Results

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

http://birminghamsportshall.com/calendar.asp

Despite extremely challenging weather conditions, Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club braved the increasingly appalling conditions, storming to a flood of great results at the fourth and final fixture in the West Midlands Young Athletes Cross Country League, held at a wet, windswept and muddy Aldersley Stadium on Sunday February 9^th.

Medals galore were won by several teams and individuals, although, due to a technical hitch on the day, the athletes concerned will have to be patient before they receive them!

Where to start? On the day, 6 out of the 8 teams competing finished in the top 3 for their relevant age groups. For 5 of those teams, this cemented their positions in the overall league results, with team gold medals for the under 11 girls and the under 15 girls; and team silver medals for the under 11 boys, under 13 girls and under 15 boys. The under 13 boys just missed out on team bronze medals.

Adding all these impressive results together meant that the club as a whole came 3^rd out of 21 clubs, beating heavyweights such as Birchfield Harriers, Coventry Godiva and Tipton Harriers.

Individual medals were also won by the following athletes due to their superb overall placings after the 4 races: Noah Homer(2^nd), Zak Tisdale (3^rd), and Dan Smith(4^th) in the under 11 boys; Tiffany Latham(3^rd); and Mollie Beeton(4^th) in the under 11 girls; Sian Duval (3^rd) in the under 15 girls; and Lucy Carey(3^rd) in the under 17 women.

Well done to ALL the athletes who competed on a day which no-one will forget!

For full results please go to:   www.wmyaccl.com

For photos, check out our Flickr page.

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.

There were some impressive results across the board from Royal Sutton Coldfield Athletics Club athletes at the recent Midland Cross Country Championships held at Prestwold Hall on Saturday January 25^th.

The Under 20 women’s team finished 1^st, comprising of Ellen Humpherston(15^th), Caitlin O’Connor(19^th), and Emma Cavendish Tribe(21^st).

There were 2 outstanding individual results that deserve highlighting.

In a field of over 360 athletes, Shaun Evans came 6^th in the Senior Men’s Race. And Lucy Carey was 13^th in the Under 17 women’s race.

The Under 15 girls team were an extremely creditable 5^th, with Bethan Homer home first for the team in 19^th, followed by Martha Wood(38^th), Charlotte Prince(48^th); Matilda Strachan(50^th); Amaya Tisdale(53^rd) and Zara Buchanan(63^rd).

The Under 13 girls team were 7^th, and included Evie Sandland (42^nd), Emily Symes (47^th); and Eva Cartwright (59^th).

In the boys’ events, great team spirit and determination saw the Under 15 boys finish in 5^th place, only 4 points from finishing 3^rd. Ethan Patel (21^st); George Hope(29^th); George O’Connor(30^th); and Ethan Cook (47^th) made up the team.

The Under 13 boys team were an encouraging 7^th, with Isaac Cartwright(38^th), George Bromley(40^th); and Adam Wilkinson (41^st).

In the Under 17 men’s race, James Pentland was 33^rd, whilst Tom Lloyd was 64^th.

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.