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Under 13 and Under 15 Girls 2016
On the 23rd April, we went On 19th June, we went to
Another fantastic season for to Reading for the first Youth Eton for the 3rd Youth
the Young Athletes which Development League match Development League
started on 2nd April with of the season, with several of match. With all our athletes
the Alpha Beta Trophy our distance athletes missing competing well and filling in
Match. The Under 15 Girls as they were taking part in the for new events where we had
came first which was a great Mini London Marathon the gaps. We came 2nd overall
start to the season. next day we still managed to
come 3rd. Our 3rd Youth Development
League fixture was on the
The next event was the first 19th of June at Norman Park,
Kent League at Norman Park with a home fixture we were
on 7th May. We had a large looking for great things and
number of athletes taking were not disappointed. We
part. The Under 15 and Under came first by just over 40
13 girls came first. points. There were many PBs
Our next Youth Development as well as a Club Record from
League fixture was at Ellie Dolby in the 1200m with
Southampton on 21st May a time of 3.48.6. This puts us
and we came second putting 2nd in the table with one more
us second in the league. All fixture to go.
athletes competed to the best On 3rd July, we had our
of their ability with many pbs third Kent League match at
on the day. Ashford and again we had
On 5th of June we went to many athletes competing in a
Dartford for our second Kent few different events, some of
League fixture where everyone which they hadn’t tried before.
competed to the best of their Eleanor Barrett got the club
ability and more and we came record in the Pole Vault with a
first overall. height of 3.10m. We came first