Armed with a Bachelor of Actuarial Science, this graduate is balancing elite archery ambitions with her new career in defence.
Life after university won’t be changing too much for freshly minted Australian champion Amber Reinbott. There will still be plenty of number-crunching between now and the LA Olympics as she tries to master a new discipline in archery and chase the qualifying score she needs to earn a spot on the Australian team.
Ms Reinbott graduates from Bond University with a Bachelor of Actuarial Science, but her next challenge won’t be in a finance firm. She has already been accepted into the Australian Defence Force and will begin her Air Force training in March.
Amber Reinbott on her graduation day in December 2025.
Amber Reinbott on her graduation day in December 2025.
Between now and then, she’ll be shooting between 30 and 80 arrows a day as she transitions into compound target archery, which has just earned Olympic status for the first time.
Before swapping targets, she reaffirmed her status as one of the country’s most gifted bowhunters when she dominated the National 3DAAA Championships earlier this month.
By the time her quiver was empty, Ms Reinbott had won the Female Bowhunter Open title, smashed two of her own national records by a remarkable 18 points, and posted the highest score of the entire competition.
“I have my eyes set on the Olympics,” she says.
“Having only just returned to compound archery from bowhunting events, I’m trying to get my name out there in that association now that it is an Olympic sport.”
Her immediate benchmark is a score of 690 - widely viewed across the sport as the number that will put an athlete into Olympic consideration. From there, selections will come down to national results and whether Australia secures one of only 12 mixed-team spots for LA.
“If I can shoot a 690 I will be considered, then I would have to do the nationals and try to get on the Australian team,” she said.
She hasn’t reached the 690 mark yet. Most of her early training has been at blustery club shoots in Toowoomba where the conditions have been “far from ideal to post a score like that”. To give herself the best shot, she will now move around the state competing in regional qualifying events between December and March.
“I majored in data analytics and I’m taking those skills into my new career in the Air Force," she says.
Published on Wednesday, 17 December, 2025.
Original thinking direct to your inbox
Stories from Bond