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Welcome, weary traveller of the Internets, to the home of the University of Birmingham Archery Club (UBAC). Take a seat, put your feet up, and help yourself to a biscuit (the chocolate HobNobs are excellent).

Official 2010-11 club photo

Also/previously known as the Birmingham University Toxophily and Toucan Society (BUTTS), the archery club has been around for quite a while — long enough that the local university league is named after us. The toucan has long been the club mascot, as anyone who joins us is sure to find out!

We embrace any student or staff member at the university who wants to shoot, or shoot and drink, though strictly in that order. Hopefully this site should tell inquisitive minds (or those that are here by accident) anything they need to know about us as well as providing information on competitions and events that are to come.

You are warned that archers are all somewhat eccentric, probably too much time spent sniffing cement when repairing arrows and whatnot.

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New Committee

Published: 1st March 2012

The club AGM was held last night (29th February) at the Gillett Centre. Two motions to change the structure of the committee were passed, resulting in Vice Captain being replaced with Team Captain and the creation of a new non-executive Alumni Officer position. The committee for 2012-13 will be:

  • Captain: Andrew Cottrell
  • Secretary: Joe Ingledew
  • Treasurer: Eloise Cornish
  • Team Captain: Alice Fawdrey
  • Equipment Officer: Dan Cross
  • Tournaments Officer: Jos Sarsby
  • Social Secretary: Em Coop
  • Press Oficcer: Matthew Jenkins
  • Alumni Officer: James Leeson

Congratulations and good luck to all of them!

BUCS and BUTTS

Published: 1st March 2012

The BUCS Indoor Championships were held at the Telford International Centre on 18th February. Birmingham’s experienced team (Sarah Russell, Jack Bryant, Allan West, Mickie Green) were one point shy of 2200, finishing in seventh place (out of 41 full teams of four) and bringing home BUCS points for the university. This was a great improvement on last year’s 11th place finish with a score of 2164. The novice team (Allan West, Eloise Cornish, Andrew Cottrell) shot a score of 1523, giving them a fifth place finish. Individual medals were picked up by Sarah Russell (Experienced Ladies Recurve Bronze), Jos Sarsby (Experienced Ladies Barebow Gold), and Allan West (Novice Gents Recurve Gold). Meanwhile, Nottingham put an end to Edinburgh’s decade-long domination of BUCS, setting a new team record of 2298 and a new experienced gents record of 591 for Andrew Randall. Six of the top seven experienced teams were from BUTTS League clubs, once again showing the exceptionally high standard of the league.

The fourth BUTTS Leg was held on 25th February, with Birmingham playing host to Warwick, Loughborough, and Derby. Individual medals on the day went to Jack Bryant (Experienced Gents Recurve Silver), Mickie Green (Experienced Ladies Recurve Gold), Sarah Russell (Experienced Ladies Recurve Bronze), Eloise Cornish (Novice Ladies Recurve Gold), and Alice Fawdry (Novice Ladies Recurve Silver). Birmingham’s experienced team (Jack Bryant, Mickie Green, Paul Griffin, Andrew Iles) scored an impressive 2204 to finish in second place amongst the teams at Birmingham and fourth place overall. The team are in fifth place in the league, separated from fourth and sixth place (Loughborough and Cambridge) on aggregate score. The novice team (Eloise Cornish, Alice Fawdrey, Joe Ingledew, Andrew Cottrell) fared less well, shooting a season’s worst of 1876 to finish in fifth place. They have now been knocked off the top spot in the league by Loughborough, and Cambridge are close behind. The BUTTS Indoor Championships will take place on 17th March, with all teams competing at Loughborough.