Darcey Flemming took the main individual award for best girl of the day with her 1^st place in both the standing long jump (2.12m) and the vertical jump (49cm). The rest of the yellow team performed well with Mai Brown taking 2^nd place in the vertical Jump, Charlotte Bradley 4^th in the speed bounce, Emily Gould and Charlotte winning the Partlau and Lily Gohara and Darcey winning the 2 by 2 Lap as well as Darcey, Charlotte, Emily and Lily winning the 4 x 1 lap relay.

Bethany Jones and Mia Eldridge both just missed out on winning the Speed Bounce with 50 in 20 seconds as the their teams stole the honours in the time trails in the other heats in all the track races by winning them all. The other girls taking part were Ellis Wyer, Kira Angell, Milly Quaintance, Kira Barton, Antonia Lewis, Freya Owen and Ellie Randall.

The team results overall had the three Team Kennet teams in 1st (368 points), 6th (308 points) and 9th (244 points) places.

The boys put in a great performance and were rewarded 3rd in the clubs but 4th overall, Sam Davis was the only individual winner for the boys with 16.75 in the soft javelin and he also produced a 2^nd in the speed bounce 49 closely followed by Ben East in 3^rd with 48. William Joseph came 3rd in the vertical Jump with 44. The best track result was in the Obstacle relay race where a tight finish edged them into third place. The boys who took part were Josh Livingstone, William Joseph, Ben East, Daniel Hockaday, William Cox, Harry Brooker and Sam Davis and the two teams finished in 4th and 12th places.

A special thanks to all the coaches/helpers and parents that helped out on the day.

Full results can be found on the Sportshall Results page.

The under 15 girls were out in force as usual this season and were 17th team overall, Yasmin Ryder led the way with 57th place, with Chloe Scaplehorn not far behind over this hilly course in 101st, Georgina Bradford 126th and Rhea Walter 151st made up the team with Alexandra Maughan 176th. In the Under 13 girls, Carys Cox came 90th, Lexi Fellows 162nd and Jordan Donovan 205th. Jamie Maughan was the clubs only competitor in the u13 boys race with 149th and Michael Randall was 80th in the Under 20 Mens race.

The u13 girls race saw a much improved in confidence Susie Drake in 6th place with Imogen Harding having an excellent race in 15th, Chloe Jones 48th and Carli Nicholls 73rd while in the u15 girls Chloe Scaplehorn was 18th, with Amelia Wenlock 21st Alex Maughan 35th, Kirsty Bennet 36th, Keren gillis 40th and Harriet Allan 47th.

The u17 women Rhea Walter had a good run in 12th place with Emma Seymour 27th and Becca Allan 47th. The under 15 boys saw Jordan Hole come in 29th with Rohan Morris-Loughlin 31st and Alex Davis 63rd and the Under 13 boys saw Jacques  Chapel in 27th place. Lexi Fellows took part in the Wiltshire Schools and came in an excellent 4th place in u13 girls race

In the year 5 boys the best result came from James McLaughlin who was 5^th overall, qualifying for the national final and receiving his trophy from Kate Allenby, bronze medalist in the modern pentathlon at Sydney.  Warwick Buckland came 40 and Oliver Shakespeare was 42. 

Sammy Hart came 10^th in the year 6 boys, and hopefully will progress as well to the national final as one of the top 64 ranking competitors.

Day 2 saw a great under 17 womens shot competition with Izzy McHattie leading into the last round only to be edged down in to bronze by just 9cm, her throw set a new club record with 10.77.

Oliver Cooper made his indoor debut for the club in the under 17 mens triple jump, he set a new indoor club record of 12.08 for 5th place. On day 2 Georgina Bradford just missed the 800m final by one place, she came 2nd in her heat with 2.29.41 again setting a new club indoor record while Carys Cox ran a superb race clocking a fast time of 2.35.93 for 5th place in her heat.

After last weeks success Millie Calkin started off well in the u15 girls 200, she won her first round in 27.57 then in the semi finals clocked anther fast time of 27.43 for third place not enough to go through to the final but another club record. Calkin managed 5th in her 60m sprint in 8.66 and only managed 10th place in the long jump with 4.59

Under 17 Yolanda Nicholson came 2nd in her 60m heat in 8.06 and came 3rd in the semi final in 8.08 again just missing out in the final, her long jump was a much below par of 4.79 for 9th place. Nathan Gillis found the going tough after running in the Berkshire Schools cross country the day before, he could only manage 8th place with 4.28.77 in the u17s 1500m.

The boys team, including William Joseph and William Cox, won the event with 419 points, 5 points ahead of 2nd place Hampshire while the girls team, including Darcey Flemming, came 2nd scoring 424 points behind winners Jersey. Combining the girls and boys team scores, Berkshire were the clear overall winners.

The best individual performance came from Darcey who won the Standing Long Jump with a massive leap of 2.16m which also out jumped all the boys. In the other field events, William Cox came 8th in both the balance test and target throw, William Joseph came 14th in both Standing long jump and Target throw and Darcey came 16th in the Soft Javelin.

In the team based track events, William Joseph was in the winning Berkshire quartet for both the 4 by 1 Lap relay and the Grand Prix relay and also in the 2nd placed pair in the 2 by 2 Lap relay. Darcey was in the Berkshire 4 that came 3rd in the Hurdles relay and 4th in the obstacle relay while William Cox was in the 8th placed 4 in the Over-Under relay.

1st – Isio Orogun          -            43.79     -       Dartford Harriers AC
2nd -Millie Calkin        -              43.82     -       Team Kennet AC
3rd – Rosa Prideaux   -              43.84     -       Chelmsford AC

It was a great race.  Bit difficult to get used to running the first 200 in lanes and then breaking into inside lane for last 100m.  Millie was just in second after the break and tried to take the winner on the bend but she just held her off.  As you can see 5 100^ths of a second between 1st, 2nd & 3rd, one of the closest races ever at the championships.

Team Kennet had other athletes taking part on day 1. In the u17 mens 400m Samuel Randall eased through to the final as he won his heat in 52.6 but could only managed 5th in the final with a slower time. Luke Conway ran a fast 800m in his heat of the under 20 800m in 2.01.96 for second, but still wasnt quick enough to reach the final. Justin Lakey took part in the Senior mens high jump to finish 6th with 1.85 his first competition for over 6 months.

Also competing at the meeting was Aidan Marshall who ran 7.66 in the 60m.

In the under 11 girls Eleanor Krefting kept her medal hopes alive with an excellent 2nd place, with Antonia Lewis coming home just behind in 3rd place and Charlotte Bradley last months winner in 6th. Mai Brown came 15th with Izzy Hole 25th and Mia Eldridge 43rd. Sam Hart came an excellent 3rd place with Josh Livingstone 22nd in the boys under 11s.

The under 15 girls saw Yasmin Ryder home in 4th place with Chloe Scaplehorn 9th and Georgina Bradford 11th for third team which they keep in the overall standings. Rhea Walter was next home in 12th, Kirsty Bennet having a great run in 13th, Alex Maughan 16th and Charlie Estcourt 17th. Susie Drake led the u13 girls home with an excellent run in 8th place, Carys Cox was 13th, Imogen Harding also having a good run was 15th for 4th place team with Jordan Donavon 22nd. Alex Hanson led the u15 boys home in 6th place with Daniel Collis 9th. Emma Seymour was 11th in the u17 womens race. In the u13 boys Jordan Hole came 16th with Alex Davis 19th.

The seniors ladies team were led home by Helen Preedy in 10th place with Sue Francis 12th who lies 3rd overal in the v35, Margaret Topham was 138th with Gillian Anton 144th. In the mens race Micheal Randall was 39th, David Anderson 198th, Mike Sheridan 206th and Colin Price 236th