Monday 18 March 2013

English Schools Cross Country Championships - 
Catton Park, South Derbyshire - Saturday 16th March 

The teams set off in pouring rain soon after 7.00am. It rained the whole way up and only stopped once we had got off the coach at Catton Park. 

The park itself was water logged and so there were areas that had pools of water, others where it was very , very muddy. The area where the teams were supposed to pitch their tents, was a bog but with the athletes' help, Neil managed to pitch the Avon Schools' tent on a reasonably dry area with a good view of  some of the course.

For the majority of the championships the rain held off, but this did not stop the athletes finishing covered in mud from head to toe.

Illness and injury had taken its toll on the teams with the County only able to field 3 full teams out of 6 despite each team having 4 reserves. However the athletes did attend did us proud. Again it was the girls that provided the top 20 placings.

Victoria Kenny  ran a superb race to claim the silver in the SG race.
Ellie Wallace ran a really gritty race to finish 9th in the JG race and is hopefully standing by as a reserve for the International this weekend.
Ellie Leather also ran an excellent race to finish 13th in the JG race, a great improvement on last years 64th placing.
Mirander Sadler was our last top 50 placing in the SGs, with Katie Grinyer achieving a top 100 place finishing 62nd.

David Warnes was the only top 50 boy, finishing 46th in the JBs., with  Hugh Sadler  just  managing  to dip inside the top 100 in the same race to finish 88th. Kieran Young, SB was the only other boy to finish inside top 100.

Junior Boys 17th

DAVID WARNES GORDANO 46

HUGH SADLER BGS 88

BEN CURETON GORDANO 102

HARRY LEEMING CLIFTON . COLL 135

ASHLEY LEATHAM BACKWELL 179

FINLEY MARSH ST.GREGORY'S 195

SAM DANGERFIELD GORDANO 203

THEMIS BOWER RALPH ALLEN 240
Inter Boys

DAVID McMILLAN ST. BEDES . C.C 204

COREY HAYNES BBA 216

GEORGE CHAPMAN KES 213

ALEX  KEEN MONKTON COOMBE 274

STEFAN BARNETT RALPH ALLEN 280
Senior  Boys

KIERAN YOUNG RADSTOCK 71

MILES CHANDLER GORDANO 105

JAMES HUMPHREY KINGSWOOD 256

JACK MILLER QEH 292

MAGNUS GORDON CLIFTON COLL 296
Junior Girls 17th

ELLIE WALLACE REDLAND HIGH 9

ELLIE LEATHER MARLWOOD 13

ROSIE ALLEN CASTLE 144

ALEXANDRA WITHEY RHS 194

SOPHIE REED COLSTONS 195
SARA FLOWER GORDANO 202

GEORGIA TAYLOR DOWNEND 225

HANNAH HOBBS CASTLE DNF
Inter Girls 25th

KATIE GRINYER CLEVEDON 62

CECILIE ANDERSEN GORDANO 105

JOANNE TAYLOR BADMINTON 139

JESSICA MONK ABBEYWOOD 147

EMMA TAYLOR RGS 231

ELLIE HUNTER CASTLE 244

EMMA JONES COTHAM 261

SOPHIE NASH REDMAIDS 277
Senior Girls


VICTORIA KENNY CLIFT/COLLEGE 2

MIRANDA SADLER BGS 42

PAIGE MATTHEWS NORTON HILL 118

JODIE KELLY REDMAIDS 151

AMBER JAMES KINGSWOOD 177

KELLY LEAT SBL 230

MARIA JONES COLSTON GIRLS 249