Following the sucess of the B'ham uni shirts worn by Severn Archers / B'ham uni members at last years International Paralympic Archery Event, with both the teams and the organisers, we have decided to have some made up especially for this years event.  

So now, after some rather cool designs by Bob and Phil, and a lot of fiddling by Bob and Greig we have now become The Horde!

 The time has come at last for the 2nd European Paralympic Invitational Event held again at the Gutterman Centre, Stoke Mandaville on the 13th - 17th July. The event has grown since the sucess of last year and will see 53 competitors from 6 counties competing against each other.

 Members from Severn Archers (Aka The Horde) will be going down as work party again this year after a glowing review from organisers and teams alike.  

A big thank you to everyone who came to the christmas meal on friday (16th) and the christmas party / shoot on sunday (18th). Both were a sucess and i think i can safely say that everyone had a good time, although i will say that next year elastic bands are strictly band during the meal, especaily when aimed at me! ;o)

Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!

Last weekend saw the first ever Eurpoean paralympic invitational event held at Stoke mandiville, The event was a great sucess with over fifty competitors taking part. Great Britain, Swedan, Poland, Finland, Italy and the Ukraine were all represented. The event was put together by the GB team Manager David Hilton, who in turn recruited myself to provide a work party.. I inturn called upon the archers I coach at Birmingham Universty. At this point i would like to thank those from Brum Uni who helped.. they did sterling work and considering they had never worked as a work party before produced excellant results , receiving compliments (and often team shirts!) from the competitors.. the italian competitors seemed especially pleased/attentive with the attendance of the three ladies in the work party!

Severn Archers (& Long Mynd Archers) own Kay Lucas got news that she was eligable to shoot in the event (her first ever international) on the Friday (halfway through practice day) and was straight into the ranking round on the Saturday afternoon... Kay discovoured that being her first international shoot and with the majority of the GB Squad and team mangement watching she does after all suffer from slight nerves!... Kay got off to a shakey start... things soon started to settle down for Kay and the arrows found there way back to there rightfull place in the centre of the target. The afternoons efforts culminated with a well earned Silver medal.

Next day was the Head to head round, Kays second place on the previous day earned her a bye in the first round, going straight into the next round against an archer from the Ukraine, again a shakey start for Kay, but a strong finsh saw her go through to the Gold Medal match.

For this match Kay was pited against an archer from Poland, after the first end Kay was 1 point behind... i think at this point i lost all of my finger nails! Kays hours of long practice & hard work paid off as she came through to a very strong finish, beating the polish archer by over 10 points.

So to cut a very long story short, Kay in her first ever international event Picked a silver medal in the qualifying round and a gold medal in the head to head, just to top things off she was also awarded a Gold medal for the BWAA champoinships being co -held the same weekend.

........She did smile somewhat.....

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