b'THE ELLESMERIAN140And so, to the National Finals at Stoke Mandeville in JanuaryUnfortunately. Our major events and matches tend to take place 2020little did we know this was going to be our lastfrom Easter onwards so there is nothing further to report from serious competition! After some fantastic competition and aAppleton where we regularly compete at 50m and 100 yds against very tense Olympic knockout final in the Intermediate event,open competition. The same goes for our major Schools competition, Francine Gilmore was edged into the Silver medal place bythe Ashburton Shield, which takes place in July and was cancelled this only 1.8 points out of a maximum 240! Disappointment wasyear for the first time since the 2nd World War! short lived however when it emerged that with James Caldwell and Ed Astbury Ellesmere College had been crowned National TeamHaving managed to field teams in the Schools league in the Champions!Michaelmas term, it was an opportunity for new emerging talent to go through their paces in competition. Fortunately, we also managed to compete in our annual Tri Tournament with Sedbergh and Shrewsbury, resulting in a win for Ellesmere against both schools!There have been some other positives during this disrupted year with Kezzie Hutchings being selected for England Schools in the Home Countries International and Toby Baillon being accepted on to the Northern Regional GB Junior Squad. These are exceptional achievements in any year but with our restricted program it is even more so.Looking forward, we currently have one of the strongest groups of shooters at the College that I can remember, and we sincerely hope that we shall be able to prove that when normal competition resumes!TR'