Author: RSCAC Admin

Well done to our senior XC team who won promotion back to Division 1 following a fantastic win in the final match of the season at Gloucester today. We packed our 6 1st team scorers into the top 39 places with Shaun Evans winning his second race of the season, Ollie Haradence 10th, Nick Corker 11th, Tom Chew 12th, Jerome Austin 28th and Dave Long 39th. Our other six runners battled manfully in tough conditions meaning the B team finished 3rd – well done Simon Corker, Fred Tremblay, Steve Marklew, Paul Terleski, Steve Semple and Matt Powell. This means that overall we finished in 2nd place for the season behind Cannock & Staffs. Well done to everyone who has competed this season. Special mention to 4 runners who have been the core of the team:

• Shaun Evans, who won the last two races and was the joint top individual runner for the season and top junior.
• Ollie Haradence, who was in the top 10 for the season.
• Tom Chew, who has improved every race and finished in a best ever 12th position today.
• Jerome Austin, who was the 3rd placed junior for the season.

Thanks to our supporters who braved the cold and wet yesterday and to Phil Pollock for doing our officiating duties. Full results are available here: RESULTS

Get training everyone – it’s tough in Division 1!

There were some great performances at the Midland Championship at the weekend. Here’s Margaret’s report:

“The Midland Championships were held at a new venue, Prestwold Hall, Leicestershire, on Saturday. On a deceptively tough course, Royal Sutton Coldfield AC was well represented and there were some exciting performances.

In form Shaun Evans, had the best result of the day in the Under 20 men’s event. Always in contention he tracked the leaders until half way and ran on strongly to be rewarded with a bronze medal. He was also celebrating selection to race for Midland Counties in the Home Countries International which will be staged in Falkirk in March. Jerome Austin battled well in 26th place.

The club’s sole representative in the Under 17 women’s race, Georgia Curry, had a great championships crossing the finish in 7th position.

The Under 17 men packed well with Alex Jones impressing in 14th, Alex Blackham ran a determined race in 33rd and Tom Parkes completed the scoring with a strong run in 46th.

Under 15 Ellen Humpherston put in a mature performance to finish in 17th in her event.

The senior women put in a strong team performance to finish 7^th overall, with Andrea Deathridge 32^nd, Mel Woodward 40^th, Lizzie Wignall 53^rd and Rachel Thebridge 108^th. For the senior men the first runner home for the club was Tom Chew in 60^th place.”

RESULTS

Nicholas Pryce has had a great start to the year comfortably winning the 400m at the Midland Championships in a time of 50.12. Well done Nicholas!!!

Winter arrived with a vengeance yesterday as our junior athletes travelled to the notorious mud of Burbage Common for their fourth league match of the season. There was some fantastic brave running by our athletes in truly awful conditions of mud, snow and deep slush. Overall the team finished third out of 19 clubs and remain in fourth place in the league. Well done to everyone who took part – you truly did the club proud!

The full results are on the WMYACCL website and photos taken by Marc Kirsten are available on the FLICKR page. Team results and standout individual performances in each age group are summarised below:

• U11 boys – 2^nd, with George Hope 1^st back for RSCAC in 10^th place, and great support from Ben Stewart, Jack Wakefield, George O’Connor and Tom Smith to bring the club home 2^nd in a highly competitive race.
• U11 girls – 4^th, with top ten finishes for Hope Stirland (6^th) and Sian Duval (7^th)
• U13 boys – 7^th, with Jack Newman 1^st home in 26^th
• U13 girls – 3^rd, with Ella Semple top in this age group in 15^th
• U15 boys – 10^th, with the pick of the performances being a great run by Lewis Duval finishing 11^th
• U15 girls – 3^rd, with Ellen Humpherston 1^st home in 13^th
• U17 women – 6^th with Georgia Curry finishing 4^th
• U17 men – 3^rd, with great teamwork from Euan Cox (10^th), Alex Blackham (11^th) and Alex Jones (14^th)

The final race is at Birchfield Harriers on 14^th February. It’s close to home and conditions surely can’t be as bad again so let’s have a great turnout and finish the season in style

Well done to all the runners who competed at the Warwickshire County Championships at Warley Woods on Saturday.  We had a great day with two runners crowned as individual champions and numerous other medals – both individual and team. Shaun Evans continued his amazing season winning the U20 Men’s race. He followed the brisk early pace and moved up to the leaders after the first kilometer. He eased into the lead and was never challenged crossing the line well ahead of the field to take the County title. There was excellent support from Jerome Austin in 5th and Tom Wheeler in 9th which earned them the U20 men’s team gold.

The U17 men continued to impress.  Alex Jones ran strongly to take 5th with Euan Cox in his first outing for the Club in 10th and Alex Blackham completing the scoring in 13th. The team were rewarded with bronze team medals. Tom Parkes had a good run in 29th.

U17 Georgia Curry had a fine race to take individual silver, with the team, which also included Verity O’Shea (11^th) and Amy Tuckett (15^th), winning team silver.

U15 Ellen Humpherston had a great run but was just edged out of the individual medals in 4th. Strong support from Abi Trevis (9^th) and Caitlin White (11^th) meant the U15 girls also won silver.

Ben Horton was delighted with his performance in the under 15 boys race where he finished 8th.

In the U13 girls ran superbly as a team (see below photo) but missed out on a medal by a single point. Lucy Corker finished 9^th, Lucy Carey 11^th and Elsa Buchanan 12^th. Strong support from Charlotte Hey (13^th), Jessica Cope (14^th) and Maddie Hammond 32^nd meant Royal Sutton had the 1^st B team in this age group.

In the U13 boys race the strongest run came from Jacob Higgins who was 21st.

Megan McBrien put in a fine performance in the Senior Women’s event to finish 7th with Andrea Deathridge in 13th.

There was also a gold medal for Ollie Harradence, who won the Masters Men’s race. Another highlight came from Tom Chew who had a strong run to finish 27^th in the senior men’s race.

At the Staffordshire County Championships held at Sandwell Valley the top performance came from Ella Semple who finished 11^th.

The strong performances mean many of these athletes will gain county selection for the Inter County Championships to be held at Cofton Park in March.

There’s been lots of action involving RSCAC athletes over the past couple of the weeks on the country, road, hills and indoors.

There were some great runs by our junior athletes in the Young Athletes XC match at Warley Woods where the team finished 4^th (out of 20). The top performances came from Georgia Curry (2^nd U17 women), Hope Stirland (3^rd U11 girls), Alex Jones (3^rd U17 men) and George Chadha (6^th U11 boys). There were great team performances from the U11 boys (2^nd), U13 girls (2^nd) and U17 women (3^rd). RESULTS   FOTOCCOMPLI PHOTOS

In the Midland Women’s XC we had 2 runners out. Helen Elsoueidi finished 163^rd and Emily Campion was 242^nd. A separate report is on the website for the men’s race. RESULTS

Andrea Deathridge had a great run in the Centurion 5 finishing 2^nd woman in 31.59, whilst Paul Jenkins was 25^th overall. In the Cardington Cracker fell race Nick Corker finished 8^th.

Yesterday Steve’s group were out in force for a free Xmas Pudding at the Sneyd 10 mile road race. Dave Long was first home for the club in 1.00.11, with Steve Marklew, Mark Rickards, Matt Stenson and Paul Jenkins all not far behind. RESULTS

Finally, there was a Sportshall match on Saturday night with lots of our young stars in action.  RESULTS   FOTOCCOMPLI PHOTOS

Well done everyone!