Vale Lynette Eagles 1951 – 2023
Lynette Eagles
SQAS Team – 1982 National Championship & Commonwealth Games Selection – Lynette Eagles – front right. Full team details below *
Lynette Eagles was a Life Member and former President of Mount Petrie Bowmen. She served two terms as President, 1985 – 1986 and 1988 – 1989.
Lynette’s life in archery commenced in the early 1970s. She started retailing archery gear from her home at Sunnybank Hills before starting a mobile service in a small white Escort van. During this time she was heavily involved with the organisation of the archery competition for the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games. Legend has it that the night before the archery competition she had her father doing electrical work and her mother, brother, sister-in-law and her husband Peter setting out targets, score boards and other last minute activities. They don’t do it like that anymore!
Lynette opened her archery retail business, Eagle Archery, at Springwood, in the late 1980s. The Escort van was superseded by a much larger van and Lynette took it all over Queensland and Western NSW, wherever there was an archery competition. Lynette later moved Eagle Archery to Underwood. During this time she was honoured with an award from bow brand Matthews, as their No 1 retail dealer in the world outside the USA. Many longstanding MPB members will remember Eagle Archery well.
In addition to being MPB Club President for two terms, Lynette was very active in coaching and was largely responsible for the first MPB Constitution, which was a necessary precursor to the Club’s move to incorporation in 1988. In 1985 Lynette took the Australian archery team to Seoul, Korea, as Assistant Coach.
Lynette was widely travelled, including to the North Pole, and she was especially well regarded on Norfolk Island where she had a hand in the establishment of the Norfolk Island Archery Association in 1997.
In 2016 Lynette and Peter closed Eagle Archery and retired to Biloela where she continued a modest retail operation. Lynette passed away on 15 November 2023.
*SQAS Team – 1982 National Championship & Commonwealth Games Selection
Back L to R – Trevor Clark, Michael Hennessy, Bernie Adams, Geoff Burnell—Jones, unknown junior
Front L to R – Carole Toy, Shirley Chessher, Terry Donovan, Lynette Eagles
