Club News

May 29

Bank Holiday Hurdle Fest

Our home stadium at Melbourne Park now attracts meetings involving athletes from throughout the country with the latest a hurdles festival supported by England Athletics.

At this venture no fewer than twelve of our members featured. Under 15 level Chelsea Clarke with 11.54s placed second in the 75 metres whilst in the under 17`s over the 80 metres Amelia Scott with 11.75s and Milana Thorpe with 12.02s each placing second in their respective races - both personal bests.. This trend continued as Rosie Townley in the under 20`s 100m clocked 15.94s and Sophie Catchpole in the 300m hurdles with 44.56s again topping her previous best.

In the under 17men Harry Lee ran an impressive 14.40s for second place whilst Marcus

Fazackerley with 15.05s in third spot recorded another pb. As did Sam Wright in the

under 18 category with 14.35s. Increasing the distance to 400 metres Edward Hughes

55.71s and Daniel Brown 56.07s improved on their bests Archie Sims just missing out

on his best set seven days early - now clocking 55.23.

The steeplechase events included here saw William Nuttall with 9m 30.12s completing

our performances bringing personal bests.

Report Written by Roy Meadowcroft

May 21

A Very Solid Start to our SAL Campaign

Match Scores

1st 385pts City of Norwich AC

2nd 323pts Chelmsford AC

3rd 316pts Ipswich & CATs (combined)

4th 201pts Blackheath & Bromley AC

5th 166pts Cambridge Harriers

6th 160pts Dartford Harriers

Match Results

Women's Match Report

Despite having a depleted team due to exam pressures and illness, the ladies’ squad was determined to do their best. This involved Hannah & Sophie doubling up in the distance events and many others willingly doing extra events on the day. In addition, many of the team positioned highly across their respective events. We said hello to Chelmsford members new to competing for us in the SAL competition, including several U17s.

PBs were obtained by Georgia (400m, 58.3s), Zion (100mH, 15.2s), Charlotte (hammer 37.70m) and Sophie in her first steeplechase (2000m s/c, 9 mins 21.7s).

Two of the team qualified for the league’s Man of the Match with their performances: Zion in the 100mH and Maegan in the shot (12.66m).

Thank you to Shirley for organising the team in advance.

Team Manager’s Man of the Match: Zion

Written by Tracy Minton

Men's Match Report

Firstly the man of the match was James Becker. He is new to the squad and only 16 years old. He ran both a Pb in the 100 and 200 with 11.0 and 22.6 which are both times which qualify him to compete in the National League team. He also ran a strong anchor let in the 4x100.

Although non scoring, Luke Oliver ran a very strong 400m P.B with 52.3 down from 53.6. (also won B string 800m)

Nathan Bushnell first match back after a multi year break with 2 wins in B string shot and discus with Kevin Wilson winning the respective A Strings.

New squad member Oliver Graham debuted with a huge win in the hammer with 62.56 just 37cm from his all time best.

Luke Keteleers competed about 7/8 events (cant remember exactly) covering everything required and picking up a vast number of points for the team.

After an on track injury and 45 minute delay we knew with 4 events to go we were within 2 points of Ipswich so needed to stay ahead of them in the 4x4 relays. Both men's and women's teams managed to stay ahead of Ipswich with a massive effort even when tired from multiple events.

This certainly isn't an exhaustive list of good performances, everyone stepped up to the plate when asked and put in 110%.

Written by Paul Owen