There will be a Safeguarding Children Course on the 17 of April in Halifax. If you'd like to join the course, please contact me to book a place.
Regards
Grahame Cotterill
01422 201350
07796 640563
YAA had intended to offer a L2 coach course starting in February. However, the course is currently under review by National Coaching Committee and significant changes may result. I am reluctant to start a course when the final format might be unknown or change mid-course, especially the assessment format which is proving almost impossible for many people to fulfil.
If you would like to progress to Level 2 please send your name, club, GNAS number, address, email and telephone number to me and I will send you the application pack so that once we have clarity on the course and assessment formats we can make a start.
Please note that applicants must be qualified at L1 and have received their certificates; evidence will be required of this, which also acts as evidence of current CRB unless L1 was achieved three years ago and you have not yet renewed.
Similarly, the L2 update process for current Coaches is far more onerous than was intended and I have asked NCC to consider a revision of this to match the changes to L2, also removing what appears to be re-assessing Coaches on elements they have already passed. If you do wish to update and can fulfil the requirements, which includes an online questionnaire / test and a portfolio of over 20 pages, then please contact GNAS office for an application pack, which costs £10 and provides the required paperwork on CD.
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
YAA Coaching is planning a series of CPD events which will provide a stepping stone for L1 coaches in moving towards L2, and a refresher for L2 coaches. Each will also provide CPD points to support renewal. Details and booking procedures will be advertised shortly. This will include sessions on compound bows, coaching juniors, coaching disabled archers, observation skills, bow set up and tuning. All sessions will be delivered by qualified YAA Coaches. Details and booking procedures will be advertised shortly. Bookings will be coordinated through Andy Arnold on behalf of the YAA coaching group, providing Andy with a great development opportunity to gain valuable experience to contribute to his Senior Coach training programme!
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
Congratulations to Rachael Smith of Barnsley (compound) who joins the GB Junior Archery Squad this month. Good luck to Rachael who, again, has been a stalwart of the county youth squads and who now trains with the senior squad to raise her performance further.
Rachael is the 15th YAA junior selected for national squad having come through the YAA squad system.
Just for interest, here is the roll of honour.
In the period 1991-2000:
Jason Wright
Marcus Firmin
Sarah Jane Wright
Andrew Stones
Peter Hunt (field squad)
Eddie Humphrey
Salli Warnes
Lisa Norfolk
Kris Jackson
Nick Everitt
In the period 2003-10:
Matthew Arnold
Nicole Allan
Danielle Brown (paralympic)
Georgie Brown
Rachael Smith
In addition, seniors involved in the squads who went on to be selected for GB squad include:
Linda Garner (one of the early junior squad coaches)
Sarah Beamish (paralympic)
Of course, not all YAA archers performing at elite levels have had county squad involvement (Amy, Michelle, Linda & Neil Oliver, Chris Parkin to name a few), but it's not a bad record, and we are delighted with this latest addition.
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
I will be running a first aid training course at Barnsley Archery Club on Sunday the 16th of May. Cost and full details are to be confirmed. If you'd like to join the course, please contact me to register your interest.
Regards
Grahame Cotterill
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07796 640563
I am told that the new Level 1 course is unlikely to come on line before April and that there might be a significant price increase when the course is contracted out. I already have two people on the waiting list for another Level 1 course. If we have sufficient interest I could register another course this year and start it in the New Year. We need a minimum of eight to be cost effective (maximum of 12). Cost will be about £150 because of fee increases to headquarters etc.
Regards
Grahame Cotterill
Course Manager
01422 201350
07796 640563
| junior development for those newer junior archers keen to improve; |
| youth performance for those more experienced archers keen to progress; |
| senior for existing and aspiring MB and GMB archers who need support to either reach their goals or maintain levels of performance. Please note, senior squad archers must have achieved at least one Bowman score this year. |
| Junior Development | Youth Performance | Senior |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 24th October 2009 | Saturday 14th November 2009 | Saturday 28th November 2009 |
| Squads Christmas fun shoot & ***party*** Saturday 19th December 2009 | ||
| Saturday 30th January 2010 | Saturday 23rd January 2010 | Sunday 31st January 2010 |
| Saturday 6th March 2010 | Saturday 27th February 2010 | Sunday 28th February 2010 |
(Note change of date for the first Senior Squad meeting.)
If you wish to apply for a place on a YAA squad, download the application form below, complete it and return it:
YAA squads 2009-2010 application form (Word format)
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
The NSPCC has launched a free online film - 'Play Sport Stay Safe' - for sports club staff, volunteers and parents. It shows examples of how to recognise, respond to and report any concerns over the safety and well being of children involved in sport.
NSPCC press release
NSPCC video
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
L-R Kath Fitzpatrick, Senior Coach Tutor/Mentor with new YAA County Coaches Grahame Cotterill and Mary Hannan.
Tom Musgrove, Senior Coach and the Exam Manager with Kath Fitzpatrick, Senior Coach Tutor/Mentor and new County Coaches Grahame Cotterill and Mary Hannan.
This makes 5 County Coaches in the past 3 years - Jean Clarkson, Andy Arnold, Michael Ward, Grahame Cotterill and Mary Hannan.
Andy Arnold has also been accepted onto Senior Coach Training.
Three previous County Coaches who trained in Yorkshire (Martin Holtby, Tim Swane, Tony Alston) have all now progressed to Senior Coach.
Kath Fitzpatrick
Senior Coach
CCO/RCO
Two new county coaches qualified today at Lilleshall after a course tutored by Senior Coach Kath Fitzpatrick. Congratulations to Grahame Cotterill from Phoenix Bowmen and Mary Hannan from Cobra.
Kath is second from left, Grahame is third from left (at back) and Mary is fourth from left.
The Framework England coaching development group has issued an update of what it's been up to:
General update from Ollie Holt (PDF)
July 2009 update from Tony ferguson (Word format)
Clubs are invited to share their insights and ideas about best practice in coaching. Please complete the form below and return it to Kath Fitzpatrick, who will collate the information and pass it on:
Best practice form (Word format)
Send to:
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Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
Thanks to the hard work of the YAA coaching group over the two YAA weekends at Wetherby, we have raised a total of £834.28 towards the cost of the squads.
Many thanks to Mick, Jean, Harry, Grace, Michael, Grahame for their work in the refreshments tent, also to Sheila on the YAA weekend, to all those people who brought goodies/drinks to sell, donated raffle prizes and to Andy for providing the extra gas rings. Massive thanks to the Smith family for the barbecue, fridges etc on the first weekend.
A great team effort.
Let's just fill those squads this winter, develop some cracking good archers and make it all worth while.
(Squad forms are downloadable from the website)
Kath Fitzpatrick
County Coaching Officer
Michael Ward was presented with the Yorkshire Sword at the county championships on Sunday 6th June 2009. This was in recognition of all his hard work for Yorkshire's archers over a number of years.
The citation nominating Michael reads:
The YAA Coaching Group and Barnsley Archery Club would like to nominate Michael Ward for the award of the Yorkshire Sword.
Michael is now a member of Selby Archery Club but is better known for his long association with the University of York. This year has seen him take on a wide range of responsibilities and achieve a number of goals in his support of Yorkshire archery and regional/national promotion of the sport through his role as University archery liaison for YAA and NCAS, following the role he has had with BUSA. He has played a strong role in developing University archery for some time, working with BUSA and the NEUAL shoots as organiser and supporting a number of Universities in organising shoots in the University calendar.
Michael has passed his County Coach exam this year, consolidating the work he has been doing in coaching. He is involved with both Yorkshire Youth/Junior squads as a coach, and the senior squad as a coach/archer. His commitment has been high. At Selby he has already introduced regular coaching days and is supporting archers of all disciplines in improving their performance.
Michael has now completed his Level 1 tutor and assessor training, and Level 2 tutor/course manager. Over the past year he has led and tutored a University-specific Level 1 coach training course involving Leeds, Sheffield and York Universities with another planned this year, increasing the number of Universities accessing this. Interest is now developing across the region, and some student candidates are progressing to level 2 and beyond.
In supporting the YAA Coaching Group, Michael has taken on the role of Treasurer, introducing a rigorous system of budget management and ensuring that we have a clear picture of our finances and costs. In doing this, he led the request (with Harry Drake) for support from YAA general funds for the squads, and we have been grateful for the support received. This year he has also attended development conferences for coaching for YAA and also the recent GNAS SDP conference for NCAS.
Michael works hard at whatever he takes on, is always supportive, and we feel he is a good role model for the sport and the county, and a worthy recipient of this award.
Kath Fitzpatrick, on behalf of YAA Coaching
Gwen Smith, on behalf of Barnsley AC
The NCAS Coaching Conference took place today. It was Yorkshire's turn to host, and Barnsley Archery Club acted as our excellent hosts for the day.
Kath Fitzpatrick welcomed 37 coaches to the conference. Every one of the five Northern Counties - Cheshire, Cumbria, Durham & Northumberland, Lancashire and Yorkshire - was well represented.
Tom Musgrove made a presentation that gave the attendees a better understanding of back tension ("Muscular Patterns Within a Closed Cyclic Sport - Archery Movements Explained").
Helen George gave a presentation on coaching archers with disabilities and medical conditions, drawing on her extensive experience with the GB Paralympic squad.
Beverley Detoeuf talked about archery injuries and their causes. After the excellent buffet lunch laid on by Jean Clarkson, Beverley continued with her presentation, switching the focus to the prevention of injuries through specific exercises.
Mick Fitzpatrick explained how a compound bow works, then showed us how to set up a bow and perform the initial tuning.
Kath Fitzpatrick discussed the coaching of compound archers and juniors, shooting down many misconceptions.
After a question and answer session, Kath wrapped up a very productive and informative event.
The Barnsley charity shoot, which was held on Sunday the 1st of March, was a great success and proved a very enjoyable day for the club and hopefully all the archers who participated. The spirit of the shoot was fantastic and very upbeat in spite of a very chilly wind.
The number of archers who took part far exceeded our expectations and I would like to extend our thanks to all the archers who supported the shoot and were most generous in their donations throughout the day.
As a result of the generosity of the club members, archers who attended, sponsorship from archery suppliers and from collections at the Shaw Lane facility, the day has raised £820 so far which will be donated jointly to Cancer Research and Macmillan Trust.
These two charities are very deserving and I feel that this shoot has allowed me to give a little back to enable their good work, from which I have benefitted over the last year, to continue.
I would like to extend particular thanks to the following people:
Aardvark Archery for sponsoring the target faces.
Merlin Archery for sponsoring a number of very interesting and fun raffle prizes.
Barnsley Archery Club members for their hard work leading up to and on the day.
Finally many thanks to everyone who braved the weather and came along, without you the day could not have been such a success.
Thank you once again.
Yours Faithfully,
Iain Smith
Chairman of Barnsley Archery Club
www.barnsleyarchers.co.uk
Tom Musgrove was presented with the Jack Flinton Helping Hand Award at the National Coaching Conference, which took place from the 7th to the 9th of November 2008. The award of this annual trophy to Tom was announced at this year's Archery GB AGM following nomination by the Yorkshire Archery Association.
Tom's archery career began in 1954 with Harvester Archers in Doncaster. In 1956 he started to coach and rapidly progressed to a Regional and then National (now known as Senior) coach.
Tom has worked within the sport as a coach education tutor in Yorkshire and the East Midlands and as a coach, most notably working with the National Youth Squad. Tom is also largely responsible for the development of the Archery GB Leaders coaching award. In the early 1990s he was the first person to complete the Sports Coaching degree from the National Coaching Foundation (now sports coach UK).
Tom continues to work with archers of all standards from beginner to international level, and also happens to be a national table tennis coach! Kath Fitzpatrick, Archery GB Senior Coach and Northern Counties Regional Coaching Organiser said "I don't believe you could find anyone more committed to archery coaching than Tom - he still has a great enthusiasm for coaching and a thirst for learning to this day, he is a truly inspirational and a worthy recipient of this award".
Archery GB (which some do call The GNAS) has launched a coaching newsletter, Shooting Forward. For more details and to subscribe, go to the page below:
GNAS coaching page
Below is some information taken from the newsletter.
Shooting Forward is Archery GB's first online coaching magazine bringing you the latest news, coaching guidance and grass roots reporting. Within each edition of Shooting Forward you can expect to find regular features including C.A.S.E and Coaching Stars (see below) and club and coach development updates, in addition to the latest news and interesting interviews.
We believe that all coaches have a responsibility to share their coaching, ideas, techniques and methods with other coaches, and to seek better practice for themselves. In this vein, we introduce the 'Copy And Steal Everything' - CASE - guide to coaching!
To start with you copy and steal all the best coaching ideas that you can find. Then you share them with your coaching colleagues. Simple, and together we will improve our coaching skills!
It might be what they focus on or how they coach that makes the learning journey so dynamic and here's your chance to nominate your inspiring coach to be showcased in our regular feature 'Coaching Stars'. E-mail Hannah Bussey your 'Coaching Star' nomination along with the following information:
Your nominated Coaching Stars' name, club, contact details and a photograph (jpeg format).
A profile of who they coach and what makes their coaching so special.
Your name and the name of anyone else who your nomination is on behalf of.
We'll contact the winning Coaching Star for a brief interview and inclusion in the next edition of Shooting Forward. Each featured Coaching Star will win an Archery GB key ring - what a bonus!
YAA have a new County Coach.
Michael Ward (University of York Archers) passed his County Coach exam yesterday at Lilleshall National Sports Centre, after a 2 day examination. Congratulations to Michael!
Examiner Pauline Pillans congratulates Michael
left to right - Michael Ward (YAA) with Senior Coach mentor Kath Fitzpatrick, Joyce Harrison (Cheshire) with Senior Coach mentor Martin Speakman
left to right - NCO Education, Bill McKay; Assessment manager Tom Musgrove; YAA County Coach Michael Ward & Senior Coach mentor Kath Fitzpatrick; Cheshire County Coach Joyce Harrison and Senior Coach mentor Martin Speakman; Examiner Pauline Pillans, Senior Coach; Peter SCT Trainee observer; Examiner Barry Molsom, Senior Coach
Martin Holtby of Hull Kingston Archers has been presented with the Yorkshire Sword for his services to archery in 2007 and over many previous years. The sword was presented at the YAA Championships on the 1st of June 2008 by the Lady Paramount, Nicole Allen.
The citation nominating Martin for the award reads:
Hull Kingston Archers would be proud to nominate Martin Holtby for the 2007 Yorkshire Sword. An archer of 28+ years, Martin has achieved just about every award the County & Region can offer. As a Coach for 10 years Martin finally achieved the rank of Senior Coach & Assessor for the Region & GNAS. He has raised the level of some already very good archers to achieve even more, often to MB status, often at the expenses of his own shooting/practice and valuable free time.
He is the sort of person who speaks quietly but achieves much for others. A YAA Committee man, Hull Kingston Archers Club Official, YAA CPO, Martin wears so many hats for Yorkshire he should walk with a stoop, but his back is straight and he is proud to work for YAA archers with no thought for himself.
I am proud to know Martin and offer his name for consideration for the Award.
John Gilroy, Secretary, Hull Kingston Archers
Kath Fitzpatrick presented her report as County Coaching Officer to the YAA AGM today. Click on the link below to read it:
CCO report to YAA AGM 2008
I'm trying to put a data base together of any coaches interested in going into schools to provide archery coaching, normally after school, 4pm-ish. Possibly with their own training equipment.
Please contact me on email via
01405 765347.
Mary Hannan,
YAA Coaching Schools Liaison.
YAA Coaching held a clinic at Wetherby on the weekend of the 26th and 27th of January 2008. 12 archers from Yorkshire and Lancashire took part.
A page of photos, with more information about the weekend, has been created on the main YAA website:
Coaching Clinic January 2008
Congratulations to Andy Arnold, who passed his County Coach assessment on the weekend of the 26th and 27th of January.
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