FOURTEEN young athletes aged 9 to 11 years of age from the Julie Rose Academy were selected to represent Kent in the Southern Inter Countes indoor sportshall competition at Burgess Hill.
All 14 youngsters performed exceptionally well with the boys team finishing second overall and the girls third.
In the boys team were James Syrett, Giles Manning, George Mayer, Jake Timinns, Joseph Whitby and Kian Crawford and the girls team included Jemma Coales, Alex Prickett, Jaimee Ann Heyes, Milie Issac, Kiera Istead, Hannah Graham, Jessicca Carley and Jessica Box.
The majority of the selected team for Kent came from the Ashford Academy held at the Julie Rose Stadium.
The Academy have 32 representatives in the Kent indoor championships on Sunday and are currently Kent champions for two consecutive years running and will be hoping to defend their title for the third time.
The Academy train on Wednesday and Friday evenings from 5.30 – 6.45 coached by Jacqi Snare.
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Youngsters sparkle
Super show in sportshall
IN the sportshall competition in Ramsgate, Ashford’s U13 team 1 girls won with good performances and personal bests from both teams.
The U13 boys won the team event as there were no other teams to compete against.
Lewis Chuch from Sevenoaks won the event, with AAC athletes in the next four places led by Ben Phillips in second, Ben Isaac 3rd, Kieran Regan 4th, Daniel Steadman 5th and Zac Shaikh 8th.
Ben Isaac also won athlete of the match T Shirt for his standing long jump of 2.22m.
On Saturday Kayleigh Miller-Leslie and Lauren Bamford took part in an indoor pentathlon competition, at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre where they came second and third respectively out of 22 competitors.
Kayleigh won the 60m hurdles in a personal best 9.9and also had a best in high jump with 1.41m.
Despite never having run an 800m race before she ran a splendid 1:55.6 to secure the silver medal.
Lauren was second in long jump with a pb of 4.43m and also had bests in shot 6.95m and hurdles 10.33, Lauren was sixth going into the last event, the 800m which she has competed well in previously.
She dug deep and ran a fantastic 2:42 almost catching the race leader on the line which carried her into the bronze medal position.
Indoor delight for club
Sophie Hamlyn, Lauren Bamford and Kayleigh Miller-Leslie
ASHFORD had a brilliant couple of days at the Kent Indoor track and field championships at the Lee Valley Centre winning 10 golds, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals.
One of the star performers was young Oliver Williams who took a full house of medals in the Under 15 age group with gold in a tight high jump contest with 1.50m, silver in the 60m hurdles with 9.73 holding off teammate Max Reeves and two bronze medals.
Oliver was third in the 200m with 26.19 and also in the 60m sprint (7.91) which was won by teammate Nathan Fatola who powered to a superb club record 7.77. Reeves was fifth in the sprint final.
Kara Gibbs took gold and silver in the senior women winning the high jump with 1.40m and second in the pole vault with 2.80m with teammate Emmeline Rendell in third with 2.70m as did Rachel Hanagan.
Rachel is ranked 9th in the country in the U20 triple jump after winning the Kent title with 11.14m and added the silver in the long jump with with 4.87m. Sister Laura leapt to a new indoor personal best of 10.21m in taking gold in the U17 triple jump.
Lauren Bamford won gold and silver taking the U15 county title in the 300m with a personal best 45.28 but was just edged out by clubmate Kayleigh Miller-Leslie in the 60m hurdles dash. Kayleigh took gold with 10.33 and Lauren clocked 10.45.
Also in the U15 girls Sophie Hamlyn claimed the county title in the long jump with 4.04m while at the other end of the age range Gary Macdonald won the M50 1km walk with 9:32.85.
Pete Davey and James Bridges secured senior men’s silver medals in the 60m hurdles and 200m respectively with 9.21 and 23.47 times while veteran Jon Ward took silver in the men’s shot 12.39 with Chris Kingland just missing a medal in fourth with 11.03m.
In the U20 men Tom Chambers held off teammate Hadley Pressley to take the 200m silver with 23.49 to Pressley’s 24.58 and Sam Beckett had a good weekend second in the U20 women’s 800m and third in the 400m. Sam was also fifth in the 60m sprint.
Amelia Jones was a fine second in the U17W 800 while Abigail Purkis set a personal best 28.15 in taking the bronze in the U15 200m with first year teammate Amber Currie making both the 60m and 200m finals.
Tom Williams took silver in the U17 triple jump with 11.73 and just missed another medal in the 60m hurdles fourth in 9.53 as well as a fifth in the 200m.
Jack Huxley took bronze in the U15 boys pole vault with a fine 2m vault and there were 200m personal bests for Caitlin Dock and Steve Walder. Others to go close to medals were Luke Williams fourth in the men’s pole vault (3.30m), Erin Maxwell fourth in the U15G high jump and fifth in the long jump and Lucy Holmes was fifth in the U17W shot.
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