| Entry No: 1 | From - Omar Al-Mushadani, oka20@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University Bowmen | 11/03/2001 21:25:18 |
| We'd like novice medals at BUSA indoors/outdoors to help encourage new members of the sport to take part at university level. We feel that they represent the future of university archery and should not be discouraged to shoot with older members of the sport. We want to increase the total numbers of students competing and feel that this is one issue that counts towards this. | ||
| Entry No: 2 | From - Michelle Morris, m.k.morris-00@student.lboro.ac.uk, Loughborough | 12/03/2001 09:22:42 |
| Novice medals are an important part in any sport. For archery it would give a lot more encouragement and support to new archers to carry on with the sport. There is a lot of talent in the novice teams in GB, novice medals would help promote these archers to higher levels. | ||
| Entry No: 3 | From - Johanna Bathgate, billybgate@hotmail.com, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen | 12/03/2001 09:36:39 |
| Why should Novices go to competitions when there is nothing for them tp work towards. There is no incentive for Novices to go! If we don't get medals or even certificates then why should the Novices pay to go except to get experience in a larger competition than they are used to! Johanna Bathgate | ||
| Entry No: 4 | From - Jared, J.K.Thornton@ncl.ac.uk, Newcastle | 12/03/2001 10:16:28 |
| With the size of BUSA Archery Indoors and outdoors tournaments we are bound to attract more novices than at just about any other archery event. If the competition is there then why not encourage them by offering them some incentive??? | ||
| Entry No: 5 | From - Victor Yung, vyby2@cam.ac.uk, University of Cambridge | 12/03/2001 10:21:46 |
| The future of the sport depends on attracting, encouraging, and developing novices. | ||
| Entry No: 6 | From - Tim Sheldon, t.sheldon@ic.ac.uk, IC, London | 12/03/2001 11:06:28 |
| Novice medals would be a great way for new archers to have something to aim for and to compare themselves against other novices. It is all very well more experienced archers in the club telling them they are doing well but results at a competition are very convincing and the incentive of a possibility of a medal should help convience them to attend. | ||
| Entry No: 7 | From - Leonora Lang, leonora.lang@ic.ac.uk, Imperial College, London | 12/03/2001 11:33:22 |
| Novices make up the majority of many university clubs, and it is through their enthusiasm that club stay alive. We need their support and novice medals is a fitting way to reward them - a club can not be run just by 'experienced' archers alone, they graduate and leave so we need to encourage novices to stay and pick up where others leave off. | ||
| Entry No: 8 | From - Jonathan Parker, jdp298@soton.ac.uk, Southampton University | 12/03/2001 12:12:39 |
| Without novices, there is no University archery, it fades away into nothing without more people taking it up. Uni clubs are the best way to do this in the country. | ||
| Entry No: 9 | From - Philippa Ascough, 9742453@sms.ed.ac.uk, Edinburgh | 12/03/2001 12:55:12 |
| Novice medals are a positive encouragement for new student archers to continue to compete, achieve and improve within the sport.The financial cost or logistics involved would be far outweighed by the benefit to and appreciation of, all individuals concerned with this issue. | ||
| Entry No: 10 | From - Matilda Lang, womblewiz@hotmail.com, University of London (School of Pharmacy) | 12/03/2001 13:28:30 |
| I have experienced first hand how novices are capable of a tremendous amount, and especially at BUSA events, novices shoot extremely well. The introduction of novice medals would acknowledge novices' achievements and therefore encourage them to continue, whatever their standard. The novice category exists, but what is the point if medals are not awarded? They have nothing to show for their efforts, which should be justly rewarded. | ||
| Entry No: 11 | From - Andy Somers, aqs20@hermes.cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University | 12/03/2001 14:04:13 |
| 1) could people who post say if they are novices - victor was one. 2) there was unfortunatley a limit of 10 people per team at BUSA. No novice medals is partly responisble for many novices not attending - you send your team with the aim of doing the best you can to get medals. With novice medals more teams would have sent complete novice teams as well as their senior archers and there would have been even more than 30% of the field being novices. 3) Those who are novices now, will be making up the senior teams in the future, they will be running the clubs, they will be hosting the BUSA championships, they need to be encouraged to stay in the sport in every way possible including rewards at their national university championships. 4) BUTTS and SUSF leagues have novice teams and individuals awards, this has proved HUGELY successful. Nuff said. | ||
| Entry No: 12 | From - Gavin Simmons, gis98@ic.ac.uk, Imperial | 12/03/2001 15:47:20 |
| The great thing about University archery is that every academic year the clubs get a guaranteed influx of new members. This makes University clubs one of the best ways of attracting people into the sport, and this should be reflected and encouraged in the biggest University competitions. Plus, the hard work that some of these guys and gals put in, and the dedication they show, should be recognised and rewarded. | ||
| Entry No: 13 | From - Suzanne Weller, suzanne@nprl.ph.bham.ac.uk, Birmingham | 12/03/2001 15:47:22 |
| Most university archers have never shot before coming to university (unlike bigger sports such as football and hockey). Clubs therefore put huge efforts into recruiting new members every year and coaching them up to a high standard in a short space of time. BUSA should reward this effort, and the work and committment of the novices themselves by awarding novice medals. | ||
| Entry No: 14 | From - Phil Singleton, singo78@hotmail.com, Birmingham | 13/03/2001 11:15:43 |
| Archery as a whole tends not to keep hold of many people, the very nature of it being a minority sport does not help. If we are to ensure the future of the sport is a healthy one, we shouldn't dissuade people (especially those new to the sport) from competing. Alienating novices from acheiving anything concrete at these tournaments doesn't give them any incentive to shoot competitively. | ||
| Entry No: 15 | From - Ben Truman, Bjltruman@yahoo.com, Birmingham | 13/03/2001 12:14:31 |
| Its a bit disappointing if you shoot really well and don't get rewarded for it! | ||
| Entry No: 16 | From - Katherine Farnell, kathyfarnell@hotmail.com, Birmingham | 13/03/2001 14:10:35 |
| Novices do not usually expect to be able to compete equally with experienced archers. It would be encouraging to have the opportunity to compete at such an important event with the possibility of being recognized for shooting well within our own experience, rather than expecting to be ranked low or simply not entering. | ||
| Entry No: 17 | From - Eleanor Daplyn, efdaplyn@supanet.com, Nottingham Trent | 13/03/2001 14:25:34 |
| If university sport is to achieve one of its major functions of introducing people to sport and keeping them interested and motivated while achieving ever higher levels of attainment then encouragement at an early stage is vital. This is not a question of pandering to those who are not good enough to win anything else, it is a matter of recognising the achievement of the very best novice archers, whose achievements are often outstanding even compared to those of experienced competitors. | ||
| Entry No: 18 | From - David Crowe, kebz79@hotmail.com, Dundee University | 13/03/2001 14:55:58 |
| I totally support this petition. (probably because the only medals I've won were at novice level! LOL) but in all seriousness it does make new archers feel better about their archery if they pick up a medal after seeing the level of archers they are up against in the big competitions. Why not give novices something to feel proud of and give them a bit of a boost? | ||
| Entry No: 19 | From - Euan McGill, strath_uni_archery@hotmail.com, Strathclyde university | 13/03/2001 15:12:01 |
| As a club mostly made up of novices, this year at least, the idea of novice medals is a good one. | ||
| Entry No: 20 | From - Matthew Nelson, M.J.Nelson@Bradford.ac.uk, University of Bradford Archery Club | 13/03/2001 16:01:15 |
| i would be in full favour of novice medals at the BUSA event, having been involved with running our club for the past 2 years i know how difficult it can be to convince newer archers they can go to the bigger archery tournaments, these medals would give them all something to strive for. but exact criteria as to what would constitute a novice archer would have to be established. its a great idea and will reward the efforts of those archers essential to the continuation of student archery, BUSA please sort it out and help encourage all our archers not just those at the very top. | ||
| Entry No: 21 | From - Stewart Barclay, sjmbarclay@yahoo.co.uk, Edinburgh | 13/03/2001 17:00:35 |
| SUSF manage novice medals and a shield for the best performances over the year, all for novices. It seems crazy that with BUSA's superior resources no novice medals are awarded. | ||
| Entry No: 22 | From - Oliver Holt , oliver.holt@sjc.ox.ac.uk, Oxford University | 13/03/2001 17:31:45 |
| As many others have written in different ways; this would be a very good idea to attract and keep novices in the sport. It would also publically recognise their achievements, which should not go unnoticed. | ||
| Entry No: 23 | From - Benedict Huckvale, ben.huckvale@oriel.ox.ac.uk, Oxford University | 13/03/2001 22:28:50 |
| There are lots of good reasons to award novice medals. I can't think of any good reasons not to. | ||
| Entry No: 24 | From - Adam Jenkins, a.l.jenkins@bigfoot.com, Univeristy of Warwick Archery Club | 14/03/2001 10:19:03 |
| It just doesn't seem right to have a novice do really well, become one of the top novice archers in the country, and yet come home with nothing to show for it! Medals don't exactly cost all that much, either, so providing the opportunity for novices to have something to show for their achievments is something that shouldn't be passed up. Novices are our future experienced, and we want them to stay in Archery. It's as simple as that! | ||
| Entry No: 25 | From - Christine Angela Kirchhof, cak300@soton.ac.uk, Southampton University | 14/03/2001 10:35:44 |
| A good question to ask: Why is the whole administrative effort done to enter archers as novices when there is no award at the end? Having novice awards will certainly encourage more universities to bring their novices with them or to take their novices to other competitions as well. It may also encourage clubs to take care of integrating novice archers into their competition teams. (the novice) | ||
| Entry No: 26 | From - Marie Jaecky, mjaecky@yahoo.com, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh | 14/03/2001 12:02:52 |
| Medals should act as an encouragement for novices: they do their best at shooting, just like the others... So, why not reward them as well? | ||
| Entry No: 27 | From - Rachel Bowen, icklechell@hotmail.com, Heriot Watt | 14/03/2001 12:56:46 |
| As an archer who has shot for many years as a junior and will be starting university league this year, I'm quite suprised that BUSA doesn't offer novice medals already. Winning a medal/title is something that encourages novices to compete in competitions and set goals, which is healthy for the sport.(Especially when most university clubs consist mainly of novices). | ||
| Entry No: 28 | From - David Bowen, david.bowen@pet.hw.ac.uk, Heriot Watt | 14/03/2001 13:19:22 |
| As a past Area Secretary and Sport Scotland Liaison for the Scottish Archery Association, it is with disbelief that I view BUSA's position on Novice medals. No other sporting body lets novices efforts go unrewarded in this way, yet we have more novices in University sports. What's the cost to BUSA? 3 gongs at say £3.50 each, twice a year - £21. A small price for the encouragement of the growth of the sport. | ||
| Entry No: 29 | From - Andrew Brown, A.J.Brown3-00@student.lboro.ac.uk, Loughborough | 14/03/2001 13:24:57 |
| By prersenting Medals to novices, it gives much needed encouragement to archers that have only been in the sport for a short time. I think they wiyuld be a valuable addition to the BUSA competition. | ||
| Entry No: 30 | From - Chris Cowburn, cjc40@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 14/03/2001 16:05:52 |
| Novice medals are essential, if we are going to keep encouraging new talent to the sport then we're not going to be so successful if the talent goes unrecognised. BUTTS can manage it, so surely BUSA with the £11 entrance fee can as well, too much to ask? | ||
| Entry No: 31 | From - Paul Concannon, paul.concannon@worc.ox.ac.uk, Oxford | 14/03/2001 16:29:20 |
| Winning scores from the BUSA novice competitions are often extremely good, in some cases even awesomely good for someone who's been shooting for under a year. In lots of cases they do better than quite a lot of the experienced field as well. Novices put in a huge amount of effort to get this good, so it seems only fair that we reward them for being so dedicated. It would also help us to keep hold of novices who come along, shoot for a bit and then drift off again, which is a perennial problem with archery clubs of all types, not just student archery. | ||
| Entry No: 32 | From - Michael Lynas, 95121200@eca.ac.uk, Heriot-Watt | 14/03/2001 16:56:23 |
| As the most expensive competitions of the season, I fail to see where the money goes if not to include a few medals that represent the development and future of the sport. | ||
| Entry No: 33 | From - Ian Williams, u05iaw@abdn.ac.uk, University of Aberdeen | 14/03/2001 17:57:27 |
| I am dismayed that BUSA still does not consider novice medals to be important. Archery is a sport which requires years of practice and dedication to become competitive, and it is at the beginning of their training that people require the most encouragement to stay with it. Competing for, and winning, an award at a national level is a huge incentive for new members to the sport; and it is a shame that BUSA does not regognise the value of this. | ||
| Entry No: 34 | From - Laurence Brown, L.C.Brown@eee-fs4.bham.ac.uk, Brum | 14/03/2001 22:41:42 |
| As a novice, formal recognition from BUSA would be very nice, and medals give you something extra to aim for. | ||
| Entry No: 35 | From - Chris Barnard, C.J.Barnard@hw.ac.uk, Heriot Watt University | 14/03/2001 22:59:41 |
| SUSF (scottish univeristies) see's fit to award novice awards (including novice team), why should this not be the case for the whole of britain? It helps keep novices in the sport and can help in the long run I think to keep these novices shooting after they have left university. It will be good for the sport as a whole | ||
| Entry No: 36 | From - Tai Eefan, teefan@yahoo.com, BUTTS | 14/03/2001 23:56:35 |
| As a novice, to be recognise is very good! | ||
| Entry No: 37 | From - Derek Burrough, Derekburrough@hotmail.com, Heriot-Watt | 15/03/2001 10:21:42 |
| Novices are the archers that are going to take over our place when we leave uni, they need something positive to aim for. Going to a Major University competition (BUSA) is a big thing for any Archer, and if a Novice excells themself, then walks away with nothing, NOT fair on them. We need Novice medals to keep the Novice interest. | ||
| Entry No: 38 | From - Ian Hawke, ih201@damtp.cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 15/03/2001 11:34:27 |
| University archery has taken some novices and turned them into superb archers very quickly. The more this is encouraged the better. | ||
| Entry No: 39 | From - Steven Wicks, stevenwcks_uk@yahoo.com, Dundee University | 15/03/2001 12:45:34 |
| I believe it is a fantastic idea. It gives novices recognition for the work they put in and also gives them an incentive and the ability to compete at their own level. | ||
| Entry No: 40 | From - Stuart Dunlop, stuartdunlop@hotmail.com, Napier | 16/03/2001 11:56:51 |
| It is impotrtant for competitors at all levels to have something to aim for, why do you think there are so many different GNAS classifications, (novice, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, bowman, etc), and in my opinion, especially in university archery where there new archers coming into the sport every year, novice awards are a very important way of keeping some of these archers in the sport. | ||
| Entry No: 41 | From - Kevin Watt, watt_kevin@hotmail.com, RGU | 16/03/2001 14:39:33 |
| Gives novices a chance to compete for something tangible. Gives them something to aim for. | ||
| Entry No: 42 | From - Andrew Jenkins, Tigger750@hotmail.com, Birmingham | 17/03/2001 15:46:32 |
| As a novice and talking from personal experience, it is always nice to have something to aim for, who knows the prospect of winning a medal might bring the best out of some people. Besides it hardly seems fair to put someone who is highly experienced up against someone who has only recently taken up archery. | ||
| Entry No: 43 | From - James Keogh, jak23@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 17/03/2001 23:20:47 |
| Archery is particularly suited to novice competitions, since such a high proportion of university archers have no experience of the sport before joining their university club. A novice division gives these archers a chance to compete amongst themselves, and provides a stepping stone for them into the world of competitive archery. Recognising this competition with medals can only help to encourage both the novices themselves and the club members who give their time to coach beginners. | ||
| Entry No: 44 | From - David Jesson, mt71dj@surrey.ac.uk, Surrey | 19/03/2001 13:55:22 |
| I think it's all been said really. Novice medals provide something for novices to get without being crowded out by the more experienced archers. | ||
| Entry No: 45 | From - Nick McTurk, N.J.Mcturk-00@student.lboro.ac.uk, Loughborough | 19/03/2001 16:27:51 |
| I think it is a good idea since it gives you something within your reach to work for when you are a novice. | ||
| Entry No: 46 | From - Alexa Bisson, alexabisson@hotmail.com, Stag Hill Archers (Surrey University) | 19/03/2001 18:20:19 |
| Novices are the future of any sport. Give them more than just a target to aim at and you encourage them to stay with the sport. | ||
| Entry No: 47 | From - Claire Davy, pr0cld@bath.ac.uk, Bath | 20/03/2001 10:52:19 |
| All sports rely on new participants for continuation. Like many others I began my archery career at university and now realise the importance of the development of novice archery within our club and in university archery as a whole. Medals would bring well deserved recognition to our novice archers and encourage them to stay in the sport. Who knows where our next Olympic champion is going to come from?? | ||
| Entry No: 48 | From - Alison Dennis, ali@brumbrum.fsnet.co.uk, Birmingham | 21/03/2001 02:39:12 |
| I was at BUSA this year as a novice and found it a little disappointing that novices were not even mentioned in the award ceremony. If archery wants to keep folks interested it should (like all other sports!) reward it's novices - they are the future experienced archers! | ||
| Entry No: 49 | From - Alex Fraser, frasera3@bp.com, University of Surrey | 26/03/2001 08:34:57 |
| To encourage new archers to take up the sport competitively, they must have a realistic goal in competitions - no novice is going to shoot the 570+ rounds needed to be recognised in a BUSA shoot! | ||
| Entry No: 50 | From - Ben Robinson, 9905451@sms.ed.ac.uk, Edinburgh | 26/03/2001 09:47:31 |
| Yes I agree with all of the above. | ||
| Entry No: 51 | From - Claire Roberts, bs0clr@bath.ac.uk, University of Bath | 29/03/2001 09:41:22 |
| They would act as an incentive to improve and encourages novices to continue. I am a novice myself and so would definately like to see novice medals. | ||
| Entry No: 52 | From - KC Wong, k.c.wong@sms.ed.ac.uk, Edinburgh University | 01/04/2001 00:50:21 |
| I would like to see novices be awarded medals at BUSA competitions. | ||
| Entry No: 53 | From - Mark Sinclair, mpbs2@hermes.cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 01/04/2001 14:03:16 |
| Novice medals are important incentive for talented beginners whose achievements oten go unrewarded. | ||
| Entry No: 54 | From - Alistair Whittingham, alistair.whittingham@gecapital.com, Edinburgh alumni | 01/04/2001 17:58:51 |
| I have participated and coached in the BUSA champs over ten years at every level (from novice to twice member of British team). To give medals to novices is a necessity. | ||
| Entry No: 55 | From - Chris Burnett, peter.burnett@virgin.net, Edinburgh | 01/04/2001 21:37:16 |
| If BUSA want people to attend their events then it is essential that new people are encouraged to not only take up a new sport but also to continue with it past the first year, when it becomes expensive. The best way to do that is to reward their efforts, and novice medals would be a good start. Lets face it, I would have won one. | ||
| Entry No: 56 | From - David Wilson, david.wilson.103@strath.ac.uk, Strathclyde | 02/04/2001 12:21:30 |
| Hard work and good shooting must be rewarded. | ||
| Entry No: 57 | From - Alan Stiles, alan@stilesoft.co.uk, Loughborough Students' Archery Club | 03/04/2001 20:54:32 |
| The possibility of a medal provides encouragement to participate, knowing that you don't have to compete directly with those top archers who have been practicing since they were 3 years old. More participation means more club members, which means more club funds, which means more / better club equipment, which means happier members, which encourages others to take up the sport... | ||
| Entry No: 58 | From - Matt Nowicki, m.w.nowicki@ncl.ac.uk, Newcastle Uni. Archers | 05/04/2001 10:38:38 |
| Each year there are a number of good novice archers who go unrecognised and unrewarded at BUSA competitions. Novice medals would help cure this, and lets face it - these may well be the great archers of tomorrow, so some encouragemnt and recognition is definately needed. | ||
| Entry No: 59 | From - Rosalind Bowen, rossykim@hotmail.com, Heriot-Watt | 17/04/2001 12:43:37 |
| BUSA I always thought encouraged the developement of younger archers through University, so why the elitism attitude that novices should not get medals?? If we want to continue growing as a society we must acknowledge each and every abilty and award them accordingly. | ||
| Entry No: 60 | From - Jen Burrows, J.Burrows@hotmail.com, Heriot-Watt | 18/04/2001 16:05:36 |
| The cost of awarding novice medals at BUSA is nothing in comparison to the encoragement and sence of achievement they could give to new archers | ||
| Entry No: 61 | From - Robert Neal, rj_neal@hotmail.com, Barts & the London | 25/04/2001 13:54:32 |
| We need novice medals as a way of encouraging people new to the sport to continue. You cant expect some who has been shooting for less than a year to do as well as people who have had 4/5 years of experience. If more people stay in the sport then the level of competition will get higher which can only be a good thing | ||
| Entry No: 62 | From - Matthew Monaghan, mkm25@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University Bowmen | 27/04/2001 23:58:55 |
| I think everyone above has covered all the points, we want medals for novices! | ||
| Entry No: 63 | From - Ian, Caulfield, Cambridge | 28/04/2001 01:12:41 |
| I'm a novice, and over the course of the last year have been disappointed by novice turnout at various competitions. Any incentive to get people into the tournament circuit is well worth it. | ||
| Entry No: 64 | From - Neal Morgan, nmm22@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 28/04/2001 01:40:43 |
| When I was starting out as a novice one of the things that really motivated me and made me more determined to do well was the fact that although I wasnt one of the best archers in the club - I was in with a chance of getting one of the novice medals. It makes you feel more involved in the tournament and less like you're there to make up numbers. | ||
| Entry No: 65 | From - Grahame Appleby, gaa21@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 28/04/2001 11:57:57 |
| As I novice archer I find the incentive to enter the BUSA competition limited. As previously mentioned, where and on what does the entrance fee go on? If people are to be encouraged to take up and continue with this sport BUSA need to reconsider awards for novices, and have them ready before the next competition! | ||
| Entry No: 66 | From - Dave Robinson, drr23@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University Bowmen | 28/04/2001 14:30:46 |
| I am in favour of this proposition: rewarding novices for their achievements can only be a good thing, both for the competitors themselves and archery in general. | ||
| Entry No: 67 | From - Cassie Van Krinks, chv22@medschl.cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University Bowmen | 28/04/2001 21:49:57 |
| Archery is one of the few sports at university that total novices (myself included) can take part in. Why not encourage them and award medals? | ||
| Entry No: 68 | From - Peter Burrow, prb26@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University Bowmen | 29/04/2001 01:14:55 |
| Without novices, there is no-one to become experienced archers. Surely as a sport we can't afford to *not* give them encouragement. | ||
| Entry No: 69 | From - Andrew Lennon, bal23@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 30/04/2001 09:12:49 |
| I think that everyone else has covered what I want to say. I agree with medals for novices. Andrew | ||
| Entry No: 70 | From - Daniel Jones, danieljones@ask.co.uk, Saint David's Toxophilites, U.W., Lampeter | 30/04/2001 13:19:59 |
| Again it has been said above. Medals should be awarded to novices as it is crusial that we attract them to the sport and it is also important if we whant to attract new archery clubs to the compitions, and give them a chance at proving them selves to ther union and each other. | ||
| Entry No: 71 | From - Judith Rosten, jfr100@soton.ac.uk, Southampto university | 30/04/2001 16:57:39 |
| medals are good encouragement to continue archery. everything else has already been said | ||
| Entry No: 72 | From - Tim Bond, timothy.bond@ic.ac.uk, Imperial College, London | 01/05/2001 15:21:53 |
| Agree strongly with comments above, which cover most of the issues I'd raise. As a novice myself I've been encouraged strongly to come to competitions by my club and very disappointed that there is no official support for the hard work the club has done to encourage new archers. | ||
| Entry No: 73 | From - Pras Pathmanathan, pp233@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge | 01/05/2001 16:39:11 |
| Sounds like a good idea to me | ||
| Entry No: 74 | From - Matt Hyland, 1300402@bournemouth.ac.uk, Bournemouth Uni A.C. | 02/05/2001 12:11:38 |
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| Entry No: 75 | From - James Milburn, me@jamesmilburn.co.uk, Bath University Archery Club | 02/05/2001 13:17:47 |
| I believe that some sort of prize for novice archers at BUSA competitions would go a long way to encouraging new student archers to carry on practicing archery | ||
| Entry No: 76 | From - Janine Olley, janineo@mymail.co.uk, University of Bath | 02/05/2001 13:44:02 |
| I started archery in my final year at university, and as such had practically no chance to win a BUSA medal. Novice medals would give more incentive to enter competitions for people like myself. I also feel there should be a BUSA field competition - they are lots of fun! | ||
| Entry No: 77 | From - Karen Atkins, bs8kla@bath.ac.uk, Bath Uni | 02/05/2001 16:34:18 |
| I agree with the above | ||
| Entry No: 78 | From - Anil Patel, en9ap@bath.ac.uk, Bath | 03/05/2001 08:29:16 |
| Like everyone else, I believe that novices should be awarded for there achievements, for it is the novices who will inherit the club and if they are to do a good job they must feel appreciated from the start. | ||
| Entry No: 79 | From - Kevin Sheppard, en7kss@bath.ac.uk, University of Bath | 04/05/2001 18:04:51 |
| How else can we recognise hard work and achievement except by reward? If BUSA aren't interested then perhaps trophies/medals sponsored by Quicks/Wales etc. It would certainly be a good advertisement! | ||
| Entry No: 80 | From - David Hytch, en8dph@bath.ac.uk, Bath | 04/05/2001 20:11:48 |
| Archery is a difficult enough sport to encourage people to participate in. We need to recognise the effort of people who have not had the opportunity to reach the highest standard yet and encourage them to continue. | ||
| Entry No: 81 | From - Rob Rolfe, rjr198@soton.ac.uk, Southampton Uni | 05/05/2001 16:00:45 |
| If there are no prizes for novices, the message we are sending out is 'come along and compete, but don't expect to get anywhere for a long time', which doesn't encourage new people to start competing. Without a flow of new people the competitions would become less popular and more elitist, which isn't what the sport is about. | ||
| Entry No: 82 | From - David Sewell, D.J.Sewell@sms.ed.ac.uk, Edinburgh University | 05/05/2001 16:05:43 |
| As the SUSF archery student co-ordinator and the new captain of our club, I could not agree more with the comments here. Encouraging novices is fundemental to every sport, BUSA has the ability and the responsibility to reward the skill of our new archers. Why, Oh Why do we need to kick up so much of a fuss to get such a simple and reasonable request respected!!? | ||
| Entry No: 83 | From - Robin James Card, R.J.Card@hw.ac.uk, Heriot-Watt Uni | 08/05/2001 11:14:43 |
| We want medals because we deserve them and you are stingy gits!!!!! | ||
| Entry No: 84 | From - Mel Sullivan, john.sullivan8@virgin.net, ex-Aberdeen, novice coach - Robert Gordon's Uni | 09/05/2001 15:37:18 |
| If BUSA archery championships were run in the same way as GNAS competitions, then an awful lot more medals would be awarded. Apart from the usual 1st, 2nd and 3rd position medals, there would also be medals for the top in each classification (about 5/6), plus the unclassified archers AND THEN the novices. The National Governing Body recognises that archers have a wide range of competitive ability, and rewards them accordingly. Why can't BUSA, which has specialist archery knowledge only in the form of the archery representative, follow the example of those more qualified and experienced? For that matter, why haven't they listened to the person they appointed to advise them on archery? You don't buy a dog and then bark yourself! We are not asking that university archery be treated in the same way as GNAS archery, just that the basic division between experienced and novice archers be recognised. | ||
| Entry No: 85 | From - Sean Gallagher, s.p.gallagher@ncl.ac.uk, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 09/05/2001 16:59:30 |
| As a novice myself I can promise you that more novices will be interested if there are medals as a reward for doing well. Everyone wants to win when they enter a tournament, even us novices! We put in the effort into our new sport like everyone else, so why should we not be rewarded for doing well? | ||
| Entry No: 86 | From - Andy Pirie, andrew.pirie@bt.com, ex Strathclyde - current SGB | 11/05/2001 13:39:40 |
| As SUSF orginiser for 2 years, coach for several and squad member i feel that novices need encouragement. THEY are the future of the sport and this to a certain extent has been proved in SUSF where the bulk of top archers are from the "system" created there. | ||
| Entry No: 87 | From - Vadim Snurnikov, vs205@cam.ac.uk, Cambridge University Bowmen | 14/05/2001 22:51:56 |
| Novices in any university sport should get medals. Those in Dancing do. Why not in Archery? | ||
| Entry No: 88 | From - Gary Ewan Park, u21gp@abdn.ac.uk, Aberdeen University | 16/05/2001 21:39:01 |
| Being a novice myself (although not very good) the incentive of medals would make myself and I am sure others, try harder so that we can take a medal home. | ||
| Entry No: 89 | From - Mike Hallam, m.hallam@lboro.ac.uk, Loughborough | 17/05/2001 17:23:49 |
| Being a late starter I have appreciated the novice awards which I have been lucky enough to win at BUTTS this year and feel that the encouragement gained from them is tremendous.It can only be good for the future of our sport that we all enjoy. | ||
| Entry No: 90 | From - Tallah Brash, tazzytastic@yahoo.com, Edinburgh University | 20/05/2001 22:27:08 |
| I agree with Omar, novices should be awarded medals at big tournaments, as it gives them a buzz and a reason to continue with the sport. It keeps their interest up and actually makes them feel good about themselves. Yours hopefully, Tallah | ||
| Entry No: 91 | From - Mark Gascoyne, archerycoach@hotmail.com, Loughborough | 06/06/2001 22:32:02 |
| Novices and beginners are the future of our sport. Even the top archers had to begin somewhere. The more encouragement we as experienced archers can give, the better. If the top archers are the only recipients of medals, then those who aspire to shoot at the top level, are more likely to loose interest, without some tangible evidence of their progress. This is why classification medals are always presented at GNAS tournaments. The sport cannot afford to loose potential new members, and this most certainly will happen, if there is little or no encouragement. As a GNAS County Coach myself, this is a situation I do not want to see happen. | ||
| Entry No: 92 | From - Isla Lillie, wudking@aol.com, Edinburgh, Stirling then Newcastle | 18/02/2002 22:36:21 |
| You will not find a larger collection of novices at any other competition in the UK, why not give them a bit of encouragement? If you give people incentive from the very start they'll be much more likely to stick with the sport and be more motivated to succeed. In the long term, might even help us win medals at the world universities. | ||
| Entry No: 93 | From - Andrew Stoter, archery@lancsa.ac.uk, Lancaster | 10/03/2002 18:07:18 |
| As president of a club in which the majority of members have always been novices I have found many would be archers disapointed and disillusioned by competitions where they have nothing to compete for when shooting with experienced archers. LUAC strongly supports the idea of novice medals. | ||
| Entry No: 94 | From - Andrew Phillips, andrew.phillips@ed.ac.uk, EUAC | 12/09/2002 17:43:52 |
| Novice medals should be awarded by BUSA... no ifs... not buts... | ||