Author: RSCAC Admin

We have received the News that Ron Taylor has passed away . He was 92 year old.

During a wonderful career he set many Masters World Records in the M50,M50 and M60 age groups . In fact his M60 100m (11.70) and 200m(24.00) set in Athens in 1994 in the European Masters Champs  still stand today as the World Records. He holds eleven Club records and was a member of 3 relay team  records

A couple of particula note were an M40 RSC 4x200m Team setting an Indoor  World Record at Cosford in 1986 of 1.37.3 which was featured in Athletics Weekly article about Ron with a photo of the team. Ron was 49 at the time. The other two RSC athletes were Barry Moulton and Arthur Orr. 

The other was the M50 400m World Record of 51.8 set at Swansea also in 1986 . Ron had pricipally run 400m races when he was a younger athlete at Birchfield but when he switched to RSC he wanted to run the 100m and 200m . He had asked John Topliss to set a pace for this attempt and Ron ran in lane 4 and John in Lane 3. He asked for a 200m split of between 24.5 and 25.0  and John was able to go through in 24.6 . When John reached 250m he was starting to struggle a bit and Ron glided past him and went on to win the race in the new World M50 time of 51.8 which was later ratified . John finished 3rd in 53 something .            

As far as we can recall that during this period Ron was never beaten in the sprints in his age group whether it be World, European, or British Championships . He was also an accomplished Javelin thrower and holds the Club M55 record. Ron was a character and a great athlete and will be sadly missed.

Thanks for John T for providing his thoughts on this wonderful athlete.

The club is sad to announce the passing of Bill Price on Friday 19th September

Bill joined the club when his eldest daughter Sharon became interested in Athletics and started training at the club at 8 years old.

This was 41 years ago in 1983. Sharon joined the Sprints squad and Bill started helping with the group as there were few coaches at the time. Over the following years Bill took on and coached a squad of his own. The group grew and grew, and Bill’s youngest daughter Lynn joined 2 years later when she was old enough.

Bill specialised in coaching Sprints and took on a love of Hurdles as well sprints and undertook various coaching qualifications and coaching courses in both Sprints and Hurdles overseeing many successes through his athletes competing at Club, County and National level.

Bill continued coaching to a huge number of athletes over the next 20 years, finally leaving the coaching arena when his daughters left 2005.

Bill was well respected, and all his athletes looked at him as much more than just a coach, he was there to help them through all walks of their life, supporting and guiding them through their teenage years and into adulthood. Bill was often known as the athletes second Dad, and he took great pride in being their friend as well as their coach.

Nothing gave Bill greater pleasure than seeing his athletes train hard, succeed and do the best that they could.  His squad had a lovely family feel and he remained in contact with many of them over the years.

The fixutre list is now available via this link: 2025 Summer fixtures
Help is always appreciated, if you can offer any time please let the team managers or coaches know.

In March we will be holding a trial for our Under 11s squad (school years 4 & 5) that like to run distances and particularly love cross country. If your child is interested in this squad and would like to come along to the trial please complete our waiting list form and we’ll be in touch

Our Annual awards night will be held on Friday 18th October, 7pm start, at Hollyfields Sports & Conference Centre, Woodacre Rd B24 0JT.
Tickets can be booked via this link: TICKETS

7pm start, food served at 7.15pm and we’ll aim to be underway with presentations at 7.45pm.
There will be a disco following the presentation.

We will be holding a raffle, so please bring some cash! Any raffle prize donations can be taken to the club house in advance.

We look forward to seeing you there and hearing about all the amazing achievements of our club and it’s members over the last year.

Brian has been awarded Joint Winner of Services to Athletics and Running in the England Athletics West Midlands Regional Awards.
Brian has been volunteering at the club the 34 years and is the lead coach for our Girls Endurance Group. Well done Brian.

Our annual Club Championships will be held on the 13th April at Wydnley.

More details on events, timings and how to enter will be sent out and put on the website, but for now please book this date in your diaries.