Month: December 2018

Sport Manitoba Award of Sport Excellence Bronze Medal Award Recipients. Awarded to athletes that placed 2nd or 3rd at a recognized national championship.

Shown in the photo below from left to right: Stella Braun, Ryan Cherniak, Simon Potrebka, Aingeal Hanan, Chyler Sanders, Amy Platt, Cornelia Squirra, Petra Squirra, Keenan Brown, & Nattasha Shpak.

The 2018 Awards Banquet hosted at Smokin’ Hawg BBQ Co’s event space at the Harbourview Golf & Recreation Centre on Saturday November 24, 2018. Thank you to our master of ceremonies Kelly  Taylor and our host Bernie Lutzer for the great food and atmosphere. To view the photo album of the event, please go to: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1900218413424385&type=1&l=d88785698e. Below is the event slide show recognizing our 2018 volunteers and recipients! Please click a slide to enlarge.

The Archers & Bowhunters Association of Manitoba will be coordinating member registration in the 2019 Archery Canada Mail Match Competition, under the guidance of Manitoba Mailmatch Coordinator Wendy Roberts (mbmailmatchcoordinator@gmail.com).

For those who are not aware of the national competition, it is a great way to enhance your shooting whether you are at home or at the range with friends. Unlike registered archery competitions, the national event accepts scores shot at any location with out competitors or a judge on hand.

The Mail Match is a competition held yearly from the first of January to the end of March.  Competitors may shoot a maximum of 1 Canadian 300 Round (30 arrows at 18 meters) per week for 12/13 weeks.  These scores are sent to the Archery Canada Mail Match Coordinator (indoormailmatch@archerycanada.ca) who sends out monthly updates of scores and averages.  At the end of the 12/13 weeks the six best scores for each archer are averaged and medals awarded in two ways, first under the AC Category divisions (Gold, Silver and Bronze) and secondly by the listed classifications (only Gold is award to the top score in each classification if a Gold has not been awarded in the AC Category divisions).  Pins are also awarded for six for sixty (paid for by the competitor at a cost of $5.25 + S/H per pin).

Another way of taking part is by entering the Team Event where you are able to compete as a team against other clubs.  A team shall consist of 3 or 4 members from the same club.  Team composition shall consist of: at least one (1) finger shooter, at least one (1) release shooter and at least one (1) woman, junior or younger age or wheelchair archer. Clubs can only submit ONE (1) team.

The Mailmatch is an excellent competition for the archer who cannot get to any of the larger tournaments during the winter months. It also gives the archer an idea as to how other archers are shooting by comparison.  This competition is also good practice for tournaments but under less stressful conditions.

If you wish to join the Mailmatch, please register at: https://goo.gl/forms/z096vsVbJWy9XcYy1

for a full listing of the event rules, please visit: http://www.archerycanada.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/page/files/mailmatchrules.pdf

For more information on the event, please contact Wendy Roberts at: mbmailmatchcoordinator@gmail.com 

Team Manitoba in archery for the Canada Winter Games has been named, the Archers and Bowhunters Association of Manitoba is pleased to announce.

The four archers selected as primary athletes are Bryanne Lameg, Austin Taylor, Cleo Wermann-Thorn and Kadin Giebelhaus. Selected as their alternates are, respectively, Nattasha Shpak, Brady Klassen, Janna Hawash and Roman Boyechko.

The archers were named following an extensive qualification period consisting of numerous tournaments at Heights Outdoors and Archery Range and Heartland Archery. Lameg and Taylor emerged as the No.1-ranked compound archers, while Wermann-Thorn was the No.1-ranked female recurve archer. Giebelhaus accepted the No.1 role when archer Brody Wilson withdrew citing commitments to hockey.

Lameg, 19, is a student at the University of Manitoba Asper School of Business, and Taylor, 18, is a graduate of Kildonan-East Collegiate. Each has an impressive archery resume: Lameg is the reigning Canadian outdoor target archery champion and has eyes on the Pan Am Games in 2019 in Lima, Peru after earning a bronze medal at a qualifier tournament in Medellin, Colombia in August. She has competed at the World Archery Youth Championship in Argentina in 2017 and a World Cup of Archery event in Salt Lake City in June. She won a silver medal in team play at the World Indoor Archery Championship in Yankton, S.D. in February.

Taylor is the reigning Canadian junior-aged outdoor target archery and field archery champion, setting a Canadian record in field archery at the national championship in Nova Scotia in August. He won second place at The Vegas Shoot in the Championship Young Adult category in February, as well as winning the Alberta Summer Classic in July. He won a bronze medal in team play at the World Archery Indoor Championship in Yankton, S.D., in February. Taylor joined Lameg and Klassen at the World youth championship in Argentina and is Canada’s No.1-ranked indoor archer. He has a busy 2019 in store, with appearances slated at the World Archery Senior Championship in the Netherlands in June and is a leading candidate to represent Canada at the World Archery Youth Championship in Madrid in August.

Wermann-Thorn, 14, is in Grade 9 at Westwood Collegiate and is also a strong athlete in rhythmic gymnastics, in which for three years she has qualified for and competed at the western regional championships. She also competed in the Manitoba Winter Games in March in Thompson.

Giebelhaus, 15, is in Grade 9 at Stonewall Collegiate and also competed in March at the Manitoba Winter Games. With his teammate Aingeal Hanan, Giebelhaus earned a silver medal in the team competition.

Shpak, 14, who will attend if Lameg is unable, is a Grade 9 student at Dakota Collegiate, and a Manitoba Winter Games gold medallist, having won in the team event with teammate Terron Baker, and won a silver medal in the individual event.

Klassen, 16, a Grade 11 student at Murdoch MacKay Collegiate, will attend if Taylor is unable. He is also a reigning Canadian champion, winning gold as a cadet at the national championships in August. He is also a leading candidate to represent Canada at the world youth championship in Madrid.

Hawash, 12, a Grade 7 student at Churchill High School, would be one of the youngest athletes at the Games if Wermann-Thorn must withdraw. Originally from the United Arab Emirates, Hawash is a regular competitor at local tournaments.

Boyechko, 15, a Grade 10 student at Shaftesbury High School, will attend if Giebelhaus is unable. Boyechko is the reigning Manitoba indoor target champion and, with teammate Hailee MacDonald, a gold medallist at the Manitoba Winter Games.

The Canada Winter Games run from Feb. 15 to March 3 in Red Deer, Alta. Archery runs in the second week, from Feb. 28 to March 1 and consists of qualification rounds followed by match-play eliminations.

For more information on the Canada Winter Games Archery Event, please visit: https://archerymanitoba.ca/events2/canadagames/