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