Archive for April 2011

Wessex League Match 1

Posted by Ian on April 19th, 2011

Team Kennet carried on from where they were last year with a well deserved second place in a high scoring match with the under 15 girls winning their age group and all the other age groups coming second on the day. Click on the title for a full report. Photos from the day can be viewed on the Track and Field Gallery.

Radley Open

Posted by Ian on April 18th, 2011

Team Kennet athletes went to the Radley open meeting on Sunday 10th April where they took their fair share of medals.
Gold medal winners were Oliver Hewitt U13 boys Discus 14.35, Georgina Bradford u15 girls 1500m in 5.08.2 and Yolanda Nicholson in the U17 200m with a fast 26.6.
Silver medal winners were Haydon Pike in the [...]

London Marathon

Posted by Ian on April 18th, 2011

Team Kennet had a great day out at this Year London Marathon, going in a team mini bus at 5am in the morning is not the best way to be looking at running 26.2 miles, but it seemed to pay of for the clubs athletes. Tom Milburn ran his first ever marathon and just missed [...]

Year 8 Schools – South East Regional Sportshall

Posted by Ian on April 6th, 2011

Team Kennet members Leah Beechey, Millie Calkin, Georgina Bradford, Yasmin Ryder, Alex Maughan, Anna Prudden all from St Barts school, Newbury won the 1st round area sportshall held at Park House school earlier this year and then went on to represent the county at Eton and came second.  They secured a place to compete in [...]

Open Meetings

Posted by Ian on April 5th, 2011

Team Kennet have been in a few open meetings picking up a clutch of medals, at Bracknell under 17 Peter Saunders won his long jump in 6.01 for a gold medal, while in the same age group Yolanda Nicholson won the 100m final in 13.25, Nicholson also picked up a Bronze in the Long Jump [...]

National Indoor Sportshall

Posted by Ian on April 4th, 2011

Team Kennet’s Codie Burnett became one of the Berkshire team to win a the counties first ever Gold Team Medal at the Indoor Sportshall UK National Final as the u15 girls team on their debut in the finals were surprise winners.
Codie who gave up Athletics 18 months ago was persuaded by Sprint Coach Averil Hewitt [...]