The National and State Indoor Championships will be held on the weekend of 8 and 9 July 2023.
Part of this event comprises competitions between athletes from Regional Governing Bodies around Australia (in our case Archery Victoria). Our teams have a strong record in this annual event, and once again this year we will be choosing teams to battle it out with our interstate colleagues.
The following team selection criteria will apply to the selection of our Archery Victoria Teams for the National Indoor Championships 2023:
- Indoor Tournaments and QREs will be used for selection. Events within the period 26/03/2023 and 5pm on 11/06/2023 will be used for selecting the teams. AA requires teams to be registered by 8pm 17/6/23.
- Victorian RGB teams will be selected using their 3 best WA18m scores shot at registered tournaments and QREs during the selection period. Those wishing to be considered for State Team selection must register and submit their scores to a web portal and the AV Selection panel will verify them using Archers Diary. Details of the web portal will be advised shortly.
- To be eligible for selection a candidate must be a financial member of Archery Victoria for a minimum of the period that includes any selection scores they wish to be considered and throughout the National Indoor Championship (NIC) event. Further only archers who have entered the NIC by 5.00 pm 17/6/2023 will be considered candidates for selection.
- The teams that will be selected are set out below.
Victorian RGB Senior Teams: Recurve, Compound and Barebow
- Will each comprise 4 members and will be mixed gender (i.e. they will contain at least one male and one female).
- Team members can be from any age division, however, a youth selection in these teams will exclude them from selection in an RGB Youth team.
Victorian RGB Youth Teams: Recurve and Compound
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- Will each comprise 4 members and will be mixed gender (i.e. they will contain at least one male and one female).
- The combination in the team will be 1xU14, 1xU16, 1xU18, 1xU21. This MUST be the division they are competing in as an individual.
- Selection in the RGB (Senior) Team excludes the archer from participating in the RGB Youth Team event.
- Note that youth archers may be placed in a higher age division by the selection committee to maximise the potential for team success; those selected will then be required to shoot in that division.
- Each day of the NIC a selected archer will need to shoot in the age division in which they have been selected for their first flight (in the instance where they are shooting in more than one flight per day).
Quite a number of indoor QREs have been added to the AV Calendar and will be hosted at various clubs. Please note that QREs can be run ‘alfresco’ (i.e. indoor rounds shot outdoors). If clubs do not have access to indoor facilities they may still be able to provide opportunities for athletes to shoot scores for qualification for the teams. These will need to be registered as QREs with Archery Australia.
We will advise as soon as the portal is up and running.
