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On Saturday 30th May, the under 13 and under 15 team travelled to Solihull to compete in a league where the standards are extremely high. The team performed well and finished the competition in third place behind two very strong Midlands clubs, Solihull and Small Heath and Tamworth. More importantly, the team has maintained second place in the league overall by a whisker.

In fine form, a number of the athletes who competed achieved new PB’s. A special mention for Ryan Humphreys, who in his first competition for the club achieved a first place in the hurdles B race and high jump. Daniel Olatundun came first in the 100m A race and a close second in the 200m. Ben White achieved first place in the 300 m and 800 m B races. James Ward won the discus by an impressive margin.

For the girls team, Maddie Hammond and Ellen Humpherston stormed home to win the 1200 m and 1500 m races.

The team was depleted due to the school holiday, the Sutton Fun Run and the Aston Villa Cup final! Two athletes deserve a special mention as they truly stepped out of their comfort zone to compete in 4 individual events each – Maddie Hammond and Freya Liddington.

Can all athletes please do their best to ensure the team continues to do well by making themselves available for the next competition on Sunday 21st June at Corby.

Nikki Iliffe – Team Manager

Well done Emily Sambrook. She got double gold at

the Staffordshire County Championships.

U13 girls’ javelin – 1st – 14.57

u13 girls’ shot  – 1st – 6.46

Ben White also competed in the Staffordshire champs where he was 3rd in the 100 & 300, getting a new pb in both. Well done Ben.

Well done to ALL athletes who represented the club today. We had many PBs and lots of points gained, resulting in an overall win!!!!! Thank you for bearing with the team managers. We will get better with more experience!…On that note if any parents/carers want to help team manage, please let me know. Position to follow when results are published. Meg Evans X

Breaking news…

The lower age group YDL results from Banbury are in…We finished second to Solihull. Fantastic work everyone. Well done!

Dennis will be coaching high jump tomorrow (Thursday) from half six till eight. Any athletes who want to try / improve their high jump, come along !

Well done to Elley Criddle who came second in the 4 X 1 lap relay when she represented Birmingham at the sportshall final on Saturday. The team finished third overall. Well done Elley.

Well done to ALL of our under 17 & under 20 athletes who competed yesterday in the first match of the year. There were some fantastic individual performances which collectively resulted in a second place finish for Sutton.  We were only beaten by host club Tamworth on this occasion. Come on….let’s strive for victory next time ! (Next upper age group YDL is 16th May at Banbury. Get it in your diaries pronto!)

Photos by Marc Kirsten

Because it is Good Friday, Fiona, Nikki,  Dennis and Meg have decided a night off is in order. So there are no jumps and hurdles tonight. Enjoy your rest ! X

Congratulations to Freya Liddington, Daniel Olatundun & Tyrique Grant who all won gold medals for overall best performances. Freya won both the under 11 girls long jump (2.12m) & 1 lap (12.8.) Daniel won the under 11 boys long jump (2.07). Daniel teamed up with Tyrique to win the 2 X 2 lap.

Well done to all athletes who helped Sutton to reach

the following end of season positions:

Under 11 girls 3rd

Under 11 boys 2nd

Under 13 girls 4th

Under 13 boys 3rd

Under 15 boys 3rd

Under 15 girls 5th

If you’re lucky enough to have tickets to tomorrow’s Grand Prix at the NIA,  get there at midday so you can see our under 13, under 15 and under 17 relay teams in action. Best of luck to all of our athletes. Go team RSC!