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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.

Brian –
Sun 22 Dec 10:00 – 11:30 – Park run and conditioning;
Tue 24 Dec 10:00 – 11:30 – Hartop Road session;
Thu 26 Dec 10:00 – 11:30 – Park run with 50 pace kicks;
Sun 29 Dec 10:00 – 11:30 – Strength and conditioning session;
Tues 31 Dec 10:00 – 11:30 – Speed endurance session in the park – probably on arena field;
Thur 2 Jan 10:00 – 11:30 – Park or track fartlek. Stretching session in the clubhouse;
Sat 4 Jan – County XC Championships –Warks at Warley Woods – Staffs XC Champs at Stafford Common;
Sun 5 Jan 6.00 to 7.20 pm – Strength & conditioning – clubhouse

Chrssie/Sherri/Fiona –
As normal this week, then no sessions until the new year. The first session back is Thursday 2nd Jan 10:00 – 11:30 (and there will be a throws session for the throwers 11:30 – 12:30). Sessions are back to normal 6-7.30pm from Tuesday 7th Jan.

Martin/Marc/Helen/John/Stephen –
Sat 21 Dec – Pudding Run – meet at club house at 8.50am;
Thu 26 Dec – Boxing Day Run – All parents are welcome. Meet at the club house at 10am. (Will not run Far – promise!)
Sun 29 Dec 10:00 – 11:30
Tue 31 Dec 10:00 – 11:30

Paul – Finish 19/12/19 and Return on 07/01/2020.

Simon/Adrian/Spencer/Lynne –
Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and 2nd January from 10:00 to 11:30. No training on Boxing Day!

Steve M –
Tue 24th Dec – Mince pie & coffee
Thur 26th Dwc – Left over turkey (curry)
Tue 31st Dec – champagne & truffles!
In other words – no club sessions till Thursday 2nd Jan at 6pm as normal

Tony/Nikki/Meg –
Tues 24 Dec 10.00 – 11.45;
Thurs 26 Dec – no session;
Tue 31 Dec 10.00 – 11.45;
Thurs 2nd Jan 10.00 – 11.45

Taster Group (Phil and Katie) will reconvene on 9th January.

Our very own Donald Brown has been shortlisted for the Athletics Weekly Readers’ Choice Award for Best Britsh Male Athlete. Please follow this link and scroll down to cast your vote: https://www.athleticsweekly.com/uncategorized/aw-aoty-2019-vote-1039926297/

Winning this award would be the perfect end of a great year for Donald. For those who may not be fully aware of his achievements this year, they are as follows:

World Masters Championship:

1. Gold 60m Hurdles
2. Silver 4 x 200m relays
3. Bronze 60m

European Masters Championships:

4. Gold 100m
5. Gold 200m
6. Gold 100m Hurdles
7. Silver 4 x 100 Relay

National Outdoors Masters Championships:

8. Gold 100m
9. Gold 200m
10. Bronze 100m Hurdles

National Masters Indoor Championships Lee Valley

11. Gold 200m
12. Silver 60m
13. Silver 60m Hurdles

British Records:

14. 100m Hurdles – 14.83
15. 100m Hurdles – 14.62
16. 300m – 39.17

Personal Bests:

17. 60m – 7.60
18. 60m Hurdles – 9.02
19. 100m Hurdles – 14.62
20. 100m – 11.73
21. 200m – 24.06.

World Rankings:

22. No1 for the 100m
23. No1 for the 200m
24. No1 for the 60m Hurdles
25. No1 for the 100m Hurdles

Royal Sutton Coldfield AC:

26. Outstanding Athlete of the Year Award (Clare Fancote Award)

Good luck Donald!

100 Club drawn 28th November.

£50 no.65 Helen Keetley

£30 no.62 Val Eames

£25 no.72 Bruce Deakin

£15 no.29 Linda O’Connor

£15 no.19 Fiona Smith

£15 no.9 John Topliss

Next draw Thursday 19th December – single number for £100. Who will win big for Christmas?

Thank you all for your support. Numbers are still available, £16.20 per number. If interested, please see John Mills at the clubhouse. A great Christmas gift at a very reasonable price!

All sessions are at the track tonight – Plantsbrook sessions for those doing indoor sportshall competitions resume on 14/01/20.

Join RSCAC coach Joe Caines and friends on Sunday 24 November. Suitable for athletes and parents / carers. All details below.