Archery in Yorkshire

The purpose of the Yorkshire Archery Association is to promote and support the sport of archery in Yorkshire.
The YAA is the county affiliation body for clubs in Yorkshire.
The YAA represents Yorkshire's archers at the regional and national levels.
The YAA is affiliated to the Northern Counties Archery Society and the Grand National Archery Society (Archery GB).
The YAA has the largest number of affiliated clubs of any English county organisation.
The YAA organises several tournaments each year including the indoor and outdoor county championships.
The YAA selects and manages the Yorkshire county teams.
The YAA maintains records of the highest scores achieved in the various disciplines of archery practised in the county.
The YAA presents awards in recognition of service to archers and clubs in Yorkshire.

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Arrowhawks Archery Academy has been launched to provide national talent development and academy programmes to Yorkshire

Danage timing equipment

The YAA's new Danage timing system is available for use by YAA clubs:

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YAA events

YAA Annual General Meeting	10 March 2018
YAA Indoor Championships	11 March 2018	2018 results
YAA Clout Weekend	14 & 15 April 2018	2018 metric results 2018 Imperial results
Lez Newsome Memorial Metric Day (Single WA1440 Star and Metrics)	2 June 2018	2018 results
YAA Senior & Junior Championships	3 June 2018	2018 results 2018 photos
YAA WA1440	30 June 2018	WA1440 2018 results
Double WA720/WA50	1 July 2018	Double WA720 2018 results
YAA Longbow Championships	4 August 2018	2018 entry form 2017 results
5 Counties Juniors Match	6 October 2018	2017 individual results 2017 team results 2017 report 2017 photos
5 Counties Seniors Match	7 October 2018	2017 individual results 2017 team results 2017 report 2017 photos
YAA Field Championships	28 October 2018	2018 details 2017 results

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Latest news

14 July 2018: The YAA Field Championships will be held on the 28th of October as day two of Dearne Valley's Combined WA Field shoot:
Dearne Valley Combined WA Field incorporating the YAA and Open Field Championships 2018

Bronte Archers have published the results of their Double WA 1440 Weekend shoots:
NCAS/Bronte Archers Double WA1440 Star 2018 results

A Sebastien Flute Forged Plus riser and two sets of limbs have been added to the Small ads page:
Win & Win Wiawis NS limbs (long)
SF Forged Plus riser (LH)
SF Velocity Pro limbs

9 July 2018: The YAA Chairman expresses his thanks to the volunteers who helped at the Wetherby shoots this summer:
Thanks to our volunteers

Joe Fairburn will represent GB at the World Field Championships in Italy:
Joe selected for GB field team

8 July 2018: Izzy and Adam Carpenter achieved fantastic results at the European Youth Cup:
Adam and Izzy triumph at European Youth Cup

Megan Tinker will represent GB at the World Field Championships in Italy:
Megan selected for GB field team

Yorkshire did well at the National Counties Teams Tournament:
Midsummer County Teams 2018

Equipment and helpers are needed for the British Transplant Games:
Help needed for British Transplant Games

Clubs are advised to beware of fraud attempts:
Fraud attempts on archery clubs

Barnsley Archery Club have published the entry forms for their September shoots:
Barnsley AC 31st Albion and 29th Longbow
Barnsley AC WRS WA720 + Head-To-Head

York Archers Society will hold their October Clout on the 13th of October:
York Archers Society October Clout Tournament

The results of the Wetherby metric shoots have been published:
NCAS/YAA WA1440 2018 results
NCAS/YAA Double WA720 2018 results

Chantry Bowmen have issued the results of the Sword shoot:
Chantry Sword 2018 results

24 June 2018: Abbeydale Archers will hold the Potato Shoot, this year in memory of Dave Reynolds, on the 16th of September:
Abbeydale Archers Open Potato Shoot

23 June 2018: York Archers Society have published the results of their Double York/Hereford:
York Archers Society double York/Hereford 2018 results

Blackridge Archery will be running a Level 2 Coaching course from September:
Level 2 coaching course

17 June 2018: The National Clout Championships will be hosted by Bronte Archers on the 20th of October:
The National Clout Championships 2018

13 June 2018: A gallery of photos from the YAA Championships has been added to the site:
YAA Championships 2018 photos

The Wakefield Archers will hold the Pomfret 60 on the 2nd of September:
The Pomfret 60, hosted by The Wakefield Archerst

10 June 2018: The YAA teams for the National County Teams tournament have been announced:
National County Teams squad

6 June 2018: The results of the weekend's Wetherby shoots have been published:
The Lez Newsome Memorial Metric Day 2018 results
YAA Annual County Championship and Open 2018 results

White Rose Archers' Autumn Shoot will take place on the 6th of October:
White Rose Archers 24th Autumn Shoot

5 June 2018: Helen Woodcock has been awarded the Yorkshire Sword:
Helen Woodcock receives the Yorkshire Sword

Izzy and Adam Carpenter have been selected for the GB team which will compete in the European Youth Championships 2018:
Adam and Izzy selected for GB

The revised Rules of Shooting came into force at the start of April, notably Rule 306 which concerns scoring. The Judging Team has produced advice on what this means to archers:
Rule 306

The latest YAA newsletter has been published (a month late - apologies):
Summer 2018 YAA Newsletter
Please note that news from the Wetherby weekend has been held over to the next issue, so we've got summat to put in it.