Auckland Archery Club

Message to College Sport archers- while celebrating the fun and achievements of the league and matchplay competitions please take a moment to check your gear.
AAC lost property box is full with clothing and equipment. If you think you may have left something behind please contact the club.

A foggy start to the day for College Sport matchplay and prize giving but the sun soon shone through for the end of this Term 1 competition.
A great competition and excellent sportsmanship shown across the range.

Friday was a wonderful afternoon at Auckland Archery Club with 16 members from Blind Low Vision NZ and BLENNZ having a go at archery.
Archery is a great sport to be fully adaptable and inclusive.
Great work from our coaches and lots of fun and success for everyone involved.
Big thanks to our friends at PAK'nSAVE Royal Oak for transport funding, afternoon tea and coming along to support this activity.

Beautiful afternoon to welcome our new club members, and their whānau, on the induction course.
Shooting an achievement round many successfully shot the required score and are now on their way collecting ribbons, badges and pins

International Women’s Day at AAC the winning team shall be awarded the Championship trophy, first presented in 1944

This Sunday we celebrate International Women's Day.

Sunday 8th March 1.30pm

Gather your team! This year we bring back the teams event for International Women’s Day.

3 people, 36 arrows each at 30m. Total of the 3 archers scores. Highest score wins.

Costumes are encouraged. There will be prizes and a picnic tea at the end of the day. To honour New Zealand’s long observed tradition, it’s ‘ladies a plate’ please bring some afternoon tea to share.

This is an inclusive event, all women welcome. Non archers also welcome to hang out and have fun in the sun.

Men and boys, lanes will be kept free so that you can shoot too – inclusion means everyone – and allies are super important.

register on the booking sheet.

Beginners course underway with 41 new archers over 2 seasions.
With the addition of our new coach mentoring programme to support our foundation coaches its fun and learning for everyone 🏹

A closer look at why the range is so busy on Wednesday afternoons right now - College Sport Archery - a massive inter school archery competition being held at AAC and MGAC. Run for many years by the indomitable Jeanette Franklyn and her team, it’s a massive undertaking.

30 schools (4 brand new to it this year) from across Tamaki Makaurau, with teams and individual archers. In total, 175 archers each week shooting at AAC with a further 43 at MGAC.
Skill levels range from international reps and experienced field archers, to those just off a coaching course. If they can shoot safely, we welcome their participation. Some kids only get to shoot in this competition with their school team and not again for the rest of the year.

Really great shooting from SO many young archers including two event records being broken this week:
Compound pairs - Westlake Boys High Barebow individual - Diocesan School for Girls.

All results are on the College Sport website

https://www.collegesport.co.nz/sports-1/archery

Parents may also wish to download the College Sport app as this is the absolute bible for keeping in touch with all CS events; results, venue changes, session changes, cancelations etc.

There 4 more weeks of competition, and we welcome and encourage people to come and watch.

PSA - Unfortunately due to the ongoing limited building and gear access at our club building after the storm damage in September, we are unable to run our popular Have A Go Days at this stage. We are hoping to be in a better position to restart these events in the Spring.

As there have been a number of enquiries recently, we’d just like to repeat our message that unfortunately since our club building was badly damaged in the September storms, we have cancelled our Have A Go days until future notice. We’re not yet in a position to handle large groups of people. Keep an eye out here for dates in the future though. We will publicise when we can get up and running again.

We are so grateful to the support from all the sponsors and grant funder of the Archery Warehouse 82nd New Zealand Outdoor Nationals Championships!