N.I. Archery Schools Cup 2023

Marjan Abdelfattah (Y14) and Raine Martin (Y11) took part in the
Northern Ireland Archery Schools Cup held at Campbell College on 25th
March 2023 representing VCB.

This year's competition had an exceptional number of entries from across
Northern Ireland with almost seventy archers taking part. The
competition had to be split into two sessions. Marjan and Raine both
shot in the first session.

Marjan is an accomplished archer having won the Northern Ireland under
eighteen championship in December 2022.

Marjan shot well and being up against some very stiff competition
including Compound Archers she managed an impressive sixth place.

Raine is quite the novice having only taken up the sport in May 2022.
Raine pulled out an astounding performance to win the Bronze medal in
Tier One. She also won an outstanding performance award and gift token.

Raine is looking forward to furthering her career in archery and has
been invited to join the Archery GB Performance Pathway and National
Talent Development Programme along side her mentor Marjan.

Under the direct tutelage of the Director of Performance to ANI Board,
Jennifer McCormick and senior coach Damien Lennon, Raine hopes to one
day be representing more than VCB in competitions.