Lancashire Sportshall Meeting, Round 1

Blackpool, 4th November 2007

This was the 1st Meeting held for the 2007/2008 season for Under 11’s, Under 13’s & Under 15’s. Our Team turned out a fantastic 30 athletes on the day!

FULL RESULTS

Indoor Training on Thursday 6th Dec & Mon 10th Dec - Cancelled

Please would you kindly note the 6th & 10th Dec Training Nights have to be cancelled due to the Bolton Arena staging the Amir Khan fight, so they will not have the facilities available for us.

This has meant I have had to re-arrange our Christmas Heptathlon Charity Night to 3rd December 2007.

STOP PRESS

Just a short note to let you know that Horwich RMI Harriers AC took part in the first meeting of the 2007/2008 Indoor Sportshall season. There were some great performances on the day, including many fine debuts from our new younger athletes.

This indoor competition is designed for all children in school years 4 to 10 (Under 11's, 13's & 15's). It produced some very exciting individual and relay races and field events, plus a few "lost voices" from the spectators.

About 30 of our young athletes competed on the day, with CONGRATULATIONS to the Under 13 Boys, who won their Age group, beating the mighty Premiership Athletic Clubs of Blackpool and Preston.

CONGRATULATIONS also to Martha Gill, who produced the best "all round" performance and won "Athlete of the Match" for the Under 11 Girls. Onlooking the event was Sarah Friday, Regional Performance & Development Co-ordinator from England Athletics (North West Region), who presented the well deserved Athlete of the Match Tee shirt to Martha (see photo).



Overall, the combined team event, Blackpool were the winners in this 1st Round, Second place went to Preston and very closely followed by Horwich RMI Harriers AC, who were 3rd Place on the day.

Full results and report will follow in the next week or two, once received from the Organisers.

Mark Dacre
Horwich RMI Harriers

LANCASHIRE SPORTSHALL LEAGUE Blackpool Sports Centre

4th November 2007 (10:00am register)

This is a great event for our younger athletes to enter.

I attach a scanned entry-form for this event (below) which takes place on 4th November 2007 at Blackpool Sports Centre, Stanley Park. It is the first indoor Sportshall event of the year.

We came 3rd overall last year behind Blackpool (winners) and Preston (runners-up), so it would be great to have as many of our athletes there to compete and finish on top!

Remember it is ages as at 31/08/2007 and we have 3 age categories:-

under 11's (must be age 8 on day of competition), which is mainly Yr 4, 5 & 6

Please advise Mark/Belinda if you wish to compete

under 13's, which is Yr 7 & 8

Please speak to your Coach to discuss

under 15's, which is Yr 9 & 10

Please speak to your Coach to discuss

Please note that for Under 11's, this first round meeting is used as a qualifier to select athletes to represent the county of Lancashire. Last year 12 of our athletes were selected and we would like to have as many there as possible. If selected, then they will take part in the Regional Finals day at Sportcity, Manchester on 25th November 2007 against many other Counties in front of over 800 spectators!!!!

For the Under 13's and Under 15's, their performances are also measured and are looked at after all the 3 meetings have taken part! Again selection to represent Lancashire will also be made for next years Under 13 & 15 Regional Finals. We were extremely proud of 2 of our young athletes last year who went on and competed for the Under 13 boys in the UK National Finals held at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham. Let's see if we can get more this time round.

Year 5 & 6 Training Full

As at 08/10/2007 the Training session for Mondays from 7-8 pm for Yr 5&6 is FULL. There are no spaces left at this moment, however, we will be keeping a reserve/waiting list if people still wish to register for that session.

Again, we only have a few spaces left for the Yr 3&4 slot on Mondays from 6-7 pm!

Mark Dacre.

Blackpool Open Meeting’s 9^th & 30^th September 2007

Horwich RMI harriers finished off the Track & Field season in style with their traditional end of season meetings at Blackpool.

At the meeting on the 9^th there were a number of personal bests. April Stephenson took the opportunity to do some speed work and was rewarded with a personal bets over 300m and also picked up a silver medal, before then also winning silver over 800m. Dylan Smith was close to his best over 100m and also picked up silver whilst Shaun Palmer did set a personal best in the 75m Hurdles to earn bronze.

Also recording personal bests were Bethany Miller over 200m, Laura Tunstall over 1500m and Matthew Dickinson who set personal best in all three of his events, 100m, Long Jump and 800m.

Full results below (positions quoted only if top 8 finish):-

U 17

April Stephenson

300m 43.2 2^nd

800m 2.18.7 2^nd

U 15

Dylan Smith

100m 12.3 2^nd

Laura Tunstall

1500m 5.48.6

U 13

Shaun Palmer

100m 14.6

75m H 15.8 3^rd

Long Jump 3.53 4^th

Matthew Dickinson

100m 15.8

800m 3.00.3

Long Jump 3.41 6^th

Beth Miller

100m 13.7 4^th

200m 28.7 5th

At the meeting on the 23^rd September Horwich athletes did even better winning three gold medals and four bronze medals.

April Stephenson improved on her positions at the first meeting to win both the 300m and 800m. Beth Miller put in a storming run over the highly contested 80m emerging victorious out of a field of 30 athletes for good measure Beth also picked up Bronxe over 200m. Remarkable achievements from both athletes considering they are both bottom end of their age groups and so will be competing in the same age groups next year.

The clubs high jumpers had a good day with both Jess Tomlinson and Matthew Ault picking up bronze medals whilst Matt Gibson also picked up Bronze over 200m.

Full Results (positions quoted only if top 8 finish):-

U 17’s

April Stephenson

300m 43.4 1^st

800m 2.18.9 1^st

Jess Tomlinson

200m 31.1

300m 48.7

High Jump 1.25 3^rd

U 15’s

Dylan Smith

100m 12.5

Chris Tomlinson

200m 32.5

800m 2.53.4

High Jump 1.20 4^th

Fay Arribsala

100m 13.7

High Jump 1.35 6^th

Rachel Pearson

100m 14.1

200m 29.5

Becky Buchanan

100m 14.2

Vicky Bates

100m 18.0

200m 39.5

Discus 10.84

Laura Tunstall

1500m 5.47.2 4^th

Javelin 17.57 7th

U 13’s

Matthew Ault

800m 2.47.0

High Jump 1.25 3^rd

Matthew Gibson

80m 11.8

200m 30.4 3^rd

High Jump 1.25 4^th

Shaun Palmer

80m 12.2

Beth Miller

80m 11.1 1^st

200m 29.1 3^rd

Hannah Storey

80m 11.8

200m 30.9

U 11’s

Cameron Critchley

800m 3.09.7

Track and Field Registration and Training

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