officer of Bowmen of Harrow
Membership Instalments
The May instalments are now due. If you are paying by instalments, please expect an email soon regarding this matter.
Star Wars Social
Our Social Secretary, Angelina, along with her dad Kyri (our Web Administrator) are working hard to prepare for our Star Wars themed shoot!
The event is currently fully booked but worry not, there will be more social events organised in the future, keep an eye out for them in the Club updates!
Health and Safety reminder
Please can all club members remember not to block the fire extinguisher as per the health and safety policy we require clear access to them.
Coaching at the Bowmen of Harrow
As you may have seen there have been some updates regarding safeguarding and coaching information. We are pleased to announce our Coaching page listing Licensed Coaches who are part of the club.
https://bowmenofharrow.org.uk/club/coaching/
If you have an Archery coaching award, please reach out at the bottom of the link so you can be added to the list as well.
Archery course reminder
As ever the club is taking bookings for archery courses throughout 2024! Please see our website for full information by clicking here.
The next beginner course commences on May 4th tying in nicely with ‘Start Archery Week’ which you can all read more about by clicking here.
Winter League Results
Final results from the Portsmouth, Frostbite and Worcester leagues have been released. There were a number of good results across the board. Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to everyone who won badges, got a PB or were part of our successful teams.
Selby Portsmouth League
Recurve A – 4th in Division 3 (4th highest overall on aggregate total score out of 112 teams)
Recurve B – 2nd in Division 8 (placed second on aggregate to division winner 8284 vs 8228)
Barebow – 1st in Division 4 (Team members – Martin Athanasiou, James Mooney, Joseph Malpas-Barb)
Longbow – 6th in Division 1
Compound – 5th in Division 7
Selby Frostbite League
Recurve A – 4th in Division 3
Recurve B – 5th in Division 12
Barebow – 5th in Division 2
Longbow – 1st in Division 7 (Team members – Michael Hall, Sui-Man Kuet)
Middlesex County Worcester League
Team Results:
Recurve – 1st (Team members – Sywia Radomska, Jon McCullough, Rafal Pawlicki, Kit Tang, Jennika Vadher, Nick Hunter)
Junior Recurve – 1st (Team members – Charlotte Chan, Betsey Bamattre, Lea Tang, Natalia Radomska, Arwa Sardar)
Longbow – 2nd
Barebow – 4th (second on overall aggregate score)
Compound – 1st (Team members – Jon McCullough, Kienda Hoji, Stephen Torroni)
Individual Top Scorers:
Mens Recurve – Jon McCullough (290)
Ladies Recurve – Sylwia Radomska (293)
Junior Girls Recurve – Charlotte Chan (261)
Junior Girls Barebow – Angelina Theodorou (223)
Mens Compound – Jon McCullough (299)
Summer League – Middlesex County Short Metric
Please take note of the following dates for our matches in this year’s Short Metric League. We have teams entered for recurve, barebow and longbow. Where venues permit, compound archers can shoot for the top individual score. All matches are on a Sunday and will have sighters at 2pm. These matches will consist of 72 arrows on 80cm faces with 36 arrows at 50m and 36 arrows at 30m, shorter rounds can be arranged for juniors.
23 June vs Laleham (Home)
28 July vs Aquarius (Away)
11 August vs Laleham (Away)
18 August vs Aquarius (Home)
1 September vs Pinner (Home)
TBC vs Harefield (Away)
29 September – Presentation Shoot at Aquarius (TBC)
Further details will be advertised closer to the time.
Reminder: New Club Committee vacancy
Molly, our Club Administrator, and Nikhil our Tournaments Officer have decided to step back from their roles to concertante on exams, thanks both for their contribution to running the club!
Bowmen of Harrow Barebow Seminar
Imran is running a barebow seminar taking place on June 8th at the club. More details to follow.
Commencement of outdoor season shooting!
As some of you will know the outdoor season is upon us and this means outside shooting! This can be tremendous fun and we are lucky to have complimentary use of the fields because of our great relationship with the John Lyon School!
Some members will not have shot outside before, and we would like to explain to these members about where to shoot outside on the fields and under what conditions. Kit and Jon will be contacting recently joined members to arrange some induction appointments so please keep an eye out in your inboxes for something from either of the below email addresses.
treasurer@bowmenofharrow.org.uk
Meanwhile, all club members should take a moment to familiarise themselves with our club web page that describes the various shooting areas we have on site.
Click here to view our outdoor range page.
Competition Success
Well done to everyone who represented Bowmen of Harrow at the Pagoda Shoot 2024
Results
A special mention to the following club members, in no particular order, who did especially well at the shoot by coming in medal positions!
Albion
1st Mens Recurve Lucian
1st Ladies Recurve Sylwia
1st Mens Barebow Martin
Albion Team Award
Windsor
1st Mens Compound Kienda