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Royal Sutton’s young athletes finished the cross country league season in style winning a  fantastic haul of medals at the final match of the season at Perry Park. The U17 women got the club off to a great start with Georgia Curry finishing 3rd in the first race of the day, with the team also finishing 3rd, with Lois West and Grace Stirland completing the scoring. The strong performances across the season meant both Georgia and the team claimed silver medals.

The U11 boys were next up, with the team finishing 2nd on the day with George Hope being the top runner in 6th place. Ben Stewart and Tom Smith both recorded top 20 finishes, whilst Pierce Odwyer and Jacob Thomas completed the scorers. The team was second also for the season and so returned back to Wyndley with team silver.

There were more strong performances by the U17 men, with Alex Jones finishing 6th and the team finishing 3rd on the day. Euan Cox (12th) and Alex Blackham (18th) both ran well and will be useful additions to the senior team next year. Alex Jones was ranked 4th in this age group for the season.

The U11 girls narrowly missed out on a team medal finishing 4th. There were strong individual performances on the day, with Hope Stirland finishing in 3rd position, and great support from Sian Duval, Mante Nausedaite, Amaya Tisdale and Martha Wood to complete the scoring 5. Hope also won the bronze medal for her performances across the season.

For the U15 boys the star performance came from Lewis Duval who finished 10th, with the team finishing in 8th position. There was good support in particular from Ben Horton and Ben White.

The U13 girls also were also in the medals with great teamwork resulting in a 3rd place finish on the day and bronze medals for the season. Ella Semple was the first runner home for the club on Sunday in 18th place, whilst there was great packing from Charlotte Hey, Elsa Buchanan, Lucy Semple and Lucy Corker.

The U13 boys also ran well with Will Cowley the first runner in 44th to bring the team home 8th out of 19 clubs.

The final race featured the U15 girls. Ellen Humpherston gave the top performance finishing 18th with the girls finishing 6th for the season.

Overall the club finished in 4th place for the season out of 21 clubs – well done to all the athletes and coaches!!!

Marc Kirsten took lots of fantastic photos on the day and there are more available on our FLICKR page.

The full results are available on the WMYACCL website.

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.