RESULTS & REPORTS
2025
14-16 FEB - BUCS Indoor Championships - Sheffield
In mid February, six Yate AC athletes took part in the British Universities and Colleges Indoor Championships in Sheffield, representing their universities.
They won two gold medals!
Luke Ball, competing for University of Bath, won the Gold medal in the men’s high jump, with a brilliant jump of 2.14m.
Steph Brooks from Cardiff Met (pictured right in the team photo) won a gold medal as part of the winning Cardiff Met 4x200m relay team, running the first leg in style despite an earlier tumble on the track!
Cardiff Met team-mate Kirsty was also part of the relay team, running in the heats to secure the teams place in the final.
Peter Krunity-Salako also competed in the high jump, for Cardiff Met, finishing 6th after having to retire due to injury.
Kirsty Treglown ran in the 60m for Cardiff Met, finishing second in her heat with a time of 7.77s, which was enough to get her though to the semi-final where she finished 6th in her heat.
Steph ran in the 200m, finishing first in her heat and advancing to the semi-finals, where she unfortunately took a tumble at the line.
Sophie Hornung competed in pole vault for Cardiff Met, finishing 4th with a jump of 3.13m.
Sam Brudney, running for Bristol University in the 60m, came 5th in his heat with a PB of 7.23s.
Well done everyone! So great to see Yate athletes representing their universities at a national competition! Looking forward to the outdoor championships in May!
22/23 FEB - UKA indoor champs - Birmingham
We were very proud to see our five athletes wearing their green and yellow vests at the British Championships last weekend. These athletes are at the top of their event to get an invite to these champs, and we are very proud of all of their achievements!
Of course, the most amazing news was 17 year old Otis Poole who won the men’s high jump competition with a staggering jump of 2.20m. This is the top jump in the UK this season and was a brilliant 11cm PB, and was awarded the MicroPlus Performance of the Day. Congratulations to Otis and to Yate coach Joy Bray. This of course is also a new U20 club record, as well as an all time Yate AC record.
U23 athlete Luke Ball was also on the high jump apron, finishing in 6th place overall.
On the track, Steph Brooks advanced through the 200m heats to the semi-finals, where she finished in 11th place overall, with a new PB of 24.43s.
Also on the track, U20 Freya Bradley lined up alongside Laura Muir and Hannah Nutall for her first British Champs in the 3000m race. Freya finished 16th with a great time of 9.34.89.
Jenna Blundell raced in the 60m hurdles, with a good race of 8.47s, finishing 12th overall in the heats.
Well done everyone!
We’re already looking forward to the outdoor British Champs in August!
27 APR - Upper YDL (1) - Yate
31 MAY - NAL (1) - Yeovil
Match 1, May 31st Yeovil
Match Report by Graham Howell
In contrast to last year at Yeovil the weather was warm and dry if a little windy, but far better than the downpours of 2024. The female side of the team looked strong with a good number of athletes turning out. The turnout for the male side of the team was disappointing but the few committed athletes turned in some great performances.
The team welcomed some athletes making their NAL debut – Savana Krunity-Salako (Hammer), Jasmin Richards (Hammer, 200m), Peter Krunity-Salako (High Jump).
Challenging yourself in higher standards of competition should help bring out the best performances and we had a handful of personal bests in the match. Lily Bailey was pleased to achieve a High Jump PB of 1m70, Greg Hayward shaved a few tenths from his 1500m lowering it to 3m58.01s, Kirsty Treglown improved to 25.48s in the 200m, Teresa Iannetelli continued her recent 400m form with a 57.12s PB, Jodie Dale despite some back pain launched a creditable 26m06 Discus while filling in for points and Louie Nelson equalled his High Jump PB of 1m65.
Stephanie Brooks and Daisy Harvey got the team away with a good start in the 400m Hurdles, securing two second places.
Notable in the field for the men Charlie Hickling despite an Achilles problem, managed to secure 20 team points in the throws and was backed up by Liam Hillier also securing 22 points in Pole Vault and throws.
In the men’s 800m Kane Lee front ran the race almost to the finish where he was out dipped by the Swansea athlete and just missed a PB by 9 hundredths of a second.
Similarly, Freya Bradley front ran the women’s 3000m and gradually turned up the pressure on the Yeovil athlete, who had been sitting just behind, to ease away in the final couple of laps for a comfortable win.
A fiasco for the Greg Hayward and Akira Bees in the men’s 5000m. NAL management had caused confusion with the event timetable regarding which distance would be run at the first match, eventually in the days before the match they sent a newsletter to all clubs stating the men would definitely be running 5000m. However this message had not apparently got through to the match officials, the race started and some athletes noticed the lap board showing the wrong laps remaining and voiced their opinions as they passed only for officials to announce it was a 3000m not a 5000m!
Isabelle Walkey continued her return from injury with a solid 100m, indicating her satisfaction with the performance.
The team finished with a brilliant win in the women’s 4x400m relay, Katie Robins, Daisy Harvey, Keira Devereux and Teresa Iannetelli crossing the line 100m clear of the second club.
Well done to all the athletes that made the effort and thanks to our team of officials (Caroline Devereux, Mark Thomas, Mike Smerdon, John Smerdon, Ken Goodger, Hilary Goodger, Charles Eldridge) who furnished an extra 50 points to the team score as well as enabling athletes to benefit
from quality competition and congratulations to Debbie Brooks who had a successful report on her role as Field Referee.
We finished in 5th place, just 5 ½ points from fourth. Looking for more athletes to join us in Match 2 – especially the men – which will make all the difference!
1st Swansea Harriers 635
2nd Yeovil Olympiads AC528
3rd Cardiff Athletics 458
4th Basingstoke & Mid Hants AC 399.50
5th Yate & District AC 394
6th Winchester 289.50
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