Harriet Saunders represented Hampshire at the National Inter-Counties Championships held at Wollaton Park, Nottingham today. Testing herself against the very best athletes in the UK she produced an excellent performance on an undulating course and, in a very tightly packed field, finished 52nd out of the 308 qualifiers and 4th placed Hampshire runner.
Three Team Kennet athletes travelled to Burgess Hill for the South East Regional Sportshall finals.
Sophia Mahoney and Praiya Foreman were part of the Under 11 girls team finishing in 5th place and Matilda Clare in the Under 13 girls team finishing in 3rd place. Congratulations to all.
Team Kennet were in action again in match 2 of the Junior Cross Country League being held at Hartney Wintney.
The under 9 girls packed well to take second team on the day, Matilda Hogg ran well to hold on to 5th place, closing in fast with a good finish was Isabella Chapman in 7th place and Bella Dearns also had a strong finish for 9th place and to make up the team was Florence Randall-bird in 12th, Pippa Clay was the next club runner home in 27th.
The under 9 boys were next over the 1400m course, Chester Bailey left off from last week’s match to dominate the field to win again, Lenny Wyvill had to settle for 4th place, Idris Gaye 5th and Matthew Jones 6th were coming in together that made a team victory and second in a row.
The under 11 girls course over 2k saw Ella Larkin stride ahead from the gun to pull away to a 150m lead to win the race, Matilda Saunders had a better race this week to come home in 4th place as she worked hard up the hills, Elodie Burdett stormed him in 5th place and with Ella Parsons in 10th this secured another team win. Olivia Kwit was next home in 27th and Evelyn Barker 33rd Percy Reed was the only under 11 boy from the club he ran well to finish 13th.
The under 13 girls were up next, over a nearly 3k course Harriet Saunders worked well over the back fields on the 3 laps to win the race, coming home in 2nd place was Olivia Bentley producing her best ever race coming through the field with confidence, Penelope Lyth was next home in 5th place running most the race on her own kept it going, with Ella McDonald in 8th place the girls secured their second team win in a row, Affra Bailey was next home in 13th.
The under 13 boys were next Harry Smith after winning last week found the competition much tougher this weekend coming home in 4th place, good packing from Samuel Atkins 16th, Josh Bailey 17th and Henry Bell 18th was enough to secure third place team, JJ Mercer was next home in 20th and Ben Doherty was 22nd. The under 15 girls saw the team finish in 2nd place as last weekend, Anna Hall ran a brilliant race to finish in third place and Amelie Tayton was next home in 11th and Ella Cronk 14th.
Olivia Bentley, Anna Hall and Harriet Saunders travelled to Beckenham, South East London on Saturday to test themselves against some of the best runners in the country at the South of England Cross Country Championships.
Harriet and Olivia were first up in the U13 race finishing in 32nd and 62nd place respectively. Anna was next to run in the U15 race finishing in 67th place.
Excellent performances by all three girls.
Team Kennet travelled to Thames Valley Athletics Centre to compete in the annual Berkshire County Sports hall Championships. The U11 girls had a huge turnout with 2 teams participating, the blue team of Ella Larkin, Sophia Mahoney, Olivia Kwit, Ines Field, Praiya Foreman and Hazel Balch finished in 3rd place. They had some great results with 2 first places and 2 second places in the track events. In the field, Ella Larkin 5th in the standing long jump and 1st in the speed bounce. Ines Field 4th in the high stepper. Praiya Foreman 3rd in the vertical jumo and Olivia Kwit 5th. The Red team were 6th with some more great performances, Marlie-Jai Proctor finishing 3rd in the Speed bounce.
Under 13 girls had one team and finished 5th out of 9 teams with some great individual performances, Isla Ladds 5th in the standing long jump and high stepper, Penelope Lyth 4th in the Speed Bounce and Matilda Clare 4th in the vertical jump.
The Under 11 boys finished 5th out of 9 teams, and some of the boys the youngest in the competition performed well finishing in 2nd place in the paarauf and Harvey Baker 4th and Chester Bailey 6th in the standing long jump.
The Under 13 boys didn’t have a full team on the day so it was always going to be a challenge to be in medal position, but they put in a great performance to finish 8th on the day with a great performance in the standing triple jump by Samuel Atkins finishing 7th.
Results
Several TK Athletes from all age groups attended the Berkshire Schools Cross Country Championships at Newbury Showground on Saturday 18th January 2025.
Full results can be found below, congratulations to all who took part!
Several TK Athletes participated in the Sportshall Trials to try and be selected as part of the Sportshall Regional Championships held in February. Please see results below. Further details of the selected individuals will be released following the Berkshire Championship in January 2025.
Several Team Kennet athletes travelled to Lee Valley Athletics Centre to participate in the South of England Indoor Track and Field Championships at the weekend. Theo Nightingale for the Under 17 boys finished 4th in the high jump with a leap of 1.70m. Isabel Payne for the Under 15 girls finished 11th in the long jump with 4.17m. Turkay Altuntas Under 17 boys was 5th in the shot throwing 12.84m. Berkay Altuntas for the Under 15 boys was 9th in the shot 8.08m Ella Larkin and Elodie Burdett represented the Under 13 girls entering the 800m. Ella Larkin went on to the final finishing in 4th with 2:36:31.
Team Kennet had several athletes take part at the annual Berkshire Cross Country Championships held at Hungerford Rugby Club. The annual event is a qualifying race for the 2025 CAU UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championship with those finishing in the top 8 a guaranteed place.
First up to tackle the course was the Masters Men 9.3km race. Andy Colling finishing 13th and Chris Turner 22nd.
Under 13 boys course was 3km, Harry Smith 14th, Samuel Atkins 19th, Henry Bell 20t, Elliot Bell 21st and Josh Bailey 25th. Team Kennet finishing in 5th place as a team.
For the under 13 girls all 3 making their debut at the event Penelope Lyth finishing 8th, Matilda Clare 11th and Affra Bailey 17th. This placed the team in 4th place.
Under 15 boys 4km Arthur Patterson finishing in 14th and Under 15 girls Anna Hall 13th, Emerald Hill-Sawyer 14th and Ella Cronk 17th, team also finishing in 4th.
Full results below.
Cirencester Park hosted round 2 of the Oxon XC league. Rain & mud were the order of the day, with the ladies race getting some particularly heavy rain half way through.
In the under 11 girls race, Matilda Saunders was an excellent 3rd and Ella Parsons worked hard for 16th in the mud
Harriet Saunders ran excellently for 2nd place in the under 13 girls race.
Harry Smith was 10th in the under 13 boys, an excellent result.
Anna Hall kept up her good from for 8th in the under 15 girls race.
Senior men saw Hefin Jones in 27th and 1st in the V50 category, 94th was Richard Saunders in his first Oxon league race, Andy Colling was 119th and 3rd in the V60 category.
Other places
190 Phil Baker
224 Mitch Poustie
258 Simon Hockaday
275 Simon Gale
279 Rob Parsons
Our lone lady runner, Katie Reynolds came in 86th, another excellent run in the heavy rain.