BULLSEYE: Local sport offers fun for all ages
Many residents are heading straight as an arrow to Great Southern Archers training sessions, often booking-out the events well in advance. Great Southern Archers Tournaments Director, Shane Bergl, said the popular sport offers many benefits...
Many residents are heading straight as an arrow to Great Southern Archers training sessions, often booking-out the events well in advance.
Great Southern Archers Tournaments Director, Shane Bergl, said the popular sport offers many benefits.
“It’s an easy sport, you can do it at any age,” he said.
“We’ve got people as young as eight to mid-70s.
“Our club is very relaxed.”
Great Southern Archers has 68 members and offers many forms of archery – field, indoor and target – and most bow types.
Archers practise at the club’s outdoor range on Forrest Road, Strathalbyn, and indoors at Goolwa Sports Stadium.
The club is hosting several state and national events throughout the year, including the combined National and State Indoor Championships on July 8 and 9, the State Field Championships on September 10, and an indoor archery round of the Australian Masters Games on October 8.
The Fairweather Invitational is on August 13, a field archery team event which recognises the contribution to local archery made by Rob and Helen Fairweather, the founding members of the Strathalbyn club whose son, Simon, is Australia’s only Olympic gold medallist in archery.
