Back to BUCS!!!

The past weekend saw the Southern BUCS Qualifiers take place in Bristol, universities from not only SWWU but also SEAL all gathered in three sessions of shooting for the chance to go through to BUCS Finals next month. Within this, we SWWU, held our 5th leauge leg. The day was full of shooting, highs and lows, and of course, equipment failures.

The first session Cardiff, Exeter, Bath, some of Bristol and the very first time from UWE, the second session saw Plymouth, and a few more from Bristol, and the third session saw the remaining guys from Bristol, and the first competition from Aberystwyth. Bangor took part in the Central Qaulifeirs the weekend before, and like UWE and Aberystwyth, was their first competiton of the acedemic year.

Everyone shot a Portsmouth, some got their first taste of competition while for others, it was a return to good old BUCS competitions.

The BUCS results showed noticable perfromances from Plymouth's Marilyn Wong and Harry Clemence who both took 2nd Place in Novive Women and Men Barebow respectively, and Rob Hargreaves took 2nd place in Experienced Men Compound.

Swansea's Matthew Bedding took 3rd place in Novice Men Barebow, Caitlin Willoughby got 1st place in Novice Women Compound, Dante Deeming won 3rd place in Novice Men Compound, Sarah Weil took 2nd place in Novice Women Longbow, Grace Barret-Rees took 2nd place in Experienced Women Compound, and Connor Blake Hurley took 3rd Place in Experienced Men Longbow.

Cardiff's Amy Shimeld took 3rd place in Novice Women Barebow.

Bath's Joe Maskell took 1st place in Novice Men Barebow and Jessica Salamone took 2nd place in Experienced Women Barebow.

Bristol's Illaria Knibb took 3rd place in Experienced Women Barebow.

UWE's Tom Monaghan took 1st Place in Novice Men Compound.

Exeter's Henry Barnett took 1st place in Experienced Men Barebow.

When it came to the teams, Plymouth Open Novice Team won 3rd place, UWE Mens Team won 3rd Place, and Swansea took 3rd Place in the Open Compound Team.

When it came to the SWWU Leg, it was the closet it has been this year, so far.

In the overall teams, Bristol (2131) took the top podium postion, with UWE (2130) on point behind landing in second place, and Cardiff (2077) falling behind to take 3rd place. Being their first compeition, UWE perfromed brilliantly to make the top three!

For the Novice Team, Plymouth (1866) took gold for the first time this year, with Swansea (1803) not that far behind in 2nd place, and UWE (1741) landing in third place. UWE's novices also performed very well to make the top three in their first compeition!

For the Compound Team, Swansea (1054) gained back their winning streak landing the top podium place, with Plymouth (565) staying in second for the 4th time in a row, and UWE (530) hot on their trails to take third place.

Indiviual performances include UWE's Aaron Cardwell (566) and Bangor's Megan Regensburger (548) taking first place in both experinced recurve categories, Plymouth's Rob Hargreaves (565) and Swansea's Grace Barret-Rees (563) winning in the experienced compound, Swansea's Connor Blake Hurley winning in Experienced Longow and Exeter's Henry Barnett and Bath's Jessica Salamone winning in the experienced barebow.

And a shoutout to the novices, with Plymouth's David Ambrose (506) and Nancy Bannister (447) winning in the recurve catagory, UWE's Tom Monaghan and Swansea's Caitlin Willoughby taking the top compound places, Swansea's Sarah Weil took the longbow catagory, and Bath's Joe Maskell and Plymouth's Marilyn Wong taking home the gold for barebow.

UWE have shown that though they are just getting started this year, they mean business for the rest of SWWU, congratulations to them for performinging so well! And its good to see Aberystwyth and Bangor in competition, hopefully will you guys some more this year.

Those going to the finals have not been released at the time of writing, but wishing the best of luck to you all, and will hopefully see some of you in Warwick next month.

LONG LIVE THE IMMORTAL SWWU!!!!