Team Kennet Quad kids went into the final match of the Wessex League at Swindon with their eyes on a top 3 finish and didn’t disappoint.
Team Kennet 1599
Bournemouth 1602
Swindon 1636
Marlborough 893
Salisbury 1014
Abingdon 1118
Oxford City 1472
With the torrential rain coming down, The U11 Boys went out first on the day with 8 taking part in a very wet Vortex throw. Some superb throws with Jenson Nichols throwing a huge 30.77m and Malik Gaye close behind with 27.30m. Gaye stole the show in the long jump with a leap of 3.46m, with Nichols close behind him with 3.38m and Flynn Sanderson and Samuel Atkins both leaping 3.10m. In the sprints, Nichols was quickest clocking 12s closely followed by Gaye with 12.2s and Samuel Atkins 12.5s. In the 600m Atkins was quickest clocking 1:59 and Gaye 1:59:6. Other boys taking part Brodie Sanderson, Miles Phoenix, Henry Kaxe, Cedric Roberson. On the day, the boys finished 4th place with 799points.
After more downpours causing a delay, first up for the girls was the long jump with Matilda Clare leaping the furthest with 3.59m followed by Penelope Lyth 3.28m. Isla Ladds, Ella McDonald and Alice Stratford all jumping over 3m. Next up the 75m sprints Clare sprinted to the finish line in 11.7s with Orlagh Stratford close behind with 11.9s. The sun shone down for the 600m and it was a strong event for the U11 girls with Clare clocking 1:59:2, Lyth 2:06:9 and Elizabeth Wilson 2:07:3. Finally in the Vortex Clare threw furthest with 31.18m, A Stratford 26.92m. Other girls taking part in the Squad of 10 Evie Kearney, Maisie McCurtin and newcomer Sophia Mahoney. The girls team finishing first on the day with 800 points.
Congratulations to Under 11 Girls winning their age group and winning the Girls Quad kids League out of 26 teams. Not only this combined with the u11 boys they scored 1599 points to come third today but secured enough points to finish 3rd overall in the Quadkids League out of 26 teams. Matilda Clare has been crowned u11 girls quad kids champion in Wessex YA League with 241pts. Clare is our 2nd girl to win Wessex Quad kids individual and this will be the 2nd time girls have won u11 girls quad kids league.
Team Kennet Quad kids were back for the start of the season for the first match of four in the Wessex League in Andover. The age group combined finished in 1st position with 1455 points on the day.
Team Kennet 1455
Andover 1321
Radley 1295
Waverley 1071
Slough 888
Camberley 864
The Under 11 girls had a full squad of 10. First event was the 75m sprint which saw Orlagh Stratford sprint the fastest for Team Kennet clocking 12.1s followed by Ella Larkin and Praiya Foreman 12.3s. For the Long jump it was Larkin with a jump of 3.18m to lead in TK, O Stratford 3.14m and sister Alice 2.98m. The 600m run saw Larkin break her own club record clocking 1:53.1, O Stratford 1:59 and Matilda Saunders 2:06:03. Finally, the vortex A Stratford threw the furthest for TK with 24.51m, Larkin 23.75m and Sophia Mahoney 23.80m. Other girls taking part Maisie McCurtin, Darcy McCurtin, Elodie Burdett and Millie Barlow. The U11 girls finished in 1st place on the day, with Ella Larkin taking 1st overall and O Stratford, 3rd overall. The girls are on their way to retain their title again in 2024!
For the U11 boys there was a squad of 8, with some newcomers to Quad kids. In the 75m sprint it was Sebastian Lane clocking the fastest time for TK with 11.7s, followed by Alexander Browning 12.4s and William Moloney 12.6s. Lane leaped the furthest in the long jump 3.11m, Joshua Kuijten 2.84m and Browning 2.56m. Lane clocked 2:03:1 in the 600m with Moloney close behind 2:07:1 and Kuijten 2:14:2. Finally in the vortex throw Max Burt threw furthest for YTK with 26.77m, Lane 25.89m and Kuijten 23.86m. Other boys taking part Jacob Williams, Gethin Thomas, and Sebastian Lauder Clarke. The U11 boys finished 5th overall on the day and Sebastian Lane 3rd overall in the individual standings.
Team Kennet Juniors were in action again in the Wessex Young Athletes League in the final match of the season at Abingdon, The West Berkshire club secured a top 8 league finish out of 26 clubs finishing second on the day.
Basingstoke 576
Team Kennet 379
Abingdon 337
Fleet 263
Woking 146
Andover 130
All the Girls age groups finished 2nd places in their age group matches, making sure that all the girls finished also in the top 8 of their own age groups, in the under 17 women’s age group on the Field a double win came from Zoe Allen throwing a massive 39.78 to put her in 7th in the UK rankings and backed by Evie Lewis in the B string javelin. Lewis earlier won the Discus with 27.95, Both Girls teamed up again in the Shot with Allen only just winning with a throw of 10.53 and to make it another double Lewis won the B with 8.42.
Second places rolled in from the High Jump with Leilah Gaye 1.40, on the Track Isla Clare ran the double of 800m 2.40.2 and 1500m 5.23.1 to finish 2nd in both, Ellie Ross came 2nd in the B string 300m, in the A string Sophie Moores stepped up the distance to try it with a 4th place 48.0.
The 4 x100m Relay quartet of Moores, Gaye, Ross and Clare came home in 3rd place.
The under 15 girls were without several key athletes but the squad kept up their consistency through out the season, on the Field 2nd places came from the Shot Daisy Downer 7.48 and Anna Hall 5.22, same again in the Javelin as the two paired up again, and in the Discus Downer had to settle for 4th place in the A string. The High Jump Ella Cronk came 3rd with 1.30m, this was matched in the Long Jump with Emerald Hill Sawyer 4.35 and Amelie Tayton 3.65.
On the track, Hall tackled the 1500m to come home in 2nd place 5.32, in the shorter 800m Cronk was placed 4th 2.47.9 and 2nd in the B string from Tayton, Hill Sawyer was consistent in the 300m with 3rd place 45.6 and 2nd place came from B string Chloe O’Riordan 49.6, The 200m saw full turnout in the A string Hill Sawyer was 5th 28.6 and Cronk 29.3 in the B string for 3rd place, in the 100m O’Riordan came 6th in 14.8.
The 4x100m Relay team of Hill Sawyer, Hall, O’Riordan and Cronk came home in 3rd place.
The under 13 girls had several wins, in the Javelin Ella McDonald won her first ever event with a throw of 17.19, Penelope Lyth had a go at the Discus and was rewarded with a 2nd place 13.53, another win came in the High Jump with Jessie McCurtin leaping 1.32, McCurtin came 2nd in the B string Shot 5.24 with team mate Affra Bailey 4th A string 5.32, Earlier on McDonald came 4th A string in the Long Jump 3.60 and Olivia Bentley 2nd B string 3.54.
The Track saw good points coming from the Distance races, in the 1500m McCurtin came 2nd 5.29.2 and a great run from Lyth winning the B string 5.30.80, in the 800m Bentley ran a superb race to come home winner with 2.34.7 and Affra Bailey just missed out on winning with 2nd place 2.50.2, Bentley tackled the shorter 200m with a fast 28.8 to finish 2nd A string which was matched by Isla Ladds in the B string 31.4, Lyth clocked 14.9 in the B 100m for 2nd place in the A string Ladds came 5th 15.4, Ladds also came 3rd in the sprint hurdles with 15.7.
The 4 x100m relay team were convincing winners in 58.7 Ladds, Lyth, Bentley and McCurtin.
The Boys Sections couldn’t quite match what the girls did, but some outstanding performances came from the under 17 two athletes, Firstly Theo Nightingale winning the High jump in 1.79, a Double win from Nightingale 5.48 and Kennechi Akosa 4.76 in the Long Jump, where both boys just made it with seconds after a car crash on the A 34 delayed them getting to the match, Akosa was fired up after just running and jumping in the long jump pit to secure one legal jump managed to warm up and went out and won the 200m in 22.7, he later went on and won the 400m in 51.7.
The under 15 Boys came 2nd in their match, again missing some of the squad, the field team racked up the points, in the Javelin Will McDonald came 2nd 34.53 but team mate Noah Lauder-Clarke won the B string 30.57, in the Discus Rueben Kuijten was 3rd A string 21.98 and a B win came from McDonald 20.57, The Shot Ben Daley came 3rd 6.62 and Kuijten came 2nd B 6.61 matching his team mate. The long Jump Daley was 4th and Josh Ladds 3rd B, on the track best of the results came in the B 300m with Josh Brian 47.0, and 100m Josh Brian and Josh Ladds both came 3rd in their strings.
Finaly the under 13 Boys were looking for a top 3 finish in their age group, that soon went as the competition was tough, as the boys had to settle for 3rd place in a close match, Oskar Larkin secured a superb 2nd place in the high Jump with a leap of 1.40 and Malik Gaye won the B string 1.20, The Javelin Euan Jones had to settle for 2nd place 30.22 and Larkin made it a win with 23.33 in the B string, on the Track the 1500m saw a superb race Harry Smith could only get 3rd place with 4.52.6 and Sam Atkins in the B string came 2nd in 5.32, Larkin came 3rd in the 800m 2.39, this was matched in the 200m from Harry Smith 30.0 and JJ Mercer 31.9, Connor O’Riordan added points from his events 100m 4th B 15.3 and Long Jump B string 3.39.
The Relay team of Larkin, Gaye, Mercer and O’Riordan came home in 3rd place.
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.
On Sunday 9 of our athlete competed in the Sportshall
Berkshire Championships in a combination of individual and team competitions.
Congratulations to our U15 girls who ended an intense
afternoon winning team bronze medals. The 2 experienced and 2 first timers all
competed both as individuals and as a team, a total of 8 events each. As individuals Aimee Dickson and Annabel
Gibson came joint 5th overall with Lottie Absolum and Gemma Moon
coming 11th and 14th respectively.
In the events, the girls had a succession of top 5
performances including Aimee 1st in speedbounce (87) and 3rd
in shot (7.72m). Annabel 4th in Long Jump (2.04m) and 5th
in speedbounce (73). The pair joined up to come third in the 8 lap paarlauf.
Aimee, Annabel, Gemma and Lottie then joined together to come 4th in the 4×2 lap relay.
The U13 Girls and Boys all competed as individuals. In the
girls Lyla Goodwin lead the way coming 11th overall. Clare McGonnell
came 28th and Carly Chrisholm 45th. Clare came 3rd
in the speedbounce with 75 jumps. Lyla managed 4th place in both the
standing long jump (1.96m) and vertical jump (42cm).
The boys were represented by Joseph Hoaen and William Appleby
both in their lower year of the U13’s managed individual placings of 17th
and 18th respectively.
The West Berkshire & North Hampshire Primary Schools Cross Country got back in to action again at Newbury Showground after a 2 year gap due to Covid on Tuesday, Organized by Team Kennet Athletics over a New Course with all four races on the same route over 1.28miles.
The Event now in its 24th year saw 44 schools compete with 1211 finishers really amazing numbers after what has happened in past two years.
The first Race year 3 / 4 Girls saw 261 finishers, two runners battled it out till the last 200m where Ella Larkin finally broke her rival to take the win representing Falkland, Quinn Joyce (Fir Tree) came in just a few seconds behind for second and Maisie McCurtin from Falkland took third place, for the Team awards, Falkland took the team victory over Thorngrove and St. Nicolas in third.
Race 2 the year 3 / 4 Boys again saw another two way battle till last 300m, Alexander Crosse came out the strongest to win from Falkland, Ronny Bowsher from Thatcham Park took second and Malik Gaye from Spurcroft taking third place, the Teams it was Falkland again taking the win, with St. Nicolas second place and Springfield third team, 304 finishers in this race
Race 3 the Year 5 / 6 Girls saw 314 finishers, yet again another two way battle up front down to the last 100m that saw Erin-Rose Dunk from Pangbourne just edging in front for the win, over Anna Hall from Falklnad and Sefahian Siabulu from Long Lane taking third place, The Team victory went to St. Gabriels, with Streatley taking second place and Thorngrove third.
Race 4 the Year 5 / 6 Boys saw the biggest field of 332 finishers, Aiden Fleming from Bucklebury started off with a lead that he never gave up to win by 100m, Beau Williams from St Nicolas taking second place and Jacob Nowak from Speenhamland third place, The Teams first place went to John Rankin School, with Falkland taking 2nd place and St. Nicolas third place.
The overall winning school went to St. Nicolas by a single point while retaining champions Falkland took runners up and Thorngrove taking third place and the first Hampshire Schools Trophy, fourth place went to John Rankin and making up top 5 teams Francis Baily.
The small Schools Trophy went to Streatley and the Overall B team (second teams) went to Thorngrove.
There is now a League System set up of 3 Divisions, In Division 1 St. Nicolas School were crowned Champions with Falkland runners up and John Rankin Third, In League Division 2 Thorngrove won with St. Gabriels taking Second and Pangbourne third place will all get promoted to top Division. League Division 3 saw Long Lane take the win, The Winchcombe taking runners up and Hampstead Norreys third place all being promoted to Division 2
The Team Kennet Nite of the Mad Miles took place on a very warm evening at the Crookham Common Athletics Track.
Four races were held over the evening, First race was the under 9 and under 11 girls which actually saw the biggest field of 22 finishers, Quinn Joyce Led from the start with Ella Larkin u9 in hot pursuit all the way, these two opened up a gap to Maisie McCurtin also under 9 with rest of the athletes battling it out for minor places, Larkin tried in vain to get on to Joyce’s toes but in the end being under 11 Joyce came home as the winner with a time of 6.31 putting her 5th fastest all time on the Mad Mile Leader board, Larkin came in as runner up with 6.36 putting her 8th on the leaderboard but fastest time by any under 9 in the 18 year history of the event. McCurtin made it in third place with 6.49 who ran second fastest time as under 9, Harriet Saunders just missed out u11 in 4th place with 6.51.
Race 2 saw 13 athletes line up in the u9/11 boys race, it was a 5 way battle till last 200m in a very tactical race that lead runner Oscar Larkin led from the gun, he clocked 6.05 putting him in 4th place in the overall all time leader board, second place went to Harry Smith u11 in 6.09 putting him in 6th on the leaderboard, then in was Malik Gaye 6.12, 4th place went to Elliot Bell 6.14 and Luke Stiles 6.16 who won the Most improved Miler award by running 1.14 mins faster than last year.
Race 3 incorporated under 13/15 race with the under 17 and above age groups, Eve Brown u17 led from the start to have to take a sprint finish to win the race in 5.43 which put her 3rd in the all time leader board, her rival came from Gemma Jones senior lady with 5.44 going 4th in the All Board, Alanna Smith did well to hang on to these two to take 3rd spot in 5.55, Amber Stiles u13 took the younger age group win in a time of 6.07, with Anna Hall u13 runners up spot 6.13 and Emerald Hill-Sawyer taking the 3rd place spot 6.13 same time as Hall.
Race 4 saw huge entry of u13/15 and under 17 and above of 26 entries, but only 16 turned up on the night, Ethan Kuijten u15 led the way in a fast 5.34 to win the younger age group, Aiden Fleming u13 taking runners up 6.00 and Aaron Carter u13 3rd place 6.06, The under 17 upwards was won by Jonjo Stiles v40 in 5.40 with Andy Collins v50 in a fast 5.48 and third place going to Mitch Poustie 6.21.
Team Kennets Emerald Hill-Sawyer under 13 age group was gifted with an invitation to the Ayo Falola Dram Mile held at Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Wednesday Night. Emerald was in the under 13 Development 800m race where she finished 5th out of 10 competitors in a new personal best time indoors of 2.37.41 just outside the clubs indoor record.
Team Kennet were back out in action for the 2nd match of the Oxford League on Sunday at Banbury. Weather conditions slightly different from last year seeing much cooler temperatures.
In the Under 17 women Neve Wright broke the Team Kennet Club record with 1.63m in the high jump, sister Mia 1.45m in the B String. In the shot Annabel MacLean came 1st 8.89m and 1st in the discus 25.97m. Mia Wright was also in action in the U17 women 300m finishing 4th 49.7s and in the 200m Annabel MacLean 1st for the B string 29.5s. Under 15 girls Bethany MacLean 1st in the javelin 23.26m and Zoe Dickson B string 14.40m finishing 3rd. Evie Lewis was 2nd in the discus 22.59 and B string Dickson 2nd 17.91m. Lewis and Dickson also 2nd in the shot. Leilah Gaye finished 2nd in the high jump 1.40m and in the long jump Sophie Moore was 3rd 4.26m and Emelia Lunn, B string 4.17m to take 1st place. In the 800m Bethany MacLean finished 1st 2:41:4 and Chloe O’Riordan 1st for the B string 3:01:6. The 300m saw Emelia Lunn get 3rd place with 47.7 and B string O’Riordan 1st with 48s. Bethany MacLean was back out for the 200m finishing 4th with 28.9s. In the 100m Lunn finished 7th with 14.6s and Moore taking 2nd place B String with 13.9.
In the under 13s Ella Cronk took 3rd place in the high jump 1.15m and Elenana Wilkinson 1st place B string 1.05m. Cronk finished 5th in the long jump 3.23m and Wilkinson 4th for the B string 2.67m. Wilkinson was out for the 1500m finishing 4th with 6.37.5. In the 800m Cronk claimed 1st place with 2:43:3.
For the boys, in the under 13s Josh Brian came 5th in the 100m 14.6 and Lestyn Thomas 6th B String 16.6. Both boys back out again for the 200m with Brian 30.6s and Thomas for the B string 35.8s. In the 800m Noah Lauder-Clare finished 5th 2:51:2 and B string Oskar Larkin finished 3rd 2:44:6. Harry Smith came 3rd in the 1500m clocking 5:25:6 and B string William Devall 1st 5:33.2. In the 4x100m relay Brian, Ladds, Lauder Clarke and Larkin finished 3rd with 60.9s. Josh Ladd’s finished 5th in the Long jump 3.73m and Luke Stiles 4th in the high jump 1.20m, Oskar Larkin 3rd for the B string with 1.15m. Rueben Kuijten finished 1st in the shot 6.65m and Ladds 1st for the B string 6.51m. Kuijten also finished 1st in the discus 19.69m and Lauder-Clarke 2nd for the B string 11.98m. In the Javelin Lauder-Clarke was 1st with 32.44m and Ladd’s 1st B string 24.69m.
Under 15 boys James Simmons finished 6th in the 100m 12.7s and in the 200m Kenechi Akosa finished 1st with 23.3, Simmons 1st in the B string 26s. Akosa was back out for the 300m breaking the club record finishing 1st 38.4s. In the long jump Simmons was 2nd with 4.85m and Will McDonalds 3.92 for the B string. McDonald came 1st in the discus 16.71m and 2nd in the javelin 30.82m.
Euan Avery was non-scoring on the day competing in the 100m 12.1s and 200m 23.7 for the U20M. Also NS was Liam Neil in the 1500m 5:48:2.
