Archive for ‘Track & Field’

Quadkids – Match 3

Posted by Ian Killner on July 14th, 2010

For the 3rd match of the Quadkids season, 18 Team Kennet Under 11s took part. Another large improvement in the team score to 1386 points gained the team 2nd place behind Slough Juniors.
The best individual total of the day was from newcomer George Armstrong with 239 points to give him 3rd place overall on the day. [...]

Wessex League Match 3

Posted by Ian Killner on July 14th, 2010

Team Kennet took part in their third league match at Oxford in the Wessex Junior Track and Field League, going into the match at the top of the table against second place Southampton ac a win would of virtually clinch the title, it wasn’t the case in a very close match that saw Southampton win [...]

English National Schools

Posted by Ian Killner on July 12th, 2010

Four Team Kennet athletes competed at the English National Schools Final in Birmingham on 9th/10th July.
Jack Hatton coasted his heat comfortably (11.72) with the first 3 to qualify. The semi’s were a different story with most competitors being within 0.3 of each other. I predicted that Jack would come second or third in this race [...]

Southern Womens League Match 3

Posted by Ian Killner on June 28th, 2010

On Saturday Team Kennet’s ladies and under 15 girls travelled to Bournemouth for our 3rd Southern Women’s League match of the season. The weather was absolutely sweltering and the journey there took over two hours due to the vast amount of traffic traveling to the coast.
We all arrived a bit hot and flustered and it [...]

Berkshire Schools

Posted by Ian Killner on June 14th, 2010

Seven English Schools Qualifying performances (including 4 higher English Schools National Standard performances) and Seven Berkshire Schools Champions from Team Kennet at the Berkshire Schools at Reading on Saturday. [...]

Quadkids Match 2

Posted by Ian Killner on June 10th, 2010

For the 2nd match of the Quadkids season, a huge team of 20 Team Kennet Under 11s took part. Despite a massive improvement in the team score, the total of 1286 points was only enough for 6th place.
The performance of the day was from Luke McMahon whose individual score of 238 points was the days highest [...]

Wessex League Match 2

Posted by Ian Killner on June 8th, 2010

Team Kennet produced anther outstanding team display on Sunday at the second Wessex Track and Field Fixture at Winchester’s new track. A record of 73 athletes took part for the club on the day and with those numbers turning out a high team score was achieveable. And so it was with a convincing win that keeps [...]

Southern Mens League Match 3

Posted by Ian Killner on June 8th, 2010

Team Kennet’s men travelled to Swindon on Saturday for the third Southern Men’s League match of the year. Conditions were the best experienced for some time at a league match, and there were some exceptional performances to match.
Simon Scholes started off the run of good fortune for Kennet with three second places: the A string [...]

South of England Championships

Posted by Ian Killner on June 2nd, 2010

The South of England Championships at Ashford last Saturday proved more than a challenge for the sprinters and sprint hurdlers. Summer was having a day off and we were served with 12 degrees, headwinds of up to 5 metres per second and driving rain! In the Boys 80m Hurdles the top 8 in the UK contested [...]

Southern Womens League – Match 2

Posted by Ian Killner on May 24th, 2010

Southern Women’s League Match on Saturday May 22nd in Braunton, North Devon.
Team Kennet’s ladies and under 15 girls made the long journey by minibus to Braunton in North Devon on Saturday to compete in Division 1 of the Southern Women’s League. It was very hot and sunny and there was a head wind.. so conditions [...]