Archers Talkin' Archery - An Interview with Lucy O'Sullivan

1 – What is your favourite dinosaur?
T-Rex
2 – What club are you a member of?
Jersey Archery Society
3 – What is your preferred shooting style?
Compound
4 – How did you get into archery?
My dad.
5 – Who is your favourite fictional archer?
At the moment Geralt of Rivia.
6 – What is your favourite competition type?
World Cups
7 – What is your favourite shooting venue?
Mexico
8 – What is your favourite weather to shoot in?
Overcast and still days.
9 – Would you rather do archery whilst riding a unicorn or a pegasus?
Pegasus
10 – What is the oddest thing you have seen during a competition?
Someone got a nose bleed after loosing a match.
11 – What is the highest level of competition you have shot in?
World champs, world cups, commonwealth games, island games. I’ve represented Jersey and Great Britain.
12 – What is the best shot you have made in a competition?
The next one.
13 – Which fictious archers would you want on your side for a team match?
Legolas
14 – What are your goals in archery?
To representing myself and my counties.
15 – What is your proudest achievement in the sport?
Too many to say, even finishing a tournament on a bad day is a win sometimes but I have been 3rd at a world championships before.
16 – What is the best advice you have been given in archery?
Be nice on the way up, as everyone needs help on the way down.
17 - How do you think you would have fared in the stone age with a bow and arrows?
I would be fine.
18 – What is the one thing you really enjoy in the sport?
The fact that everyone is like my family!
19 – What one thing in the sport irritates you the most?
The fact other sports don’t think we are athletes and call us a ‘hobby’.
20 – What would you like to see in terms of improvement within archery as a sport?
Strong, athletic people that other sport can look up to for our stamina and upper body strength.
21 – What do you think would make a great mascot for the sport of archery?
I love the GB lion mascot.
22 – Who is your most fervent supporter?
My mum.
23 – If you could shoot another bow style, what would it be?
Recurve it looks so elegant.
24 – Any advice for girls/women in archery?
You have got this! Hustle hard, ignore the haters, and make our sport proud.
Photo 1, Lego cover photo, credit, Matt Latimer
Photo's 2 and 3 of Lucy O'Sullivan credit, World Archery - Dean