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

Club Records

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

Classifications

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

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

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

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

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

AGB Progress Awards

• None awarded in period

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

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

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The final team and individual results are as follows:

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

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

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Neill White (Gents Longbow) – Score 280

Well done Neill.

The final team and individual results are as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

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

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

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

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

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

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

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

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

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

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

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

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

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

Individual archers performed as follows:

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

The full results can be found on IANSEO.

British University Team Championships (30th March)

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

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

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

Full results can be found on IANSEO.

Bray 1 League

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

Details for this competition can be found here.

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

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

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

The full results are below.

And Finally…

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

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

 

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

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

Club Records

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

Classifications

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

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

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

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

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

AGB Progress Awards

• None awarded in period

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

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

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

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

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

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well done to both of you.

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

• Mark Nightingale (Recurve) – 250 Badge

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

BUCS Indoors Southern Qualifiers (8th February)

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

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

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

Full results can be found in IANSEO.

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

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

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

Individual archers performed as follows:

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

The team results were as follows:

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

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Bray 1 League

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

Details for this competition can be found here.

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

 

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

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

Club Records

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

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

Classifications

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

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

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

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• None awarded in January

AGB Progress Awards

• Josie Nuttall (Barebow) – IAGB Gold

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

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

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

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

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

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well done to both of you.

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

• No additional Frostbite badges were issued in January

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

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

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Brixham Clipper (25^th January)

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

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

The full results for the competition can be found here.

Bray 1 League

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

Details for this competition can be found here.

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

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Club Records

Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow

• Frostbite – Score 280 (previous score 270)

Classifications

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

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

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

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

• John Pengilley (Longbow) – 30yd 252

AGB Progress Awards

• Gary Still (Barebow) – IAGB Red

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

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

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Jack Cunningham (U16 Boys Recurve) – Score 447

Well done Jack.

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

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

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

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well done to both of you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Archery GB Achievements

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

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

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

Bray 1 League

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

Details for this competition can be found here.

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

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

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

Club Records

Neill White – 50+ Men’s Longbow

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

Sarah Watson – Senior Ladies Recurve

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

Andrew Axworthy – Senior Men’s Recurve

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

Emma Broadhurst – Senior Women Longbow

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

Jeni Mattock – 50+ Women’s Barebow

• Portsmouth – Score 491 (previous score 479)

John Pengilley – 50+ Men’s Barebow

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

Classifications

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

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

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

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

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

AGB Progress Awards

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

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

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

Competitions

DCAS Portsmouth Winter Postal 2024/5

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

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

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

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

The team positions after round one are as follows:

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

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

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

Well done to both of you.

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

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

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

DCAS Frostbite Winter Postal 2024/5

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

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

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

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

The team positions after round one are as follows:

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

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

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

Well done to both of you.

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

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

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

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

Newquay Bowmen Double Worcester Competition (24th November)

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

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

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

Bray 1 League

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

Details for this competition can be found here.

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

Regards,
John,
Records Officer

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

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

Club Records

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

Classifications

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

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

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

Progress and 252 Awards

Badges were awarded to the following archers:

252 Awards

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

AGB Progress Awards

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

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

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

Competitions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The final table positions are as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well done Gary.

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

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

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

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

Paris 2024: Aim for Paris Virtual Challenge

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

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

2024/25 Indoor Season

DCAS Winter Postal

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

Portsmouth (indoor)

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

Frostbite (outdoor)

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

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

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

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

Bray 1 League

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

Details for this competition can be found here.

The DCAS 45th Open Indoor Championships will be held on the 26th February 2023 on our home ground at the YMCA Plymouth. Members can enter via the DCAS website or by completing the application form we have emailed you.

Next beginners course will run March 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th at the YMCA, Plymouth. Cost is £50 per person. Places are limited. Contact us via our Contact us page, or through our Facebook or Instagram pages

Kyrton Archer are running their Winter warmer competition in January 23. See their website for details