Roman Quinton, Olloe Vobe, Stuart Ross, Ollie Smith & Jack Nobbs proudly display their trophies & medals.

For the last six months during our cold winter some of our Deben Juniors have been outside training for the National Scout Archery Competition which took place this weekend in Hertfordshire. The weekend saw the largest number of competitors with over 380 Archers ranging from ages of 8 to adults well over 18. All archers entered into 3 forms of archery - Target, Field and Clout and entered as either Recurve Freestyle or Barebow. The Scout National Archery Competition is open to all abilities and levels of Archery but you must be either a Scouting Member or have a direct relationship to a scouting members ie your a parent of a Cub or Scout etc.

Although the weather was breezy at times, the Club Juniors and our other Scouts, Explorers and Adults achieved some amazing scores and we came away with a grand total of 20 awards out of a possible 30! - these being either Cups or Shields and 33 Medals - these being 22 Golds, 10 Silver, 1 Bronze, plus one of our team members gained the highest Target score for under 18 Barebow and received a top prize of a Genesis Compound Bow donated by Mathews and Clickers Archery who were sponsoring the event.

The Results of our JDAC Members are below:

Roman Quinton:
• 1st - Under 11 Target Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Shield
• 1st - Under 11 Field Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Shield
• 1st - Under 11 Overall Champion Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Cup
• 2nd - Under 11 Clout Barebow - Silver Medal

Ollie Vobe:
• 1st - Under 14 Target Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Cup
• 1st - Under 14 Field Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Shield
• 1st - Under 14 Overall Champion Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Cup
• 2nd - Combined Team Score - Silver Medal

Ollie Smith:
• 1st - Under 14 Clout Barebow - Gold Medal and Cup
• 1st - Under 14 Overall Champion Barebow - Gold Medal and Shield
• 1st - Combined Team Score - Gold Medal
• 2nd - Under 14 Target Barebow - Silver Medal

Jack Nobbs:
• 1st - Under 18 Target Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Cup
• 1st - Under 18 Field Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Shield
• 1st - Under 18 Clout Barebow - Gold Medal and Cup
• 1st - Under 18 Overall Champion Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Cup

And if your interested I was also taking part during the weekend......

Stuart Ross:
• 1st - Over 18 Field Recurve Freestyle - Gold Medal and Shield
• 1st - Combined Team Score - Gold Medal
• 2nd - Over 18 Target Recurve Freestyle - Silver Medal
• 2nd - Over 18 Overall Champion Recurve Freestyle - Silver Medal

The pictures shows JDAC Archers with their Awards. Next Year we would be very interested to hear from any other current JDAC members who are in Scouting as Cubs, Scouts or Explorers who may wish to join the Team and come to the 9th National Scout Archery Competition in May 2014. If your interested please come and speak to me (Stuart) at the next JDAC session.