SEAA Indoor
Hayley Steward from Team Kennet earned herself a Silver Medal in the senior women’s Shot in the South of England indoor track and field Championships at Lee Valley throwing 11.31m. She also came 6th in the long jump 5.17m
Author: Team Kennet Administrator
Oxford XC League
Team Kennet took part in the last of the series for this years Oxford Cross Country League, held at Henley Show Ground.
One of the best weather conditions over the winter saw a good turnout by the club specially the Juniors, Anna Hall in the under 9s had to settle for a 2nd place in the Girls race but this was good enough to be Crowned under 9 Girls Champion.
The under 13 Boys race saw one of the best races by Team Kennet athletes since taking part with Matthew Nocton coming through strong to win the race on the day, William Chipchase did enough to bring him home in 3rd place, with Ivan Checkmazov 23rd and Oliver Carroll 29th the team were 2nd on the day.
The under 13 girls team came 4th overall just missing out on team medals, Eve Brown came in 9th with Alanna Smith 14th, Emma Davies 17th, Rosie Burridge 27th and Maddi Baker 38th
The under 15s ran well Annelise Gale coming 7th and Emily Tucker 17th in the girls while in the boys Toby Clark 8th and Noah Kemp 17th.
The younger under 11s Elliott Murphy continued from last match coming home in 5th place to finish 4th overall Ethan Kuijten was 13th, Reggie Harder-Scott 16th, Aaron Carter 25th and James Simmons 36th.
The under 11 Girls Imogen Newby was 7th, Leilah Gaye 18th, Amber Stiles 22nd, Lilia Gale 29th
The under 9 Boys saw 8 TK athletes start, Noah Lauder-Clark was 7th, Ben Daley fast improving 8th, Oscar Larkin 10th, Charlie Adams 19, Joshua lads 20, Rueben Kuijten 23, Harry Barnett 25, Thomas Mitchell 28., rest of the under 9 Girls battled well, Jessie McCurtin was 6th, Charlotte Lawton 8th and Mia Kearney 13th
The Senior Women saw the usual two Women Sue Francis 38th and Martine Stiles 100th while the men saw 9 runners with Phil Murphy first home from TK in 35th, Bart Kuijten 83rd, Chris Hall 100, Mark Little 158, Mitch Poustie 174, Andy Waters 186, David Johnston 217, Paul Kemp 218 and Simon Gale 223
Team Kennet Volunteering Awards
Special Awards have gone to the following and a big Special CONGRATULATIONS to these two on getting LIFE MEMBERSHIP and earning their Diamond Award at Team Kennet for 1000 coaching sessions.
- Cheryl Angell
- Colin Price
Other Club Awards
Gold Award (400 sessions)
- Simon Hockaday
- Andrew Russell
Bronze Award (100 sessions)
- Steve Maclean
- Bart Kuijten
- Ruth Jones
- Simon Gale
- David Johnston
Indoor Record
Team Kennet’s Nathan Gillis set new records at the weekend in the Men’s 800m at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston in America.
Not only breaking the club indoor record, he was the first athlete at the University of La Salle to break 1.50, he came 5th in the race to finish in a time of 1.49.49 ranking him 12th in the UK rankings
Sportshall U11 Championship
Under 11 Sportshall Championship
Sunday was the Sportshall U11 Berkshire Championships. Our teams had some fantastic individual results.
In the U11 boys we had first places from Connor Jordan in the vertical jump with 53cm and second place in the triple jump from Ethan Kuijten with 5.52m. Ethan also came third in the speedbounce with 51 jumps and with Connor in the 1+1 lap (23.5sec). The team of Oli Orr, Thomas Payne, Ethan and Connor joined forces to come 4th in the 4×1 lap and an impressive 2nd in the grandprix after winning their heat by a half lap.
The U11 girls also had several top places. Bethany Maclean got first in speedbounce (54 jumps) and Indoor Javellin (13.75m), finishing her field events with a third in the vertical jump (43cm). Millie Philips came 4th in the highstepper with 14.8s. Zoe Dickson threw the javelin to 5th place with 11.5m. The girls (Leilah Gaye, Erin Gosney, Millie & Bethany) also finished the day with an impressive grandprix, winning their heat but coming second overall by 0.2s.
Park Run Challenge
The Team Kennet Park Run Challenge was another success, but having to battle two Saturdays of bad weather, week 3 was the best turned out with over 30 Tk members running in Park Runs.
Male
Toby Clark 78.73
Max Adams 75.16
Noah Kemp 74 42
Noah Lauder-Clark 72.16
Bradley Thomas 71.94
Ethan Kuijten 71.80
Dean Makar 71.25
Oliver Lloyd 70.67
Luca Meir 68.42
Jonjo Stiles 68.30
Phil Cowhig 65.11
Simon Hockaday 64.98
Harry Strutt 64.16
Luke Stiles 63.91
Ben Schiffer-Harte 63.79
Dave Smith 63.19
Nick Bull 63.08
Joseph Bell 62.38
Kim Darcy Master 61.67
Simon Gale 60.97
Kian Darcy Master 60.72
Paul Kemp 59.14
Roger Davis 58.49
Mitch Poustie 58.48
David Johnston 57.99
Joshua Kuijten 56.86
William Harris 56.53
Charlie Adams 56.22
Leo Bull 48.13
Mike Lattanzio 39.95
Female
Alana Smith 74.73
Rose Metalli 73.73
Amber Stiles 71.20
Maddie Baker 64.11
Emily Tucker 64.06
Bella Meir 63.05
Martine Stiles 61.90
Emmeline Lloyd 61.80
Helen Preedy 58.73
Cheryl Angel 52.45
Nicole Brooks 46.69
Alisha Bradford 41.36
Sportshall Regional Final
Sportshall InterCounties match
Sunday 3rd March was the Sportshall South East Regional Final. Team Kennet had 5 athletes selected to represent Berkshire.
James Fenner and Max Casey were selected for the U11 boys, who won the competition overall. Max won the relay and come 3rd in the chest push (7.25m). James came 4th in the obstacle relay.
The U13 girls also won the competition and will be going forward to the National Finals in April. Aimee Dickson won 2 golds in the Obstacle relay and 4×1 relay
Harry Booker and Oliver Gregory had their last ever sportshall match with the Berkshire U15 boys, who finished 2nd on the day. Both have been selected to represent Berkshire multiple times in their sportshall career. They finished on a high with personal bests in shot with Harry winning gold(13.36m), Oliver silver (12.2m). Oliver also won gold in the 4×2 relay. In the all rounder competition Harry came 9th and Oliver 21st.
Inter Counties XC
Several Athletes from Team Kennet took part for Berkshire in the Inter Counties match held in Loughborough on Saturday, Two Athletes came back with Team Bronze Medals.
Emily Faulkner was the best placed athlete from the club in the u20 women’s race coming 51st and helping the Berkshire team to 3rd place, Bethan Philp also earned herself a 3rd Place team medal she competed in the under 17 Women’s race coming 170th.
Team Kennet had two athletes in the under 20 mens event, Toby Draper coming in 139th and Bradley Thomas 160th with the Berkshire team 18th
Kirsten Fraser ran well in the under 13 girls race coming home in 75th with the Berkshire team 8th and finally Kirst Bennet took part in her first Senior Women’s race coming in 240th place and the Berkshire team came 22nd
British Masters
Deborah Montgomery took part in the British Masters Winter throws Championships at Lee Valley over the weekend, in the Vet 50 age group she just missed out on her own club records to win Gold in the Shot by just a few centimetres with a throw of 9.68, she went outside to throw the hammer to secure another medal this time a silver with 33.67
U15/20 Inter County
Team Kennet had several athletes compete in the u15/20 inter counties match at Horspath on Saturday.
In the under 15 age group Liam Cawley represented Hampshire in the Javelin to throw 56.61 to take 1st place.
In the under 20 age group representing Berkshire Phoebe Hoaen stepped up from u17 to throw heavier weight in the Javelin coming 3rd with 37.33, Oliver Bazin also stepped up an age group coming 5th in the 400m 54.87 and 10th in the Long Jump 5.62, Stuart Bladon as an u20 came 3rd in the Javelin 47.42 and 3rd in the 110m Hurdles in 14.74m