All SCAA-affiliated Sussex Archery Clubs are invited to a meeting at Hurstpierpoint Village Centre BN6 9UY on Saturday 9th June at 2pm, to discuss the future of County Events and Activities, and how the Clubs and County Association can work together to improve participation in archery events and mangement at all levels. Please try to make sure representatives of your Club are there.

Scores are all in for this winter’s postal competition and are posted on the Junior League Webpage

Some more achievements by Sussex Archers this winter:

Congratulations Bryony Pitman! The 2017 UK Indoor Champion was 18^th in ladies championship recurve at the world famous Vegas Shoot that attracts 3500 archers from all over the globe!
And 5^th place at the Indoor World Cup stage 3 in Nimes…..

Kai Thomas-Prause received joint first prize for the Battle of Basing Nerves of steel!  For those not familiar with the “Nerves of Steel”, archers are challenged to shoot at a hole in a steel plate from 18m.  The hole reducing in diameter each round until the final and smallest is only 20mm!!
Maybe better not to use your prime set of tournament arrows…

And the following Sussex archers had success at the Southern Counties championships:

• Senior Ladies Recurve Bryony Pitman Worthing AC Score 1136
• Junior Compound U16 Holly Hunter High Weald Score 1059
• Senior Men Compound Tim Nash Brighton Bowmen Score 1169
• Senior Men Barebow Pete Mann High Weald Score 955
• Junior Men Recurve U18 Marc Charlesworth Arundown Score 1054

Two Sussex Junior Gents were selected to shoot for England in the Home International at the Junior Indoor Championships in December, Marc Charlesworth (Recurve – Arundown) and Nathan Thomas (Compound – Worthing) tasted victory when the England Team came out on top as clear winners.
On the following day, Bryony Pitman (Worthing) finished as Lady Recurve Champion at the Senior National Indoor Meeting.
And the Sussex Team were also Winnners at the 4-way inter-County Match arranged by Kent County Archery Association the previous weekend.

Team Captain Nick Lea reports…

The Kent Indoor 4-Way tournament in Sittingbourne on November 25^h saw our archers pitted against Essex, Kent and Surrey.  Two Portsmouth rounds defined the day with Compound and Recurve archers shooting the morning session and Barebow and Longbow in the afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

Kent Archery Association arranged the first-ever Southern Counties Inter-Counties Field Event held on 15th October. Several of the Counties invited decided not to take part this year because some of their best archers had been invited to a Selection Shoot on the same day – as indeed were ours. But Sussex has some strength in depth so we were able to field a Field Team (with a little help from our friends – see the Team Captain’s report below).
Click Here for a Gallery of Pictures of the Shoot
Team Captain Nick Lea’s Report….
I’m very pleased to announce that Sussex were victorious at the Kent field inter-county shoot on Sunday!
We claimed 1st, 2nd and 4th places in what was the first inter-county field tournament in the UK.  Chris Horan and Bob Beany are hoping to make this pilot tournament a regular event and act as template for other counties to follow suit. Kent had extended an invitation to ourselves, Surrey and Essex.  The fact that Surrey and Essex felt they had to withdraw due to lack of archers highlights the difficulties we were all facing. Read the rest of this entry »

The SCAA 2017 Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 11th November at Manor Field Primary School, Junction Road, Burgess Hill, RH15 OPZ. The intention is to send out Draft Minutes and Officers’ Reports fairly soon while they are still of interest to those who didn’t attend the AGM, rather than wait 12 months. Similarly it is intended to send out Digests of Executive Meetings soon after they happen. Read the rest of this entry »

Sussex Archers have been busy notching up some great performances this year. Here are pictures of some of the Seniors and Juniors who have been successful at International and National level:

And here are some of the things they and other Sussex archers have been up to… Read the rest of this entry »

This year the County Championships had World Record Status for the first time; The Field Championships were on a new 28-target Course; The Clout Championships were the first in seven years, and at Crawley for the first time

The Clout Championships were on 13th August at Crawley

Final Scores and Some Photos now on the Event Webpage >> Click Here

The Target Championships were on 16th July at Crawley

Final Scores and Some Photos for Saturday  and Sunday are now on the Event Webpage >> Click Here

The Field Championships were on 30th July on at High Weald Archery Club, Etchingham

For Results Listings >> Click Here

Sussex 27,091 – Hampshire 25,201

One of Pete Probert’s aims as County Chairman was to ratchet County Matches and Championships up a notch, and apply for World Record Status instead of just UK RS. Well, his wish has come true, but maybe a little sooner than planned as both the Hampshire Match and the County Championships have been given WRS this year, although that may be the result of a tick in the wrong box on the Application Forms. This truly dropped the County Team Manager Nick Lea in at the deep end as, although not nominally the Tournament Organiser it was his job to sort out all the practical details, and it wasn’t just a normal County Match, his first-ever Home Match was also the first ever Outdoor World Record Status Shoot organised by County (although there have been a few others organised by Sussex Clubs). Read the rest of this entry »