Archive for 2012

Medal Haul at Berkshire Championships

Posted by Ian on May 14th, 2012

Team Kennet followed on from last years Berkshire Track and Field Championship with another superb display taking 13 individual gold medals at Eton on Sunday from 13 different athletes.
A large squad of athletes from the club desended on the stadium setting 5 new club records on the way and a championship record.
It was the under [...]

Triathlon and Biathlon Reports

Posted by Ian on May 14th, 2012

Team Kennet atheltes have had one of their best weekends ever as Jessica Harrison continued to improve ready for the Olympics, she took part in the World Triathlon Series in San Diego where she came 4th clocking 2.00.14 just behind Britains number one Helen Jenkins who won the event. Jess came out of the [...]

Jessica Harrison

Posted by Ian on May 8th, 2012

Team  Kennet Athlete Jessica Harrison is warming up for this years Olympic Games with a fine winter season under her, with the World Triathlon Series starting this weekend in USA, the French based athlete who now competes for France put a good series together over the winter, the best being the European Championships where she [...]

Wessex League Photos

Posted by Ian on April 24th, 2012

Photos from the wessex league match at Poole can be viewed at http://teamkennet.com/track-field/track-field-results/wessex-league-match-1-2012-photos/
Many thanks to Charlie Eldridge for supplying these.

Virgin Mini Marathon

Posted by Ian on April 24th, 2012

Team Kennet’s Nathan Gillis represented South East England on Sunday at the Virgin Mini London Marathon over a course nearly 5k, he clocked a good time off 16.02 to finish 26th place with over 3500 youngsters taking part in several races representing their area in the UK.

Southern Athletics League Match 1

Posted by Ian on April 23rd, 2012

Team Kennet entered its new league on saturday, the UKA Southern Athletics League which is the new structure now in place by UKA. The club are in Division 2 west and put a solid display in the combined mens and womens match by coming second with 180 points with Basingstoke clear winners on 233 and Havant 3rd [...]

Wessex League Quadkids Match 1

Posted by Ian on April 17th, 2012

For the 1st match of the Quadkids season at a windy poole track, a team of 8 Under 11 Boys and 9 Under 11 Girls took part. The girls team came out overall winners and also took individual 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th places. The boys finished in 4th but on combined scores, the [...]

Wessex League Match 1

Posted by Ian on April 16th, 2012

Team Kennet Athletic Club Juniors started of from where they left off last year, setting new records as the club travelled to Ashdown Track in Poole for the first round of the Wessex Track and Field League.
Team Kennet 507
Isle of Wight 289
Poole AC 259
Oxford AC 242
Poole R 211
The day started well with the u13 girls track [...]

Pre-Season Opens

Posted by Ian on April 10th, 2012

Team Kennet Athletes were out in Force in recent competitions to prepare for the start of the season.
The latest open at Basingstoke saw a huge turn out of 26 athletes from all ages take home a hat full of medals, and two performances to put two Tk athletes in the top 3 Uk rankings.
The under [...]

Schools Biathlon Championships

Posted by Ian on March 27th, 2012

2012 Schools Biathlon Championships National Final Crystal Palace
Two Team Kennet athletes have competed in the National Schools Biathlon Championships; Biathlon is a competition involving a run and a swim, although the disciplines do not take place straight away one after the other. Sammy Hart representing Speenhamland was competing in the Year 6 event. He ran [...]