Welcome back to the greatest sports league in the world! This past weekend we had a SWWU first as novices battled it out by themselves to see who would come out on top. It was a great event and hopefully showed all the novices that competitions are good fun (and not that serious). From now […]
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Welcome to the first SWWU write-up of the season and we’ll be covering the first couple legs of the year! Read to the end for an update on standings and info on the new Mascot Stealing League! FYI if anyone wants me to use a different name or has any requests just pop a message
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SWWU Indoor Championships was a tournament of both change and continuity. In a break from the convention of the last two years, the shoot was held indoors; the paper-thin corrugated roofing of the Exeter tennis courts can be considered ‘indoors’ on a technicality. There were familiar faces in contention though; Bath and Bristol once again
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BUCS Finals is a different, far scarier beast to qualifying. The possibility of winning medals conspires with brain chemistry to render the event one of the trickiest in an archer’s calendar. The battleground was familiar – Warwick University. The home advantage is wasted on a university that has seen a statistically significant number of Olympic
BUCS qualifiers. It’s the crescendo of the indoor season for many university archers. For UoB members it’s just Saturday, and, in a quirk of SWWU (and some other UKSAA leagues), also a SWWU event. As the cars and coaches pulled up outside the Coombe Dingle Sports Complex, the minds of the competitors were doubtless racing.
SWWU vs. the world (of British university archery) Read More »
The past few weeks have given the archers of SWWU ample opportunity to put their bowsmanship (?) to the test against the best the region and indeed the county, has to offer. No, this isn’t the introduction to a BUCS post (which will be coming shortly), but the regional GWAS and DCAS shoots. DCAS was
SWWU out and about: DCAS and GWAS Read More »
This weekend just gone saw Plymouth SWWU, in Plymouth. As a result, the Vegas Shoot, in Vegas, was only the second most important tournament going on this weekend. We may not have had the huge prize pot they do, but we could surely boast just as talented a field, as SWWU’s best faced off in
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The field? Muddy. The scoresheets? Muddy. Everything else? Much the same. Yep, this was the Cleve Frostbite, SWWU’s last hurrah for 2023. And with the breeze on your face, plastic bags over your nice shoes and a judge in a green polo top and everything, it was a SWWU like no other. Frostbites present an
The excitement was palpable for the first in-person SWWU Leg of the academic year. The competition was packed with drama on and off the range, with Luke Burch and a few other Exeter archers becoming hopelessly lost in the labyrinthine Swansea Bay campus, injecting the competition with some 11th hour anxiety. There were close battles
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On 22nd May in Bristol, held the biggest gathering of SWWU archers since the year began, the SWWU Championships, were archers shot a WA900 to get Outdoor BUCS Qualification scores, win the SWWU champion title for their respected categories, and most importantly of all, reclaim their mascots! Archers from Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, UWE, Bath, Cardiff
SWWUper time at the SWWU Championships! Read More »
