Author: RSCAC Admin

Royal Sutton’s young athletes were mixing it with the top runners in the country at the English Schools XC last weekend. This was at Temple Newsam Park – in heavy showers plus storm force winds. The average fields in the junior and intermediate events were 350 runners.

Junior girls:

• Mante Nausedaite 196th – top WM scorer
• Martha Wood 247th – 2nd WM scorer despite losing a shoe in the first 300m
• Charlotte Prince 264th  –  4th WM scorer
• Zara Buchanan – support back-up position
• Sian Duval  180th  4th Staffordshire scorer

Intermediate girls:

• Lucy Carey  119th  2nd WM scorer
• Charlotte Hey  205th  6th WM scorer

Senior girls:

• Ellen Humpherston  116th  2nd WM Scorer
• Caitlin O’Connor  164th  3rd Staffordshire scorer

Junior Boys:

• Jack Wakefield  140th  3rd WM scorer

Report by Brian Higson

Some great results for Royal Sutton athletes competing for Warwickshire at the Inter Counties XC at Prestwold Hall.

• Senior Men – Shaun Evans  (38th) overall position (1st for Warwickshire and 6th U23 runner).

U20 women – Ellen Humpherston 72nd

U17 women – Charlotte Hey 140th and 3rd scorer. Team 24th

U15 girls – Lucy Carey 142nd and 3rd scorer out of 309 runners (Team 33rd out of 45)

U13s – Martha Wood 86th and Warks 2nd scorer. Nante Nausedaite 108 and 3rd scorer Charlotte Prince 195th, Bethan Homer 210th.  307 finishers, Team 22nd out of 43

Well done to Sian Duval and Caitlin O’Connor who qualified to run for Staffordshire at the English Schools XC Championships. Sian won the junior girls race whilst Caitlin was third in the senior girls.

Sutton’s U13 girls followed up their success in the Schools’ races by taking team medals in the Midland cross-country championships at Leamington last Saturday 26^th.  The team finished 3^rd out of the 26 competing Midland clubs. The scorers and bronze medal winners were Martha Wood (10^th), Mante Nausedaite (13^th), Charlotte Prince (35^th), and Emily Symes (42^nd) in a field of 121 runners. Good back-up support came from Francesca Allen (59^th) and Olivia Allen (61^st). Good runs also from Sammie Wakefield, Eva Kelly, and Lucy Rigby.

In the U15 girl’s race, notable performances from Lucy Carey (16^th) and Sian Duval (32^nd) with excellent support runs from Elsa and Zara Buchanan, and Jess Hales in her first championship race.

The U20 race featured brave performances from WM Schools’ champion Ellen Humpherston (15th) and Georgia Delaney.

Here’s a quick update from John T:

Hi Everyone, Just seen the results of the Indoor Meeting in Cardiff yesterday ( Cardiff Met GP2) and pleased to report that Kane Howitt broke his own Senior Club Record with a time of 6.93 secs in taking 5th place in the Final. This breaks his own record of 6.99 set in 2018. He also recorded 6.94 in his heat. He also won the number one 200m race in a time of 22.07 which was the fastest time recorded at the meet of 13 races. This is a new indoor PB for Kane beating his previous best of 22.35.