This years’ National Youth Championships had the biggest turn out on record with up to 150 competitors compete across 3 events with a total of 434 total registrations, higher than any previous years registrations.
The competitions started out battling the elements and wild weather, facing strong winds, rain and even hail at times. The dedicated and resilient archers continued to shoot in all conditions, sunshine and nighttime giving a well rounded competition experience.
The RGB team winners
Over the competition each state was getting their scores counted to see who out of the RGB teams would take out the gold for recurve and compound totals. Each state put their best archers forward to count their scores and the winners were:
South Australia in Compound
New South Wales in Recurve.
BARA winners
Congratulation to this years Best All Round Archers (BARA) who shot the best combined total scores for each bow type for the 900, 720 and field results.
Male Compound – Ryan Bird
Male Recurve – Rashaad Abbas
Female Compound – Ava Penna
Female Recurve – Jasmine Bull
Male Barebow Recurve – Judah Holmes (missing from photo)
Female Barebow Recurve – Aerynn Guerrero
The event has received positive feedback and provided key insights in to how we can continue to improve in the future through refining the schedule and timing. Launceston provided a great backdrop for the target event at Churchill sports park and the field course at Parringa Archers was a great experience at a quality field course.
Thanks to those who stayed a little longer to enjoy Launceston and the surrounds with Cataract gorge a popular place to stop in and visit.
A very special thanks to the sponsors, particularly the City of Launceston and the Tasmanian government, Archery Tasmanian, the organising committee and all the judges and officials, AA staff, photographers and volunteers, Burnie Archers, Van Dieman Archers, Paringa Archers, and Hobart Archers for supporting the event.
Photo credit – Andrew Stanford
