Archive for May 2011

Newbury Schools

Posted by Ian on May 24th, 2011

The Newbury Schools area Athletics Championships took place last week at Palmer Park in Reading. the top 2 from each event go forward to the Berkshire Schools finals where they will try to win and get the English Schools qualifying time.
Team Kennet athletes representing their schools had several top 3 places. In the u17 girls [...]

SWL Match 2

Posted by Ian on May 23rd, 2011

Team Kennet’s Southern Womens Division 1 West match was held at Guildford on Saturday which was the clubs home Match. A much weakened team due to events taking place in Newbury saw the club finish with a well deserved third place
Newquay & Par 184.5
Team Dorset 121
Team Kennet 100
Radley 85.5
It was the Jumpers and Middle distance [...]

Individual News Items

Posted by Ian on May 23rd, 2011

NYAL Bracknell 22 May 2011
 
Jack Hatton achieved his first ESAA qualifying time of the season when he won the U/17 mens 100m Hurdles (14.2) in the NYAL at Bracknell yesterday. More interestingly his focus for the day was to run against Adam Thomas from Bracknell the current UK number 1 over 100m in the U/17 age [...]

Berkshire Championships

Posted by Ian on May 17th, 2011

Team Kennet were well represented at the Berkshire Track and Field Championships on Sunday held at Bracknell, and also took their fair share of medals.
The under 17 age group picked up the most medals for the club as they dominated this age group. Yolanda Nicholson picked up three medals, a Gold in the long jump [...]

ESAA Schools Cup

Posted by Ian on May 13th, 2011

Team Kennet athletes were out in force for their schools in the Berkshire rounds of the ESAA Schools Cups on Wednesday and Thursday 11-12th May. In the Junior Girls, St Barts came 1st with Kennet School 5th and Park House 7th and in the Junior Boys, St Barts came 1st with Kennet 2nd and Park [...]

SML Match 1

Posted by Ian on May 10th, 2011

On a blustery May afternoon Team Kennet hosted the first Southern Men’s League of the year in Oxford last Saturday.
The day started out with Simon Briggs & Simon Scholes competing in the shot with both athletes throwing season’s bests and finishing 3rd & 2nd respectively in both the A& B event. After the shot [...]

SWL Match 1

Posted by Ian on May 3rd, 2011

Team Kennet started their Southern Womens League campaign at Horspath Stadium in Oxford. After gaining promotion last year they and now in Division 1 West the going was a bit tough although there was some outstanding performances on the day.
 
Match Score
 
Newquay & Par   166
Team Dorset       134
Team Kennet      117
Radley                82
 
The best individual performance on the [...]

Yell Schools League

Posted by Ian on May 3rd, 2011

Team Kennet had 2 athletes representing Park House School at the Boys Yell League on Thursday 28th April. This league is correctly officiated with starter, marksmen and timekeepers. The ever improving Luke Angell threw 41.53 metres winning the U/16 javelin by 6 metres from his nearest competitor. With the absence of any hurdles races on the [...]