We are delighted to announce the plans for the SWWU Indoor Championship and SWWU Ball, being hosted in Exeter on Saturday 7th December! The competition will involve a Bray 1 seeding round, followed by head-to-heads. The ball will then be taking place at The Stable from 8pm, with competition awards being presented at the start […]
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Archers from across the region came together in Swansea this weekend for the first leg of the 2019-20 SWWU season. Competitors shot a Portsmouth round, with 10 SWWU records being broken or set throughout the day. In the team events, Plymouth asserted their dominance, finishing top in both the experienced (2225) and novice (953) non-compound
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Swansea University are getting ready to host the first leg of this year’s SWWU league, taking place on Bay Campus this coming Saturday. The target list is now available online, along with live scoring via Ianseo at the link below. Teams will be shooting a Portsmouth round across two sessions, with Swansea, Cardiff and Bristol
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Archers from across the SWWU empire assembled in Norwich this weekend to compete in the Beiter Hit-Miss tournament, a unique head-to-head competition in which pairs of archers (one compound and one recurve) shoot at plastic discs in the hope of eternal glory… Ben Trudgill (Exeter) and Alec Hodgkinson (Cardiff Met) shooting under the name of
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A huge congratulations to Alex Rowe (Plymouth), Joe Tripp (Plymouth), Catherine Hughes (Exeter), Tom Ledgerwood (Exeter alumni) and Alec Hodgkinson (Cardiff Met), who represented SWWU at the GWAS Regional Intercounties competition in Exeter this weekend! Devon and Cornwall managed to secure the title for a third year on the trot, with Alex shooting 1137 to
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With our archers soon heading back to university, many chose to squeeze in one final outdoor competition before starting to focus on the indoor season! Aubrey Whitish (Swansea), William Murphy (Swansea) and Becca Eckles (Cardiff) shot at Llandaff City Bowmen, with Aubrey coming away with female barebow gold and Becca walking away with female compound
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We are delighted to announce that SWWU will be hosting a number of region-wide coaching days throughout the upcoming academic year! We would like to thank Swansea University for offering to host the first of these, on Saturday November 9th, 2-5pm. The idea behind these coaching days is simple – Clubs bring along any coaches
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SWWU archers have been busy winning silverware (and goldware…) up and down the country over the past few weeks! Last weekend a number of archers from Exeter and Plymouth took part in Exmouth Archers’ World Archery Weekend. Notable performances included Tom Ledgerwood (Exeter), who seeded 5th in the Men’s Recurve category on Saturday before a
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We’ve created a brand new Facebook group for all SWWU members and alumni! We’re certain this will soon become your go-to page for SWWU memes, banter and the occasional bit of news. Join now – https://www.facebook.com/groups/446646079256064/
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Great fun was had by all at a wet and windy SWWU Summer Slam this weekend! In the men’s recurve category, Thomas Ledgerwood (Exeter) stormed to first place in the seedings with a score of 529, but was stopped in the semi finals by 4th seed, Gavin Tsang (Swansea), who took a 6-4 victory before
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