British Schools Short Range Winter Open

Hosted by Wellington College on their range we faced tough opposition from Greshams and Wellington. The shoot consisted of three 10-bull targets; the third was a time limit where you have 90 seconds to fire ten rounds. Our A team put in a respectable performance considering this was an away match finishing 6th and it was tight between them and 4th place. Fran Vernon was our champion for the day who won her age class, came 5th in the individual and 3rd in the time limit shoot.

Full results (spreadsheet)

Inter Home Counties Carey Salver Match

On Tuesday 22 November 2011 Sevenoaks School's six shooters in the seven-strong Kent Junior team shot their three targets each for this match. Only Serena Yuen and Victoria Redman had experienced this match before, and Ed Kim, Serena and Mike Jones had the added pressure that these targets were concurrent with their Home Counties Squad place in the match against New Zealand.

In the silence of each detail you could feel each shooter's focus and determination interspersed only by call of shots and sighting instructions. After two hours we had finished. The targets were then posted to the external marker.

In January it was annouced that the Kent team had won. Congratulations to the Sevenoaks shooters who carried our strength in the team through for a fourth year, and especially to Sam Gearing, from Dover and Ramsgate, whose magnificent top score made a huge difference. Well done to everyone who put in tremendously consistent performances; it was such a consistent performance that the squad managed exactly the same score as last year. Well done team!

Kent team Sevenoaks members: Serena Yuen, Victoria Redman, Ed Kim, Tanay Modi, Fran Vernon, Mike Jones 
Full results

West Kent Rifle League

WKRL Prince William of Wales individual competition 2010
Fran Danczak, Nick Robinson and Serena Yuen had notable success, all being promoted a class.

Kent Cup 2010
Our team of 8 was beaten to 2nd place by Greshams. Kent Cup Team VIII: F Danczak, A Brenninkmeijer, N Robinson, S Yuen, T Grainger, V Redman, A Bowman, X Bastin

WKRL Erith Cup Knock Out Competition 2010
This was perhaps the most tense final we have experienced. The chance to win the Erith Cup three years in succession was heavy on our minds and the A-team were up against tough opponents.

Serena suffered from a poor call on a sight change. Nick had an outstanding shoot but a small lapse in concentration meant he incurred a penalty point for 2 shots in 1 aiming mark. Tabby was doing great until her last shot went wildly high and Fran was disappointed dropping her last shot. By the end I was certain we would not retain the trophy. While we lost our composure the miracle that Blackpool would fare even worse was all we could hope for. That prayer was answered and we beat them by 1 point. In seven years of entering we have won this four times, including two 3rd places with the wins, second twice and third once. No one team has remained the same over the years.
Please see attachment for table and scores

WKRL Prince William of Wales individual competition 2009
This pairs competition in 5 classes from A to E. Each competitor shoots 3 targets worth up to 100 points each.
A Class: M West 6th place, with 4th highest score 295
B Class: A Brenninkmeijer 19th place, 7th highest score 291
C Class: F Danczak 4th place, 3rd highest score 290. N Robinson 5th place, 5th highest score 289
D Class: S Yuen 4th place, 4th highest score 286. A Bowman 8th place, 8th highest score 282
E Class: E Kim 10th place, score 275. A Walker-Smith 11th place, 273. R Gower 12th place, 272
Those in C to E Class won the Prince William of Wales Badges, Al and I narrowly missed out. F Danczak and N Robinson have been promoted to B Class. S Yuen has been promoted to C Class.

Pairs (ex. 600 points)
C Class: F Danczak: 1st place, 579. N Robinson
D Class: S Yuen: 2nd place, 568. A Bowman
E Class: E Kim, 2nd place, 548. A Walker-Smith

Kent Cup 2009
Shot concurrently is the Kent Cup team of 8 event. The best 6 scores are counted therefore ex. 1800. The team (score 1724) came 2nd to Greshams (score 1749) and put Wellington College into 3rd (score 1676): F Danczak, A Brenninkmeijer, N Robinson, S Yuen, T Grainger, V Redman, A Bowman, X Bastin

British Schools Smallbore Rifle Association

BSSRA leagues 2011 

Under 15 B team
Our B team, Tom Smith, Henry Bowers, Roshan Ruprai and Theo Moverley Smith have moved into a slender lead after the 3rd round of shooting. In rounds 4 and 5, (with James Vernon substituting Theo Moverley Smith), the team scores are 365 and 375 respectively. This is an incredibly strong finish and I hope it will see Sevenoaks through to a well-deserved division win. Congratulations to Tom Smith whose Under 15 debut sees him with the top average in this team and James Vernon whose baptism of fire may well have secured the victory (his scores in blue).
See latest results.

Sevenoaks Under 15 teams after the first 2 rounds of 5
A team (Henry Davies, Johan Clubb, Elliot Olden, James Rudd-Jones) are in joint 1st place.
B team (Henry. Bowers, Theo Moverley Smith, Roshan Ruprai, Tom Smith) are in 1st place.
See the full results

BSSRA International Match 2010
Ten Sevenoaks shooters were selected to represent the England Schools Rifle Team in the BSSRA International Match. (Last year we had nine selections over six teams.) There are 12 members per team, and four teams: A, B, C, D. The C and D teams are Honours only.
A Team: Fran Danczak
B Team: Tabby Grainger, Nick Robinson, Serena Yuen
C Team: Xavier Bastin, Al Brenninkmeijer
D Team: Sharon Chang, Mike Jones, Henry Lee-Saunders, Tori Redman

BSSRA Under 15 Leagues 2010
Both our Under 15 teams in the British Schools Smallbore Rifle Association won their respective divisions over the Lent term. They all worked hard and improved consistently. This builds on the Division win from the one team we were able to field during Michaelmas.

BSSRA Team VIII: Scoring 598 in the first round put us 2nd, behind Gresham’s who managed 600. In the second round, Gresham's beat us by 4 points overall. Team: F Danczak, T Grainger, N Robinson, S Yuen, V Redman, X Bastin, A Walker Smith.

British Schools Long Range Championship, Lord Roberts Centre, Bisley, 2009: We shot against Wellington and Gresham’s. We took a large squad, making three teams of four, and although the squad as a whole shot well we were soundly beaten, ming 4th, 5th and 7th out of 9 teams. Top scorer: F Danczak with 194/200 (only 2 points off the day’s highest score). Last year’s leavers, Richard Pelmore, Rex Wickenden and Steff Jury were approached by the Home Counties Coordinating Committee to shoot for the juniors against New Zealand, although none were able to accept.

NSRA Junior Leagues 2009
Our scratch U15 team came 6th in the first round, missing out on a second round qualification by one place and 23 points. Team: H Lee-Saunders, B Brenninkmeijer, T Modi, S Chang. The U18 team qualified for the second round in fourth place, only 7 points behind the leading Gresham’s team. We scored 772/800. Team: F Danczak, T Grainger, N Robinson, A Brenninkmeijer

CCF Shooting Section

Staniforth Competition 2011

The eight shooters from Sevenoaks School finished in the Top 10 to go through to the second stage.
The team was: Benno Brenninkmeijer, Victoria Redman, Len Taylor, Serena Yuen, Jonny Man, Freddie Williams, Fran Vernon, Will White

Fran was our top scorer with 96. There were 22 entries. We hope to have a higher team score in the second stage as our CCF target rifles were only returned from the armourers the day before the competition, having been away for repair since early June.

Staniforth Team First Round, November 2009
Out of 16 we came 5th in the top ten who go through to the 2nd round. Scoring 758/800, we were only 26 points behind the invincible Epsom and 10 points ahead of St John’s School who took 6th place. Captain: Tabitha Grainger. Team: N Robinson, A Brenninkmeijer, S Yuen, V Redman, M Jones, E Kim, R Clark