Venue for Junior Sessions
There will be NO session on 16th February. Sessions resume at St Bartholomew school sports hall (6:00 – 7.15pm) on 23rd February and will remain there until Thursday 22nd March inclusively.
Report from Emma Carter
Four NAC athletes took part in the Boys U11 County Sports hall event at TVAC on Sunday afternoon. The team of Connor Humphreys, Tom MacAulay, Ben Rudland and Charlie Wiggit finished a very creditable 8th out of 12 teams. Continue reading
Alex in action in Hustopece
Report from Sara Rudd
Alex Craninx, who is still only 16, broke his own Club High Jump record whilst competing at a specialist High Jump event in Hustopece, Czech Republic on Saturday 28th January. Alex placed 4th on countback in the event but was jumping against older athletes. The first four all cleared 2.04m with RAC’s Ryan Bonifas just edging ahead into third. The whole event runs over two days with the elite women and men concluding the competition which is purely for high jump. An artificial track is laid onto the floor of an indoor basketball court and great support is provided by the local population. Seven of the Men’s Daegu finalists competed in the male event with the Russian Dimitrik winning with a world leading 2.35m with another Russian, Shkolina, winning the women’s event with 1.97m.
Sophie Fowler (St Bart’s) was the best placed of a number of club athletes competing for their schools when coming 5th in the U19 County Schools Championship on 21st Jan at Wellington. She was closely followed by fellow St Bart’s pupils Vicky Duncan (7th) and twin sister Charlotte (9th).
In the U17 girls race Sam Van Huyssteen (The Downs) came 14th, Jenny Pudney 18th, Katie Metalli (St Bart’s) 37th, & Sally Herbert (Kennet) 53rd. In the boys equivalent Will Tyson ran well for 17th place. U15 Fen Holland (Kennet) came 16th with Ellie Williams, Polly Mitton and Hannah Wolak all from St Bart’s packing together to come in in 49th, 50th & 51st.
U13 races saw Holly Blower & Lizzie Parker both from The Downs in 12th and 53rd places respectively whilst in the boys equivalent Matt Pudney & Gerren Scapens of St Bart’s were 25th and 79th.
As a result of their runs Sophie, Vicky, Charlotte, Sam & Fen have been selected to represent Berkshire in the southern Inter-Counties cross country match on 4th February.
This year’s annual open throwing meeting in memory of Arthur Killbery will take place at CCAT on 11th March from 9:00am onwards. Closing date for entries is 26th February (no late entries will be accepted).
Download entry form and further details here: CCAT Throws meeting entry form 2012
Sample Club Tracksuit
Newbury Athletic Club in partnership with the Ollie Johnson trust fund have introduced a reward scheme for members of the club who have shown repeated loyalty and dedication in representing the club over multiple seasons and or disciplines.
To show appreciation to these athletes we have decided to award club track suits to all qualifying junior (U25) members. These track suits will be available for a nominal administration fee of just £10 and are not available for general sale to juniors. Adult members can purchase a tracksuit at a club subsidised rate of £50.
A list of juniors currently qualifying is available here:track suits people 2012 and all these people will shortly receive a letter with details of how to order including a size chart.
Adults who would like to order a tracksuit should contact Sara Rudd for further details.
The 7th Santa Fun Run organised by the two rotary clubs of Marlow will be held on the morning of Sunday 4th December. If you are not competing in the Oxford Mail X-country fixture that day you might be interested in this. Full details here: www.santasfunrun.org
Details of up-coming events and move indoors for the winter: NAC Junior newsletter 6.10.11
If you would like to take part in any of the events please let Sarah or Emma know.
Oxfordshire Athletic Network are holding an open quadkids event on Friday 7th October between 6 and 8.30pm at the Horspath athletic track. Each competitor will take part in Vortex Throw, 75m sprint, Long Jump and 600m run.
Any Under 11′s are invited to attend – entries on the night accepted: Under11OxfordEntryForm
Matt Plumb broke his own u23 club record whilst beating his previous pb by 5cm in the Long Jump with a leap of 6.62cm at the Bournemouth open meeting yesterday. He also equalled his pb of 11.7s in the 100m where he had the first experience of racing against younger brother Sam who beat him into 4th place whilst coming 3rd with a time of 11.5s. Cameron Winfield won his heat of the u13 boys 100m in a time of 14.5s
There were wins for Rosie Stanton (u13) in the javelin, where her throw of 26.42 was nearly 2 metres longer than the 2nd placed thrower, Ricky Doran (u17) in the Discus with 41.92 and Derek Philbey (u17) in the Shot (13.25). Jamie Kuehnel’s best result of the day was 2nd place in the u15 Hammer a position equalled by Michaela Whitton (u15) and Lee Doran (u20) in the Shot. Daniel Hall (u15) threw the hammer for the first time in competition recording a fine 24.60m for 4th place. Brother Jack (u13) recorded a personal best in the Discus.
Alex with his three gold medals
Report by Sara Rudd
Alex Craninx completed his wonderful season with another impressive win, at national level, in the last high jump competition of the season at the UK school games in Sheffield last weekend.
Up against competitors from all over the UK he made it an impressive triple adding this title to the England schools and AAA’s crowns he had already won. Add this to four out of five wins to help Newbury AC’s senior men to their best ever league position, often competing against athletes much older he could not have had a better season and is currently standing at the top of the UK rankings in high jump for his age group.
