School Archery - Competitions

[The One]

Over the past few years there have been school arhcery competitions held in Auckland. The number of competitors grew to over 80 entries when it was hosted by our club, but in the past year or two, numbers have dwindled at the events. I haven't been to the past couple of events, so do not know the main reasons for

What I would like to arrange, once we have enough schools involved throughout the country, is an ANZ-sanctioned Schools League, similar to our current National League system.

School kids want competition - look at all the other sports undertaken in schools! Ideally we would move towards regional face-to-face competitions, but with the number of schools currently involved, a postal system is most appropriate to start with. Obviously something would have to be done to take into account the school term times.

Would it be sensible for ANZ to offer a type of membership to schools? (I.e. $50 a year lets any school student compete in the postal league only).

Thoughts?

[puddin]

this does sound like a good idea. i wish the schools i went had done it.
if this postal league was a team thing like ours is currently then you could charge the schools per team they enter, this would still give ANZ the money they need to run it..

[The One]

this does sound like a good idea. i wish the schools i went had done it.
if this postal league was a team thing like ours is currently then you could charge the schools per team they enter, this would still give ANZ the money they need to run it..

Yeah, it could work well as such. The number I quoted was completely arbitrary of course.

[Jay.G]

I've thought of this when I approached you guys with the school thing but the only problem I've had is that the no. of 'school' archers that ain't already involved with JAMA Postal shoots are very small so the number of people that'll be interested I think is very little and thus I don't think the participation level will be high... However I think starting something off is better than not and AGS will be behind this (well I will, I'll just nag them into it.) if it is set-up and there is sufficient competition avaliable that the archers should find useful.

[The One]

Of course you'd need sufficient schools to take part for it to be a competition (otherwise, it'd be like a normal archery tournament where everyone gets a medal ;)). But this would be something we'd best start of small and build it from there.

[Sir Slick]

I know you said something like $50, but thats pretty expensive for school kids to afford on top of everything else really and they wont get too much out of it if it only entitles them to shoot in a postal type league. Why not simply state something like $3 per postal shoot entered.....doesn't sound like much but assuming something around 10 postals a year still adds up to 30 buck.

But before start talking finances you obviously need buy in.......good luck, your going to need it as its pretty hard to get any alternative thinking at NZ schools - I would've loved to play league at school but even that couldn't break in because of that poofter rugby sport.

Hope it works for you all - long term.

[The One]

I know you said something like $50, but thats pretty expensive for school kids to afford on top of everything else really and they wont get too much out of it if it only entitles them to shoot in a postal type league. Why not simply state something like $3 per postal shoot entered.....doesn't sound like much but assuming something around 10 postals a year still adds up to 30 buck.

But before start talking finances you obviously need buy in.......good luck, your going to need it as its pretty hard to get any alternative thinking at NZ schools - I would've loved to play league at school but even that couldn't break in because of that poofter rugby sport.

Hope it works for you all - long term.

Sorry, didn't explain myself well - I was suggesting $50 for entering the school into the competition, not a price per archer! The $50 I quoted was just a random number that popped into my head. Would likely be cheaper than that.

[flyboy_su27]

I was suggesting $50 for entering the school into the competition, not a price per archer! The $50 I quoted was just a random number that popped into my head. Would likely be cheaper than that.

$50 per school? That's really reasonable...especially when you consider that we pay $160 to register for Hockey down here...and that's $160 each.