Casey Isles - Archery

Casey Isles is an up-and-coming Australian Olympic recurve archer. Having only been on the national team for two years, Casey made a major impression with his international debut in 2024, competing in high-profile events in countries like Türkiye, Korea, and Singapore. Notably, he and his teammates made waves by knocking out the Turkish national men’s team, including the 2020 Olympic champion, in the first round of the Türkiye Spring Arrows Tournament. The Turkish team later that year went on to win a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

In 2024, Casey also marked some major milestones by competing at his first Olympic trials and winning his first individual national title at the Singapore Open. In Singapore he triumphed with a dominant 7-1 victory while competing in 40-degree heat.

Though he is right-handed in daily life, he shoots left-handed due to a visual impairment in his right eye, which prevents him from competing as a right-handed archer. Casey has faced some difficult challenges in his short career on top of his vision impairment, such as in 2020 where he severely dislocated his shoulder while competing. This severely damaged muscles and cartilage putting him out of the sport for 9 months.

Questions

The best thing about being a SASI Athlete:

Collaboration with some of the best professional support staff and athletes the world has to offer.

My favourite food to fuel me as an Athlete:

Bananas are where it’s at for performance.

My favourite movie:

Series “Peaky Blinders”.

My favourite colours:

Green and gold.

My sporting hero and why:

David Barnes: grew up training around him, one of the best athletes the world has seen. Intensity, grit, drive and kindness are the attributes that I remember the most (one of a kind).

My favourite possession:

Olympic Target Archery love the tinkering of technique and equipment (fishing from my time before high performance sport).

The sporting activity I most like performing:

Competing against Olympians in competition Matchplay.

If I wasn’t doing my current sport I would like to be:

Sport fishing.

The most important things in life:

Give it your all, no rock unturned, leave nothing on the table!

My ambassador activity tip:

Find something you love, surround yourself with knowledgeable people who look out for you, find the drive and never give up!

My favourite way to keep active:

Heart Rate training, anything from pressure shooting scenarios, running or hot spa recovery training.

The sport I like watching the most:

I’ve spent hundreds of hours watching and rewatching Archery World Cups, Olympics and Asia cups analysing equipment, technique and how the very best perform (AFL is okay too).

What sporting success looks like:

Pushing your limits and “fighting” to make your dreams come reality, having the mentality that anything is possible (because it is).

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