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Matt Spicer

2022 English Schools selected athletes

23/06/2022/in English Schools/by Matt Spicer

Congratulations to all the following athletes, who have been selected by their County Schools Associations to compete at this years English Schools Track & Field Championships, to be held in Manchester during 8/9th July.

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June 2021 roundup

30/06/2021/in Avon Track and Field, Championships, English Schools, Midland League, NAL, Yate Athletic Club News/by Matt Spicer

THE SEASON SO FAR

Now that the season is well and truly underway, we thought it would be a good opportunity to share an update, and to expand on any of our regular social media posts.

Read on for details of our recent league performances, plus some spectacular individual performances at the British Championships, and what we have managed to find out so far about the many athletes selected to compete at English Schools this year.

First.  A plea for help.

This Saturday (July 3rd) we will be hosting the second National Athletics League competition for our Senior Athletes, but we are missing a few volunteers, and need support for the following:

  • Steeple chase / hurdle movers.  The more the merrier
  • Two recorders, to input the results onto the software on the laptop.
  • plus volunteers to support the officials in the following events:
      • Hammer @ 12.50 (Men & Women)
      • Triple Jump @ 15.10 (Women)
      • Javelin @ 16.00 (Women)

Please do consider getting involved and lending a hand. You will receive full support by qualified officials who will help and guide you.  Please let Andrew our Official’s Secretary at yateacofficials@gmail.com as soon as possible.  This will be a great opportunity to get up close to some fantastic senior performers .

NAL will provide a packed lunch for anyone who volunteers – and also note that volunteers don’t count towards an athlete’s plus one.

Quad Kids

Our first set of quad kids saw action at the Avon Track & Field League on 13th June. Our girls came in in second place and so did our boys – so well done everybody – looking forward to seeing more of you and your smiling faces in action this Sunday!

Youth Development League

Our Lower Age Group Squad (U13 and U15) performed brilliantly in the first event of the season, leaving us in second place:

Lower Age Group

Match Points

League Points

1

North Somerset AC

238.0

4.0

2 

Yate & District AC 

197.0 

3.0 

3

Bristol & West AC with Mendip AC ©

171.0

2.0

4

Team Bath AC

66.0

1.0

Upper Age Group Squad (U17 and U20)

Competing as the composite ‘Team Avon’ with Bristol & West, Team Bath and Mendip. The team, which was packed full of Yate athletes, has run away with the competition on both matches to date:

Upper Age Group

Match 1

Match 2

League Points

1 

Team Avon © 

396.0 

378

10

2

Cheltenham & County Harriers

150.0

126

6

3

North Somerset AC

144.0

146

6

4

East Wales ©

142.0

191

6

5

Hereford & County AC

53.0

61

2

National Athletics League

This is our Seniors first season competing on a national level in the brand new NAL. Because of COVID, all of our matches are held at a local level, competing with local teams, but our match results make it onto the national league table, where we compete in the National Division One (it’s actually the third division in real money, because as we are new to national competition we need to start in the lowest division and work our way up). These are the clubs that we will be competing against next year, so it’s great to us fairing so well.

National Athletics League

Match Points

League Points

1

City of Portsmouth AC

361

6

2

Belgrave Harriers

295

5

3 

Yate & District AC 

274 

4 

4

Marshall Milton Keynes

260

3

5

Yeovil Olympiads

177

2

6

Southend AC

65

1

Midland League

Previously, our Seniors (with U17s) have competed as a composite team with Bristol & West in the Midland League, but this season we have had to go it alone due to a change in league rules. Once again competition has been restricted to local teams, and we have performed exceptionally well – currently in first position:

Midland Athletics League

Match Points

League Points

1

Yate & District

341

5

2

Gloucester AC

285

4

3

Bristol & West AC

264

3

4

Cheltenham & County

240

2

5

Forest of Dean AC

62

1

Avon Track & Field

We’re also doing really well leading the way in our local league for all age groups, and we’ve even broken a long-standing league record: Jodie Dale 600g Javelin Throw 40.11m – well done Jodie.

Avon Track & Field

Match Points

League Points

1

Yate & District

899.5 

6.0 

2

Bristol & West

727.0

5.0

3

Team Bath AC

617.0

4.0

4

North Somerset AC

221.5

3.0

5

Gloucester AC

250.0

2.0

6

Forest of Dean

185.0

1.0

British Championships

We’ve had great success with a number of athletes meeting the qualifying standards to take part in the U20 and U23 British Championships. Adam Brooks and Owen Merrett coming home with medals – Adam being crowned the U23M British High Jump Champion, and Owen winning the bronze in a tightly fought hammer competition.

  • Adam Brooks U23M High Jump – British Champion 2.16m
  • Amy Pye – U23W 400mH
  • James Viner U20M Hammer – 8th 51.78
  • Jodie Dale – U20W Javelin – 7th 38.12m
  • Kirsty Treglown – U20W 100m
  • Luke Ball U20M High Jump -7th 1.94 (jumping an age group up)
  • Owen Merrett U20M Hammer – 3rd  64.77m
  • Toby Conibear U20M Hammer – 4th 59.42m

On top of this Ellie Leather (1500m) and Adam Brooks (High Jump) were invited to take part in the British Senior Championships last weekend. Ellie (back in the UK from University in the USA)  qualified for the final, finishing in 10th position, and Adam also finished 10th in the men’s high jump.  We are so very proud of you all, and delighted to see Yate Vests on show on the live stream.

Combined Events

Congratulations to Liam Hillier (our Quad Kid’s team manager) who has qualified to take part in the National Combined Events Final.  Liam earned the bronze medal whilst representing Avon Schools in the Decathlon at the South West Combined Events Championship last weekend.

Steph Brooks, who has recently joined Yate AC, finished fifth in the heptathlon, and also qualified for the national final in September. A big well done to both of you!

English Schools

Finally, we have received news that a remarkable number of our athletes have been invited to take part in the English Schools championships. Qualification was even harder than usual this year – so well done all of you – and good luck in the championships.

Senior Boys:

Senior Girls:

Inter Boys:

Inter Girls:

Junior Boys:

Junior Girls:

Max Elliot 200m Avon 

Rosie Hamilton James: 3000m Avon

Seamus Robinson 3000m Avon

Grace Horswell 300mH Avon

Adam Merrett Hammer Wilts

Phoebe Havard 100m Avon

Toby Conibear Hammer Avon

Kirsty Treglown: 100m Wilts

Matt Page Hammer Avon

Felicity Whiteway Hammer Avon

 

Laura Chance 1500m Avon

Owen Merrett Hammer Wilts

Fiona Barclay: High Jump Gloucs

Luke Ball High Jump Avon

 

 

Sophie Page Hammer Avon

James Viner Hammer Wilts

 

Adam Nolan Pole Vault Avon

 

 

Evie Moir High Jump Avon

 

 

Theo Spurell Javelin Wilts

 

 

Arisa Burgess Pole Vault Dorset

 

 

Dylan Menhennet Hammer Hereford & Worcester

 

 

Some of the counties have been very secretive  

Please let us know if you have been selected and can’t see your name listed (we can’t find the Gloucestershire list).

Some great successes, some exceptional performances and the season is only just warming up.

U13 and U15 Team managers needed

Going back to the Avon Track and Field League, our excellent U13 and U15 team manager Sam Smith is stepping down next season. (She will be focusing all her efforts next season on the Lower Age Group YDL.) Now is the ideal time for some new volunteers to step forward to take on this role. It could be covered by two, or even four, people, each taking a gender/age group. If you’re son/daughter would like to participate in these teams next season, or even if you don’t have children competing but would like to take on this role, please do consider stepping forward now, so you can work along Sam in the next couple of months to help ease the transition. Contact Sam.ac.coach@gmail.com. 

Finally, as you know, Yate and District Athletic Club is lucky to have many volunteers covering coaching, officials, committee and helping out at events and on the bar.  As we get more successful it really does help to share the work so it you are able to help in any capacity for however long it would be really appreciated as we seek to be the premier club with premier facilities in the South West.

Keep up the good work everybody! 

Yate & District AC Committee

PS Don’t forget you can keep right up to date with all our news by following our social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube (links top right)

Matt Spicer

2020 English Schools – Virtual Competition

03/07/2020/in Challenges, English Schools/by Matt Spicer

This year is the first since World War Two that the ESAA Championships have been cancelled.

To try and fill the gap, they are offering an exciting and innovative virtual athletics competition

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Matt Spicer

2019 English Schools Report

16/07/2019/in English Schools/by Matt Spicer

DAY 1
What a great first day at the English Schools Track and Field Championships, where 14 Yate AC athletes competed in their county teams!

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Matt Spicer

2019 English Schools

10/07/2019/in English Schools/by Matt Spicer

The English Schools is considered one of the biggest athletic fixtures on the calendar. Wikipedia states it as being the fourth largest athletics event IN THE WORLD!

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Matt Spicer

English Schools Qualifiers

29/06/2017/in English Schools/by Matt Spicer

The highlight of the Schools athletics season, The English Schools Championships, take place on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th July. These Championships are said to be the fourth largest athletic event in the world and are now in their 87th year, having first been contested in 1925, only stopping for the Second World War. This […]

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Sam

Exciting News This Weekend!!

07/07/2016/in English Schools/by Sam

Over the last month or so, athletes all over the country have been trying out for the opportunity to represent their County in the English Schools National Championships Final on 8th and 9th July at Gateshead. This is the 4th largest athletic event in the world!!

June 11th saw hundreds of athletes try out at YOSC to represent their county and following a selection of approximately 150 (over two counties) approximately 30 athletes were Yate and District Athletes… But that’s not all!

Those Athletes then travelled to Exeter on 18th June to compete again to earn selection for the final teams… from the 27 Yate & District Athletes that went, 14 are going to Gateshead tomorrow!

Your family at Yate wish you the very best of luck!

Jeremy Dale

Catch up on ESAA National Championships & AT&F Round 2

12/07/2015/in Avon Track and Field, English Schools/by Jeremy Dale

ESAA Finals @ Gateshead

Catching up on the finals at the ESAA National Championships @ Gateshead yesterday the  results are as follows.

Inter Girls 1500m, all our girls got into the finals!

Ellie Wallace was 3rd in her heat in 4.45.17 then finished 4th in the final in 4.37.62 missing a medal by a mere 0.65 sec!

Hannah Hobbs was 5th in her heat in 4.46.14 and followed that up with 6th in the final in 4.38.95!

Ellie leather was 4th in her heat in 4.42.10 and 7th in the final in 4.39.41! An excellent result for all of them well done!

Daniel Brooks was 6th in the JB 100m final in 11.52, whilst Adam Brooks was 13th in the IB high jump final with 1.87m well done to them both. It is great to see so many of our athletes competing at National Finals to my reckoning thats 10!!! but please correct me if I have missed any one out.

AT&F

AT&F @ Gloucester 12/07/15, on a bright but windy and showery day we had a really great time! With many away at the ESAA National Final, it was great to see a mix of regular and new athletes in the team. What was also evident to see, as well as Pb’s and good performances  was such a great team spirit, from the U11’s right through to the seniors, team managers and officials. Many athletes were also throwing or running distances not their first choice (or second or third)! as well as their preferred event & it was really fantastic to see the end result with our ladies winning the U15, U17 and senior 4*100m relay! for example. We won’t mention any one by name as you all did so well for the team, but all we can say is thank you very much to all the athletes, team managers, parents,helpers and officials, we hope you enjoyed the day.

Results are not out yet but as soon as they are we will let you know. Next round is back at home @ Yate on 02/08/15 please respond asap to team selections and make it even better!

Jeremy Dale

Day 1 English Schools National Finals Gateshead

10/07/2015/in English Schools/by Jeremy Dale

At the end of day 1 at the ESAA finals at Gateshead the results are as follow:

Yvette Westwood  Third in her IG 100m heat in 12.52sec then 4th in her semi final 12.79sec.

Daniels Brooks 11.70sec in his JB 100m heat and is into the final tomorrow.

Josh Snook 50.26sec in his IB 400m heat (which would have been good enough for the final) but in his semi he could not quiet replicate that and did a 52.46sec.

Mark Cottam 49.17sec in his SB 400m heat.

Ben Holbrook 6th in the SB long jump final with 6.34m

We done to them all and best of luck for the finals tomorrow and Jack Holbrook in his event tomorrow.

Don’ forget you can follow the results via the ESAA web site via the link on our web site, which is under ‘home’, then under ‘links’.

Jeremy Dale

English Schools Cross Country News

15/03/2015/in Cross Country, English Schools, Westbury/by Jeremy Dale
Lesley had kept me informed during the afternoon and the headline seemed to be that Westbury and Yate athletes had had a very good day, with several finishing the first fifty – always a good measure in an event as big as English Schools.

A number of athletes suffered from the mass start, picking up spike injuries, none of which held them back at all. This included the boy who discovered that his leg was covered in blood when he finished and needed seven stitches. Unusually, there were facilities on hand for stitches to be done on site, without the need for carrying anyone off to hospital.

Lesley noted that as well as the normal first aid cover, there was a mountain rescue team on hand! And this indicated the kind of course that athletes were faced with. She herself took the sensible decision NOT to walk the course with the senior girls.

In the under-15 girls race a fascinating story unfolded as the girls came in. Ellie Hobbs finished in fourteenth place – in itself a noteworthy achievement. But then look at the results around her. The 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th finishers all clocked 11:54; the 13th girl clocked 11:55, and Ellie clocked 11:56. So a bit like the Battle of Waterloo – a damn close-run thing. The first eight in the race get picked for England; nine and ten are reserves.

So Ellie was just two seconds off an international vest. And she has another year in that age group.

Her sister, Hannah finished 25th, Ellie Leather 63rd and Rosie Allen 99th (after falling at the start). To say that Pat Gallagher was over the moon is putting it mildly.

Aidan Noble was the best Avon finisher in the boys’ races, coming home in 32nd – continuing his good form this winter.

So no trophies for Avon this year – but some really good Westbury and Yate performances.
Stuart

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