Colac district mother Belinda Williams had never picked up an archery bow before joining Colac Otway Archers last year. But Williams said taking up the sport with her four children and husband last year had brought her family closer together. “We sat around discussing [...]

Colac and district’s archers have won six state archery titles. Colac Otway Archers Lorraine Black, Sam Williams, Melinda Venner, Baxter Lyons, Bryson Hamilton and Ashley Leebody won state titles at the Australian Bowhunters Association’s two-day state titles. Black said 12 archers finished with placings at the state championship at [...]

Colac Otway Archers will send their biggest contingent to a state title this weekend. Twenty-two archers will shoot at the Australian Bowhunters Association two-day Victorian titles at Haddon, near Ballarat, tomorrow and Sunday. Colac Otway Archers’ Lorraine Black said she hoped the team could win five or six state [...]

A Colac archer shot his highest competition score at a contest at the weekend after a two-year hiatus. Colac’s Quinton Desmond won the masters section at a two-day interstate shoot at Barongarook at the weekend. Desmond finished the event with a competition-best score of 1440. [...]

Colac’s archery facilities have impressed visting competitors. Colac Otway Archers’ Gerard Kelly said Victorian and South Australian archers were impressed with the club’s course at its annual two-day event. About 65 archers attended the club’s two-day shoot at the weekend and Kelly said archers liked the “challenging” Barongarook [...]

Colac teenage archer Nathan McKenzie says he has no plans of pursuing a career in archery despite winning a national title. Nathan, 15, shot his way to the junior A Grade compound title in his first Australian Bowhunters Association national championships at Mildura. He competed against seven other people [...]

Four Colac archers will vie for archery’s top Australian prize this weekend. Colac Otway Archers’ Barb Kelly, her son Tim, Greg McKenzie and his son Nathan will travel to Mildura to compete at the Australian Bowhunters Association’s National Titles. The archers will hope to replicate [...]

Four Colac Otway Archers won 15 medals at Australian Masters’ Games. Lorraine Black, Barb Kelly, Greg McKenzie and Kevin Haslem claimed eight gold medals and seven silver medals in barebow events. McKenzie returned home from the Geelong-based games with a five-medal haul, including four gold and one silver while [...]

Colac archers are setting themselves for the best the country has to offer. Colac Otway Archers club members Lorraine Black, Barb Kelly, Kevin Haslem and Greg McKenzie will all take aim at gold medals in the Masters Games at Geelong next week. Sharp-shooters from across Australia will converge on [...]

Colac archers Nathan McKenzie and Tim Kelly are state champions.The pair took on the best Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales had to offer and emerged with trophies and bragging rights for the next 12 months.McKenzie, 15, and Kelly, 27, were the headline act of Colac Otway Archers contingent in the Australian Bowhunters Association [...]