BUCS indoors is the
largest single day indoor competition in the UK, with over 700 archers shooting
this year over 3 sessions. The competition takes place at The International Centre
in Telford and every year, the standard of student archery increases, with 4
new records being set this year. The competition is a Portsmouth, which means
60 arrows are shot in groups of 3 at a 60cm target face 20 yards away. The
target face has ten scoring zones, with the centre ring being a 10. This centre
ring is 6cm in diameter, and an archer will be wanting to keep their arrows in
this zone as much as possible to get a score as close to 600 as possible. The
current BUCS record for a male recurve archer on this round is 594, set by
Birmingham’s own Ashe Morgan last year.
Birmingham University
Archery Club sent a team of 16 archers to shoot at this year’s BUCS Indoor
Championships. After consistently finishing top 3 at every BUTTS leg so far, we
knew we were in for a good day at but we didn’t expect to come home with seven
medals!
Our experienced ladies’
team of Rebekah Tipping, Catherine Jackson and Alice Cotton finished in 2nd
place, only 7 points short of Nottingham with a score of 1640 out of a possible
1800. Rebekah, who has come to Birmingham from Aberdeen University in Scotland,
also finished 2nd in the experienced lady recurve individual
category with a score of 569/600. Massive congratulations also go to Catherine
Jackson, who shot a new PB of 560 at the event, in just her second year of
shooting!
The gents’ team came
home with medals too, finishing in 3rd place, just 10 points behind
Edinburgh University, thanks to three solid scores from Francis Berti on 573,
Chris Avins on 563 and Team Captain Sam Rees on 558. Francis also finished in 4th
place in the experienced gents individual category.
Our seniors brought
home all the medals, but mentions must also go to our novices, who have only
been shooting for 5 months but have consistently topped the BUTTS novice league
table every match this year. Special mentions go to Tim Spankie for finishing 5th
in Novice gents on 519 and Megan Salfairso for finishing 7th in Novice lady
recurve on 482!
“A good effort from everyone. A real pleasure to be a part of it.” –
Richard Cambridge, coach
“Not only did novice team do respectably
well in their first BUCS tournament but our experienced team achieved some
impressive podium finishes. But more importantly the teamwork and support shown
that day is something we should all be incredibly proud of and definitely
something we should continue to carry forward into other upcoming tournaments.”
– Bryony Peters, Club Captain
Link (s):
Final results: https://archery-scoring.mjtamlyn.co.uk/tournaments/bucs-indoors-2016/leaderboard/by-round/html/
Photos (courtesy of
Malcolm Rees): https://www.flickr.com/photos/bimbling_along/albums/72157664431489425
Photos courtesy of David Richardson and Malcolm Rees.
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