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Jacqui had her first taste of archery at the age of 15 when she participated in a 'have a go' shoot. She enjoyed herself so much that she decided to take up the sport there and then. After bugging her dad for weeks on end (as only a 15 year old can!) to find a club to join, they found the Crown Archers club in Maidstone and started shooting in June 2001.
Jacqui found she had a natural ability for the sport and it wasn't long before her scores started their rapid rise through the recurve classifications from Third Class to the Junior Bowman Classification, which she achieved in October 2001.
This rapid rise did not go unnoticed and in April 2002 Jacqui was invited to join the Kent Archery Association County Team and benefited greatly from their coaching and practice sessions. In August 2002 she became the Kent Junior Lady Under 18 Champion - 14 months after picking up a bow!
Just to show that her talents were not limited to the recurve style of bow, Jacqui achieved first place in the under 18 Longbow category for the November challenge - a National postal competition.
And in an even further diversification of her talents Jacqui turned her hand to field shooting. For a field round the targets are placed at various distances and inclinations around a course, usually in a forest setting. Target archery places the targets at fixed distances (shooting the longest first through to the shortest last) and on the level.
Jacqui reached the Green and Brown Arrowhead Awards for field archey in March 2003. These awards can only be won by shooting in a senior competition, Jacqui was 16 and still a junior for another 1 1/2 years.
By this time, Jacqui was shooting in senior competitions to shoot with people of a similar ability to herself. In June she received a Senior Six Gold End award for shooting all six arrows of an end into the centre of the target at 60 yards.
In July she was in second place in the July Nationals (a national postal competition) and became the Junior National Under 18 Champion.
In August she achieved Junior Master Bowman Classification and Kent Junior Lady Champion.
In September she competed with a Compound type bow and achieved a Junior 1100 Compound Rose and Six Gold End Awards.
Within the next six months, until she turned 18 and was officially a senior, Jacqui achieved the accolades of being the Southern Counties Archery Association (SCAS) Indoor Junior Lady Champion, a White FITA target award (available only to seniors), Grey Arrowhead Award for Field Archery (Senior) and Kent County Junior Field Champion. At this time Jacqui was again invited to join the County Team.
As an early birthday present to herself, Jacqui achieved the Junior Master Bowman Classification for field archery, just in time to turn senior.
July saw Jacqui's proudest moment to date, when she was the Gonfalon carrier for the Great Britain Team at the Junior Outdoor World Archery Championships.
Shooting with the adults did not blunt Jacqui's winning ways. In August she became the Kent Lady Champion. In November, the Kent Lady Indoor Champion and the Mid-Kent Archery League Lady Champion.
It didn't stop in 2005 either! January bought a Black FITA Target Award.
With April came the title of Kent Lady Field Champion and as a consequence an invitation to the county team.
The Kent Lady Longbow Champion title was won in May, the Kent Lady Champion (Recurve) in August and the Kent Lady Indoor Champion in November - a clean sweep in all but the Compound category!
2006 looks to be another bumper year. In January, Jacqui was nominated for the Maidstone Youth Sports Award in the Under 21 individual category and also won a Rotary Club Traning Grant that means free access to the council run sports facilities.
In February Jacqui was invited to join the British Field Development Squad for some improved coaching. This coaching must have helped as in June Jacqui became the British Universities Lady Champion with a score of 932 points, that was only 10 points under the National Record for that round.
But the highlight of this year so far was becoming the Kent Lady Champion for the third year running.
You may be thinking that during this time with all the practice, competitions and awards, that Jacqui's academic work will be suffering from lack of attention. Not so, Jacqui was excelling academically as well as toxophilically during these years and is currently starting her final year of a Geology Degree at Greenwhich University
Or here for a list of Jacqui's medals and awards.