AVEAC hosted the second Derbyshire Mini League cross country fixture at Rutland Sports Park on Saturday. Being local, the turnout of AVEAC young athletes was very encouraging with twenty seven taking part, the best it has been since before the pandemic! The young runners did extremely well with one individual and two team victories being recorded.
The individual victory came in the U13 Girl’s race when Madeleine Turner won convincingly by twenty seconds from Erin Colebrook (Buxton AC) who had finished in top position at the first fixture. Madeleine was ably supported by Isobel Summer in 4th and Sienna Thorpe in 7th. The three combined to give a team score of 12 points to take first place, two points ahead of Derby. Also taking part were Amelia Whittaker who finished 8th, Erin Berrisford finished 10th and Jasmine Shore ended up in 11th place.
Not to be outdone, the U13 Boys also won their team race scoring 16 points. Harry Glover had a fine outing finishing 3rd with the other team scorers being Corey Fisher in 6th place and Sam Davies in 7th. Just outside the scoring places was Henry Jack who finished 8th.
There was a great turn out by our youngest athletes in the U11 races. Eight AVEAC runners faced the starter in the Girl’s race with Isla Douglas heading the group with an excellent run in 3rd place. Isla led the team to 2nd place overall with the other two scoring members, Rosie Boyer and Katherine Turner finishing 5th and 6th. Good runs were also recorded by the rest of the AVEAC contingent with Summer Biggs (7th), Eliza Swift (12th), Ruby Arnold (13th), Maggie Flanders (17th) and Ruby Shore (18th).
The U11 Boy’s also finished 2nd in their team event. The scorers were Charlie Davies running well to finish 4th, Zac Blagg was 7th and Kyran McCrellis finished 9th to give a combined score of 20 points. They were ably supported by Lucas Sangster (10th), Harry Towns (14th), George Bilby (22nd) and Marcus Parsons Loades (24th).
At Under 15 level Eleanor Rigby and Kian Whittaker were our standard bearers. Eleanor ran solidly to claim 3rd place in the Girl’s event while the ever reliable Kian placed 7th in the Boy’s race.
The final fixture in the three match series will take place at Moorways Sports Village on Saturday 17th December.
Sports Hall Match 2, Chesterfield, Sunday 20th November
Thirty six young athletes made the trip up the M1 last Sunday to contest the second Sports Hall fixture of the season. Overall the team finished second to Chesterfield in a closely contested match. Chesterfield with fifty four athletes in action scored 491 points to AVEAC’s 413. Derby took third place on 292.5 points. The U11 Boys, U11 girls and U13 Boys won their respective age groups.
Newcomer Charlie Davies had a fantastic start to his first ever sports hall competition recording a treble of wins in the U11 Boys contest. Charlie’s victories came in the One Lap and Three Lap sprints and the Standing Long Jump. Marcus Parsons-Loades also recorded a double winning the Speed Bounce and Balance Test. In the U11 Girls match Isobelle Weller recorded the fastest time in the High Stepper, Summer Biggs took top spot in the Standing Long Jump and there was a 1st place as well for Aimee Brackenbury in the Balance Test.
At Under 13 level maximum points and first places were recorded by Corey Fisher and Joe Moss in the Boy’s competition and by Jasmine Shore in the Girl’s contest. Corey won both the Two and Four Lap races, Joe took maximum points in the Standing Long Jump and Jasmine was the fastest sprinter in the Girl’s Two Lap race.
There were many other fine performances recorded by our young athletes who are to be congratulated on their sterling efforts. The next fixture will take place at Chesterfield on Sunday 4th December. Team Managers, Dan Humphrey and Rich Woodward are looking for a good turn out.
Northern Athletics Indoor Open Meeting, EIS Sheffield, Sunday 20th November
A small AVEAC contingent took part at the recent Northern indoor open graded meeting at the English Institute of Sport Stadium in Sheffield.
Isla Hiscocks was again on good form recording the second fastest Under 15 girl’s 60m time of the day in 8.24 seconds, three one hundredths behind her personal best. She also went on to won the U15 Girls B Long Jump with an indoor best of 4.36m and recorded a new best ever distance in the Shot throwing 6.52m.
Scarlett Beddoe sped to victory in her graded 60m returning a PB of 8.34 seconds with Jasmine Ellis finishing second in the same race recording her quickest time ever of 8.84 seconds. Jasmine also recorded a PB in the Shot throwing 5.95m.
Brothers Ellis and Lewis Carter set down personal bests in their two sprint races. In the 60m, Ellis was timed at 7.90 seconds with Lewis a fraction behind in 7.99 seconds. In the longer 150m sprint their times were 18.63 seconds and 18.85 seconds.
Nicole Bonser had her first taste of competition as an Under 20 contesting the 150m and was rewarded with her quickest time over the distance completing a fine run in 20.17 seconds.
Club coach Geoff Lowry competed in a Senior and Masters 2000m graded race and finished fourth in a time of 7:11:29.
The club’s final competitor in action was Decathlete Ben Pitts who cleared 3.60m in the Pole Vault , a mere 10 centimetres off his outdoor personal best.
Derby Midweek Road Race Series, Wednesday 16th November
At this months midweek series of road races held at Raynesway, Derby young Eden Klugman equalled his personal best in the 5km event returning a time of 19mins 30secs. Eden’s Coach Geoff Lowry who helped pace him around the course finished a place behind in 19:31.
Words – Joe McColgan
Photos – Geoff Lowry
Words – Joe McColgan
Photos – Geoff Lowry