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Travelling to league leaders Chelmsford for the last EYAL match of the season, the Club’s younger athletes finish second ahead of Colchester and Tendering, St Albans, Colchester Harriers and Braintree on Sunday. The match resulted in Chelmsford winning the league. SNHAC/HAWCS finished 10th in the league and secure a place in the Plate Final on the 8th September at Thurrock.

There were some great performances from both scoring and non scoring athletes and numerous PBs. Probably the best personal best performance of the day came from Hugo McFarlane Cushing who improved his LJ PB from 5m20 to 5m97.

Full results are on the Club website.

Many team members filled gaps on the team sheet to get the Composite team those important extra points and the team’s Officials and volunteers went ‘the extra mile’, helping Chelmsford and St Albans cover all Braintree’s events when this team arrived with no officials. A special thanks to Naomi Norwood and Godfrey Leake who travelled to Chelmsford to help officiate although Monty couldn’t compete due to illness.

The U13 girls and boys found wins hard to come by with B string Jessica Radcliffe being the exception in the 200m, 30.2. Jessica also walked onto a HJ fan for the first time and cleared an impressive 1m20.

In the U15 age group there were A wins for Riley McNally in the girl’s 200m, 27.3 and for the boys Lucas Robinson PV – 2m80, Harley Hawkins DT, 34m16 and Alastair Gall Gray HT. B wins came in the 300m from Alastair Gall Gray and Charlie Walker in the LJ.

Emily Rapley had a good day for the U17 girls winning the 100m, 12.5 and LJ 5m32, Murray Heal won the boys JT, 41m11. There were B string wins for Hazel Spitzer and Maya Kihogo (both u15’s moved up an age group) in the 1500m/HJ Hazel and LJ Maya and Matthew Thompson, 800m.

Team Managers Melissa Doran and Libby Taylor will be in touch about team selections for the 8th September. Please note there is no non scoring at this match.

Three of the team are travelling to Birmingham on the 26th and 27th July to contest England Athletics Age Group Championships. U17’s Emily Rapley 100m and Esme Searle 1500SC and U15 Lucas Robinson PV.