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