“To have a big jump in performance I was able to basically commit to stuff like this, which is really awesome. There were some technical changes over the 23/24 indoor season and a couple of kit changes.”
“The combination of that and then moving to Telford near the national centre and being able to train pretty much full time. I swapped from basically wrong spine arrows at the start of 2023 to appropriately spined arrows in 2024 so that was a big difference.”
Having graduated with a master’s in Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh in November, Homer now works for them remotely as a business development assistant and shot for the university’s archery society along with recently crowned Indoor World Series silver medallist Sarah Prieels and Lac La Biche world field championships bronze medallist Jake Walsh.
The high quality pedigree of the club has clearly rubbed off on the Briton to get her to where she is now, shooting better than ever having also equalled the British national record for a portsmouth – 60 arrows shot in ends of three on a 60cm target face at 20 yards – in an indoor regional competition in January, hitting 595 out of 600.
Tirelessly training, working and studying from six in the morning to the evening during her master’s year has also no doubt tipped Homer to the next level, giving her a deserving sense to represent her country overseas, symbolised by her new WIAWIS bow, one of her sponsors this season.
“It was just really cool to get sent to and then open it and be like, ‘Oh my God this is mine’ like I’ve earnt it I guess,” said Homer on her new white and golden bow.
“It was really fun setting it up out of the box. It’s only the second riser I’ve had for a brand new one so that was a really cool moment of ‘I’ve made it!’”
