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Athletics Report
short. As we had anticipated,
we are not the only ones to
be suffering from the timing
of the match, except for
Windsor, who appear with a
much strengthened team and
fire a shot (plus a discus and
hammer) across our bows.
They’ve even brought along
Morgan Lake, though she
doesn’t have the best of days
at the office, being beaten by
Holly Mills in the LJ (with
a leap only 1cm below her
league record in the previous
match) and DQ’d in the sprint
hurdles, so, beaten also by
Annie (recording a PB).
The match begins with the
debut for our latest recruit,
Shaye Emmett from Sutton,
in the pole vault. After the
all too common opening
height stuttering – do vaulters likely that we win the girls’
just do this to reduce team
managers to jabbering
wrecks? Shaye improves her
PB by 20cm to 3.70 – a new
Club record. With Helena
Coleman clearing 3.35, for an
outdoor PB, vaulting appears
to be on the up! But the ‘team
within a team’ award has to
go to the sprint squad with
a clean sweep of both the
100s and 200s from Viv, Jazz
Crawford, Charmont, Parris,
Magda and Olivia. Back in
the field, Divine clears 14m
in the U17 shot and Tabitha
Lisciotto and Robyn Petitt
take joint honours in the
high jump. Other U20 wins
come from Niamh Bridson
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Hubbard in the A 1500 and
Jenny Sheasby in the B 3000
and in the U17s from Jo in
the B 3000, Holly in the B
80H, Anna in the discus
and Victoria Wiltshire in
the hammer. (Not as many
wins for the middle distance
squad this match, but a
batch of good performances
nonetheless. And, in the
throws, Emma James makes
good contributions on her
first appearance for the team.) individual wins are added,
We close out the match with
a win in the U20 4 x 100 and
three 2nd places in the other
relays. It’s 2nd again in the
overall match, but this time
by almost 80 points. No
official confirmation, but as
the boys again struggle to
contest a number of events,
match, but it’s much closer:
we have been warned!
Allianz Park 28th June
Yet again, we’re missing
the Twins, who are in the
final throes of preparation
for the European Junior
Championships (from which
they will return with silver
medals from their individual
events of 200 and 400 and
relay golds from the 4 x 100
and 4 x 400, respectively).
Though other absences leave
us a little stretched, we still
cover all the events except
for the U17 vault. We duly
maintain our clean sweep
of the 100s (Viv, Charmont,
Parris and Magda) and
match this in the discus
(Divine, Carys and Anna)
and triple jump (Kerri – in
her last match for us before
heading off to college in the
US – Toyin and Annie). The
double is achieved in the U17
200 (Parris and Charmont,
nursing a slight foot injury,
but not that anyone would
have noticed) and 3000
( Jess and Amy Leach) and
in the U20s, by Niamh (A
800 and 1500), Emma (B
hammer) and Helena (A
PV) and, in the U17s, by Jess
(adding the A 1500 to her
3000), Isabella (A 300H),
Yasmin (A 1500 s/c), Divine
(shot – not far shy of 15m but
a new League Record all the
same) and Jamiyla Robinson-
Pascal (LJ). And we finish
strongly: despite only having
one U20 sprinter available, we
win both sprint relays, plus
the 4 x 300 (Lizzie Ibidunni,
Roisin Atkins-Dykes,
Georgina Taylor and Katy-
Ann McDonald). But we can
only finish 3rd in the overall
match behind Windsor and
Shaftesbury and can’t afford
to slip up in the final match if
we want to secure a place in
the final outright.