National Young Athletes League

Stourport

Sunday 22nd June 2008

Bromsgrove and Redditch AC Young Athletes secured second place at the fourth UK Young Athletes League Meeting of the season at Stourport in strong winds.  Tipton ran away with the points (329.5) due to their strong under 17 age group in both the mens’ and womens’ events.  Most other clubs struggle for under 17 athletes, however Tipton had two athletes in most of the under 17 womens’ and mens’ events.  The points between B&R and Grantham were very close throughout the day with the two clubs changing positions a number of times.  B&R eventually came out on top by only 14 points (B&R 259.5 points, Grantham 245.5 points).  Sparkhill were struggling with a limited number of athletes and hence finished fourth.

Highlight of the day was our under 13 boys winning 6 of the 8 events for both the A and B categories with Simeon Clarence taking a break in the high jump to run the 800m and return back to the high jump for his final jumps.  They also won their 4x100m relay.

Under 13 Boys’ Results

Event	A Category		B Category
	Athlete	Position	Athlete	Position
100m	Simeon Clarence	1st	Callum Goffe	1st
200m	Jim Morley	1st	Tim Hoppe	1st
800m	Bradford Piper	1st	Simeon Clarence	1st
1500m	George Thomas	1st	Lewis Anderson	1st
Long Jump	Callum Goffe	1st	Jim Morley	1st
High Jump	Simeon Clarence	1st	James Wright	2nd
Shot Putt	Will Tuffin	2nd	Bradford Piper	1st
75m Hurdles	Tim Hoppe	2nd	James Wright	2nd

We only had four under 17 men available on the day, Kota with an injured knee opting not to do the 200m was 1st in the 100m and 3rd in the long lump.  Sean Bowden finished 1st in both the 800m and 1500m, while Adam Peacock took 1st in the 3000m and narrowly missed out on 1st in the 1500m Steeplechase to claim 2nd place.  Tom Piper came 1st in the Shot Putt, 3rd in the Javelin and 3rd in the long jump for the B category.

Dewi Hammond and Nick Freer took 1st place for the under 15 boys A and B category in both the 100m and 200m.  Matt Maneffa claimed 2nd place in the under 15 boys 400m A category with Jack Morley 1st for the Bs.  With Chris Warren ill Jamie Scoltock opted to take his place in the 800m instead of running his usual 1500m and won the race with Jack Morley also finishing 1st in the B race.  Ashley Grazier was 3rd in both the 1500m and 80m Hurdles.  In the Shot Putt Jamie Scoltock finished 3rd.  Dewi Hammond was 2nd in the long jump for the A category with Matt Maneffa 1st in the long jump for the B category.  The under 15 boys won both the 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay.

Only one under 17 woman, Thomasina Ball, represented B&R at this meeting.  She was 2nd in the 300m hurdles (finishing less than 1 second behind 1st place), 2nd in the Javelin and 1st in the Triple Jump.

The under 15 and under 13 girls also had a number of 1st and 2nd places in their events.  The under 15 girls were 3rd in their 4x100m relay with the under 13 girls winning their 4x100m relay.

Under 15 girls’ results

Event	A Category		B Category
	Athlete	Position	Athlete	Position
100m	Daisy Johnson	3rd
200m	Daisy Johnson	2nd	Sally Hogan	4th
800m	Georgie Savage	1st
1500m	Sally Hogan	1st	Hayley Oliver	1st
75m Hurdles	Olivia Newell	2nd
Long Jump	Daisy Johnson	2nd	Olivia Newell	1st
High Jump	Olivia Newell	2nd
Discus	Naomi Geohaghon	2nd	Caelyn Hirschman	3rd
Javelin	Naomi Geohaghon	1st	Caelyn Hirschman	1st
Shot Putt	Naomi Geohaghon	2nd	Georgie Savage	2nd

Under 13 girls’ results

Event	A Category		B Category
	Athlete	Position	Athlete	Position
75m	Ceri Hammond	1st	Rachel Piper	2nd
150m	Ceri Hammond	1st	Emma Harries	1st
800m	Georgie Hartigan	1st	Hayley Bocking	1st
1200m	Kira Swannell	2nd	Anna Ball	2nd
70m Hurdles	Kira Swannell	2nd	Anna Ball	2nd
High Jump	Sadie Beard	3rd
Long Jump	Hayley Bocking	1st	Kira Swannell	1st
Shot Putt	Emma Harries	1st	Charlotte Tongue	2nd

This leaves B&R with 11 match points, 2 from the first meeting in Corby where we came 3rd, 2 from the second meeting in Leamington where we also came 3rd, 4 from the third meeting where we came 1st plus the 3 points from the fourth meeting.  We are currently listed as 4th in the table out of 16 clubs, however there are still some results to come in so may drop down to 7th place.

Click here for full results from the 4th meeting on the National Young Athletes League website

(Calvin Scoltock)

P.S. Thanks to Mr. Hoppe for putting the results on to the computer on match day, to the club's officials and to the parents and club members who helped with the field events.