Bermuda archer Roslyn Kneeland will have the odds stacked against her when she competes at the NatWest Island Games in Aland later this month.

Kneeland suffered a broken foot recently and has been unable to train for the last six weeks, thus missing out on valuable practice in the run-in to the Games.

Bermuda's other archer at the Games, Paul Harshaw, who is also doubling as team manager, is remaining hopeful that she can represent her country regardless of her injury and lack of preparation.

"Unfortunately Roslyn suffered a broken foot and has been unable to practise for the past six weeks," said Harshaw.

"Although she will have her cast removed later this month and will still attend and participate in the Island Games, the lack of opportunity to practise will almost certainly affect her score at the Island Games.

"This will be Roslyn's first overseas tournament, so her injury is even more unfortunate.

With 30 or more men in the recurve class and 15 or so women competing, Harshaw believes the Island's team could finish in the middle of the pack.

"It is an unfortunate fact of Bermuda's isolation that overseas tournaments are difficult and expensive to attend," he added.

"That may or may not have an impact on the results posted by Bermuda's archers."

Backeberg Sportsground on the small Baltic Sea island will be the venue for the archery competition.

The original venue at Baltichallen has been changed due to the immense interest in the football competition and the need to increase the number of football pitches available within the Mariehamn area.

The competition will follow world archery governing body FITA's format with each archer shooting 36 arrows at four different distances, for a total of 144 shots.

For the women, those distances are 70, 60, 50 and 30 metres. For men, the distances are 90, 70, 50 and 30 metres.

Each arrow that hits the target will score between one and 10 points, depending on how close it is to the bullseye.

Both Bermuda archers are competing in the recurve class and top scores in past Island Games have been in the region of 1100 for that division.

The Games run from June 27 to July 4.

More than 100 competitors from Bermuda are taking part in the Games in nine different sports – archery (male and female), athletics (male and female), shooting (male), golf (male and female), gymnastics (female), basketball (men), sailing (male and female), swimming (male and female) and volleyball (male and female).