Isle of Wight XIV Island Games 2011

The Archery Club will be sending a team to compete in the Island Games being held next year in the Isle of Wight The proposed format of the competition will be a full FITA round shot over two days, a 720 round and then individual head to head and team head to head competitions. To be considered for selection for the Archery Team you will need to be scoring at Bowman Class level and above, details of Bowman scores are below:-

Recurve

  FitaYork/ Hereford Long Metric 720

Gents Recurve 1065 913 490 532

Ladies Recurve1037 952 501 477

Compound 

  Fita York/ Hereford Long Metric 720 

Gents Compound 1248 1134 602 624

Ladies Compound 1220 1143 602 588

You will also need to be regularly shooting a full day FITA round this summer and from the beginning of outdoor season next year, anticipated to be from April 2011.

The summer season is already flying by with the longest day just past so make the most of this outdoor season to try and obtain consideration scores.

If you have already achieved or consider that you may achieve the level of shooting required, please give your name to either me, Peter Mumford or Adrian Bruce. If you have any queries, please contact us for further clarification.

Alison Cowin

Team Manager

June 2010

  Archery on the Isle of Wight

The local archery clubs, Wight Bowmen and West Wight Archery Club are based in Appley and Newport and between them the clubs currently have about 120 members, some of whom compete but many who enjoy the sport for pleasure. Wight Bowmen recently secured a lottery grant enabling them to build a new clubhouse.

Past members of both clubs have achieved notable success on the national circuit and have had archers who have achieved Grand Master Bowmen status.

Wight Bowmen has successfully run the Vectis open indoor tournament which attracted 160 archers from all over the UK. In 1993 the two clubs hosted the Island Games at Wight Bowmen’s Appley field.