1 March 2025
Welcome to the February report of the 2024/25 shooting season.
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:
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.
Badges were awarded to the following archers:
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.
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Portsmouth Leagues:
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:
The following archer holds the highest score for the round shot by bow style:
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:
The club has entered the following teams into the DCAS Winter Postal Frostbite Leagues:
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:
The following archers hold the highest scores for the round shot by bow style:
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:
The full tables for both Winter Postal leagues can be found here.
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.
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:
The team results were as follows:
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