A Bit About Finn
17 October 2023
Finn played soccer for Suburbs, hockey for Somerville, swum for King's, represented Auckland at lawn bowls, & played softball. He began karate at 5, was a national champ by age 10 & achieved international honours as a Junior at the 4th World Karate Champs in Romania & at the 6th World Karate Champs in Italy. He’s a 3rd dan black belt.
Archery is Finn’s #1 sport.
He joined Auckland Archery Club in 2015 & first wore 'the fern’ at the World Archery World Cups in China & Turkey & at the Youth World Championships in Spain in 2019. In 2020 he attended a pre-Olympic Training Camp in California but then ~ Covid.
After months of back yard shooting, strength work at home, & mental management online, he took off to the World Archery Excellence Centre in Switzerland to train for five weeks under renowned Korean coach Sally Park. There, he shot Tier One scores, broke New Zealand records & came back a different archer.
2023 saw him selected for the Oceania Champs in Adelaide where he won gold in Mixed Teams, silver in Individual Matchplay, & bronze in Ranking, then on to Singapore for Asia Cup #3 where he shot a PB and, in November, it’s the Pacific Games where he & Nuala will shoot the Mixed Teams event for a place for NZ in Paris in 2024.
At King's he was ‘Junior Sportsman of the Year’ & won the ‘Champion Archer’ trophy from 2017 to 2020. After leaving school he was invited back as a member of the PE Staff I/C archery.
In January, Finn was named Archery New Zealand ‘Coach of the Year’.