Now, Lameg finds herself as a full-time student at the University of Manitoba, where she is majoring in actuarial and entrepreneurship whilst she tries to discover how best to prepare for her return to world level archery.
“I feel as though when I was competing in 2018/19, I had been shooting every single day, and my goal was to try and shoot 300 arrows a day and take breaks with my studying, going between work and everything there.”
“It’s something that you can’t just pick up and go right off the top, and that’s what I had been doing for a lot of these national level events,” she added.
“I wasn’t training enough to feel confident in my shooting, so I want to get back into that.”
Although the shooting side of archery may have been pulled back a touch during Lameg’s absence from the shooting line, her passion has failed to cease as she is also the archery lead technician at a Cabela’s Canada store in Winnipeg, a sporting goods chain.
In the role, she has oversight over all archery repairs and work orders at the shop which has given her the opportunity to experiment and finetune her own bow’s design, poundage and arrows as well as relieve some financial pressure being a student brings.
From her increased knowledge and exposure to bow technology, Lameg’s current training involves shooting at 90 metres, 40 more than the usual compound distance, to encourage development of the muscles archery requires at quicker pace, with a draw length just shy of 25 pounds, and longer arrows for better grouping and aerodynamics.
Lameg said she could do with a lighter bow to begin with to increase her current output of 200 arrows per week as she prepares for the upcoming World Cup, archery’s premier international circuit, but is determined to prioritise quantity over quality.
