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Youth Development League comes to Stevenage.

Stevenage and North Herts Athletic Club hosted the first full match of the Youth Development League at Ridlins Stadium on Sunday. The Club’s U20 and U17 athletes were up against teams from Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers, Hillingdon, and composite teams from West London and Harrow/Dacorum and Tring. The threatened storms rumbled around, but apart from light drizzle in the morning, the match stayed dry. The performance of the day came from U20 Libby Taylor who set a new U20 Club record in the Hammer with a throw of 46m85. Returning from injury Nile Odejimi-Riley won the triple jump jumping 13m10, he ran a 11.7 100m to win the B String and a leg of the relay. Bluebell Cooke won the 800m in 2.20.31. Will Lawler ran a personal best for third place in the 110m Hurdles – 15.4, also in action Jacob Kinchin Smith 200m and Alex Pickard 100m joined Nile and U17 Will Galliford to run the 4x100m relay. Olivia Lindsay came third in the long jump - 4m89 and Dani Mainstone in her first competition since ankle surgery in 2019 won the B shot. U17 Annabel Howells was second in the 300m 43.25, Amelie Hobbs came second in the 3000m - 12.20.13 and Aimie Taylor equalled her personal best in the pole vault with a clearance of 3m20 for second place. In the U17 boy’s competition Will Galliford came second in the 1500m – 4.24.74, while Jamie Joseph, Oliver Humphrey and Tiago Garcez- Pereira came third in the 100m – 11.48, 100m hurdles- 16.46 and discus – 24m98 respectively.