Records Officer Monthly Report – June, July and August 2025

18 September 2025

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 1st 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 2nd place, scoring 632 in the Mens Double WA 70m Longbow category.

Day 2:

  • Emma Broadhurst finished in 3rd place, scoring 449 in the Women’s WA 1440 70m Longbow category.
  • Neill White finished in 2nd 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 2nd place in the Men’s Recurve 50+ category.
  • Neill White scored 625 and took the gold medal finishing 1st in the Men’s Longbow category.
  • Gary Wong scored 477 and finished in 2nd 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 6th place.
  • Neill White scored 493 and finished the day in 3rd place.
  • Gary Wong scored 427 and finished the day in 4th place.

Day 2:

  • John Day scored 1018 and finished the day in 8th place but 5th place overall in the Men’s Recurve category.
  • Neill White scored 622 and finished the day in 1st place and 1st place, taking the gold medal, overall in the Men’s Longbow category.
  • Gary Wong scored 471 and finished the day in 3rd place and 3rd 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 8th 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 4th place. Linda Wright scored 422 in the ranking round but was knocked out in the Head-to-Heads finishing in 3rd 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 2nd place on the Women’s WA 1440 Barebow category.
  • John Pengilley scored 743 and finished in 1st 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.