Records Officer Monthly Report – April and May 2025

19 June 2025

Welcome to the combined April & May report of the 2024/25 shooting season. This is the first report for the 2025 outdoor season.

Club Records

A large number of club records have been scored in the period due to the number of target days and interior competitions held.

• Parker Fewings – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Warwick 30 (formerly Short Junior Warwick) – score 352 (previous record 350)
• Neill White – Men’s 50+ Longbow:
  • Stafford – Score 454 (previous score 335)
  • New National – Score 135 (previous score 101)

From the St Georges Day competition on 27/04/25:

• Neill White – Senior Men’s Longbow:
  • New Warwick – Score 155 (previous score 26)
• Parker Fewings – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Warwick 30 (formerly Short Junior Warwick) – Score 352 (previous score 350)
• Josie Nuttall – Women’s U16 Barebow:
  • Warwick 40 (formerly Junior Warwick) – Score 226 (no previous score)

From Star Wars Day Competition on 04/05/25:

• Corey Richardson – Senior Mens Compound:
  • Long Metric II – Score 628 (no previous score)
• Neill White – Senior Mens Longbow:
  • Long Metric I – Score 387  (no previous score)
• Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:
  • Long Metric V – Score 380 (no previous score)
• Gary Wong – Senior Men’s Longbow:
  • Long Metric III – Score 336 (no previous score)
• Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women’s Longbow:
  • Long Metric III – Score 311 (no previous score)
• Arron Nuttall – Senior Men’s Longbow:
  • Long Metric IV – Score 215 (no previous score)
• Alex Rowe – Senior Men’s Recurve:
  • Long Metric I – Score 534 (Previous score 521)
• Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:
  • Long Metric V – Score 528 (no previous score)
• John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Long Metric II – Score 538 (previous score 426)
• Phil Harley – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Long Metric III – Score 454 (previous score 405)
• Parker Fewings – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Long Metric IV – Score 442 (no previous score)
• Josie Nuttall – Women’s U16 Barebow:
  • Long Metric IV – Score 362 (no previous score)
• KT Pollington – Senior Women’s Barebow:
  • Long Metric II – Score 338 (no previous score)

General shooting/target days:

• Neill White – Senior Men’s Longbow:
  • WA 70m – Score 373  (previous score 276)
  • WA 70 Double – Score 549 (previous score 539)
  • York – Score 469 (previous score 269)
  • Warwick – score 318 (previous score 304)
• John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Long Warwick – Score 280 (previous score 225)
  • WA 50 – Score 571 (previous score 517)
  • WA 50 Double – Score 1113 (previous score 992)
  • Hereford / Bristol I – Score 717 (previous score 608)
• Neill White – Senior Men’s Longbow:
  • Warwick – Score 318  (previous score 304)
• Francesca Canale-Dow – Senior Women’s Recurve:
  • Warwick 30 (formerly Short Junior Warwick) – Score 386 (no previous score)
• Gary Still – Senior Men’s Barebow:
  • Warwick 30 (formerly Short Junior Warwick) – Score 354 (no previous score)
• Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women’s Longbow:
  • WA 70 – Score 139 (Previous score 109)
  • WA 70 Double – Score 256 (no previous score)
  • Hereford – Score 318 (previous score 294)
  • Warwick – Score 253 (previous score 208)
• Josie Nuttall – Women’s U16 Barebow:
  • Warwick 30 (formerly Short Junior Warwick) – Score 354 (previous score 327)
• Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:
  • Warwick 40 (formerly Junior Warwick) – Score 234 (previous score 207)
  • National 40 (formerly Junior National) – Score 373 (no previous score)
  • Metric 122-40 – Score 224 (no previous score)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme.

• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Outdoor Bowman 1^st Class
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Outdoor Bowman 2^nd class
• Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – Outdoor Bowman 3^rd Class
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Outdoor Archer 1^st Class
• Parker Fewings (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 2^nd class
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 2^nd Class
• Jenny Kerchey (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 3^rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Neill White (Longbow) – 100yd
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – 60yd
• Jonathan Hui (Recurve) – 50 & 60yd
• Gary Wong (Longbow) – 50 & 60yd
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 50 & 60yd
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 50yd
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – 50yd
• Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – 50yd
• Tim Hall (Compound) – 40yd
• Gary Still (Barebow) – 40yd
• Parker Fewings (Barebow) 20, 30 & 40yd
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – 40yd
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – 40yd
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – 30 & 40yd
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 30yd
• Dylan Croft (Compound) – 20yd
• Barry Bailey (Barebow) – 20yd
• Michelle Zisimedes (Recurve) – 10yd
• Peter Zisimedes (Recurve) – 10yd

AGB Indoor Progress Awards

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Indoor Black
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Indoor Black

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Just a quick reminder that Outdoor Archery GB awards are no longer being issued by the club. We have chosen to concentrate on the 252 Scheme for outdoor progress.

Competitions

DCAS Summer Postal 2025

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Warwick Leagues:

• One Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team
• One Senior & Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior & Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 teams
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the May (first) round of the competition:

In the first month of the competition all six of our teams won. However due to scores made by other teams they are not all in first place. The team positions after round one of five are as follows:

• Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior & Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior & Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team – 1st place in Division 1
• Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team ‘A’ – 3rd place in Division 1
• Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team ‘B’ – 1st place in Division 3
• Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – 1st place in Division 1

 

Currently the following archers hold the highest individual score for their bow style and division.

• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Long Warwick score 280
• Iain Lees (Compound) – Long Warwick score 420
• Neill White (Longbow) – Warwick score 318
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Warwick score 253
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – Warwick 30 score 354

The full tables for Summer Postal leagues can be found here.

Submission of a DCAS Summer Postal score sheet also gives you the opportunity to earn a Six Gold, Three Gold (Longbow) badge if you shoot the relevant score on the longest distance of your round. More information about this scheme can be found in the newly updated Award Scheme page of the club website.

Badge Winners this month:

• Neill White (Longbow) – 3 gold end badge

Yelverton Bowmen St Georges Day internal Competition (27th April)

The club once again hosted the St Georges Day competition by shooting Warwick rounds with archers shooting the round relevant to their 252 qualification.

15 archers took part and the following club medals were awarded by bow style:

• Longbow:
  • Gold medal – Samantha Horton, scoring 177 (Warwick 40)
  • Silver medal – Neill White, scoring 155 (New Warwick)
  • Bronze medal – Arron Nuttall, scoring 90 (Warwick 50)

• Barebow:
  • Gold medal – Parker Fewings, scoring 352 (Warwick 30)
  • Silver medal – Phil Harley, scoring 271 (Warwick 50)
  • Bronze medal – KT Pollington, scoring 246 (Warwick)

• Compound:
  • Gold medal – Corey Richardson, scoring 380 (Long Warwick)

• Recurve:
  • Gold medal – Jonathan Hui, scoring 260 (Long Warwick)
  • Silver medal – Andy Howie, scoring 324 (Warwick)
  • Bronze medal – Andrew Axworthy, scoring 302 (Long Warwick)

The competition was finished off with a dragon slaying fun round. Overall three new club records were shot.

Yelverton Bowmen Star Wars Day Competition (4th May)

The club hosted the inaugural Star Wars Day internal competition by shooting Long Metric with archers shooting the round relevant to their 252 qualification.

19 archers took part and the following club medals were awarded by bow style:

• Longbow:
  • Gold medal – Neill White, scoring 387 (Long Metric I)
  • Silver medal – Samantha Horton, scoring 380 (Long Metric V)
  • Bronze medal – Gary Wong, scoring 336 (Long Metric III)

• Barebow:
  • Gold medal – John Pengilley, scoring 538 (Long Metric II)
  • Silver medal – Barry Bailey, scoring 460 (Long Metric VI)
  • Bronze medal – Phil Harley, scoring 454 (Long Metric III)

• Compound:
  • Gold medal – Corey Richardson, scoring 628 (Long Metric II)
  • Silver medal – Tim Hall, scoring 618 (Long Metric IV)

• Recurve:
  • Gold medal – Alex Rowe, scoring 534 (Long Metric I)
  • Silver medal – Alan Horton, scoring 528 (Long Metric V)
  • Bronze medal – Jonathan Hui, scoring 489 (Long Metric I)

The competition was finished off with an Empire slaying fun round. Overall thirteen new club records were shot, well done everyone.

South West and Wales University League Leg 7 – WA 900 (10th May)

Two Yelverton Bowmen student archers attended Leg 7 of SWWU in May, shooting a WA 900 round hosted by the University of Exeter.

Corey Richardson took the gold medal in the Compound Experienced Male category, with a score of 782, and Parker Fewings took a bronze medal in the Barebow Experienced Male category with a score of 288!

Results are on IANSEO here.

Exmouth Archers Double World Record Status 70m & 50m (11th May)

Five Yelverton Bowmen archers made the trip to Exmouth to shoot the Double WA 720 rounds in very testing conditions. Whilst the day started overcast, it soon turned to a period of heavy rain. This was followed by sunshine and brief showers.

Emma Broadhurst saw off some determined competition to win the trophy and gold medal in the Senior Women’s 70m Longbow. Neill white managed to come away with a silver medal finishing in second place in the Senior Men’s 70m Longbow.

John Pengilley finished in third place in the Senior Men’s 50m Barebow securing a bronze medal. Gary Wong finished in 5th place in the Senior Men’s 70m Longbow and Corey Richardson finished in 8th place in the Senior Men’s 50m Compound.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

Redruth Archers 50^th Anniversary Spring Tournament Day 1 (17^th May)

In glorious conditions at Redruth nine Yelverton Bowmen archers took part in the York & Bristol rounds, with all bow styles represented.

• Longbow:
  • Neill White won the Senior Mens Longbow York competition taking the Gold medal, with Gary Wong finishing in 5^th place
  • Emma Broadhurst won the Senior Women’s Hereford competition taking the gold medal.
• Recurve:
  • Alex Rowe finished just outside of the medals in 4^th place in the Senior Mens York
  • Andy Howie came 1^st in the Senior Mens Bristol 1
  • Dan Baxter came second in the Senior Mens Bristol 3
  • Ellen Lawrence came 1^st in the Senior Women’s Bristol 4
• Compound:
  • Iain Lees came 6^th in the Senior Mens York
• Barebow:
  • John Pengilley came 1^st in the Senior Mens Bristol 1
  • Lina Wright withdrew from the Senior Women’s Hereford.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

Redruth Archers 50^th Anniversary Spring Tournament Day 2 (18^th May)

Again in glorious conditions at Redruth seven Yelverton Bowmen archers took part in the Double WA 70m & WA 50m rounds, with all bow styles represented.

• Longbow:
  • Neill White came second the Senior Men’s Longbow 70m taking the Silver medal.
  • Gary Wong finished in 4^th place
• Recurve:
  • Andy Howie came 10^th in the Senior Men’s 70m
  • Alex Rowe withdrew
• Compound:
  • Iain Lees withdrew
• Barebow:
  • John Pengilley came 1^st in the Senior Men’s 50m
  • Linda Wright 1^st in the Senior Women’s 50m

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

South West and Wales University League Leg 8 – Outdoor Championships (18th May)

For the SWWU Outdoor Championships, three Yelverton Bowmen student archers travelled up to the University of Bristol to shoot a WA 720 round followed by Head-To-Heads.

On the Barebow side, Marilyn Wong seeded in 1st place with a score of 503, and Parker Fewings seeded in 7th place with a score of 211. For Compounds, Corey Richardson had to withdrew after just the third end due to an equipment failure, although being the only compound shooting at the event still collected SWWU League points for the University of Plymouth, resulting in an overall second place finish in the year-long league tables.

Moving to the Head-To-Head matches, Parker was knocked out in her first match by the second place seeded archer, 6-0. Marilyn won her matches 6-2, 6-2 and the gold medal match 6-0, opening the match with a 28 point end!

Full results can be found on IANSEO and the final standings of the SWWU League can be found on the SWWU Archery webpage.

Brixham Archers UKRS Rose Tournament (25^th May)

In variable wind at Brixham 3 Yelverton Bowmen archers took part in the York & Bristol rounds.

• Longbow:
  • Gary Wong finished in 2^nd place, securing the silver medal
• Barebow:
  • John Pengilley came 1^st in the Senior Men’s Bristol 1
  • Lina Wright came 1^st in the Senior Women’s Hereford.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

And Finally…

As we have now moved outdoors, we will update the club Events page monthly with a list of target days.

As with last year we will rotate the rounds to include both metric and imperial rounds, and will give archers the opportunity to practice rounds in advance of external competitions

Welcome to the March report of the 2024/25 shooting season. This is the final report for the 2024/25 indoor season.

Club Records

• Jenny Kerchey – Senior Women’s Recurve:
  • Bray I Triple – Score 201 (no previous record)
  • Portsmouth Triple – Score 454 (no previous record)
• Jenni Mattock – Senior Women’s Barebow:
  • Portsmouth – Score 504 (previous score 491)
• John Pengilley – Senior Mens Barebow:
• • Stafford – Score 601 (no previous record)
• Alan Horton – 50+ Mens Recurve:
  • Western 30 (previously called Short Junior Western) – Score 697 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme.

• Jenni Mattock (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 1st Class (well done Jenni, this is the highest classification that is able to be awarded at club level)
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
• Tim Hall (Compound) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class & Outdoor Archer 3rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Samantha Horton (Barebow & Longbow) – 20yds
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – 20 & 30yds

AGB Progress Awards

• None awarded in period

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Just a quick reminder that Outdoor Archery GB awards are no longer being issued by the club. We have chosen to concentrate on the 252 scheme for outdoor progress.

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:

• Three Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Compound team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the March (final) round of the competition:

In the final moth of the competition three of our six team won. The final team positions are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – finished in 4^th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – finished in 3^rd place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – finished in 2^nd place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – won Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – won Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – finished in 2^nd place in Division 1

Well done to the clubs compound and longbow archers who submitted scores for this competition.

Unfortunately none of our archers finished with the highest individual Portsmouth score this season. Better luck next time everyone.

The final team and individual results are as follows:

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:

• Jeni Mattock (Barebow) – 500 badge
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – 500 badge
• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – 400 badge
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 400 badge
• Parker Fewings (Barebow) – 400 badge
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – 300 badge

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:

• One Senior Compound + two of any other style team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed non-compound team

As with the Portsmouth league there are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be
entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the
DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the March (final) round of the competition:

In the final month of the competition four of our five teams won. The final team positions are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – Won Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – finished in 3^rd place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – finished in 5^th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – finished in 3^rd place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – finished 3^rd place in Division 1

The following archer finished with the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done Neill.

The final team and individual results are as follows:

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 150 badge
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 250 Badge

The full tables for both Winter Postal leagues can be found here.

Grand Western Archery Society (GWAS) Indoor Championship (2nd March)

Seven Yelverton Bowmen archers made the trip to Weston-Super-Mare to take part in the well attended (134 archers) regional competition. The round being shot was WA 18m.

Neill white managed to come away with a bronze medal finishing in third place in the Senior Men’s Longbow.

Alex Rowe and Andrew Axworthy took part in the Senior Men’s Recurve; Sarah Watson in the Senior Women’s Recurve; Corey Richardson in the Senior Men’s Compound; Gary Wong in the Senior Men’s Longbow and John Pengilley in the Senior Men’s Barebow.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

British University and College Sports Indoor Finals (16th March)

After attending BUCS Indoors Southern Qualifiers in February, Marilyn Wong and KT Pollington advanced to BUCS Indoor Finals, hosted by the University of Warwick.

In the qualification round, KT scored 403 on a WA 18m and seeded 15th. Marilyn scored 476, placing her 1st. Both archers compete in the Barebow Women’s category. These scores we high enough to qualify for the head-to-head rounds!

KT won their first match against the 2nd place seed with a set-point score of 6-2, before tightly losing the second round match at 6-4.

Marilyn’s path to the gold medal match consisted of wins of 6-2, 6-0 and 6-2, where she finished overall in 2nd place after a 6-4 defeat.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

South West and Wales University League Leg 6 – Indoor Championships (23rd March)

Two Yelverton Bowmen archers were part of the University of Plymouth’s team at SWWU’s Indoor Championships this month – SWWU’s largest ever event with 104 student archers!

In the Combined Barebow Experience category, Marilyn Wong seeded 3rd with a Bray I score of 217. Making it to the gold medal match with a route of 6-0, 6-0 and 6-2 victories, Marilyn took the silver medal after a narrow 6-4 defeat against the top-seeded archer.

Corey Richardson took bronze in the Compound Experienced division after seeding in 4th place with a score of 266, winning the quarter-final match 136-131 but losing the semi-final match to the eventual winner 136-143. In a stroke of luck, his bronze-medal match opponent had to leave early, meaning any scoring arrow would win him the match, leading to a very unimpressionable score of 27-0!

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

Bowmen of Wadebridge UK Record Status Stafford competition (30th March)

Six Yelverton Bowmen archers made their way to St Austell for the Stafford competition with five of them coming away with medals. Well done to everyone who took part.

Individual archers performed as follows:

• Neill White (Longbow 50+ Men) – 1^st place
• John Pengilley (Barebow 50+ Men) – 1^st place
• Sarah Watson (Recurve Women) – 3^rd place
• Iain Lees (Compound Men) – 3^rd place
• Gary Wong (Longbow Men) – 3^rd place
• Andrew Axworthy (Recurve – Men) – 5^th place

The full results can be found on IANSEO.

British University Team Championships (30th March)

Yelverton Bowmen archers Marilyn Wong and Parker Fewings made up 2 of the 3 members of the University of Plymouth’s A Team at BUTC 2025. The event consists of a three-archer cumulative Bray I ranking round followed by Beiter Hit or Miss head-to-head matches where the team of 3 archers has just 2 minutes to shoot 6 arrows (2 arrows per archer) at hit-or-miss spot just 60mm wide!

Plymouth’s A Team ranked 18th of 25 university teams and unfortunately closely lost their first head-to-head match 6-5 against Surrey’s A Team putting them out of the competition.

In the Repechage round, their match ended 5-5 against Northampton’s A Team, ultimately being decided by a loss in the shoot-off.

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

The results are in. Unfortunately only 6 archers submitted qualifying scores for this competition, however the winner this year is………..

Paul Horsley with 7204 points, well done Paul. The trophy will be awarded in due course.

Steve Millard came a really close second with 7201 points and Andrew Howie third with 2893 points.

The full results are below.

And Finally…

As we have now moved outdoors, we will shortly publish a list of monthly target days.

As with last year we will rotate the rounds to include both metric and imperial rounds, and will give archers the opportunity to practice rounds in advance of external competitions. So keep a look out on the club calendar.

 

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

Welcome to the February report of the 2024/25 shooting season.

Club Records

• Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow:
  • Bray I – Score 149 (previous score 132)
• Jenny Kerchey- Senior Women Recurve:
  • WA 18m 3 spot – Score 397 (no previous record)
• Iain Lees – Senior Men Compound:
  • Bray I (Three spot) – score 286 (previous score 281)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:

• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 3^rd Class
• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – Indoor Bowman 3^rd Class
• Jenny Kerchey (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1^st Class
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 3^rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – 20yds
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 20yds

AGB Progress Awards

• None awarded in period

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:

• Three Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Compound team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the February round of the competition:

Despite only two of our teams winning this month only one team dropped a position in their division. The team positions after round four are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – remain in 4^th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – remain in 3^rd place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – dropped from 1^st to 2^nd place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – remain in 2^nd place in Division 1

The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:

• Stan Axworthy (Recurve) – 475 badge
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 450 badge
• Samantha Horton (Barebow) – 200 badge

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:

• One Senior Compound + two of any other style team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed non-compound team

As with the Portsmouth league there are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be
entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the
DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the February round of the competition:

With 3 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round four are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – remain in 1^st place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – rose to 4^th from 5^th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – rose from 6^th to 5^th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – dropped from 3^rd to 4^th place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – remain in 3^rd place in Division 1

The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 304
• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done to both of you.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:

• Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – 250 Badge

The full tables for both Winter Postal leagues can be found here.

BUCS Indoors Southern Qualifiers (8th February)

Amongst other University of Plymouth Archery Club members, Yelverton Bowmen archers Corey Richardson, Tobi Penter and Marilyn Wong attended the BUCS Indoor Southern Qualifiers where student archers from across the south of the UK compete to proceed to BUCS Indoor Finals taking place on the 23rd of March.

Marilyn Wong (Barebow Experienced Women) placed 1st across all three regions – Southern, Central and Northern – with a Portsmouth score of 539, securely earning her place in the finals.

Corey Richardson placed 7th with a score of 563 and Tobi Penter placed 57th with a score of 475.

Full results can be found in IANSEO.

Devon & Cornwall Archery Society Indoor Championships (23^rd February)

Yelverton Bowmen were well represented again at this event with an impressive 22 archers across all four bow styles, for some* it was their first competition. Once again a big thank you goes out to all those who helped set up for the competition on the Saturday, and who helped and supported on the day. The DCAS team were very grateful for your support.

A special thanks goes to Sarah Watson for taking on the role of Lady Paramount for the day.

Individual archers performed as follows:

• Alex Rowe (Recurve – Men) – 3^rd place,
• Andrew Axworthy (Recurve – Men) – 7^th place
• Andrew Howie (Recurve – Men) – 11^th place
• Steve Millard (Recurve – Men) – 12^th place
• Mark Armstrong* (Recurve – Men) – 14^th place
• Andrew Pearson* (Recurve – Men) – 18^th place
• Jenny Kerchey (Recurve – Women) – 4^th place
• Ellen Lawrence* (Recurve – Women) – 6^th place
• Finley Melia* (Recurve – Under 18 Men) – 1^st place
• Lorelei Armstrong* (Recurve – Under 16 Women) – 2^nd place
• Corey Richardson (Compound Men) – 2^nd place
• Iain Lees (Compound Men) – 3^rd place
• John Pengilley (Barebow Men) – 1^st place
• Phil Lomas (Barebow Men) – 5^th place
• Phil Harley* (Barebow Men) – 7^th place
• Marilyn Wong (Barebow Ladies) – 1^st place (shooting for University of Plymouth)
• KT Pollington (Barebow Ladies) – 2^nd place
• Linda Wright (Barebow Ladies) – 4^th place
• Neill White (Longbow Men) – 4^th place
• Gary Wong (Longbow Men) – 9^th place
• El Green (Longbow ladies) – 2^nd place
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow ladies) – 3^rd place

The team results were as follows:

• Senior Recurve Team (Andrew Axworthy, Andrew Howie, Steve Millard & Alex Rowe) – 2^nd place
• Mixed Doubles Team (Alex Rowe & Lorelei Armstrong) – 4^th place,
• Mixed Doubles Longbow Team (El Green & Neill White) – 2^nd place,
• Mixed Doubles Barebow Team (KT Pollington & John Pengilley) – 1^st place

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.

 

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

Welcome to the January report of the 2024/25 shooting season.

Club Records

• Josie Nuttall – U16 Women Barebow:
  • Portsmouth (single face) – Score 434 (no previous record)

• Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow:
  • Bray I – Score 132 (previous score 103)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:

• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Indoor Archer 1^st Class
• Pippa Nightingale (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1^st Class
• Gordon Thornton (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2^nd Class
• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 3^rd Class
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 3^rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• None awarded in January

AGB Progress Awards

• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – IAGB Gold

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:

• Three Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Compound team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the January round of the competition:

All six of our teams won this month the team positions after round three are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – remain in 4^th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – remain in 3^rd place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – rose to 1^st from 2^nd place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – dropped from 1^st to 2^nd place in Division 1

The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:

• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – 525 badge
• Gordon Thornton (Recurve) – 450 badge
• Jack Cunningham (Recurve) – 450 badge
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – 400 badge
• Pippa Nightingale (Recurve) – 400 badge
• Arron Nuttall (Longbow) – 350 badge
• Ellen Lawrence (Recurve) – 350 badge
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 350 badge
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – 100 badge
• Pippa Nightingale (Recurve) – 400 badge
• Gordon Thornton (Recurve) – 450 badge
• Tim Cunningham (Recurve) – improved from 500 to 525 badge

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:

• One Senior Compound + two of any other style team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed non-compound team

As with the Portsmouth league there are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be
entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the
DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the January round of the competition:

With 3 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round two are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – remain in 1^st place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – rose to 5^th from 6^th  place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – dropped to 6^th from 5^th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – rose to 3^rd from 4^th place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – remain in 3^rd place in Division 1

The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 304
• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done to both of you.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:

• No additional Frostbite badges were issued in January

South West and Wales University League Leg 4 (24th January)

Marilyn Wong was the only Yelverton-affiliated university archer to compete in Leg 4 of the SWWU university league, which was hosted by the University of Exeter. She placed 1st in the Barebow Experienced Women’s category after shooting a Frostbite and scoring 223 out of 360.

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Brixham Clipper (25^th January)

Yelverton Bowmen were well represented again at this event with 10 archers representing all four bow styles. Once again a big thank you goes out to Stan Axworthy for providing some much needed support.

• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow ladies) – 1^st place (this was Emma’s second competition win in two attempts, well done Emma)
• Neill White (Longbow Men) – 2^nd place (1^st place was taken by Mark Cardy from Lacetown Archers with a new national record)
• Iain Lees (Compound Men) – Joint 2^nd place (only 8 points behind 1^st place)
• Corey Richardson (Compound Men) – Joint 3^rd place
• Linda Wright (Barebow Ladies) – 2^nd place (only 6 points behind 1^st place)
• John Pengilley (Barebow Men) – 3^rd place (only 11 points behind 1^st place)
• Phil Lomas (Barebow Men) – 10^th place
• Sarah Watson (Recurve Ladies) – 9^th place
• Andrew Axworthy (Recurve Men) – 3^rd place
• Andrew Howie (Recurve Men) – 9^th place

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

A detailed assessment has been undertaken by the Club’s Records Officer, of the revised Archery GB Classification scheme to determine if it aligns with the current 252 Scheme.

It is clear from this assessment that the classification scheme reasonably aligns with both Men’s and Women’s Compound, Recurve and Barebow score levels. However there is some significant disparity for Longbow Men from 60 yards and Longbow Women from 50 yards onwards.

The committee has therefore agreed to amend the score requirements for Longbow Archers with immediate effect. All other bow types remain unchanged.

See the table below for the changes to Longbow score requirements:

Bow Style	Distance (yards)
	10	20	30	40	50	60	80	100
Compound	280	280	280	280	280	280	280	280
Recurve	252	252	252	252	252	252	252	252
Barebow	189	189	189	189	189	189	164	139
Longbow Men	164	164	164	164	164	126	101	72
Longbow Women	164	164	164	164	126	101	72	54

The committee has also agreed that with immediate effect the club will no longer support the Archery GB Outdoor Progress Scheme. Instead, it will use the 252 scheme only. This will save administration time for the Records Officer and confusion for the Club members.

The Archery GB Indoor Progress scheme will continue to be used.

Archers are reminded that when shooting outdoors they must only shoot rounds, or distances relative to their 252 qualification, i.e. you cannot shoot rounds at 50 yards until you have achieved your 40 yard 252 badge, and are then trying to obtain a 50 yard qualification.

Experienced archers who join the Club, but have no previous 252 qualification will be assessed to determine where they start in the scheme.

Adherence with these rules will ensure that we spend less time looking for lost arrows, and more time shooting.

These changes have been reflected on the Awards Schemes page of the Club Website.

Welcome to the December report of the 2024/25 shooting season.

Club Records

Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow

• Frostbite – Score 280 (previous score 270)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme. All three archers have achieved the highest level able to be awarded internally by the club, so well done to all three of you, especially Emma who has been shooting for less than a year:

• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Indoor Bowman 1^st Class
• Paul Warren (Compound) – Indoor Bowman 1^st Class
• Corey Richardson (Compound) – Indoor Bowman 1^st Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• John Pengilley (Longbow) – 30yd 252

AGB Progress Awards

• Gary Still (Barebow) – IAGB Red

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:

• Three Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Compound team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the first round of the competition:

With 5 of our 6 teams winning this month the team positions after round two are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – dropped to 4^th from 2^nd place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – rose to 3^rd from 4^th place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – rose to 2^nd from 3^rd place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – rose to 1^st from 2^nd place in Division 1

The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:

• Tim Cunningham (Recurve) – improved from 500 to 525 badge

A document containing all of December’s submitted scores can be found here.

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:

• One Senior Compound + two of any other style team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed non-compound team

As with the Portsmouth league there are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be
entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the
DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the December round of the competition:

With only 2 of our 5 teams winning the team positions after round two are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – remain in 1^st place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – remain in 6^th  place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – remain in 5^th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – remain in 4^th place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – remain in 3^rd place in Division 1

The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 304
• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done to both of you.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:

• Neill White (Longbow) – 275 badge
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – 250 badge
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 200 badge

Archery GB Indoor Nationals and Junior Indoor Nationals (6th-8th December)

Three Yelverton Bowmen archers travelled up to Archery GB’s Indoor Nationals competition in Warwickshire this December, with Corey Richardson, KT Pollington and Marilyn Wong all completing a WA 18m round.

Corey finished 77th of 101 during qualification in the Compound Mens category, outside of the head-to-head cut-off. Marilyn and KT came 15th and 18th respectively during the seeding round for the Barebow Women’s category, meaning that their first head-to-head round was against each other!

Marilyn won her first head-to-head against KT, before losing in the second round to the eventual winner who dropped only 4 points across the 3 sets.

Corey competed again on Sunday’s Junior Indoor Nationals as an Under-21 archer, scoring 563 out of 600 on a Portsmouth round and finishing in third place receiving a bronze medal.

South West and Wales University League Leg 3 (15th December)

Two of our archers, Corey and Marilyn, competed in Leg 3 of the SWWU university league. Corey placed second in the Compound Experienced Men’s division, scoring a 559/600 Portsmouth round, and Marilyn won the Barebow Experienced Women’s category by a margin of 196 points to 2nd place with a score of 518.

Archery GB Achievements

The winter edition of the Archery GB magazine recognised the following Yelverton Bowmen archers achievements:

• Neill White – 50+ Longbow Grand Master Bowman
• Gary Wong – Blue WA Star (Longbow) & Blue WA Target (Compound)
• Corey Richardson –  Blue WA Target & Black WA Target (Compound)
• Iain Lees – Black WA Target (Compound) & Blue Rose Award (Compound)
• Alex Rowe – Grey Field WA Arrowhead (Recurve)

Well done to all of you. These are the kind of awards that are accessible to all of our archers if you take the plunge into competing in external competitions.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

Welcome to the combined October and November report of the 2024/25 shooting season.

Club Records

Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow

• Worcester – Score 211 (previous score 196)
• Worcester (Double) Score 416 (no previous record)

Sarah Watson – Senior Ladies Recurve

• Worcester (Double) Score 388 (no previous record)

Andrew Axworthy – Senior Men’s Recurve

• Worcester – Score 289 (previous score 280)
• St Nicholas – Score 740 (previous score 666)
• Warwick 50 (previously short Warwick) – Score 412 (previous score 404)
• WA 18m (3 spot) – Score 546 (previous score 537
• Portsmouth 3 spot – Score 564 (previous score 552)
• Worcester (Double) – Score 544 (previous score 454)

Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow

• Worcester – Score 132 (no previous record)
• Worcester (Double) – Score 245 (no previous record)
• Frostbite – Score 173 (previous score 163)

Jeni Mattock – 50+ Women’s Barebow

• Portsmouth – Score 491 (previous score 479)

John Pengilley – 50+ Men’s Barebow

• Bray I – Score 235 (previous score 221)
• Frostbite – Score 304 (Previous score 270)
• Worcester – Score 254 (previous score 236)
• Worcester (Double) – Score 480 (no previous score)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in
the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme:

• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 1st Class
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
• Tim Cunningham (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• Sarah Legg (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class
• David Legg (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class and Indoor Archer 1st Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 30yd & 40yd 252
• John Pengilley (Longbow) – 20yd 252

AGB Progress Awards

• Lorelei Armstrong (U16 Recurve) – IAGB Red
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – IAGB Gold
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – IAGB Gold
• Sarah Legg (Recurve) – IAGB Black
• David Legg (Recurve) – IAGB Black

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/5

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:

• Three Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Compound team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed Style team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the first round of the competition:

The team positions after round one are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – 4th place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – 3rd place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – 1st place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – 1st place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – 2nd place in Division 1

The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 485
• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 444

Well done to both of you.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Portsmouth league will also qualify for a Portsmouth score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Portsmouth score badges:

• Paul Warren (Compound) – 550 badge
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – 525 badge
• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – 500 badge
• Tim Tatum (Recurve) – 500 badge
• Tim Cunningham (Recurve) – 500 badge
• David Legg (Recurve) – 450 badge
• Jack Cunningham (U16 Recurve) – 400 badge
• Steve Murray (Recurve) – 400 Badge
• Sarah Legg (Recurve) – 400 badge
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – 525 badge
• Jeni Mattock (Barebow) – 475 badge
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – 450 badge
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 400 badge
• Gary Wong (Longbow) – 450 badge
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 400 badge

A document containing all of Novembers submitted scores can be found here.

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/5

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:

• One Senior Compound + two of any other style team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow team
• One Senior Longbow team
• One Junior U16 Mixed non-compound team

As with the Portsmouth league there are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be
entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the
DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted for the first round of the competition:

The team positions after round one are as follows:

• Senior Compound + two of any other style team – 1st place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – 5th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – 4th place in Division 1
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – 3rd place in Division 1

The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 304
• Linda Wright (Ladies Barebow) – Score 272

Well done to both of you.

Submission of a score sheet for consideration for the Frostbite league will also qualify for a Frostbite score badge. The following archers were awarded the relevant Frostbite score badges:

• Iain Lees (Compound) – 350 badge
• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – 300 badge
• Gary Wong (Longbow) – 275 badge
• Sarah Watson (Recurve) – 250 badge
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – 300 badge
• Gary Still (Barebow) – 225 badge
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 150 badge

Exmouth Archers WA 18m Indoor Tournament (27th October)

• Andrew Axworthy came 2nd in Men’s Recurve
• Andrew Howie came 7th in Men’s Recurve
• Iain Lees came 5th in Men’s Compound
• Gary Wong shot in both sessions, coming 11th in Men’s Compound and 4th in Men’s Longbow
• Neill White won his category in Men’s Longbow

Newquay Bowmen Double Worcester Competition (24th November)

Seven Yelverton Bowmen archers (Sarah Watson, Andrew Axworthy, Emma Broadhurst, Neill White, Gary Wong, Linda Wright & John Pengilley) traveled
to Newquay to shoot in the Double Worcester competition: Emma Broadhurst came 1st in the Ladies Longbow, this is a fantastic result given that is was Emma’s first competition.

• John Pengilley came 1st in the Gents Barebow
• Linda Wright came 1st in the Ladies Barebow
• Neill White came 2nd in the Gents Longbow

A good time was had by all those who took part (including our head cheerleader Stan), and we even came away with a significant haul in raffle prizes. The full results can be found here.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

Several archers have submitted qualifying scores and the tables will be published in next months report.

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

Welcome to the September report of the 2023/24 shooting season.

In previous years we would now only focus on shooting indoors at the YMCA, however as there is one final round of the DCAS Summer Postal there were 4 outdoor evening sessions planned to allow archers to shoot these rounds.

Club Records

• Gary Wong – Senior Men’s Longbow
  • St. George – Score 218 (previous record 104)
• Linda Wright – 50+ Women’s Barebow:
  • WA50 – Score 488 (previous record 459)
  • WA50 (Double) – Score 924 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme:

• Gary Wong (Longbow) – Bowman 1st Class. Congratulations to Gary, this is the highest classification that can be awarded within the club.
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – Bowman 3rd Class.

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Nathan Connolly (Longbow) – 20yd 252
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – 40yd 252
• Arron Nuttall (Longbow) – 40yd 252

AGB Progress Awards

• Phil Harley (Barebow) – 60yd Outdoor AGB Progress

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Leagues:

• One Senior Recurve/Barebow Long Warwick team
• One Senior Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow Warwick 50 teams
• One Junior Mixed Style Warwick 30 team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

As you can see from above only 5 archers submitted scores across three of the six divisions entered in September, mostly due to the adverse weather conditions. Well done to all those who provided scores for this competition.

The following scores were submitted for the final round of the competition:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow Long Warwick team – Won Division 2
• Senior Compound Long Warwick team – Finished in 5th place in Division 1
• Senior Longbow Warwick team – Finished in 5th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow Warwick 50 team A – Finished in 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow Warwick 50 team B – Finished in 3rd place in Division 2
• Junior Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – Finished in 2nd place in Division 1

The following archers held the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• Linda Wright (Ladies Barebow) Long Warwick (Mixed) – Score 223
• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) Long Warwick (Mixed) – Score 214
• Neill White (Gents Longbow) Warwick – Score 304
• Finley Melia (U16 Boys Recurve) Warwick 30 – Score 370

Well done to all of you. DCAS medals have been requested and will be awarded in due course.

The final table positions are as follows:

A document containing all of August’s submitted scores can be found here.

Submission of a DCAS Summer Postal score sheet also gives you the opportunity to earn a Six Gold, Three Gold (Longbow) badge if you shoot the relevant score on the longest distance of your round. More information about this scheme can be found in the Award Scheme page of the club website.

DCAS Autumn Gold hosted by Redruth Archers (1st September)

Two Yelverton Bowmen archers travelled to Redruth for this DCAS organised competition shooting St George/Albion/Windsor rounds, and both shot well:

• Jill Hudson came 2nd in the Ladies Albion Longbow
• Gary Wong came 3rd in the Gents St George Longbow

Somerset County Archery Association Battle of Britain WRS WA1440 hosted by Burnham Company of Archers (15th September)

Gary Wong was the sole Yelverton Bowmen archer to make the trip to Somerset for this event. Gary shot very well and scored 546 (which is a Bowmen 1st Class score) to win the Gents Longbow competition by the small margin of 2 points. In addition to this Gary won the Highest score by a Longbow Tankard.

Well done Gary.

Grand Western Archery Society Intercounties Tournament hosted by Cleve Archers (22nd September)

Two Yelverton Bowmen archers were invited to represent the Devon and Cornwall Archery Society at the above competition. The competition was shot in really wet conditions, however both archers shot well.

• Alex Rowe shot in the Recurve team
• Linda Wright shot in the Barebow team

Both archers helped to ensure that the DCAS team achieved the following
results:

Paris 2024: Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge

Six Yelverton Bowmen archers submitted scores for the Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge and AGB badges are in the process of being awarded to the following archers:

• Jack Cunningham
• Steven Millard
• Corey Richardson
• Mic Richards
• Neill White
• John Pengilley

2024/25 Indoor Season

DCAS Winter Postal

The club have applied for entry of the following teams in the DCAS Winter Postal competitions:

Portsmouth (indoor)

• 3 in number Senior Recurve/Barebow teams
• 1 in number Senior Compound team
• 1 in number Senior Longbow team
• 1 in number Junior (U16) team

Frostbite (outdoor)

• 1 in number Senior Compound plus (1 compound archer + 2 other bow types)
• 2 in number Senior Recurve/Barebow
• 1 in number Senior Longbow
• 1 in number Senior Mixed non-Compound
• 1 in number Junior Mixed non-Compound

As with the summer postals these will be open to all club members. Archers scores should be submitted to the clubs records officer at the end of each month on a fully completed and signed club score sheet. However only one score should be submitted each month for entry into these competitions.

Both of these competitions start in November, however details of the competitions can be found here. If you have any questions please come and talk to me at one of our shooting sessions.

Scores submitted for these competitions will also qualify for individual Frostbite & Portsmouth badges.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March, and as such this means that all indoor shooting sessions during this period are considered to be club Target days. This means that archers will be able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

We are excited to announce that Yelverton Bowmen will be hosting an internal competition for our members on Sunday 15th September 2024. In case of unfavorable weather, the event will be rescheduled to the following Sunday 22nd September.

The chosen round for this competition will be the Nationals round. Participants will shoot a total of 6 dozen arrows, with 4 dozen at the longer distance and 2 dozen at the shorter distance.

Rounds will be entered according to the current 252 classification at the time of entry. For example, if you have a 40 yards 252 qualification, you can enter up to the National 50 round.

Please return the entry form to Neill White.

Welcome to the August report of the 2023/24 shooting season.

In previous years we would now only focus on shooting outdoors, however as we now have access to shoot indoors at the YMCA all year round archers can shoot indoor rounds if the weather prevents outdoor shooting.

Club Records

Once again Club Target days shot during August gave more archers the opportunity to shoot classification rounds. This has resulted in a significant number of improved or new club records being shot. Certificates are in the process of being awarded for the following archers:

• Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow
  • WA1440 (ladies) / (Metric I) – Score 741 (previous record 563)
  • WA1440 (ladies) / (Metric I) (Double) – Score 1450 (no previous record)
  • Short Metric/Short Metric I – Score 407 (previous record 144)
  • WA1440 (Gentlemen) – Score 668 (previous record 473)
• Andrew Axworthy – Senior Men’s Recurve
  • Warwick 40 (formerly Junior Warwick) – Score 422 (previous record 370)
• Linda Wright – 50+ Women’s Barebow
  • Short Metric/Short Metric I – Score 364 (no previous record)
• Finley Melia – U16 Mens recurve:
  • Warwick 30 (was Short Junior Warwick) – Score 370 (previous record 352)
• Phil Harley – 50+ Mens Barebow:
  • Metric 122 40m (New round) – Score 545 (no previous record)
  • Warwick 40 (was Junior Warwick) – Score 378 (previous record 374)
  • Short Metric II – Score 435 (no previous record)
• Mic Richards – Senior Womens Barebow:
  • Warwick 40 (was Junior Warwick) – Score 356 (previous record 322)
• Sarah Watson – Senior Womens Recurve:
  • Metric 122-40 (New round) – Score 433 (previous record 429)
• Corey Richardson – U21 Mens Compound:
  • WA1440 (ladies) / Metric I – Score 1203 (no previous record)
• Alex Rowe – Senior Mens Recurve:
  • WA70 – Score 579 (previous record 548)
  • WA70 (Double) – Score 1140 (previous record 1072)
  • WA1440 (Double) – Score 2232 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classification levels have been achieved, and badges are in the process of being awarded under the new Archery GB Classification Scheme:

• Neill White (Longbow) – Outdoor Grand Master Bowman. This has been awarded to Neill by Archery GB and was achieved by shooting at an exceptionally high level in external record status competitions. Congratulations to Neill, this is a significant achievement and is the second highest nationally recognised level.
• Alex Rowe (Recurve) – Bowman 1^st Class. Congratulations to Alex, this is the highest classification that can be awarded at club level.
• Corey Richardson (Compound) – Bowman 2^nd Class
• Gary Wong (Compound) – Bowman 2^nd Class
• Gary Wong (Longbow) – Bowman 2^nd Class. Congratulations to Gary, he is the first archer that I have awarded a Bowman level badge for multiple bow styles in the same season.
• Stan Axworthy (Recurve) – Archer 1^st Class
• Finley Melia (Recurve) – Archer 1^st Class
• Sarah Watson (Recurve) – Archer 2^nd Class
• Steve Murray (Recurve) – Archer 2^nd Class
• Tim Tatum (Recurve) – Archer 3^rd Class

More information on indoor and outdoor rounds and classification can be found here, or speak to me on a shooting night. You can start to shoot outdoor classification rounds once you have achieved your 20 yard 252, and start working towards your first Archer Classification.

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• Paul Warren (Compound) – 60yd 252
• Joe Maskell (Barebow) – 50yd & 60yd 252
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – 50yd 252 & 50yd Outdoor AGB Progress
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 40yd 252
• Sarah Legg (Recurve) – 20yd & 30yd 252
• Gary Still (Barebow) – 20yd & 30yd 252
• Chris Danson (Recurve) – 20yd & 30yd 252
• Tim Hall (Compound) – 30yd 252
• Robert Earl (Recurve) – 30yd 252
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – 30yd 252
• Georgina Baglow (Longbow) – 20yd 252
• Lorelei Armstrong (Recurve) – 20yd 252
• David Legg (Recurve) – 20yd 252

More information on the two progress schemes can be found here, or speak to me at one of our club sessions.

Now that we have moved to indoor shooting during the week there is an opportunity for new archers to start to shoot for Indoor Archery GB Progress awards, please see me at your next session and I will explain.

Competitions

DCAS Summer Postal League 2024

The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Leagues:

• One Senior Recurve/Barebow Long Warwick team
• One Senior Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior Recurve/Barebow Warwick 50 teams
• One Junior Mixed Style Warwick 30 team

There are three archers per team, and the club will collate the scores in descending order and the highest scores will be entered each month. Scores will need to be submitted on a club score sheet and signed as indicated. The rules for the competition can be found on the DCAS Postal Competitions page, and the associated score sheet on the Club Score Sheets page.

The following scores were submitted by members of the club and as you can see from the results below the club performed reasonably well:

In August we again managed to win in 4 of the 6 divisions we have entered. Well done to all those who provided scores for this competition.

The current standings are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow Long Warwick team – Remain in 1^st place in Division 2
• Senior Compound Long Warwick team – Remain in 5^th place in Division 1
• Senior Longbow Warwick team – Remain in 3^rd place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow Warwick 50 team A – Remain in 1^st place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow Warwick 50 team B – Moved up to 2^nd place in Division 2
• Junior Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – Remain in 2^nd place in Division 1

Currently the following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:

• Linda Wright (Ladies Barebow) Long Warwick (Mixed) – Score 221
• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) Long Warwick (Mixed) – Score 214
• Neill White (Gents Longbow) Warwick – Score 304
• Finley Melia (U16 Boys Recurve) Warwick 30 – Score 370 (new club record)
• Josie Nuttall (U16 Girls Barebow) Warwick 30 – Score 327 (new club record)

Well done to all of you.

A document containing all of August’s submitted scores can be found here.

September is the final round of the 2024 DCAS summer postal, so there is one final chance to improve, or secure, the clubs standing in all of the divisions.

Submission of a DCAS Summer Postal score sheet also gives you the opportunity to earn a Six Gold, Three Gold (Longbow) badge if you shoot the relevant score on the longest distance of your round. More information about this scheme can be found in the Award Scheme page of the club website.

Redruth Archers Double WA1440 Weekend (3^rd & 4^th August)

Several Yelverton Bowmen archers traveled to Redruth for this weekend competition shooting 90m or 70m WA1440 rounds, and all shot well with Alex, Jill & Neill shooting new club records:

Day 1:

• Alex Rowe came 3^rd in the Men’s 90m Recurve
• Gary Wong came 5^th in the Men’s 90m Compound
• Jill Hudson came 3^rd in the Ladies 70m Longbow
• Neill White came 1^st in the Mens 50+ 70m Longbow
• IANSEO | Redruth Archers Double 1440 Day 1

Day 2:

• Alex Rowe came 4^th  in the Men’s 90m Recurve
• Gary Wong came 6^th in the Mens 90m Compound
• Jill Hudson came 2^nd in the Ladies 70m Longbow
• Neill White came 1^st in the Men’s 50+ 70m Longbow
• IANSEO | Redruth Archers Double 1440 Day 2

Exmouth Archers WA Weekend (17th & 18th August)

Several Yelverton Bowmen archers made the trip to Exmouth for this competition. Day one consisted of a WA 720 seeding round, followed by Heads to Heads. Day Two saw archers shooting WA1440 Star & Metric rounds.

Day 1:

• Iain Lees came 7^th in the Compound Men category ranking round, and was eventually beaten in the head to head gold medal match by one point. Well done to Iain.
• Gary Wong came 5^th in the Compound Men category ranking round, and was knocked out in the head to head by the archer who went on to take third place.
• Corey Richardson came 8^th in the Compound Men category ranking round, and was knocked out in the second round of Head to Heads by the eventual winner.
• IANSEO | Exmouth Archers WA Weekend Day 1 (WA 720)

Day 2:

• Neill White secured the gold medal in the Men’s WA 1440 90m Longbow,
• Gary Wong switched bow styles on day 2 and took the bronze medal in the Men’s WA 1440 90m Longbow,
• Corey Richardson took the gold medal in the Men’s WA 1440 (70m) Compound.
• IANSEO | Exmouth Archers WA Weekend Day 2 (WA 1440)

Lizard Peninsula Bowmen Summer Bonanza (24th & 25th August)

Gary Wong was the only club member to make the trip to the Lizard peninsula and shot well on both days:

Day 1:

• Gary came 1^st place in the Men’s Single Hereford Longbow, and

Day 2:

• 2^nd place in the Men’s Single York Longbow

Well done Gary, great effort.

Paris 2024: Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge

The Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge offered archers of all levels the chance to shoot alongside the best of the best during the Olympics and Paralympics from wherever you are.

From the 26 July to the 8 September, archers were able to compete in the Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge and experience the spirit of international competition.

With distances ranging from 10 metres to 70 metres, each round presents a unique challenge, mirroring the intensity and precision of the Olympic and Paralympic events.

Participating in the Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge is easy and accessible to all. Simply shoot your chosen round, record your scores, and submit your entry via the online form.

Only a small number of archers took up this challenge and submitted internal score sheets, these will be assessed and discussed with those who entered.

Target Days

There will be no season long competition this summer so the club are introducing a number of target days each month, Rounds will be announced before the start of each month and will be tailored to give archers talking part in a number of external competitions a chance to practice the relevant rounds. Also designated rounds shot on Target Days will count towards the achievement of an archers Bowman Classification. These rounds will be released in the Events section of the club website. Score sheets and clipboards etc will be made available on the day, and the rounds will be shot & scored in accordance with Archery GB rules.

The Target Days for September will include:

• Sunday 1^st September: Long Metric / Warwicks
• Tuesday 3^rd September: Warwicks (in support of DCAS Postal competition only)
• Friday 6^th September: Warwicks (in support of DCAS Postal competition only)
• Sunday 8^th September : Warwicks
• Tuesday 10^th September: Warwicks (in support of DCAS Postal competition only)
• Sunday 22^nd September: Yelverton Bowmen internal Summer National Competition
• Sunday 29^th September: Warwicks – Final chance to shoot a round for entry into the DCAS summer Postal competition

A list of indoor target days will be published in due course.

2024/25 Indoor Season

DCAS Winter Postal

The entry details for the DCAS winter postal competitions (Portsmouth & Frostbite) have been issued to the club and we will look to enter a mix of teams in both competitions to cover all bow styles. As with the summer postals these will be open to all club members, with the highest scores each month being submitted. Scores submitted for these competitions will also qualify for individual Frosbite & Portsmouth badges. Both of these competitions start in October and the teams being entered will be confirmed next month, however details of the competitions can be found here.

Bray 1 League

Running alongside the DCAS Portsmouth Postal and Frostbite Postal Competitions we are also running an internal club competition shooting Bray I rounds. The competition will run from the beginning of October to the end of March.