Last Sunday, the archers of SWWU made their way to Swansea for the first in-person leg of the academic year. Crossing the Severn bridge to see incomprehensible yet familiar road signs is an event in and of itself, not to mention the fantastic archery on display at the Swansea University sports hall. Luke Burch made […]
No pun till next week (Swansea SWWU write up) Read More »
The first SWWU of the academic year is always a postal leg. From the arctic tennis courts of Exeter, to the climbing wall backdrop of Plymouth, Bristol’s expansive Coombe Dingle sports complex of Bristol and more, our archers opened their accounts for the year with some impressive Portsmouth scores. Exeter’s Luke Burch won the open
Bristol may have been pipped to the post in this year’s SWWU league by the narrowest of margins, but their performance at BUCS Outdoors was one hell of a consolation prize. Bristol recurves Alex and Magdalena had a dream 70 metre Saturday, both securing 3rd place in style with final ends of 29 and 28
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Hello and welcome all to the start of a jam packed outdoor season, we’ve got back to back events for 3 weeks so I hope you are ready for an onslaught of SWWU content. By the looks of it we had lovely weather for our first outdoor competition and I hope everyone had a nice
Hello to my loyal readers! Welcome back to the final indoor installment of this esteemed publication where I tell you things you know in a slightly comedic way (I hope). In an exciting development I was actually at this competition, so all my news is first hand and I managed to chat to some lovely
Welcome all to a special edition of SWWU write ups where we take a look at something a little different. On the 2nd of March, the GWAS Indoor Championship was held which attracted a fair few SWWU members and alumni so lets take a look how they did! A reminder that despite leaving university, you
GWAS Special Report! Read More »
Hello everyone and welcome back to a slightly delayed write up but at least we got here! BUCS Southerns is one of the great moments of the archery calendar where everyone has a chance to be part of a major competition and meet all sorts of people. By my counting we had just under 100
Hello and welcome all to the 4th instalment of SWWU write-ups where we give the juicy details of the latest competition. Today’s instalment is a brief respite from all the indoor shooting as we go touch some grass. Despite the Frostbite name, the weather seemed to favour us with no rain, mild temperatures and no
What’s good SWWU fam, welcome back to another thrilling write-up where I tell you things you probably already know. This SWWU was marked by some pretty serious travel disruptions with only 2 Bristol Archers being able to make it due to train cancellations and Cardiff getting a flat tyre leaving only 1 archer. However, this
The Fall of Bristol Read More »
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
The Novice Thunderdome Read More »
