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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!

The Under 17s and 20s finished their 1st competition of the year with a 3rd place finish on Sunday.  There were many PBs and near PBs, and also some new club records! Well done to all who took part, with many doing extra events to support their team.  Here are a few of the relay athletes.

Now to next weekend’s Heart of England on Saturday and Senior League on Sunday.

Well done to all U13 and U15s who secured a 3rd place finish in the Lower Age YDL at Banbury today.  A great start to the season.

There is no jumps, hurdles and sprints tonight at the Alexander Stadium so we are all fresh for tomorrow’s final Sportshall of the year.  Next week, provided it isn’t snowing, we will be back outside at Wyndley. 5.30 – 7pm.

The 2nd Midlands Counties Athletics Association open meeting saw some fine runs 
and PBs galore for the sprint squad.

For Tyrique Grant Fagan and James Griffiths, both u 13 boys this was their major
indoor competition. In the first round, the boys ran together and came 1st and 2n
respectively in heat 2 of the 60 m sprint. Tyrique's time saw him placed in heat 1
of the second round and James in heat 2. Both boys improved on their first round 
times, achieving 9 seconds and 9.16 respectively. Fantastic runs from both boys 
and I am sure there is more to come.

Cameron Harris (u 17 men 7.82 seconds) and Rachel Iliffe (u 20 women 8.54 seconds)
 both set new PBs.

Kane Howitt (u 23 men) recorded a time of 7.19 seconds, a new PB and Nick Pryce 
7.08 seconds in their first 60 m run of the season.

A surprise was in store when Cameron and Rachel unexpectedly met Mo Farah making a
 flying visit to Birmingham. They both managed a signed photograph and Cameron a 
photo with the man himself. In case you are wondering, it is Cameron in the 
foreground!

Next Friday (19th Feb) there will be no jumps and hurdles training. We are having a week off as it’s half term.  Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday morning sessions will continue as normal.

U11s, U13s and anyone else who wants to join us are invited to and end of xcountry season meal at Jimmy Spices, Sutton Coldfield this Sun 14th February, 5-7pm. If anyone still wants to come please meet us there and bring £21 (to cover buffet meal & 2 drinks).

Saturday saw another busy Sporthall competition at the North Solihull Leisure Centre. Full results are available on the Birmingham Sportshall League website: http://www.birminghamsportshall.com/Calendar.asp

You will notice that there were many strong performances in all age groups.  RSCAC are lying in 3rd place overall.

A special mention must go to the 3 RSCAC U11 stars who were picked to represent Birmingham in the area finals a few weeks ago.  Aaron and Tyrique helped their team to finish 2nd overall and Isabel was part of the winning U11 girls team.  Very well done!