Author: megs

Many congratulations to Isabel Male, u 13 girl, who broke two sprint records at the Lower YDL competition on Saturday.

Isabel ran the 75 m in 10.5 seconds and the 150 m in 20.6 seconds. Isabel is unbeaten this season in the YDL competition, gaining first place in all her races. She is now ranked  3rd in the Midlands for the 75 m and 3rd for the 150 m.

Both of these records have stood since 1998, which is testament to how speedy Isabel is – and with another 12 months in the u 13 age group.

Well done Issy!

Any child who wants to become the next Greg Rutherford or Jessica Ennis-Hill should ask to attend this year’s summer athletics scheme.  Star Track is an excellent induction to athletics for 8 – 14 year olds.  Over 3 days they will try every athletics event except pole vault.

RSCAC are running 2 Star Track weeks this year, at Wyndley:

1/2/3 August

15/16/17 August

All sessions are 10am – 3pm and the cost is £40 for the 3 days.

To book a place please contact Wyndley Leisure Centre, 0121 464 7742

Yesterday’s Heart of England at Redditch saw glorious weather and many great performances off Royal Sutton athletes.  With athletes in 4 age groups competing, both male and female, it is too difficult to mention individuals without leaving someone out and I certainly don’t want to leave anyone out because everyone tried their hardest and performed well.  So it’s a big well done to everyone as well as special praise to those who filled in on extra events to cover for last minute cancellations.  The results haven’t been published yet, so keep checking the Heart of England website to see if we manage to stay in Division 1. http://www.hofe-league.org.uk/

Because people will be setting up for the Sutton Community Games tonight, there will be no throws, hurdles and high jump.  So it will only be long and triple jump tonight, 5.30 – 7pm.

There is no jumps/hurdles tonight. We will be back as normal next Friday.

There is no training at Wyndley tonight because UK Athletics have exclusive use of the track. Friday training will resume next week. Enjoy your evening off!

Jasmine Walker (U15) competed at the National Javelin Carnival
Competition at Loughborough on Sunday, throwing against top-ranked
athletes. She finished 10th out of the 20 athletes, many of whom were in
the top year of the age group. She achieved a throw of 30m 46cm, her
first throw over the magic 30m mark and leap-frogged back to the top of
the WM Pof10 rankings; also moving up to 38th in the UK. This was
valuable experience for her in that she was able to watch how the top
throwers, (including the No1 and No2 UK-ranked athletes Bethany Moule
and Annabel Peach), warmed up and prepared for the event.

Much to the surprise of everyone present, the Lower YDL athletes were not victorious at Tipton. Despite a number of athletes achieving first and second place, they were pipped to the post by Dudley and Stourbridge who achieved 482 points to RSC 481. All the athletes present, worked really hard to produce in the majority of cases new PBs.

A big well done in particular to those athletes who took part in events that they were not familiar with and in some cases with very little notice – Harriet Martin, Jess Cope, Jack Wakefield, Caitlin Ralph, Zara Buchanan, James Moran and David Iliffe.

Some of our young athletes are doing particularly well in the Power of 10 rankings – Isabel Male, Daniel Olatundun, Elsa Buchanan and Maddie Hammond.

For the future, an analysis of the results from Tipton, shows that the Dudley and Stourbridge team fielded athletes in a larger number of events which enabled them to accumulate more points.

The good news is that after two of four competitions, RSC are joint first with Bicester on 13 points; DASH (Dudley and Stourbridge) and Tamworth are joint third with 11 points. However, the next two competitions are hosted by DASH and Tamworth, so it will need a big turn out for RSC to maintain first place.

Let’s go for it Royal Sutton!