Derbyshire Athletics Mini League Match 4, Moorways Sports Village – July 15
Saturday 15th July saw the grand finale of this year’s outdoor mini league. Overall, AVEAC finished in 3rd place with 436.5 points behind Derby AC in first place on 525.5 and Chesterfield in second scoring 481. Out of the six age categories, our U13 boys who triumphed throughout the league and, finished in first place overall. This final match will unfortunately be remembered for the wet conditions with the concluding events, the 200m, 300m and relays being called off. However, competition team spirit was in abundance (as always!) and we had some new faces competing at this match for the first time keeping energy levels spiralling positively throughout the day.
This final match saw our highest number of athletes from AVEAC compete – there were 42 in total across the U11, U13 and U15 age groups.
At the end of the match, there were medals awarded to those who had set new mini league records. Congratulations to Joe Moss for his hat-trick of mini league records in the U13 boys javelin, discus and shot put. This has been an excellent season for Joe with special achievements throughout in a variety of events.
Summer Biggs had an impressive end to an exciting season, and also received a medal for a new mini league record in the long jump. Summer jumped 4.08m which places her 2nd in the UK for her age group (1cm behind the U11 number 1!). Congratulations Summer!
Summer Biggs had an impressive end to an exciting season, and also received a medal for a new mini league record in the long jump. Summer jumped 4.08m which places her 2nd in the UK for her age group (1cm behind the U11 number 1!). Congratulations Summer!
Under 11 Girls
The long jump was a highlight for this age group. Summer Biggs, having gone from strength to strength this season, recorded a new mini league record of 4.08m adding 4cm onto the previous record held by former AVEAC athlete, Alexa Gordon. Katherine Turner also had a PB in the long jump of 3.22m. More podium positions came for Summer in the running events: joint first place in the 75m with Derby’s Annabelle Sturt in 11.29 seconds and a second place also for the 150m in 23.32 secs.
Continuing her throwing success this season, Ruby Arnold secured the top position in the Howler Javelin throwing 30.70m.
The U11 girls had two new athletes debut in the competition: well done to Elsie Whittleton and Amelie Higgins for encouraging performances.
Other results included:
75m
Aimee Brackenbury 11.72 seconds
Amelie Higgins 14.01 seconds
Elsie Whittleton 14.72 seconds
150m
Ruby Arnold 26.00 seconds
Katherine Turner 26.10 seconds
Florence Protheroe 30.29 seconds
Elsie Whittleton 31.17 seconds
600m
Katherine Turner 2.14.44 minutes
Florence Protheroe – 2.38.21 minutes
Long Jump
Aimee Brackenbury – 3.24m
Katherine Turner – 3.22m
Ruby Arnold – 3.16m
Elsie Whittleton 2.33m
Amelie Higgins 2.13m
Howler Javelin
Florence Protheroe – 11.54m
Under 11 Boys
Teddy Wilton, Elliot Wrght and Jasper Sangster were our three U11 boys at this match. Teddy achieved the top podium position for his high jump clearing 1.23m. Together the boys covered a variety of running events, scoring valuable points for the club and the experiences will support more competitions in the upcoming indoor Sportshall season.
Other results included:
75m
Elliot Wright 11.94 seconds
Teddy Wilton 12.17 seconds
150m
Teddy Wilton 24.80 seconds
Jasper Sangster 30.00 seconds
600m
Elliot Wright 2.18.27 minutes
Jasper Sangster 2.26.70 minutes
Under 13 Girls
The U13 girls were well represented with 10 athletes in this age group. The day started well with two podium positions in the 70m hurdles. Mamie Skipper produced a performance of 13.70 seconds and Erin Beresford having her first attempt at the hurdles, came closely behind Mamie in third place with a time of 13.73 seconds.
Betsy Wilton had a strong competition and achieved a grade 3 time for her second place 100m of 13.84 seconds. She continued her sprinting success winning the 200m in another grade 3 time of 29.48 seconds. Erin came in fourth place in the 200m with a grade 4 time of 30.28 seconds.
Eleanor North ran her debut in the 1500m and despite the difficult weather conditions had an encouraging time of 6:21.98 minutes.
Another debutant was Isabella Parsons-Loades who achieved a grade 4 in the shot put, coming in second place with a fantastic put of 7.28m.
Other results included:
70m Hurdles
Isla Douglas 15.70 seconds
100m
Mamie Skipper 15.56 seconds
Eleanor North 16.94 seconds
Isabella Parsons-Loades 17.45 seconds
Ruby Shore 18.04 seconds
200m
Isla Douglas 31.59 seconds
Maggie Flinders – 32.65 seconds
Isobel Weller 33.04 seconds
Olivia Irvine 34.31 seconds
High jump
Isla Douglas 1.20m
Isobel Weller 1.20m
Maggie Flinders 1.20m
Shot put
Betsy Wilton 6.40m
Olivia Irvine 5.38m
Isobel Weller 4.71m
Ruby Shore 3.26m
Javelin
Erin Beresford 12.72m
Isabelle Parsons-Loades 12.63m
Mamie Skipper 12.55m
Olivia Irvine 7.94m
Ruby Shore 6.81m
Under 13 Boys
The eleven U13 boys continued to impress and excite the crowd with their performances at this final match.
The 75m hurdles was the first event for the boys with Sebastian Taylor producing a second-place time of 15.49 seconds and Harvey Glover making his debut in this event in an encouraging time of 17.84 seconds.
Once again, Joe Moss completed a lightning 100m producing a grade 1 time of 12.65 seconds. He also sprang into action with the long jump once again clearing the 5m mark with a top podium place with 5.03m. AVEAC claimed all top places in the long jump with Charlie Davies in second with a jump of 4.12m and Alfie Ray in third jumping 3.94m. Joe continued a strong performance day with a grade 2 throw winning the javelin with a distance of 28.90m.
Podium positions were again achieved in the 200m with Alfie Ray in second place in 32.55 seconds and Seb McAughtrie very close behind in third place clocking 32.65 seconds. The weather was particularly challenging so special mention must be made to the boys who did bravely run in this event. Well done as well to Lucas Sangster coming in third place in the 1500m with a good time of 5:45.76 minutes again in difficult weather conditions.
The shot put was another good event with Amber Valley claiming second (6.60m), third (6.36m) and fourth (5.74m) places by Marcus Parsons-Loades, Sebastian Taylor and Gabriel Parr respectively.
Other performances included:
100m
Charlie Davies 14.00 seconds
Alfie Ray 14.18 seconds
Lucas Sangster 15.76 seconds
200m
Lucas Sangster 36.50 seconds
Long Jump
Archie Kerton 3.28m
Harvey Glover 3.27m
Marcus Parsons-Loades 3.27m
Javelin
Sebastian Taylor 16.92m
Harvey Glover 16.11m
Archie Kerton 15.50m
Marcus Parsons-Loades 14.69m
Gabriel Parr 10.50m
Under 15s
The six U15 girls finished in a very close, one point difference, second place to Derby (87 points) in this final match.
Continuing her success with the javelin this season, Freya Kirby had a fantastic first place throw of 34.25m (grade 1) in windy and wet conditions. Following in second place was club-mate Jasmine Shore with a good throw of 21.31m.
Madeleine Turner ran a strong and tactical 1500m winning the race with a grade 3 PB time of 4:57.50 minutes.
Isla Hiscocks had another successful mini league. She gained second place in the 75m hurdles with 12.62 seconds; she just missed a podium position in the 100m but ran a good race recording a grade 4 time of 13.22 seconds. She produced a huge leap in the long jump equalling her PB of 4.58m to take second place and Madeleine Turner followed in third with a PB of 4.37m.
Hallie Blancheon made her debut in the U15 girl’s squad and produced a good 100m time of 14.85 seconds and a long jump of 3.19m.
Other performances included:
100m
Madeleine Turner 13.75 seconds
1500m
Eleanor Rigby 5:55.55 minutes
Long Jump
Ailsa McMillan 4.25m
Jasmine Shore 4.11m
Eleanor Rigby 3.67m
Shot
Freya Kirby 7.45m
Eleanor Rigby 6.56m
U15 Boys
Five U15 boys competed in this final mini league. Corey Fisher set the ball rolling with a strong third equal finish in the 100m achieving a grade 4 time of 12.38 seconds.
In the high jump, third and fourth positions were claimed by Samuel Davies and Ryan Ghai respectively, both clearing 1.40m. This was a popular height for most of the field with five athletes in the competition clearing this mark, including Jack Moss. Final positons were worked out on the number of failures at lower heights.
Gino Franco also did well in the javelin with a grade 4 throw of 32.51m to place second.
Other performances included:
100m
Ryan Ghai 12.90 seconds
Jack Moss 13.07 seconds
Samuel Davies 13.96 seconds
Javelin
Jack Moss 25.14m
Samuel Davies 21.30m
Ryan Ghai 19.26m
Shot
Corey Fisher 6.46m
Congratulations to all our ‘rising stars’ who ran in the U9 race!
Thank you to Rich Woodward and Vicki Shore for Team Managing and organising athletes to their events on the day. These mini leagues support our athletes to develop their competition experiences; thank you to all of the coaches who input and encourage their skill-development every week.
Thank you to those who officiated the shot put: Bob Boyd, Becky Moss, Sarah Turner and Bailey Beresford. If you would like to get involved with any officiating courses ready for next year’s outdoor season, contact any of the team managers or committee members via the website / social media, or just speak to a team manager on the day of any meetings or at training. Thank you also to Geoff Lowry for all of his officiating on the start-line. A final thank you must go to Julie Feeney and all of Derbyshire Athletics Committee who have made these matches possible.
It has been a great season with so many memorable moments, personal bests being achieved and so many smiling faces wearing yellow vests! Congratulations to all AVEAC athletes who have competed in the 2023 Mini League – you have made the club and your coaches proud.
Credits
Report and photos – Sarah Turner