The Indoor National Irish Championships, hosted by UL Archery on March 23rd and 24th, witnessed an impressive turnout of over 180 archers each day, totalling 230 competitors. Held at the renowned UL Sports facilities, the event garnered resounding compliments for its impeccable organization. Months of meticulous planning by our dedicated committee culminated in a seamless execution on the day of the event, with everyone pitching in to ensure its success. We were fortunate to secure generous sponsorship from UL Sport, local businesses, and archery companies worldwide, which greatly contributed to the event's success. Archery Ireland's President and Vice President graced the occasion as judges, emphasizing the significance of the competition. Their praise, alongside that of Archery Ireland, reinforces our club's pioneering role in shaping the future of archery in Ireland. With this event, we have not only raised the bar for competitions in Ireland but also established a benchmark for excellence that others aspire to achieve.

Last weekend, 16 of our beginner, intermediate and advanced archers travelled to University College Cork to compete in the National Student Indoor Championships 2024. It was a long and tough weekend but our athletes were very brave, especially those who had never attended national shoots before. Saturday involved 60-arrow qualifiers, with most of our archers placing in the top 10 of their respective categories. We celebrated with a game of bowling last night, and let me tell you, our aiming skills were not transferable!

Our scores on Saturday determined where we placed on Sunday for head-to-heads. Everyone in UL made it to the second round which was a huge achievement, especially for our beginners. Our intermediate archers were knocked out of the competition as we competed against the top archers in other clubs. Most made it to the 1/8 match but unfortunately, we were knocked out. It was a tense session, many of our athletes had to do a one-arrow shoot-off with everyone watching. Once the head-to-heads were finished, we had a short break before the team shoot. Teams are mixed and consist of the top three archers in each division. On our barebow team, we had Lauren Moriarty, Brian Carroll, and Andrew Coghlan. They put up an amazing fight, but sadly they were knocked out in the bronze medal match, placing 4th. Our recurve team was Odhran Prouveur, Dervla Ryan, and Roko Strgar. We made it to the quarter-finals, but lost the match to DCU by one point. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun and a great challenge. We are even more motivated to prepare our teams and improve our scores!

Congratulations to our intermediate archers who competed in the ATU IV in December! Great scores all around.

Results:

BIO - Brian Carroll

BIF - Lauren Moriarty

RBO - Darragh O’Connell

RIF - Dervla Ryan

Well done Darragh O’Connell and Roko Strgar who earned their white pins during the IV. Great work everyone!

Last weekend, eleven of our archers travelled to Dublin to compete in the first intervarsity of the indoor season, hosted by DCU. After a successful outdoor season, we are extremely proud of our athletes for performing so well. The results are: 

• Brian Carroll - 1st place Barebow Intermediate Open
• Lauren Moriarty - 2nd place Barebow Intermediate Female
• Dervla Ryan - 3rd place Recurve Intermediate Female
• Roko Strgar - 5th Recurve Beginner Open
• Marcos Gutierrez Mugica - 5th Barebow Intermediate Open
• Emilia Ziolek - 7th Barebow Advanced Female
• Andrew Coghlan - 9th Barebow Advanced Open
• Darragh O'Connell - 9th Recurve Beginner Open
• Joseph Bourke - 11th Recurve Beginner Open
• Ben Whelan - 12th Recurve Beginner Open
• Alan Dzaei - 14th Recurve Beginner Open

A huge congratulations goes out to Joseph Bourke and Alan Dzaei as this was their very first competition!

Yesterday, our archers travelled to Maynooth to participate in the annual Halloween shoot. It was our first competition of the indoor season and we even got to dress up! 

Huge congratulations to everyone, especially:

• Brian Carroll: 1st place (Barebow Intermediate Open) and was awarded a blue ISAA pin 
• Lauren Moriarty: 1st place (Barebow Intermediate Female)
• Dervla Ryan: 2nd place (Recurve Intermediate Female) and was awarded a blue ISAA pin
• Emilia Ziolek: 3rd place (Barebow Advanced Female)
• Marcos Gutierrez Mugica: 3rd place (Barebow Intermediate Open)

Looking forward to our first intervarsity of the Indoor League next weekend at DCU!

Last night we held our EGM to elect new committee members.  A warm welcome to our new additions:

Roko Strgar as Vice-Captain

Alan Dzaei as Assistant Secretary 

Joseph Bourke as Health & Safety Officer

Huge thank you to everyone who attended and we hope you enjoyed the free pizza ;)

Last Thursday, Archery hosted its first fundraising event in The Scholars Club. We held our table quiz which Busy Bees Clonmel and The Scholars Club kindly sponsored with prizes and finer food. Prizes included cinema and student hampers, along with toy bows and arrows! Huge congratulations to our winners, you did great. We finished the night off with impromptu karaoke and danced the night away. 

Thank you to everyone who attended and we're looking forward to having you back on Wednesday!

The Outdoor League 22/23 has come to a close, and we are extremely proud of all of our archers. This is the first summer shooting for most of them so we can only expect greater things after these outstanding results. It was a challenging day with high winds and hot weather, but we still brought home 5 medals.

Qualifications 

Lorcan Stokes Rodriguez - 1st BBO

Marcos Gutierrez Mugica- 3rd BBO 

Brian Carroll - 4th BBO 

Lauren Moriarty - 1st BBF 

Roko Strgar - 2nd RBO

Eva West - 1st RBF 

Kenny Kosasih - 5th CO 

League Finals

Brian Carroll - BBO Gold Medal 

Lorcan Stokes Rodriguez - BBO Silver Medal 

Lauren Moriarty - BBF Gold Medal 

Eva West - RBF Gold Medal 

Roko Strgar - RBO Gold Medal 

We're very excited for the next Indoor League 23/24, starting September! See you then.

Things are changing in the UL Archery Club! Normally we run our AGM and elect our new committee in semester one, but we decided that for the benefit of the club, we would vote in our new core positions before the end of the academic year. This is so that our current core committee can wind down and teach the incoming committee how to fulfill their roles. They will step into their roles officially in September. Without further ado waffling, please welcome our new committee!

President - Lauren Moriarty

Captain - Brian Carroll

Treasurer - Dervla Ryan

Secretary - Ronan O'Kane

PRO - Ben Whelan

Health & Safety - Roko Strgar

(NEW) Events Officer - Emilia Ziolek

Equipment Officer - Andrew Coghlan

ISAA/AI Rep - Ciaran Pradeep

Congratulations to our new committee! We'll sadly be saying goodbye to some our graduating members but they will be back without a doubt :)

There will be more committee positions available at the September AGM for those interested, like Advisors, OCMs, and First Year Rep.

Our members took part in the big shave or dye event for the second time! We raised €1,001 for this worthy cause and organized a shave or dye session. A huge thank you to Louna, Brian, Dervla, Odhran, Marcos, and Eoin who dyed their hair. We couldn't have done it either without our "professional" hair stylists Jade, Louna, Lauren, and Dervla. Big thanks to everyone who donated, hopefully, we get a bigger turnout next year! 

(you can still donate on our Instagram page @ularchery)

On April 1st, fifteen of UL's archers travelled to Belfast for the first time to compete in the ISAA Archery Finals. The team competed for two days with some outstanding results. The first day was the usual 60-arrow scoring and the second day was a fun shoot, where we competed in teams and had to shoot 8 arrows in 60 seconds. Sadly, we didn't win anything in the team shoot, but UU was very kind and gifted our club chocolates for coming to Belfast a couple of hours early to help set up the IV. 

At the end of the ISAA Indoor League, all scores are added up and we are very proud to announce that three women from our core committee won medals!

Lauren Moriarty placed 2nd in Barebow Beginner Female

Eva West placed 2nd in Recurve Beginner Female 

Dervla Ryan placed 3rd in Recurve Intermediate Female 

Additionally, in the Intervarsity, Eva West placed 2nd RBF, Eoin Timlin placed 2nd RIO, and Dervla Ryan placed 3rd RIF. Well done everyone!

Last weekend, the UL Archery Club participated in the NSIC Nationals shoot hosted by UCC. This was a two-day event and we are very proud to announce the results of our archers!

- Andrew Coghlan ~ 2nd place Barebow Open (Silver Medalist)
- Eva West who earned their white pin
- Lorcan Stokes earned his black pin
- Eoin Timlin who was awarded his white, black, blue and red pins (recurve)

A huge congratulations to all 18 archers who participated and thank you to UCC for hosting such an amazing event. Next stop, SETU!

ARCHERY IS BACK

We are delighted to welcome everyone back for another semester of shooting ? our schedule is the same as always, but here is a quick reminder:

Advanced (invite-only): Mondays 20:00 - 22:00 

Beginners (all welcome): Wednesday 19:00 - 22:00 

No experience required and we offer a free 6-week beginners course. All equipment is provided and fun is mandatory? we have a bunch of competitions coming up soon so make sure to keep an eye on our Instagram @ularchery 

You'll see us on Tuesday 16:00 - 18:00 at the C&S fair too! We are looking forward to seeing all of our members, old and new.

Last December, the UL Archery Club embarked on their very first International Trip! We wrapped up warm, bow and arrow in hand, and flew to Berlin on Thursday, December 15th. Luckily, we had a fellow German on the team to help us figure out the train system and we arrived at the open training session for 10:30 am. We grabbed our jerseys and entered the shooting arena bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. The atmosphere was buzzing and we were surrounded by the world's top archers.

Qualifications began at 17:00 and we shot on tri-spots (a new challenge for our barebows!). Even though we were full of nerves and excitement, it didn't deter us at all. Everyone performed to the best of their ability and did amazing. We replenished ourselves with currywurst that evening and headed to bed, resting up for the next day of shooting.

On Saturday, qualifications took place for the next round of archers. We got there early and shot alongside them. This was a great opportunity to watch and learn, as well as befriend archers from team GB and Germany. During breaks, they coached us and suggested new methods. It gave us the motivation we needed for the second-chance session that we were all doing Sunday.

Sunday was the last session where we competed against one another. The target was arranged like a flower, making it very difficult to hit. Sadly, none of us qualified for the semi-finals. We watched the qualifying athletes, eager to learn how it is done. The finals were set up like a vegas show, with flashing lights and loud music. Our team barely left our seats out of fear of missing anything. After the award ceremony, we got out our wolves flag and took out the final group photo together, before heading off to dinner with other Irish archers.

Our team slept on every train, plane, and bus on Monday. We all got home safely, tired and eager to get back to training next month to pass on our new skills to our advanced archers.

We are hoping to attend the 2023 Berlin Open next year with even more budding archers. We are so excited to finally be a part of something bigger. See you next year, Berlin!

We'd like to announce that we'll be hosting our annual Bake-off on Wednesday, November 23rd! (Week 12). There will be prizes to be won that night and it'll conclude our training sessions for this semester so make sure to book on ulwolves.ie and come along. Bonus points if your goodies are archery related :) 

A huge congratulations are in order for our wonderful archers who competed in the Maynooth Halloween Fun shoot last Saturday (Oct 29th)! Both advanced members and new members participated and the majority were placed in the top 3 of their respective categories.  

• Andrew Coghlan - first in Barebow Advanced Open
• Ciaran Pradeep - first in Recurve Beginner Open
• Eva West - third in Recurve Beginner Female
• Liam McMahon - first in Barebow Beginner Open
• Mark Sheridan - second in Barebow Beginner Open
• Lauren Moriarty - third in Barebow Beginner Female
• Julianna Draga - second in Barebow Advanced Female

A huge success for everyone, and we are very proud. Stay tuned to see how our archers do this Saturday (November 5th) at the DCU IV! 

Big news - Archery training is back in full swing starting in Week 6!

It's been a long wait, but I would like to thank all of our members, old and new, for their patience and support during the past couple of weeks. We had so much fun teaching everyone tag archery and 3D archery, but now it's time to experience the real thing. The club has a whole range of new equipment as of last summer and we are so excited to teach you. 

All of our Committee Members and Advanced Members (from last semester) are invited to attend our Advanced Training on Mondays (20:00 - 22:00). Don't forget to book!

All beginners are welcome to attend Beginners Training on Wednesdays (19:00 - 22:00). Booking is required and it's possible up to 1-hour before your slot. You are more than welcome to book more than one slot. We recommend wearing short sleeves while training. All equipment and protective gear are provided. 

We are excited for everyone to get back into the swing of things, and show you what the UL Archery Club is all about!

An announcement regarding our table quiz will be made soon so keep an eye on your email and our social media! (Instagram: @ularchery). It will take place in Week 7, Thursday 20th of October @ 8 pm in The Scholars Club. Prizes to be won and free food for every table.

See you guys next week!!!

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2022/2023 academic year will be held on Tuesday, September 13th at 6:30 pm (NOT 6th as stated in the picture) in the Courtyard Room, UL Student Life Centre. Everyone is welcome, and it's a good opportunity to meet fellow archers and your teachers before training starts.

Directions: When standing outside the main entrance to Student Life, take a left and the door is on the outside of the building.

To attend this event, please ensure you are signed up as a member of UL Wolves. See you there!

Last weekend, on Saturday 28, May, our club hosted our first ever outdoor InterVarsity (IV) Archery competition, which was also the first outdoor IV of the season. This event was held on the pitch beside UL Boat House and took place from 12am to 5:30pm thanks to the assistance of our members. In total we set up 13 targets, each at various distances dependent on wether people were shooting begineer/intermediate/advanced or barebow/recurve/compound. We also set up a gazebo which acted as a 'base of operations' for checking in the various clubs and for counting each archers total score. The weather couldn’t have been any better, with a clear sky and no wind, making it ideal for the ice creams everyone enjoyed during the break. We spontaneously finished the day with a barbaque, which the attending clubs also enjoyed, and which made the process of taking everything down a lot easier!

We would like to particularly congratulate:

• JJ for placing 2nd in beginner recurve open
• TJ for placing 1st in intermediate recurve open
• Eoin for placing 2nd in barebow advanced open
• Lauren for placing 3rd in barebow beginner female

More pictures from this event, and the many other events which the club has and will attended, can be found right here on our Instagram page!

Due to the success and interest we’ve had over the past two semesters in the club, we are delighted to announce that training shall continue over summer. This training will be taking place outdoors, partially due to the good weather but also due to the upcoming outdoor competitions. These competitions differ from the indoor competitions due to the increased distance from the target (70 meters as opposed to 30 meters), and due to the additional externalities, such as windspeed.

This new outdoor training will be for our advanced members and will be taking place on the large open green beside the boat house in UL. Days and times are as follows:

• Monday, 6-8pm
• Wednesday, 6-8pm
• Saturday, 12-4pm

Also note the provisional dates for the upcoming outdoor competitions:

• UL May 27^th/28^th
• IADT June 25^th
• NUIG July 30^th/31^st
• DCU August 20^th/21^st

Pictures from these upcoming events will be posted right here on our Instagram page!

Throwback to Februry 19 and 20, when our advanced archers competeted in UCC's InterVaristy at the Maradyke Arena in Cork!

This event lasted two days, with the first day consisting of a regular 60 arrow shoot and the second day consisting of both an individual and a team head-to-head. It was another really enjoyable overnight event which allowed our advanced members really get to know each other.

We would like to particularly congratulate:

• Padhraic who came second in the male barebow head-to-head
• Our male barebow team who came second in the head-to-head
• Caleb who scored enough to earn a red pin
• Julianna who scored enough to earn a white pin
  

More pictures from this event, and the many other events which the club has and will attended, can be found right here on our Instagram page!

The Irish Student Archery League for the 2022 season concluded last Saturday, 2 April!

This was our final indoor event of the year and took place over two days in Galway. We sent 20 of our advanced members to compete over two days, which was an incredibly enjoyable way to finish up the indoor season. The first day consisted of a regular 60 arrow shoot, where everyone shot 30 arrows over 2 sessions, with a 15 minute break inbetween. The second day consisted of a fun shoot with the 'Tribes of Archery' event, where each archer had to shoot 60 arrows at a small tri-spot target which was arranged like a triangle. The top eight scorers from each categoty (barebow, recurve and compound), then went head-to-head in a 'last person standing event'. Our very own Catherine Flower placed 3rd in the Women's barebow head-to-head and Caleb Martens also placed 3rd in the Open Compound head--to-head!

We want to specifically congratulate:

• Finn, for coming 2nd in Recurve Intermediate Open
• Eoin, for ranking 3rd in Barebow Advanced Open
• Julianna, for placing 3rd in Barebow Beginner Female
• Caleb, who came 3rd in Compound Open

We would also like to congratulate past member Charlie McGreevy who won the intermediate open recurve for the 20/21 season, before it was prematurely cancelled due to Covid!

More pictures from this event, and the many other events which the club has and will attended, can be found right here on our Instagram page!

Last weekend, on Saturday 19, March, our club hosted the first Limerick based InterVarsity (IV) Archery competition to take place in just over two years. This event was held in the UL Sports Arena and took place from 9am to 5:30pm thanks to the assistance of our members and the support from the UL Sports Arena staff. To accommodate the overwhelming interest the other colleges had to attend our IV, we had to split the event into a morning and an afternoon session, thus we relied on and would like to thank everyone from the club who helped successfully run the event throughout the day.

The next event which the club will be attending will be held in Galway at NUIG for their IV. As has been the trend we have quite a few members interested in going and we look forward to bringing as many of our members as possible for what will be an enjoyable two days of shooting and an enjoyable night for everyone. The most notable achievements from our own members were:

• Finn, who came 1st in recurve intermediate open
• Caleb, who came 1st in compound open
• Eoin, who came 2nd in advanced barebow open
• Kirsten, who came 2nd in recurve beginner female

More pictures from this event, and the many other events which the club has and will attended, can be found right here on our Instagram page!

Throwback to what was our first open competition of the college year, which happened to also take place in IADT!

Our advanced archers visited Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology (IADT) on Saturday, 1 to Sunday, 2 January to shoot in IADT's open competition. The first day consisted of shooting 60 arrows, the goal being to score as close to the maximum of 600 as possible, and the second day involved a 'head-to-head' competition where you were paired against another archer with the hopes of outscoring them. Everyone had an incredibly enjoyable time shooting and getting to say overnight in Dublin, and the most notable achievements from the shoot were:

• Padhraic who won gold in the male barebow head-to-head
• Julianna who won silver in the female barebow head-to-head
• Our male barebow team (Andrew, Eoin & Padhraic) winning silver in the head-to-head
• Andrew for scoring enough to earn a white pin!

Throwback to what was our first Inter Varsity (IV) competition of the college year!

Our advanced archers visited Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design + Technology (IADT) on Saturday, 20 November to shoot in their first IV in almost two years. It was an incredibly successful and enjoyable event for everyone who attended and most notably it was the first competition which some of our new members had the opportunity to shoot in. This event was a welcome return to normality considering the Covid restrictions which were in place at the time, and it undoubtably paved the way for the success everyone had at the IVs and open shoots which followed. Make sure to keep any eye on our News page and we have more throwbacks and future events to post about.

Our beginners training is off to a great start once again this semester. With our dedicated members training our newest members so well we even had some 10s and 9s!!! Keep up the great work guys!

On the 9th of Feburary we hosted our intervarsity over in Delta Sports. The day was a huge success overall but it was a great day for some of our members with Emma and Lorcan both receiving their white pin awards in their respective categories. But the clubs biggest success was our president Charlie receiving his red pin award, something he has came so close to getting just before Christmas. Well done everyone and good luck in the next IV in UCC!!

The UL Archery Club would like to extend its thanks and congratulation to both the new and returning members of the club. You have all helped to grow the presence of the club on campus and in doing so this year we have smashed our previous record for the number of members. So far this year we are at 204 and counting! This is already an increase of more than 40 members over last years total The result is an ever growing social atmosphere at training and our fundraising events have also been the best ever this year. A big shout out goes to our senior members who are always there to pass on the skills and knowledge they have picked up tot he newer members. Those newer members are equally important too as they are the future of the club so we are always glad to welcome them to the wolfpack!

The UL Archery Club will be travelling to the National Student Indoor Competition hosted by the UCC Archery Club. This two day competition brings together student archers from all over the country to compete. There is a 60 arrow ranking round on Saturday followed by head-to-head competitions on the Sunday to determine to top ranked student archer in each of the categories. The event is looked forward to all year as all the clubs go out together to socialise and blow off steam in the Saturday night. UL will be sending a string team this year in terms of both skill and numbers so we hope to continue our track record of high placing competitors. Updates to follow including a summary of results and pictures from the event.

The club performed exceptionally well at the inaugural Archery Ireland outdoor shoot, with all four of our club representatives coming home with medals. We had TJ Kenneally, Liam Higgins and Charlie McGreevy competing in Recurve at various levels, and Eoin Timlin competing in Barebow. They came away with 4 National Medals, one gold, two silver and a bronze. Well done to the four lads. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come for the club this coming year. 

A big congratulations goes out to our winners of this years masters and Apprentice league. Luke Vickery won the masters league in a tight competition between himself and Luke Blake. The winner of the apprentice league was Natascha Guggi a staff member at the University of Limerick. Well done to all those who took part

This years winner of the Masters league in the Archery club was Frank Stafford with a final score of 757 points. With the Apprentice League won by Luke Vickery with a final score of 745.