Congratulations to Oscar Hill on his success at the SI Youth Archery Championships, held in Dunedin 20-21 March.

Shot over two days, the first day was a 720x2 which means he shot at the same distance on the same size target face for two ends in the morning and two ends in the afternoon. An end consists of shooting 6 arrow sand scoring,with this done a total of six times.

Shooting with a young man from Invercargill, Oscar received a silver medal for the day.

Sunday consisted of match play, run as a round robin when Oscar competed against all archers shooting the same compound bow type. He competed against archers from all divisions - Kiwi, Cub, Intermediate, Cadet, Junior, Senior and above, winning the semi-finals by 2 points and entering the finals where he competed against Ryan Jones who is a sponsored archer.

Matchplay up until the finals is shooting three arrows and scoring, done a total of five times. The finals are shot differently with only the two archers shooting one arrow at a time. Given 20 seconds to shoot their arrow, this allows the first archer to load his bow and shoot; once the timer clicks over to the next archer they can then shoot. It was very intense and nerve racking. 

Oscar lost the final matchplay but came away with a Silver - what an awesome achievement Oscar!