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On 29th & 30th of June, a team of 12 men and 3 ladies, represented Essex and Suffolk at the inter counties team competition held at Lilleshall, Shropshire.

Weather was very warm and sunny on Saturday and cooler but breezy on Sunday.

Most of the team arrived on Friday to set up tents and have a practice in the evening.

Some of the team (Mark/Richard/Tony - Barebow, Bob - Longbow, Tony - Compound) had never shot in the team head to head format before, in this type of team event 3 archers must shoot 2 arrows each within a 2 minute timeframe.

Most of the teams managed to get some shooting practice in that evening, were happy with the shooting line up and had a chance to become familiar with the time pressures archers are under when shooting an arrow in 20 seconds!!

...continue reading "National Team Championships 2019"

The Minutes of the ECAA Meetings for May and July have been published at Governance -> Meetings

The next regular committee meeting takes place on Wednesday 4th September at Margaretting Village Hall.

As always, this information comes with an open invitation to all members of the county to attend the meeting and a request to club secretaries to please pass on the details to your club members. 

Remember, it's your county and the committee are here to help you enjoy your archery. Please do come along and join the discussion.

Debbie Horn
Secretary 
Essex County Archery Association

Next years Andy Harris League Entry form is on the web site at Tournaments & Records -> Leagues -> Andy Harris League

The Entry forms need to sent back before 1st September so get your entries in!

The Results and Tables for the July matches of the ECAA Albion Legaue have been published.

They can be found at Tournaments & Records -> Leagues -> Albion Recurve League

The Senior Records for Barebow Indoors, and Compound, Longbow and Recurve Outdoor have been updated.

They can be seen at Tournaments & Records -> Records -> Senior Records

Following a rule change from Archery GB and World Archery it was decided at the last council meeting that the county would do the same, therefore all Double WA round records have now been archived and the books are open for new claims.

I will accept any claim from the start of the outdoor season this year (2019) as long as it was shot at a double event, under the new rules which require no practice before the second round.

Rounds affected are Double WA70, Double WA60, Double WA50.

This also coincides with the introduction of “Masters” category for the over 50’s with records being recognised in the following rounds

WA60, WA50, WA1440 Ladies (60/50/40/30), WA1440 Gents (70/60/50/30) and WA 18

For details see the spring issue of Archery Uk page 23.

Mark Lawrence
ECAA SRO