Inter-School League
An Inter-School League competition can be started in a region with as little as 3 schools and 24 archers.
The Auckland Secondary Schools archery league is currently held at Auckland Archery Club and follows an event format designed by Jeanette Franklyn and has been a great success. It is supported by College Sport Archery in Auckland.
The event format has been outlined below so that other regions may utilise the same format and run their own inter-school competition in their region. You can also find some protocol documentation below, as well as links to results.
Event Format
For full details including bow types, face sizes and more, Click Here to view the document.
The format currently consists of:
- 30 arrows at 18m, 6 arrow ends, 10-zone scoring
- One 6-arrow sighting end to start
- Individual and Team event
- Each shoot takes approximately 1 hour
Bow Types and Divisions
- Recurve/Barebow combined teams: 4 archers of any age and gender
- Compound Pairs: 2 archers of any age and gender
- Recurve Individuals
- Compound Individuals
- Barebow/Longbow Individuals
- If any school does not have enough archers to make a team, their archers can enter into the individual competition only. All archers entered in a team are automatically entered into the individual competition.
The Competition runs for 5 weeks with 6 teams per division. The team competition is a round-robin format, with each team playing every other team once. Each match is a competition based on cumulative score for each team with the total team score at the end determining placings for the match.
All archers also compete in an individual competition which runs alongside the team event with each archer being awarded ranked points based on their score each week. Final placings are based on total cumulative ranked points.
Teams are seeded into divisions based on the results of the ranking round which is held a week before the competition starts. This is only required if there are more than 6 recurve or compound teams entered and is the same format as the competition.
Additional Competition
At the end of Term 1, currently Auckland District hosts an inter-school match-play competition in the following format:
- Single day tournament
- Ranking round of 30 arrows at 25m, with 80cm face for Recurve/Barebow/Longbow and 40cm face for Compound.
- Following the ranking round is individual and team match-play at 25m. Teams are made up of 4 Recurve archers or 2 Barebow/Longbow or 2 Compound.
If your district or city might struggle for space or volunteers in order to run the league, you might like to use this format for an inter-school competition instead.
*Note that for those archers using Genesis bows, archers will compete in the following depending on their bow set up: no sight, finger release – Barebow; With a sight, finger release – Recurve; Use of any type of release aid – Compound.
Notes for Archers arriving at Auckland Archery Club
Recurve Archers:
Divisions A & B will run from 4.15-5.15pm. Please be there by 4pm to set up and get ready out on the line.
Division C will run from 5.15pm-6.15pm. Please be there by 5pm.
Compound Archers:
All compound archers from all schools will shoot at 5.15pm – 6.15pm. Please be at the Auckland Archery Club by 5pm.
The target draw for the day will be up in the clubhouse on the whiteboard and also out on the Board outside.
Please wear your school PE uniform and closed in shoes.
Please download and make yourselves familiar with the attached Shooting Protocol Document (pdf).