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Well done to all those who competed at tonight’s sportshall event. Results will soon be available here:

http://birminghamsportshall.com/calendar.asp

On Thursdays especially, in order to ease traffic on Wyndley Lane, please park in Wyndley’s main car park where possible.

The taster session will not be taking place on 20th February 2020 due it being half term.

Very well done to the RSCAC athletes who took won awards at last night’s Sutton Coldfield Sports Awards.

Isabel Thomas-Male won the Grassroots Junior Female Award.

This comes after a super season for Izzy:

– Midland Champs 100m 1st /200m 1st
– Midlands Indoors Champs 60m 1st
– Warwickshire Champs 100m 1st/200m 1st
– West Midlands Schools 200m 1st
– Mason Schools Trophy 200m 1st
– English Indoors Champs 200m 4th
– English Champs 200m 7th

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The second winner from RSCAC was Donald Brown who won Veteran Sports Person of the Year. Donald won three gold medals and a relay silver at the European Masters Champs in Venice, Italy, with a new British record in the 100m Hurdles to add to his M50 British record. He started the year by  winning the 60m Hurdles at the World Masters Indoors in Torun Poland. Here is a brief summary of his 2019 performances.

World Masters Indoors Poland
– 60mHurdles 1st 9.02
– 60m  3rd 7.60
 
British Masters Indoors, Lee Valley
– 60m Hurdles 1st 9.24
– 60m  2nd 7.75
– 200m 1st  25.75

British Champs Birmingham
– 100m 1st  12.08
– 200m 1st 24.90 ( – 1.8)

European Masters Venice
– 100m Hurdles  1st 14.62 ( -1.9) BRITISH RECORD (WAS 14.93). He  also holds the M50 record of 14.34 set in 2015
– 100m  1st  12.13 ( – 3.9)
– 200m 1st  24.06 (-1.1)

The third winner from RSCAC was Nicholas Pryce – Male Sports Person of the Year.

A great season for Nicholas in which he took 2nd place in the English Champs and represented England at the Home Counties  International in the 200m and the 4x100m and made it through to the semifinals of the 200m in the recent British Champs. He set new PBs in the 60m and the 100m and was unbeaten in the 100m, 200m and 400m in the League. Here is a brief summary of his 2019 performances.

Seasons best times:
– 60m 6.98 PB
– 100m 10.66 PB
– 200m 21.13
– 200m Indoors 21.90 NEW CLUB RECORD

English Champs Manchester

– 100m 5th 10.66
– 200m 2nd 21.14 (21.13 in semi)

Home Counties International:
– England 4x100m relay team 1^st
– 200m 6^th

British Champs:

– 100m Heat 3rd 10.69
– Semi Final 9th 10.70
– 200m Heat 5th 21.51

Nicholas competed in 43 races during the season.

Well done to the other RSCAC finalists:

– Martha Wood – Grassroots junior Sports Female Award finalist

– U13 girls cross country squad – Junior Team of the Year finalist

– Chrissie Prince – Volunteer/Coach of the Year

From Loughborough on 11th January:
– 60m Nick Pryce 7.05

From Birmingham on 19th January:
60m
– Isabel Thomas-Male 7.9  0.01 outside Izzy’s PB. She is ranked 1st in the West Midlands
– Florence Thomas-Male 8.78 PB
– Bethany Connolly 8.79 0.08 outside Beth’s PB
– John Furber 7.22 PB
– Jaequarn  Campbell  7.44 PB
– Aaron Oshenye 8.19 PB

Both Kane Hewitt and Nick Pryce have had an excellent start to the season in the 200 metres.
– Kane ran 22.08 on 22nd January and 21.9 on  26th January.
– Nick ran 22.65 on 18th January and 22.0 on 26th January.
These results see Kane ranked 1st in the West Midlands and Nick 3rd.

Congratulations to all!

Royal Sutton Coldfield’s girls had great success at the West Midland Schools’ Cross-country Championships at Warley Woods last Saturday 18th January.

Six of them are now guaranteed selection for the National English Schools’ Cross-Country Championships next March in Liverpool.

The most impressive performance came from Lucy Carey in the Inter Girls’ race who led the field for most of the 3200 metre course winning by a massive margin of 150 metres ahead of the 2nd placed athlete. A good performance also from Elsa Buchanan who finished 6th and is guaranteed selection for English Schools’. Good support from Matilda Strachan (10th), Zara Buchanan (12th) and Megan Lozneanu who was 19th.

The only Sutton athlete in the Senior Girls’ race was Emma Cavendish-Tribe who gained selection for English Schools’ by finishing 6th.

In the Junior Girls’ race three of the top six were Sutton athletes; all of them gaining selection for English Schools. They were Charlotte Prince (3rd), Bethan Homer (4th) and Martha Wood (6th). Francesca Allen finished a strong 7th and has a reasonable chance of being selected too. The other places were Emily Symes (10th), Olivia Allen (13th), Evie Sandland (14th) and Lucy Rigby (18th).

Notable performances in the Minor Girls’ race came from Connie Bevan (7th), Phoebe Allen (8th), Lizzie Fox-Payne (10th), Eva Cartwright (11th) and Emily Lloyd (22nd).

The boys’ results were also impressive:

Inter boys:  Ethan Patel 10th   George O’Connor 12th

Junior boys:  Ethan Cook  6th [English Schools qualifier]   Isaac
Cartwright 14th

Minor boys:   Archie Strachan 15th   Ben Harris 24th   Luke Horton 23r

6 girls and 1 boy are guaranteed selection for the National English
Schools’ Championships at Liverpool in March.

Well done to all!

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Isabel Thomas-Male set a new Under 17 Club Indoor record in the 60m with a time 7.90 in taking 1st place at the Midland Counties Open.She then followed this up with another 1st place in the same time. The old record of 8.19 was set by Mollie Darrock in 2015.
Kane Howitt equalled the Clubs Senior Mens Indoors 200m record of 21.9 (held by Nicholas Pryce) in taking 1st place in the A race at the Sheffield Festival Open . Nicholas Pryce (now the joint holder) finished 2nd to Kane in a time of 22.0.
At the same meeting Kane recorded 6.97 in 2nd place in the 60m A race and Nicholas recorded 7.05 in 5th place in the same race.
John Furber equalled his PB in recording 7.22 in the Under 20 60m at the Midland Counties Open
Donald Brown recorded 7.63 in the 60m at the Scienheath Athletics Invitational at Lee Valley just missing the M55 Club record of 7.60 jointly held by Ron Taylor and Donald.

A busy weekend for RSCAC…

Well done to everyone who competed in last night’s sportshall competition. There were lots of top 3 finishes for RSCAC, so we’re all looking forward to receiving the final results.

Now on to cross country today…. good luck Team RSC!

The club would like to congratulate the following on being shortlisted for the forthcoming 2019 Sutton Coldfield Sports Awards.

• Isabel Thomas Male and Martha Wood – Grassroots Junior Sports Female Award
• Chrissie Prince – Volunteer/Coach of the Year
• Nick Pryce – Male Sports Person of the Year
• Donald Brown – Veteran Sports Person of the Year
• U13 Girls Cross Country Squad – Junior Team of the Year

Well done and the best of luck to you all.

Number 43 earned John Doyle a nice Christmas Present of £100 in the 100 Club Christmas Draw.

Merry Christmas to all 100 Club Members and thank you for your support.

There are still numbers available and all profit from the draws goes into club funds. If interested, see John Mills or ask for information at Coffee Bar.