Upcoming Events & Current Venues
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Sgoil Nan Loch
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11th August
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SHOOTING GROUND OPENING SOON
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 | CLUB NEWS | Mon 26th Jul 2010 | Island Archers summer holidays |
Just to inform everyone who didn't already know that due to the fact that Sgoil nan Loch's janitor is on holiday, and there's no-one else able to let us in to our normal venue, the Club is on an enforced break for a couple of weeks.
Our next scheduled Club shooting night will be on 11th August 2010 at 7pm. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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| CLUB NEWS | Thu 3rd Jun 2010 | Island Archers is on the move! |
Following an exhaustive search of potential safe venues for its weekly archery meetings, Island Archers is to move from the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway to Sgoil Nan Loch (Lochs School) in Cameron Terrace, Leurbost, starting on 9th June 2010.
The Club had a large influx of regularly-shooting members at the beginning of the year, and it rapidly became apparent that with the new members, Island Archers had outgrown its regular venue at the Nicolson Institute, and so it began a quest to find a new indoor venue large enough to accommodate its burgeoning membership.
That search eventually became focused on Sgoil Nan Loch, just over ten minutes drive away in Cameron Terrace, Leurbost, since the school not only had a games hall large enough to accommodate its members renaissance, and was long enough to shoot the longest of indoor archery rounds, but it also had a sports pitch outside which could potentially be used for outdoor archery; a facility that the Club has for many years been lacking.
Following discussions with Sgoil Nan Loch and representatives of Lochs Football Club, who also use the sports pitch, Island Archers is now delighted to announce that an agreement has been reached for the Club to use both the indoor games hall during the winter months and outdoor pitch during the summer.
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 | LEWIS & HARRIS SPORTS NEWS | Sat 27th Feb 2010 | Record entry for Sports Festival archery |
Lewis & Harris Sports Council's annual Sports Festival archery event, held this year on Saturday 27th February, saw entry numbers climb to new heights, partly due to a recent renaissance at local archery club Island Archers, and partly to three brave novices who had taken part in the archery taster event held immediately prior to the competition pluckily deciding to get stuck in and see how they got on.
Island Archers Chairman Toby Marshall set his stall out early in the individual competition, and never looked back throughout, whilst the competition for second, third, and fourth and fifth was extremely hard fought, with numerous place-changing between Stuart Oakley, Jason Spinks, Ken Le Goubin, and Ladies competition-winner Heide Macleod.
Further back the field, the novices competition was also a raging battle. Michelle Paton prevailed, even managing to better some of her more experienced shooting line compatriots for a time, whilst John Graham lead his thrown-together 'New Boys' team from the front, and put in a creditable 121 to take ninth and second-placed novice. His charismatic team-mate Donald Macleod put in a late charge, and was only just thwarted by some wayward arrows toward the end.
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International archery governing body 
Top-ranked British archery team member Simon Terry has beaten his own Gents FITA round record by two points, pushing the UK gents recurve national record for the round to 1360 out of a possible 1440, with his arrows falling inside the hitting the target's ten ring nearly sixty percent of the time, and inside the inner-ten 'X' ring 14 times.