Outdoor Archery Season, 1991
A good season, starting very well but not continuing to the same level. I had
managed to scrape into the Scottish Squad on the previous year's performance,
and had training over the winter at the squad and with the squad coaches in
the Netherlands, Hans Blüm and Harri Jacobs. I shot too many
competitions this year, competing nearly every weekend from May until
September.
This was also the year in which I went South for the first time and found out
to my chagrin that even though I was number one in Scotland, the standard of
shooting in England was much higher. I did, however get my name equal top of
the leader board at the British
Championships, for a short while.
I also managed to achieve
Master Bowman status for the first time.
I actually achieved the score levels for Grand
Master Bowman, but one of the scores (my first 1200 Fita) was not in a
record status event and so did count.
Summary
See the key for an explanation of the
columns:
Fita average
In my first year over 1200, I shot six 1200 Fitas, fifteen 1100 Fitas, and one
1000 Fita:
Dist Hits Golds Score Low High S. Dev. Num
90m 35.79 3.25 262.08 230 286 16.5628 24
70m 35.96 6.39 296.48 257 322 14.2916 23
50m 35.95 5.32 291.68 268 312 10.1685 22
30m 36.00 12.86 328.68 310 340 6.9110 22
All 143.68 27.18 1180.41 1086 1229 34.3732 22
York average
Only one 900 York, and seven 1000 Yorks made up this season's total.
Dist Hits Golds Score Low High S. Dev. Num
100y 71.38 17.13 464.50 399 502 30.4713 8
80y 48.00 20.13 354.75 314 380 19.2077 8
60y 24.00 17.13 200.50 192 208 4.7697 8
All 143.38 54.38 1019.75 905 1064 48.4013 8
Fita equivalent average
Dist Hits Score Low High S. Dev. Num
All 143.63 1171.09 1058 1229 37.5736 32
Competitions
- Scottish Universities Sports Federation Outdoor Championships, 20th April
- First, and first team.
- Kate Kennedy Silver Arrow, 21st April
- First, and the Jonathon Millwater trophy for the best
student. The silver arrow is a nice trophy.
- Ayr Open Fita, 28th April
- First. My first 1200 Fita, this was unfortunately a
substitute shoot for the Falkirk tournament, which was flooded off, so it
didn't have record status, Star status, or even Thistle status.
- Banchory Open York, 5th May
- First. Not a wonderful score, but everyone else was worse...
- Balbardie Open York, 12th May
- First, this was shot in foul weather conditions, a real gale
blowing across the field.
- Ayr Open York, 19th May
- First.
- West of Scotland Open Fita, 26th May
- First. This was a surprise, since I really didn't shoot very
well.
- Euronations Open Fita, 1st-2nd June
-
Second, at my first international! The weather was dreadful,
cold and very windy. I also picked up a NIAS (Northern Ireland Archery
Society)
1150 Fita Shield.
- Eastern Area Fita, 9th June
- First. Another case of shooting poorly, but not as bad as the
rest.
- Clondalkin Double Fita Star, 15th-16th June
-
First, and I finally got my
1200 Fita Star, at an
international match. I'd recommend Dublin to anyone (for the Guinness, of
course!).
- Northern Area Championships, 30th June
- First.
- Clan Donald Tournament, 2nd-5th July
-
First in Fita and overall Fita, third in the Field
tournament. I also got my
1200 Fita Thistle.
- Northern Area Fita Star, 13th-14th July
- Second. I think I'd been trying too hard by this time.
- Scottish Championships, 3rd-4th August
- Second, as the favourite for this event, I wanted to win it too
much, and didn't shoot to the best of my ability.
- Northern Counties Archery Society Fita Star, 24th-25th August
- Second, in another weekend of foul weather.
- Scottish Archery Association Fita Star, 7th-8th August
-
Second, and highest native Scot. The trophy for the
latter award is a hideous carved wooden archer, generally known as
`Ugh!'. It can be seen in the following
photograph of my trophies up to 1991.
I think this is the competition at which I got my
Six Gold award.
Last modified on 16th June 2008 by angus@harlequin.com