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 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
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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 »
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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