Blues Awards

The Blue is the highest honour granted to individual sportspeople at the University of Oxford and is a highly sought-after achievement for Oxford student athletes. Oxford students who acheve a Blue receive a certificate to acknowledge their achievement and are also eligible to purchase Blues merchandise appropriate to the the status of their award (Full or Half Blue). The status of each sport and the criteria required to be awarded a Blue are managed by the Oxford University Blues Committee. Archery is a Discretionary Full Blue sport, certain criteria must be met to obtain the award.

Half Blue Criteria

Men’s:

Half Blues awarded to up to 3 of the men’s Varsity Match team, provided they achieve a GNAS First Class score.

Women’s:

Half Blues awarded to up to 3 of the women’s Varsity Match team, provided they achieve a GNAS First Class score.

Full Blue Criteria

For truly exceptional athletes, it is possible to obtain a Full Blue award. These award performance on a national level by athletes in the university setting. There have only ever been 15 Full Blue recipiants in Archery.

Discretionary Full Blues can be awarded to archers who both:

1. Achieve a score with handicap of 36 or better in either the Varsity Match or BUCS Outdoors Competition, AND EITHER,

2. Achieve a top 10 placing in the scoring round at either BUCS Indoors or BUCS Outdoors in the Experienced Men’s/Womens Recurve category, OR,

3. Achieve a Master Bowman classification in the current season.