Welcome to the Yelverton Bowmen Records Officer report for June to September 2026.

Club Records shot June to September 2026:

June:

Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women’s Longbow:

• Long Western – Score 235 (no previous record)

Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:

• Canadian – Score 326 (no previous record)
• WA 900 – Score 283 (no previous record)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 60m – Score 539 (previous record 487)

Carmen Bottrell – Senior Women’s Barebow:

• Metric 122-40 – Score 515 (previous record 327)

Jeni Mattock – Senior Women’s Barebow:

• Warwick 30 (was Short Junior Warwick) – Score 394 (Previous record 380)

John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• WA 50m (Barebow) – Score 599 (previous record 589),
• Long Warwick – Score 331 (previous record 290)

July:

Phil Lomas – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Windsor 50 – Score 668 (no previous record)
• Western 50 – Score 623 (previous score 573)

Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:

• WA 70m – Score 141 (previous score 139)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 1440 (Ladies) / Metric I – Score 852 (no previous record)

August:

KT Pollington – Senior Women’s Barebow:

• WA 1440 (Ladies) / Metric I – Score 861 (previous score 596)
• 140yd Clout – Score 48 (no previous record)
• 140yd Clout (Double) – Score 94 (no previous record)
• Hereford / Bristol I – Score 748 (previous score 668)
• Hereford / Bristol I (Double) – Score 1452 (no previous record)

Jeni Mattock – Senior Women’s Barebow:

• Warwick 30 – Score 395 (previous score 394)

Carmen Bottrell – Senior Women’s Barebow:

• Warwick 50 – Score 319 (previous score 301)

John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• WA 50m (Barebow) – Score 605 (previous record 599)
• WA 50m (Barebow) (Double) – Score 1196 (previous record 1144)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 1440 (Ladies) / Metric I – Score 995 (previous score 852)
• Hereford / Bristol I (Double) – Score 1677 (no previous record)

Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:

• WA 70m – Score 150 (previous record 141)
• Hereford / Bristol I (Double) – Score 538 (no previous record)

September:

John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Long Warwick – Score 339 (previous record 331)

Carmen Bottrell – Womens Barebow:

• Long Metric III – score 483 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classifications have been achieved and badges have been or are in the process of being issued:

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Outdoor Bowman 2nd Class
• Tim Thornton (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 1st Class
• Tim Thornton (Recurve) – Outdoor Bowman 3rd Class
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Outdoor Bowmen 1st Class
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Outdoor 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

• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – 40yd 252
• Dan Baxter (Longbow) – 40yd 252
• Octavia Harwood-Roe (Barebow) – 10 & 20yd 252
• Willow Harwood-Roe (Longbow) – 20yd 252
• Antony Corke (Barebow)– 20yd 252
• Emily Corke (Barebow)– 20yd 252
• Bebe Wilson (Barebow)– 20yd 252
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 80yd 252
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 60yd 252
• Paul Mattock (Recurve) – 50yd 252
• Maya Hojat (Recurve) – 40yd 252
• Timothy Thornton (Recurve) – 40yd 252
• Sam Horton (Longbow) – 80yd 252
• Gary Wilkes (Recurve) – 20yd 252
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – 50yd 252
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – 100yd 252
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – 60yd 252
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – 60yd 252
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – 80yd 252

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

Competitions

DCAS Summer Postal

The club entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Warwick Leagues which will run between May and September 2026:

• One Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior and 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 final team positions are as follows:

• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team – 5th place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team “A” – 1st place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team “B” – 4th place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – Equal 1st place in Division 1

The following archers have finished as the current highest individual scorers:

• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Long Warwick (228)
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Long Warwick (339)
• Carmen Botterell (Barebow) – Warwick 50 (319)

Deer Park Archer WA 720 and Heads to Heads – 6^th June 2026

John Pengilley was the only Yelverton Bowman archer shooting at this competition. John shot a Senior Master Bowman score of 582, and ranked in first place going into the Head-To-Head section. John had a Bye in the first round and won the quarter-final 6-0. He was pushed to a fifth end in the semi-final but ended up managing to win 6-4.

John managed to secure first place in the final, 6-0.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Archery GB National Tour Stage 3 (Surrey) – 21^st June 2026

John Pengilley was the only Yelverton Bowman archer at this event. This was John’s second National Tour event. John qualified in 7^th place with his first Senior Grand Master Bowman score of 599. John beat Rene Bekker 6-4 in the quarter-final, and then lost 6-2 in the semi-final against Philip Lawrence.

However, John went on to win the bronze medal match 6-2 to take third place, and his first National Tour podium.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Exmouth Archers / DCAS WA 720 and WA 1440 – 4^th & 5^th July 2026

Alan Horton, Sam Horton and John Pengilley made the trip to Exmouth for this competition. The competition is a combined Exmouth and DCAS competition with DCAS medals awarded for the WA 1440 only. Exmouth trophies were awarded for combined WA 1440 and Double WA 720 scores.

On Day 1, Alan shot a Recurve Double WA 60m round and scored 861. Sam shot a Longbow Double WA 60m round and scored 317. John shot a Barebow Double WA 50m round and scored 1129.

On Day 2, Alan shot a Recurve WA 1440 (70m) round and scored a club record of 852. Sam shot a WA 1440 (70m) round and scored 248, and John shot a Barebow WA 1440 (90m) round,and scored 914.

All three of them won DCAS gold medals for this round, and Sam won the Rosebowl. Well done Sam.

Sam and Alan both won Gold Exmouth combined double awards, and John won a silver.

The results for this competition can be found here.

GWAS Dunster Week – 13^th to 19^th July 2026

Dunster Archery week is a prestigious event with archers taking part from all areas of the British Isles.

There are seven separate rounds available to be shot with Dunster medals and trophies available for all rounds as well as the Victor Ludorum trophy awarded to the best archers who shoot the required qualifying rounds.

Yelverton Bowmen had five archers taking part: KT Pollington, Alex Rowe, John Pengilley, Harry Clemence and Gary Wong.

• KT had a very successful tournament and finished 1^st in the Ladies Barebow WA 1440, 3^rd in the Ladies Barebow Big Game Round, 121^st in the combined Longbow two-way Western, 5^th in the Ladies barebow double two-way Clout, and 1^st in the Ladies Barebow Double York/Hereford. This combined set of results meant that KT won the First Lady Barebow, as well as the prestigious Ladies Barebow Victor Ludorum.
• Alex finished 10^th in the Gent’s recurve WA 1440, 2^nd in the Gent’s Freestyle Big Game Round, 83^rd in the combined Longbow two-way Western, and 15^th in the Gent’s Recurve Double York.
• John finished 6^th in the Gent’s Barebow WA 1440, 2^nd in the Gent’s Barebow Albion, 72^nd in the combined Longbow two-way Western, and 4^th in the Gent’s Barebow double two-way clout.
• Harry came 15^th in the Gent’s Barebow Big Game Round, 1^st in the Gent’s Barebow 140yd Clout, and 1^st in the Gent’s Barebow National Round.
• Gary came 14^th in the Gent’s Longbow Double York.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Archery GB National Tour Stage 5 & WRS Double WA 720 (Barnsley) – 18^th & 19^th July 2026

John Pengilley was the only Yelverton Bowman archer shooting at this competition. On Day 1, John shot a WA 50m (Barebow) score of 584, giving him a ranking of 9^th place. John was then knocked out by Rene Bekker (6-0) leaving him ranked 8^th overall.

On Day 2, John shot a Double WA 50m (Barebow) score of 1115, leaving him in 11^th place.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Bowmen of Wadebridge WRS Double WA 720 – 25^th July 2026

Sam Horton, Alan Horton and Gary Wong were the Yelverton Bowmen archers who took part in this event on the Colquite Estate just outside Wadebridge. All shooting WRS Double WA 70m rounds.

• Sam shot in the Senior Women’s Longbow and came 1^st, scoring 222 points.
• Gary shot in the Senior Men’s Longbow, and came 3^rd, scoring 410 points.
• Alan shot in the Senior Men’s Recurve, and came 7^th scoring 852 points.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Bowmen of Wadebridge Mixed Herefords Open tournament – 26^th July 2026

Sam, Alan and Gary also shot Wadebridge’s Mixed Hereford tournament on the following day.

• Alan came 6^th in the Men’s Recurve, scoring 832.
• Sam came 1^st in the Women’s Longbow, scoring 172.
• Gary came 2^nd in the Men’s Longbow, scoring 387.

Redruth Archers Summer Tournament Double WA 720 and WA 1440 – 1^st and 2^nd August 2026

Gary Wong, Sam Horton, Alan Horton, Alex Rowe and Martin Jackson all shot on Day 1 of this tournament, and they were joined by Alice Burgoyne on Day 2.

On Day 1:

• Alex shot in the Recurve Open Double WA 70m round and came 7^th, scoring 1047.
• Alan also shot in the Recurve Open Double WA 70m round and came 10^th, scoring 793.
• Martin came 1^st in the Recurve Open Novice Double WA 60m, scoring 752.
• Gary came 2^nd in the Longbow Open WA 70m, scoring 349.
• Sam came 1^st in the Women’s Longbow Open WA 70m, scoring 241.

The results for this competition can be found here.

On Day 2:

• Alex came 5^th in the Recurve Open WA 1440 (90m), scoring 1088.
• Alice came 3^rd in the Recurve Women’s WA 1440 (70m), scoring 576.
• Alan came 1^st in the Recurve 50+ Open WA 1440 (70m), scoring 995.
• Martin came 3^rd in the Novice Recurve Open WA 1440 (60m), scoring 943.
• Gary came 3^rd in the Longbow Open WA 1440 (90m), scoring 345.
• Sam came 1^st in the Longbow Women’s WA 1440 (70m), scoring 297, securing a gold medal and trophy. Well done Sam.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Archery GB 50+ Championships (Evesham) – 2^nd August 2026

John Pengilley shot a Master bowman score of 587 in the initial WA 50m (Barebow) round to see him ranked 4th going into the Head-to-Head phase.

John made it through three rounds of Head-to-Heads, before losing in the semi-final. This meant that he shot against Mark Shore in the bronze medal match, unfortunately losing 6–0, as Mark only dropped 5 points across the three ends.

John therefore finished in 4^th place.

The results for this competition can be found here.

British Target Championships and National Tour Stage 6 (Lilleshall) – 08^th & 09^th August 2026

John Pengilley shot a personal best WA 1440 (90m) score of 924 to finish in 12^th place out of the 45 Barebow archers that took part in Day 1 of the British Target Championships.

Day 2 was the National Tour Stage 6, where John shot a Master Bowman score of 584 leaving him ranked 13^th out of 45 going into the Head-to-Head phase. Unfortunately John was knocked out in the quarter-finals by the eventual winner.

This meant that John finished the competition ranked in 5^th place.

These results were combined to give an overall ranking for the British Target Championships, which saw John finish the competition in 8^th place.

The results for this competition can be found here and here.

Exmouth Archers WA weekend – 15^th and 16^th August 2026

Sam Horton, Alex Rowe, Alan Horton and Martin Jackson all shot on Day 1 of this competition, which consisted of a WA 720 ranking round followed by Head-to-Head matches.

In the Women’s Longbow, Sam scored 135 points and was ranked in 2^nd place behind Sue Elkings of Wells City Archers. However, Sam won her semi-final match 6-4, going on to beat Sue 6-0 in the final to secure the gold medal. Well done Sam.

In the Open Recurve category:

• Alex scored 566 and was ranked in 6^th place going into the Head-to-Heads. Unfortunately Alex was knocked out in the first round in a very tight match and finished in 11^th place overall.
• Alan scored 489 and was ranked in 14^th place. Alan got through the first round but was beaten in the quarter-finals, and finished in 8^th place overall.
• Martin scored 308 and was ranked in 15^th place. Martin was knocked out in the first round by the eventual silver medallist, and finished in 15^th place overall.

Day 2 of the competition saw Alex Rowe, Alan Horton and Martin Jackson shoot the Recurve Open WA 1440 (90m), Alice Burgoyne shot in the Recurve Women’s WA 1440 (70m) , Gary Wong shot in the Open Longbow WA 1440 (90m) and Sam Horton shot in the Women’s Longbow WA 1440 (70m).

Alex scored 1096 and finished in 6^th place, Alan scored 819 and finished in 15^th place and Martin scored 499 and finished in 16^th place.

Alice shot really well at 30m and eventually scored 478 to finish in 7^th place.

Gary scored 425 to finish in 7^th place.

Sam scored 346 and finished in 2^nd place, picking up a silver medal. Well done Sam. But also well done to Alan, Martin and Alice as this was the longest round that the three of them have ever shot in competition.

The results for this competition can be found here.

SWWU Open 2026  – 22^nd and 23^rd August 2026

Grace Addicott took part on Day 1, whilst Alex Rowe and Corey Richardson took part in both days shooting a WA 720 round followed by Head-to-Head matches.

Day 1 saw the Yelverton Bowmen archers achieve the following:

• Alex, shooting in the Recurve Open category, scored 589 in the WA 70m qualification round which gave him a ranking position of 7^th. Alex was knocked out in the 1/8 round in a closely fought match. This placed Alex 10^th overall.
• Grace, shooting in the Recurve Women’s category, scored 316 in the WA 70m qualification round which gave her a ranking position of 8^th. Grace was knocked out in the 1/4  round by the eventual gold medallist and was placed 8^th overall.
• Corey, shooting in the Compound Open category, scored 599 in the WA 50m (Compound) qualification round which gave him a ranking position of 8^th. Corey was knocked out in the 1/8 round in a closely fought match (120-124), placing Corey in 9^th overall.

Day 2 saw the Yelverton Bowmen archers achieve the following:

• Alex, shooting in the Recurve open category, scored 560 in the WA 70m qualification round, giving him a ranking position of 8^th. Alex made it through to the quarter-final where he was knocked out by the eventual gold medallist, placing Alex in 6^th overall.
• Corey, shooting in the Compound Open category, scored 600 in the WA 50m qualification round which gave him a ranking position of 8^th. He won his 1/8 match on a one-arrow shoot-off (131-131, 9-8) before being knocked out by the first-seed qualifier and eventual gold-medallist, placing in 8th overall.

The results for this competition can be found here and here.

Bowmen of Lytchett World Archery Weekend – 22^nd and 23^rd August 2026

John Pengilley shot on both days of this competition, which saw archers shooting Double WA 720 rounds on each day.

Day 1 saw John shoot a Senior Grand Master Bowman score of 605, and a Senior Master Bowman score of 591, giving him a total of 1196. This placed John in 1^st place on Day 1.

On Day 2, John shot scores of 577 and 600 giving him a total of 1177. This left John in second place for Day 2. However, when both days scores were combined John finished in 1^st place overall.

The results for this competition can be found here.

Lizard Peninsula Bowmen Summer Bonanza – 29^th and 30^th August 2026

This non-record-status competition was shot in extremely testing conditions, with periods of strong, gusty, wind and heavy rain on both days. Sam Horton, Alan Horton, Martin Jackson and John Pengilley all had a great weekend at this really friendly and welcoming club.

• Sam came 1^st in the Ladies Double Hereford Longbow scoring 272 on Day 1, and 266 on Day 2 totalling 538.
• Alan came 1^st in the Gent’s Double Hereford Recurve scoring 840 on Day 1, and 835 on Day 2 totalling 1675.
• Martin came in 1^st place in the Gent’s Double Bristol II Recurve scoring 856 on Day 1, and 764 on Day 2 totalling 1620.
• John came 2^nd in the Gent’s Double York Barebow scoring 704 on Day 1, and 760 on Day 2 totalling 1461.

GWAS Intercounties (Bowmen of Lytchett) – 20^th September 2026

Alex Rowe, Sam Horton and John Pengilley were all selected to shoot for the DCAS County team.

All three of them shot Double WA 720 rounds, helping toward the DCAS team taking the overall team trophy with a combined score of 19,704! Over 1400 points more than Gloucestershire who came second.

Alex shot in the Recurve Open and Combined teams, scoring a total of 1052 points. His score helped the DCAS Recurve team secure the Janet Faralewski Salver for the combined Gents and Ladies.

Sam shot in the Longbow Combined teams, scoring a total of 215 points.

John shot in the Barebow Combined team, scoring a total of 1156 points. His score helped the Barebow team secure the team trophy.

The results for this competition can be found here.

National County Team Tournament – 26^th & 27^th September 2026

Sam Horton, KT Pollington and John Pengilley were all selected to shoot for the DCAS county team.

The competition requires archers to shoot a combination of WA 720 rounds and team Head-to-Heads.

Day 1:

• Sam scored 137, ranking 10^th out of 26, in the WA 70m round, which helped the DCAS Womens Longbow team rank in 6^th place out of the 9 teams. The team had a Bye in round 1, but were knocked out 6-2 by Essex in the quarter-final. This left the team ranked 8^th overall.
• KT scored 528, ranking 16^th out of 45, in the WA 50m (Barebow) round ,which helped the DCAS Womens Barebow team secure a team ranking of 6^th out of 15 teams. The team won 6-0 in the 1/8 round, but were then knocked out by the eventual bronze medal team Lrcaa. This left the team ranked in 6^th place overall.
• John scored 577, ranking 17^th out of 60, in the WA 50m (Barebow) round, which helped the DCAS Open Barebow team secure a team ranking of 1^st place. The team lost 6-2 to the eventual winners in the semi-final securing a Bronze medal play off. In a hard fought match the team lost (4-5, 28-26) in a one arrow shoot off.

Day 2:

• Sam scored 67, ranking 19^th out of 26, in the WA 70m. For the Head-to-Heads, Sam was shooting in the Mixed Longbow team. Her score helped them secure a ranking of 5^th out of the 11 teams. Sam and Tony Aplin reached the Semi final with a one-arrow shoot-off in the quarter-final. They were then beaten by Gloucestershire which meant they faced Yorkshire in the Bronze medal match. Despite taking the match to 4 ends they lost 6-2 to finish in 4^th place overall.
• KT scored 536, ranking 14^th out of 60, in the WA 50m (Barebow) round. For the Head-to-Heads, KT was shooting in the Mixed Barebow team the score helped secure a ranking of 9^th out of the 19 teams. KT and Bill Wilson reached the quarter-final where they were knocked out by the eventual winners in a very hard fought contest, to finish in 5^th place overall.
• John scored 581, ranking 15^th out of 60, in the WA 50m (Barebow) round. For the Head-to-Heads, John was shooting in the Open Pairs team with Chris Putman and the score helped secure a ranking of 3^rd out of 20 teams. John and Chris, supported by KT who spotted for them, made it to the gold medal match via a one-arrow shoot-off in the semi-final where they beat Bedfordshire 17-16. They won 5-3 against Staffordshire to secure the Open Pairs team gold.

KT and John also helped the DCAS Mixed Barebow team to secure the overall bronze medal.

The results for this competition can be found here and here.

Indoor Bray I League

The competition is 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 have been able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

National Rankings

One of the outcomes of shooting in the majority of the above competitions is that the record status events count towards an archers National Ranking. The following archers have achieved an outdoor National Ranking position of:

Senior Longbow Women (76 athletes with a ranking):

• Sam Horton ranked 17th

Senior Longbow Open  (167 athletes with a ranking):

• Gary Wong ranked 27th

Senior Compound Open (306 athletes with a ranking):

• Corey Richardson ranked 138th

Senior Recurve Women (303 athletes with a ranking):

• Alice Burgoyne ranked 167th
• Grace Addicott ranked 205th

Senior Recurve Open (601 athletes with a ranking):

• Alex Rowe ranked 90th
• Alan Horton ranked 190th
• Martin Jackson ranked 329th

Senior Barebow Open (354 athletes with a ranking):

• John Pengilley ranked 11th
• John Pengilley also ranked 8th on the National tour (97 athletes with a ranking)

Please accept my apologies if I have missed anyone or anything off this report.

Regards,

John
Records Officer

Welcome to the Yelverton Bowmen Records Officer report for April and May 2026.

Club Records shot during April and May 2026:

April:

Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow:

• Stafford – Score 296 (no previous record)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 60m – Score 421 (no previous record)
• Metric 122-50 – Score 543 (previous record 514)

May:

Alice Burgoyne – Senior Women’s Recurve:

• Windsor 40 (formerly Junior Windsor) – Score 777 (previous record 683)
• Bristol V – Score 1158 (no previous record)
• National 40 (formerly Junior National) – Score 514 (previous record 458)

Martin Jackson – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• Bristol IV – Score 1126 (no previous record)

Carmen Bottrell – Senior WoMen’s Barebow:

• Western 40 (formerly Junior Western) – Score 747 (no previous record)
• Metric 122-40 – Score 327 (no previous record)
• Bristol IV – Score 1073 (previous record 1020)

John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Long Warwick – Score 290 (previous record 280)
• Hereford/Bristol I – Score 902 (previous record 717)
• Albion – Score 753 (no previous record)
• Double WA 50m – Score 1144 (previous record 1113)

KT Pollington – Senior WoMen’s Barebow:

• Long Warwick – Score 228 (previous record 225)
• WA 50m – Score 518 (previous record 488)
• Long Western – Score 482 (previous record 374)

Phil Lomas – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Western 30 (formerly Short Junior Western) – Score 756 (no previous record)

Samantha Horton – Senior WoMen’s Longbow:

• Albion – Score 251 (no previous record)

Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve:

• WA 60m – Score 487 (previous score 421)
• Double WA 60m – Score 893 (no previous record)

Callum Lyth – Senior Men’s Barebow:

• Windsor 40 – Score 695 (no previous record)

Classifications

The following Classifications have been achieved and badges are in the process of being issued:

• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Indoor Archer 1st Class and Outdoor Archer 2nd Class
•  Alan Horton (Recurve) – Outdoor Bowman 3rd Class
• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 1st Class
• Martin Jackson Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 1st Class and Outdoor Bowman 3rd Class
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Outdoor Bowmen 2dn Class
• Alan Buckingham (Compound) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
• Jakub Pazdan (Recurve) – Outdoor Archer 2nd Class
• Callum Lythe (Barebow) – 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

• Will Carver (Compound) – 20yd
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – 50yd
• Alan Buckingham (Compound) – 20, 30 and 40yd
• Alan Buckingham (Barebow) – 20yd
• Alan Buckingham (Compound) – Indoor AGB Gold Progress award
• Andrew Howie (Longbow) – 20 and 30yd
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – 40yd

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

Competitions

Indoor Bray I League

The competition is 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 have been able to shoot rounds and submit scores towards the Bowmen classifications.

Details for this competition can be found here.

The results are in. 8 archers submitted qualifying scores for this competition, however the winner this year is………..

1st place

• Jeni Mattock (7251 points)

2nd place

• Alan Horton (7235 points)

3rd Place

• Paul Mattock (7220 points)

Well done Jeni. Certificates and trophy have been awarded.

DCAS Summer Postal

The club entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Warwick Leagues which will run between May and September 2026:

• One Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior and 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 first round of the competition in May:

The team positions after round 1 are as follows:

• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team “A” – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team “B” – 5th place in Division 3
• Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – Equal 1st place in Division 1

The following archers are the current highest individual scorers:

• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Long Warwick (228)
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Long Warwick (290)

St Austell Bay Archers Open WA 25m/18m – 12th April 2026

Al, Alice and Martin shot at the St Austell Bay Archers Open WA 25m/18m competition in April, with Alice coming in 2nd place.

National Tour Stage 1 (Lilleshall) – 25th and 26th April 2026

John Pengilley managed to get to shoot both days of the National Tour stage 1. This was Johns first opportunity to shoot at a competition of this level, however the conditions on both days were ideal.

Day 1 was an extra opportunity to shoot a single WA 50m (Barebow) round. John scored 553 and came 5th.

Day 2 was another single WA 50m (Barebow) round, but followed by a Head to Head competition. John shot well in the ranking round, scoring 580 points and coming 20th out of 70 archers.

Unfortunately, John was knocked out in the first round of the head to head competition, losing 6-4. This meant that John finished in 35th place overall. However John did achieve his first score towards his 50+ Grand Master Bowman (GMB) classification.

Exmouth Archers WRS Double 720 – 10th May 2026

John Pengilley was the only archer representing Yelverton Bowmen at this competition. The conditions were very testing with a constant 15mph wind, gusting up to 30mph throughout the day. All archers found it challenging.

John won the Open Barebow category scoring a total of 1113 points, with one of the WA 720 rounds providing Johns second score (569) towards his 50+ GMB classification.

Redruth archers Spring Tournament Day 1 – 16th May 2026

Once again this weekend proved popular with Yelverton Bowmen who had 11 archers covering all bow styles shooting York/Bristol rounds. With many of them shooting at their first outdoor competition.

Impressively, every archer medalled with several shooting new club records.

• Iain Lees (Compound) – Came 1st in the Open York category, scoring 1102
• Gary Wong (Longbow) – Came 2nd in the Open York category, scoring 188
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Hereford category, scoring 260
• Andrew Howie (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Hereford/Bristol I category, scoring 655
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Came 1st in the 50+ Open Hereford/Bristol I category, scoring a new club record of 902
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Bristol II category, scoring 982
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Bristol IV category, scoring a new club record of 1073
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Bristol IV category, scoring a new club record of 1126
• Jakub Pazdan (Recurve) – Came 2nd in the Open Bristol IV category, scoring 1058
• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Women’s Bristol V category, scoring a new club record of 1158
• Callum Lyth (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Bristol V category, scoring 1069

Redruth Archers Spring Tournament Day 2 – 17th May 2026

Day 2 saw 10 of the archers who shot on day 1 taking to the field again to shoot St George/Albion/Windsor rounds with as impressive results as day 1.

• Iain Lees (Compound) – Came 2nd in the Open St. George category, scoring 851
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Albion category, scoring a new club record of 251
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Albion category, scoring a new club record of 753
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor category, scoring 716
• Alice Burgoyne (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Women’s Windsor 50 category, scoring 675
• Martin Jackson (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 50 category, scoring 800
• Andrew Howie (Longbow) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 50 category, scoring 394
• Carmen Bottrell (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Women’s Windsor 40 category, scoring 767
• Callum Lyth (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 40 category, scoring a new club record of 695
• Jakub Pazdan (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Windsor 40 category, scoring 884

SWWU Outdoor Championships WA 720 and H2Hs – 17th May 2026

Two Yelverton Bowmen archers were part of the University of Plymouth’s team at the final South West and Wales University league leg of the academic year.

Grace Addicott scored 335, seeding in 12th place in the Recurve Experienced combined category but opted not to proceed to the Head to Head matches. Corey Richardson seeded in top position for the Compound combined category with a score of 519, proceeding directly to the gold medal match which he won 116-103.

Brixham Archers WRS Double 720 – 24th May 2026

Four Yelverton Bowmen archers made the journey to Brixham to take part in the WRS Double WA 720 competition. It turned out to be another challenging day with the temperature and humidity rising throughout the day. This had a significant impact on a lot of the competitors scores.

Three of the four archers managed to come away with medals.

• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Came 2nd in the Women’s Double WA 70 category scoring 95
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Came 1st in the Open Double WA 60 category scoring 893
• Corey Richardson (Compound) – Came 5th in the Open Double WA 50 category, scoring 1141
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Came 1st in the Open Double WA 50 category, scoring a new club record of 1144

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

Please accept my apology for the lateness of this report covering September to December 2025.

Club Records

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

Records shot between September 2025 and January 2026:

Emma Broadhurst – Senior Womens Longbow:

• Frostbite – Score 227 (Previous record 184)
• WA 1440 (Ladies) / Metric I – Score 449 (Previous record 424)
• Bray I – Score 169 (Previous record 149)

Samantha Horton – Senior Womens Longbow:

• National 50 – Score 260 (Previous record 201)
• WA 18m – Score 304 (no previous record)
• Frostbite – Score 184 (Previous record 173)

Jeni Mattock – Senior Womens Barebow:

• Bray I – Score 249 (Previous Record 204)

Maya Hojat- Womens Under 16 Recurve:

• WA 18m – Score 385 (no previous record)
• Bray I – Score 181 (no previous record)

John Pengilley – Senior Mens Barebow:

• Frostbite – Score 307 (previous record 304)

Classifications

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

September Classifications:

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 1st Class

October Classifications:

• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Indoor Bowman 1st Class

November Classifications:

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Indoor Bowman 3rd Class
• Timothy Thornton (Recurve) – Indoor Archer 2nd Class
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – Indoor Bowman 2nd Class
• Maya Hojat (Recurve) – 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 (September to December 2025)

• Eddie Mulligan (Recurve U14) – 20yd
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow U16) – 60yd
• Brent Wright (Barebow) – 20yd

AGB Indoor Progress Awards (September to December 2025)

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

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 entered the following teams into the DCAS Summer Postal Warwick Leagues which ran between May & September 2025:

• One Senior and Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team
• One Senior and Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team
• Two Senior and 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 final round of the competition in September:

The final team positions are as follows:

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

 

 

The following archers scored the highest individual score for their bow style and division and DCAS medals have been awarded.

• Iain Lees (Compound) – Long Warwick score 420
• Linda Wright (Barebow) – Long Warwick score 231
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Long Warwick score 280
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Warwick score 253
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – Warwick 30 score 354
• Maya Hojat (Recurve) – Warwick 30 score 344

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

Submission of a DCAS Summer Postal score sheet also give 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.

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2025/26

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

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

Unfortunately all of our teams lost in November. The team positions after round one are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – 6th place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – 6th place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – 6th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – 6th place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – 3rd place in Division 1

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

Unfortunately all of our teams also lost in December. The team positions after round two are as follows:

• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘A’ – 6th place in Division 1
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘B’ – 6th place in Division 3
• Senior Recurve/Barebow team ‘C’ – 6th place in Division 5
• Senior Compound team – 6th place in Division 2
• Senior Longbow team – 5th place in Division 2
• Junior U16 Mixed Style team – 3rd place in Division 1

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

• KT Pollington (Ladies Barebow) – Score 495
• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 557

The following Portsmouth Badges have been awarded up to December 2025:

• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 475 & 500
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 425
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – 375 & 400
• Tim Thornton (Recurve) – 425
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – 475
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – 500
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – 550
• Paul Horsley (Recurve) – 525
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – 475

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2025/26

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Emma Broadhurst (Ladies Longbow) – Score 218
• John Pengilley (Gents Barebow) – Score 309

The following Frostbite Badges have been awarded up to December 2025:

• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – 225
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 275
• Jonathan Hui Recurve) – 275

External Competitions

Exmouth Archers Indoor Tournament – 16th November

This was a World Archery UK Record Status event shooting WA 18m rounds. 12 Yelverton Bowmen archers took part and achieved the following results:

• Recurve Open:
  • Andrew Axworthy finished in 1^st place
  • Jon Day finished in 4^th place
  • Andrew Howie finished in 5^th place
  • Alan Horton finished in 7^th place
• Recurve Women:
  • Grace Addicott finished in 8th place
• Recurve Junior Women:
  • Maya Hojat finished in 1^st place
• Compound Open:
  • Iain Lees finished in 4^th place
  • Corey Richardson finished in 6th place
  • Gary Wong finished in 8^th place
• Barebow Open:
  • John Pengilley finished in 1^st place
• Longbow Open:
  • Neill White finished in 6^th place
• Longbow Women:
  • Samantha Horton finished in 3^rd place

The full results can be found here on IANSEO.

South West and Wales University League Leg 3: Bath and Aberystwyth – 29th November 2025

Two Yelverton Bowmen shot for the University of Plymouth at Leg 3 of this academic years SWWU League in Bath in November, shooting a Portsmouth round.

Corey Richardson placed 3rd, taking the bronze medal, in the Compound Experienced Open category with a score of 551. Grace Addicott score 496, a new competition personal best, placing in 4th, narrowly beating out the 5th place archer with the same score with the tiebreak being decided on number of tens!

National Indoor Championships – 5th to 6th December 2025

Six Yelverton Bowmen archers travelled to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire to compete in Archery GB’s National Indoor Championships in December, and shot a WRS WA 18m round.

• Recurve Open:
  • Alex Rowe finished in 95th place
• Recurve Women:
  • Grace Addicott finished in 92nd place
• Compound Open:
  • Corey Richardson finished in 69th place
• Barebow Open:
  • Harry Clemence finished in 69th place
• Barebow Women:
  • KT Pollington finished in 17th place, after being knocked out in the first round of Head-To-Head matches
  • Jorja Reid finished in 45th place

Results from the Indoor Championships can be found on IANSEO.

And Finally…

As we have now moved indoors, we will continue to shoot the Yelverton Bowmen Bray I League until the end of March. Details of the competition can be found here and will effectively make every indoor session, from the beginning of October to the end of March, a target day. Rounds shot on club Target days will allow archers to submit scores in support of a Bowman classification.

Welcome to the combined June, July and August report of the 2024/25 shooting season. Due to holidays etc this report covers June, July & August.

Club Records

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

Records shot in June 2025

• Neill White – Senior Men’s Longbow
  • Warwick – Score 327 (previous score 318)
  • Long Metric (Men)- Score 296 (previous 235)
  • Short Metric III – Score 450 (no previous score)
• John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow
  • Long Metric I – Score 408 (no previous score)
  • WA 50m – Score 589 (previous score 571)
  • Long Metric (Men) – score 277 (no previous score)
• Jenny Kerchey – Senior Women’s Recurve
  • Warwick 50 (was Short Warwick) – Score 329 (previous score 308)
• Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow
  • National 50 (was Short National) – Score 177 (previous score 162)
  • Metric 122-40 – Score 228 (previous score 224)
  • Long Metric IV – Score 270 (no previous score)
• Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women’s Longbow:
  • WA 60m – Score 265 (no previous score)
  • National – Score 289 (previous score 248)
  • Long Metric II    – Score 266 (previous score 46)
• Mark Nightingale – Senior Men’s Recurve
  • Metric 122-50 – Score 514 (New round)
• Timothy Thornton – Senior Men’s Recurve:
  • Windsor 30 (was Short Junior Windsor) – Score 868 (no previous score)
• Jonathan Hui – Senior Men’s Recurve
  • Long Metric I – Score 567 (previous score 534)
• Alan Horton – Senior Men’s Recurve
  • Long Metric IV – Score 507 (no previous score)

Records shot in July:

• Neill White – Senior Men’s Longbow
  • Windsor – Score 672 (previous record 298)
• Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow
  • National 50 (was Short National – Score 201 (Previous score 162)
  • Western 50 (Was Short Western) – Score 319 (no previous record)
  • Bristol III – Score 358 (previous score 279)
• Linda Wright – Senior Women’s Barebow
  • Long Warwick – Score 245 (previous score 225)
• KT Pollington – Senior Women’s Barebow
  • WA 1440 (Ladies) – Score 596 (no previous record)
  • WA 900 – Score 487 (no previous record)
• Jenny Kerchey – Senior Women’s Recurve
  • National 40 (formerly Junior National) – Score 458 (no previous record)

Records shot in August:

• Samantha Horton – Senior Women’s Longbow
  • Warwick 50 (was Short Warwick) – Score 207 (Previous record 90)
  • Western 50 (was Short Western) – Score 251 (No previous record)
• John Pengilley – Senior Men’s Barebow
  • Warwick 50 (was short Warwick) – Score 382 (Previous score 350)
  • Short Metric I – Score 456 (no previous record)
• Paul Horsley – Senior Men’s Recurve
  • National 50 (was Short National) – Score 560 (Previous record 534)
• Neill White – Senior Men’s Longbow
  • Short Metric I – Score 456 (Previous record 144)
• Sarah Watson – Senior Women’s Recurve
  • Short Metric II – Score 324 (Previous record 207)

Classifications

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

June Classifications

• Parker Fewings (Barebow) – Archer 3rd class
• Jon Day (recurve) – Archer 1st Class
• Phil Lomas (Barebow) – Bowman 3rd Class
• Phil Harley (Barebow) – Bowman 2nd Class
• Gary Still (Barebow) – Archer 2nd Class
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Bowman 1st class

July Classifications

• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Bowman 3rd Class
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – Archer 1st Class
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – Bowman 3rd Class
• Jonathan Hui (Recurve) – Bowman 3rd Class

August Classifications

• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – Bowman 1st Class
• Timothy Thornton (Recurve) – Archer 2nd 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

• Willow Rose Harwood Roe (Recurve U14) – 10yd
• Eddie Mulligan (Recurve U14) – 10yd
• Adam Mulligan (Recurve) – 20yd
• Galerina Beriot (Recurve) – 20yd
• Warren Dow (Recurve) – 20yd
• Lorelei Armstrong (Recurve U15) – 30yd
• Dan Baxter (Barebow) – 30yd
• Suzanne Croft (Recurve) – 20yd & 30yd
• Gordon Thornton (Recurve) – 30yd
• Maya Hojat (Recurve U14) – 10yd, 20yd & 30yd
• Frankie Canale Dow (Recurve) -30yd
• Dan Baxter (Longbow) – 20yd & 30yd
• Barry Bailey (Recurve) – 20yd & 30yd
• Timothy Thornton (Recurve) – 30yd
• Sarah Watson (Longbow) – 20yd & 30yd
• Alan Horton (Recurve) – 40yd
• Dylan Croft (Compound) – 30yd & 40yd
• Mark Armstrong (Recurve) – 50yd
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow U16) – 50yd
• Tobi Penter (Recurve) – 50yd
• Tim Hall (Compound) – 50yd
• KT Pollington (Barebow) – 60yd
• Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – 60yd
• Samantha Horton (Longbow) – 50yd & 60yd
• Paul Horsley (Recurve) – 60yd
• Corey Richardson (Compound) – 80yd
• Jonathan Hui (Recurve) – 80yd
• Paul Warren (Compound) – 80yd
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – 80yd

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 June, July & August rounds of the competition:

After four months of the competition team positions are as follows:

• Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1 (equal in points with 1st place but behind on total score)
• Senior & Junior over 16 Compound Long Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior & Junior over 16 Longbow Warwick team – 2nd place in Division 1
• Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team ‘A’ – 2nd place in Division 1 (equal in points with 1st place but behind on total score)
• Senior & Junior over 16 Mixed (non-Compound) Warwick 50 team ‘B’ – 2nd place in Division 3
• Junior U16 Mixed Style Warwick 30 team – 1st place in Division

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

• Linda Wright (Barebow) – Long Warwick score 231
• John Pengilley (Barebow) – Long Warwick score 280
• Iain Lees (Compound) – Long Warwick score 420
• Emma Broadhurst (Longbow) – Warwick score 253
• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – Warwick 30 score 354
• Maya Hojat (Recurve) – Warwick 30 score 344

September will be the final round and will be your last chance to try and get more of our teams into a winning spot.

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.

Six Gold, Three Gold End Badge Winners This Month

• Neill White (Longbow) – 3 gold end badge

BUCS Outdoor Championships (14th and 15th of June 2025)

Three student archers travelled to Lilleshall in June to compete in the British University and College Sports Outdoor Archery Championships. This competitions consisted of two days of shooting in windy conditions with day one being a WA 720 seeding round followed by Head-to-Heads, and Day 2 being a WA 900 round.

In the WA 50m (Compound) seeding round, Corey Richardson scored 554, seeding in 17th place. He won his first Head-to-Head match against 16th seed 128-115 before being knocked out by the 1st place seed 143-112.

For the WA 50m (Barebow) seeding round, KT Pollington seeded in 6th place with a score of 401 whilst Marilyn Wong cleared the rest of the field in 1st place with a score of 499. Both of these archers received a Bye in the first round of Head-to-Heads, automatically proceeding to the Round of 16. KT won their first match 6-0 before being knocked out in the quarter-finals by a 6-2 margin. Marilyn won both her Round of 16 and quarter-final match through convincing 6-0 victories, but lost her semi-final match by a close 6-4 margin. She then also lost her bronze medal match 6-2, with only an overall 4 arrow-scoring points between it.

On Day 2, the archers shot a WA 900 round. Corey scored 799/900, placing in 13th place. KT scored 487 placing in 6th place, giving THEM a consistent 6th place in all three events – WA 720 qualification, Head-to-Heads and WA 900 – and an overall event placing of 5th place! Marilyn shot a score of 572, placing in 2nd by just 1 point!

Overall, Marilyn enough event points to claim the BUCS Outdoor Championships silver medal!

 

DCAS/Exmouth July WA 50m/70m and WA1440 (5th and 6th July 2025)

This was a combined 2 day event with medals and trophies awarded to those who shot on both days. Day one consisted of a Double WA 720 followed by WA1440 round on day two.

Day 1:

• John Pengilley finished in 1^st place, scoring 1140 in the Mens Double WA 50m Barebow category. However as John only shot on one day he did not medal.
• Neill White finished in 2^nd place, scoring 632 in the Mens Double WA 70m Longbow category.

Day 2:

• Emma Broadhurst finished in 3^rd place, scoring 449 in the Women’s WA 1440 70m Longbow category.
• Neill White finished in 2^nd place, scoring 658 in the Mens WA 1440 90m Longbow category. As Neill shot on both days he claimed the silver medal in the Men’s Longbow category, well done to Neill.

The full results can be found here on IANSEO.

Bowman of Wadebridge WRS Double 720 (19th July)

Three Yelverton Bowmen Archers made their way to Wadebridge to shoot in the Double 720 Competition.

• Jon Day scored 1081 and finished in 2^nd place in the Men’s Recurve 50+ category.
• Neill White scored 625 and took the gold medal finishing 1^st in the Men’s Longbow category.
• Gary Wong scored 477 and finished in 2^nd place in the Men’s Longbow category.

The results can be found here on IANSEO.

Redruth Archers Double WA 1440 (2nd and 3rd August 2025)

The same three intrepid archers then made their way to Redruth to compete in the Double 1440 competition.

Day 1:

• John Day scored 1020 and finished the day in 6^th place.
• Neill White scored 493 and finished the day in 3^rd place.
• Gary Wong scored 427 and finished the day in 4^th place.

Day 2:

• John Day scored 1018 and finished the day in 8^th place but 5^th place overall in the Men’s Recurve category.
• Neill White scored 622 and finished the day in 1^st place and 1^st place, taking the gold medal, overall in the Men’s Longbow category.
• Gary Wong scored 471 and finished the day in 3rd place and 3^rd place overall in the Men’s Longbow category.

The overall results can be found here on IANSEO.

DCAS Championships/Exmouth Archers WA Weekend (16th and 17th August 2025)

Day 1 – Exmouth WA 720 and Heads to Heads:

• Corey Richardson scored 579 and finished in 8^th place in the ranking round. Having made it through the first round of the Head-to-Heads Corey was then unfortunately knocked out in round 2 by the eventual winner of the Compound Mens category.
• Parker Fewings scored 357 in the ranking round and was unfortunately knocked out in the first round of the Head-to-Heads by John, finishing in 4^th place. Linda Wright scored 422 in the ranking round but was knocked out in the Head-to-Heads finishing in 3^rd place taking the bronze medal. John Pengilley scored 525 in the ranking round and won both rounds of his Head-to-Heads, taking the gold medal.

Day 2 – DCAS Championship WA 1440:

• Linda Wright scored 560 and finished in 2^nd place on the Women’s WA 1440 Barebow category.
• John Pengilley scored 743 and finished in 1^st place, taking the gold medal and Tankard, in the Men’s WA 1440 Barebow category.

The results can be found here on Ianseo.

And Finally…

As we have now moved indoors, we will introduce the Yelverton Bowmen Bray I League at the beginning of October. Details of the competition can be found here and will effectively make every indoor session, from the beginning of October to the end of March, a target day. Rounds shot on club Target days will allow archers to submit scores in support of a Bowman classification.

Also November will see the start of the DCAS winter postal leagues more details on these team competitions can be found here. However we will issue more information neared the time.

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