University of St Andrews Archery Club

last weekend we were lucky to give the field courses at Forest Spirit Archers a go!

The weather was (mostly) kind, but the angles sure weren’t. We had a wonderful time, and our archers will definitely be back again!

BUCS Round Up: Day Two!

This day our archers competed in a WA900 round, with weather that doesn’t decide what season it is!

Two of our archers walked away with medals, Josephine with bronze for women’s experienced compound and both her and John for the compound team!

Also would like to recognise Sharon for placing fourth in experienced barebow women and John for breaking the novice compound men’s WA900 score.

Bonus: button has some new pride merch!

BUCS Round Up: day one

After a day of travel down to Lilleshall, our team did an amazing job at the first day of ().

We are very proud of our archers, each doing very well in their respective categories, despite the classic Lilleshall wind.

Yesterday we competed at the Glamis Open!
This meant we had an amazing opportunity to shoot on the grounds of this castle, which many of the passer-By’s loved!

Two of our archers brought home medals in their respective categories - well done Sharon and John!

(Also a shout-out to Tom who survived the New Western round - he shot distances of 100y and 80y!).

Overall was a lovely restful day, and we all had a nap on the way home (but not Sharon, she was a responsible driver!)

So our new competition shirts arrived…

The results for Silver Arrow 2024 are here! You can find them at this link:

www.dropbox.com

The target list for Silver Arrow is out! You can find it at the following link:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/llqaav9tgbh3o1xpaby5f/Silver-Arrow-24-Target-List_Revised.pdf?rlkey=948v8xi0dciec6t2zqk3r006m&dl=0

At lunchtime, the South African society will be hosting a braii, so make sure to bring cash to get some tasty food!

four of our talented archers made it to BUCS Indoor Finals this year, and brought back some fabulous results.

In particular, our talented outgoing captain Josephine won her category (Women’s Experienced Compound), taking home the gold and outshooting many other talented archers!👏🏻 🥇

We are very proud of Josephine, Sharon, Laura and Icarus for their performance at BUCS this year.

we are all prepping for outdoors today, and Scotland blessed us with the range of elements to practice in: sun, rain, hail and a gorg little rainbow 💅🏻

DEADLINE EXTENDED
❗️26 March ❗️

Just a wee reminder of our annual Silver Arrow Competition on the 30th of March!
If you haven’t got your entries in, we’ve extended the deadline to the 26th of March.

Link to form in our bio!

a chaotic close to our indoor season through Indoor H2Hs!

We entered many teams this year, and had some great outcomes too🤝

The top three qualifying teams all had SAUAC archers, and the final rankings after the team h2hs meant our teams placed, 2nd, 3rd and 4th!

All teams did an amazing job at this fun competition format, and we are immensely excited to kick off the outdoor season.

The last image is to reinforce button supremacy!!

Please remember to nominate yourself or someone else and come along to vote (alternatively you can send in a vote via email)!

Have a great weekend 💙

We are excited to announce that we are once again hosting Silver Arrow 2024! The entry form is linked in our bio, entries close on 23rd March. Please email us with your completed form to [email protected] before then. We hope to see you there!

Thank you to everyone who came along and participated in the SDS Disability Inclusjon Training on February 3rd! Many thanks to our coaches Anna and Anne-Marie, who delivered expert training in a fun and welcoming environment

League Match 2 hosed by our very own club! Well done to all the archers who competed on Saturday! Next time we’ll be off to Dundee on the 25th November for a Worcester round for LM3!

Thank you to everyone who came to our beach bonfire social. We shall never forget the sandwich or the giant marshmallows 🎆

SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! For Bonfire/Guy Fawkes Night we want to see all your lovely faces and celebrate the night with a bonfire at East Sands. Weather allowing!
Please bring any food you’d like and remember to wrap up warm!
See you all there!

Congratulations to our team who recently competed in the first league match of the season! I’m told they did really well! Go-go baby archerssss!

Don’t forget to sign up for the next match, which will be held in St Andrews on the 11th of November! Signups for our team have been sent out in an email so please reply before Thursday 2nd at 12!

Last weekend we hosted the Final Novice Competition! This was open for all novices who are now graduating into the experienced category! So a double well done to all novices, and those who chose to compete in this and everyone who won in their category! We love you all no-longer-baby-archers!

EGM Announcement! We will be voting in new novice reps, as well as voting in someone for our new position of Assistant Secretary. Their role will be to aid the secretary in sorting all of our clubs day-to-day admin. This is a great role if you're interested in seeing how the club is run, and would be a great help to us!

If you’d be interested in running for these roles then please email our archery email by 5pm on Saturday!

This will be followed by pumpkin carving, which is a non-alcoholic social. Bring your carving A-Game! We hope to see you there! 🏹🎃

Hey Guys! Our Beginners Course Signups are now open!

You are welcome to come along even if you didn’t attend either of the GIAG’s! Just send an email to [email protected] and we’ll add you to the mailing list to sign up for the sessions.

The first beginners session will be this Wednesday 13th September (tomorrow) from 19:30-21:00 and another on Saturday 16th September from 16:00-17:30 both in the Main Sports Hall! So get your lovely selves over to outlook and send us a message about which you’d like to join, and if you’d like to do seated or not.

Link for Wednesday session signup: https://forms.gle/NnaTfpQv5eUbvpWs5

Link for Saturday session signup: https://forms.gle/Qc2XVfTqBFydCwcd9

All future sessions and signups will be sent out in the mailing list, and the beginners course is free for the first two weeks!

See you there! 💙🏹🎯

Button would like to cordially invite you to our first social of the year! If you feel like doing the GIAG and have just not had enough of our faces, we totally understand! Help Archery dominate The Rule on South Street (with good vibes ofc). Please feel free to come along at any point, we’ll be there from 6! Hope to see you there!

Hey everyone! Fancy becoming the next Katniss Everdeen or just getting really good at hitting something really far away with a pointy object?? (Obviously safely and legally and during set session times)

Well if you do, here’s the information about our Give It A Go! This is welcome to everyone of different abilities and year of study so please don’t be shy.

The event will also be on the Orientation app so don’t forget to check that out and save it! We are only running one GIAG and one Seated GIAG (see the other post👀) so if you cannot make it to the GIAG then there will be information on signups for the beginners course coming out shortly.

Any questions please message on Instagram or Facebook, email [email protected] or come@along to the Freshers Fayre on Monday 4th!

See you there! 💙🏹😎

Check out the DSN page for accessible events happening Freshers week! And our collaborative GIAG is on there too!

We’ve got lots of different events this Freshers, from sports to crafts to family finding! From our own events to collabs with The Carers, Commuters, Mature and Flexible Learners St Andrews, Saints LGBT+, BAME Students' Network of St Andrews and University of St Andrews Archery Club, there’s lots happening! To help you keep track of everything that’s going on, we’ve made our own little calendar!

Save this post, screenshot it, whatever works best for you, just keep it somewhere you can see it, and hopefully you won’t miss out on any of the DSN Freshers fun! 🙂

ID: Purple and light blue gradient background with a dark blue bubble reading ‘DSN Freshers’ Events’. The bubble is surrounded by stars and the DSN logo is to its right. Underneath are five white and lilac bubbles. The first reads: ‘Sat 2nd - Freshers’ Extravaganza with Accessible Cycling - DSN + Lifers Collab - 12-4pm - Old Burgh School Car Park’. The second reads: Mon 4th - Freshers Fayre - 12pm-5pm - Athletic Union Grounds’. The third reads: ‘Thurs 7th - Family Finding Mega Mixer with DSN, BSN + Saints LGBT+ - 3-5pm - Freshers’ Pavilion’. The fourth reads: ‘Sat 9th - Craft Hangout - 2-4pm - Small Rehearsal/Canada Room, Students’ Union’. The fifth reads: ‘Sun 10th - Seated Archery Give-it-a-go with Archery Club - 4-5.30pm - Athletic Union’. There are also graphics of a bike, fayre tent, family, craft materials and an archery target down the side of the bubbles.

Finally, here’s almost all the rest of the lovely committee. Obviously we can’t forget Button, our mascot! You’ll catch these epic archers at the beginners course, the GIAG sessions and possibly the freshers fayre so don’t be afraid to say hi! Once again, we look forward to meeting you all, bring your best Robin Hood, Katniss Everdeen or Merida game! 💙🎯🏹

Hi! We are really pleased to say that we are co-hosting a seated Archery give it a go with the DSN! All the important details are on the slides but this is open to everyone no matter your year or ability. We will have different kinds of seating options for people to try, and we are very happy for you to discuss with us any adjustments that may need to be made. If you have any other questions for us please don’t hesitate to send us an email or message on Instagram, or come along to the Freshers Fayre!

One of our coaches is .murray.elliot a Paralympic archer who should be at the GIAG, and he’s a wonderful person to ask questions to, we are very lucky to have his help and wisdom.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Paaart 2! Meet some more of our wonderful committee! You can catch us at the Freshers Fayre and the Give or A Go sessions as well as the beginners course (information coming soon) so please don’t be afraid to say hi. We look forward to meeting you! 🏹🎯💙

And we’re here! 🏹💙🎯

Meet your new Archery Club Committee for 2023-4! These are just some of our members to start, more to come!

We all look forward to meeting you at the Freshers Fayre and in our Give-it-a-go sessions which I will be announcing soon!

Ps. Hi from me (Mathilda) finally! I’ll be doing the majority of the social media and publicity so don’t be afraid to send me a message with any questions!

Pps. My mistake (off to a great start here) it’s McArthur not MacArthur- Sorry Jonah!

We had great fun hosting this year's Silver Arrow! Many thanks to our photographer Lia for capturing so many great moments, the full set of photos can be found in these dropbox links:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/po8eu4gnhzgvtlc/AACuSLeNnto52sgmJv9S4N53a?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jhkoo1yjx2hvbol/AAASNw0wFK9Mjd5KP1lohbZMa?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/v71g8tpbt7sfg4m/AABtJYUafL6Cti70K0ic34xla?dl=0

The results from the competition can be found here: shorturl.at/hpEKZ and we would love your feedback so we can keep working to improve Silver Arrow, so if you came along please do fill in our feedback form: https://forms.gle/p5UyGVxba1brYN7R7

We can't wait to see you all again next year for Silver Arrow 2024!