Gracie leads England schools to team title

Gracie Osman (coach Andy Fisher) was the leading English U16 competitor at the Schools indoor Home International combined Events match in Cardiff yesterday as the English girls won the Team Event ahead of teams from the other home countries.

Gracie couldn’t have started life as an U17 athlete any better as she jumped indoors as far as any WADAC women in history by recording 5.58m to equal Arabella Wilson’s indoor club record in the long jump. Gracie followed this with hurdles and then high jump where her jump of 1.59m was good enough for 3rd place on the club’s all time age group indoor lists. Then came shot putt & 800m to finish which saw Gracie achieve a points total of 3351 good enough for 4th best individual on the day and part of the winning England U16 girls team.

On the other side of the pond yesterday, another indoor club record fell as Oliver Thatcher (coach Andy Fisher) jumped 1.99m in the high jump his best jump for 2 years on his seasonal indoor debut in Louisville, Kentucky. Oliver also blew the rust away in 60m & long jump but will be most pleased with returning to his best in high jump and surely he will be back over 2m soon.