Become a Member

Archery is a sport that anyone and everyone can get involved with and have a go. It doesn’t matter about your age, ability, background or anything else, there is always a way to get involved!

Member Benefits

There are physical benefits such as improving your upper strength or mental benefits such as improving your focus, hand-eye coordination, control and even improving your relaxation techniques. Archery Improves your confidence, providing a great social, and community environment for you and your family.

As a member of SOPA, you receive:

  • Use of the club shooting facilities 7 days a week (conditions apply)
  • Free target faces
  • Free club competition every Saturday
  • Free beginners coaching from OzBow community coaches
  • Discounted SOPA members-only development programs
  • Use of the clubhouse when open (conditions apply)
  • Membership to Archery Society of NSW and Archery Australia

All memberships are valid for 1 year and fall under two categories:

  1. Individual Membership
  2. Family Membership

Please get in touch using the enquiry form on this page and we will guide you through the registration process. Once you have registered you will need to undergo a short induction before you are allowed to shoot.

As a SOPA member you have the option of shooting competetively at club, state, national or international levels or simply shooting socially as a way to unwind or spend time with friends.

Many of our members also choose to train as archery coaches. Two of our club coaches took several of our archers to the Paris 2024 Olympics. Others coach archers individually or in groups such as OzBow or our youth squad.

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Ozbow, Novice Archery Program

A great beginners’ program for everybody – the OzBow Program is designed as a Step-by-step performance and reward-based program for new SOPA members irrespective of age, gender or equipment they are shooting.

The program is intended to expose members to low-level social competition and allow them to develop their skills before joining mainstream archery activities. We will coach you at 10m, 20m, and 30m before you can progress to longer distances.

All new members are required to complete at least three sessions with our OzBow instructors before they are permitted to shoot unattended. This is a program for registered SOPA club members only.

OzBow takes place most Saturdays. Please check Archers Diary for start times. 

For further information contact us at info@sopa-archery.org.au

Our Life Members

Matt Gray
Olympian
1996, 2000, 2004, 2008

Elisa Barnard
Olympian
2012

Peter Boukouvalas
Olympian
2024

Jonathon Milne
Paralympian
2016, 2020, 2024

Jon Barnard
Club President
2005-2020

Imalia Oktrininda
Paralympian
2020

Ameera Christina Lee
Paralympian
2024

Peter Marchant
Paralympian
2020

Ricci Cheah
Paralympic Coach
2016, 2020, 2024

SOPA Range Closures

Please see Archers Diary and Facebook for the most up-to-date information.

Ground Maintenance

Occasionally the range is closed for maintenance and events. The Sydney Olympic Park Authority generously maintains our range to a very high standard and to do so they must close the range for maintenance occasionally and mow the lawn multiple times a week. We are very lucky to have one of the best clubs in Australia, but it does take time to upkeep. The committee will endeavour to notify members of any range closures in a timely manner however. As closures are weather-dependent they can be with minimal notice.

Supporting our developing and high-performance archers

As part of the Archery NSW community, we need to support various state and national events and programs. With such a high calibre of archers, many of these events and programs are filled by mostly SOPA members and it is good to support our community where possible. The committee does understand the frustration of having to close the range for these events however we will work on notifying members of range closures as far in advance as possible.

Events

For events, the range will be closed but for programs will endeavour to only partially close the range (depending on participation numbers).

For Saturday’s club shoot (6 am to 1 pm) there is occasionally space available on the left side of the range for a couple of archers to practice but this is not guaranteed.

Membership Policies

When you become a member of SOPA you agree to abide by our Constitution, Rules and Policies and those of Archery NSW, Archery Australia and World Archery.

Please ensure that you have read and understood the policies and rules:

Members Transferring from Other Clubs

Archers who wish to transfer their membership from other clubs to SOPA are required to supply a mandatory character reference from the president or secretary of their current or previous club/s. SOPA reserves the right to reject membership applications.

Before you shoot...