Seni is 2nd in Somerset

World Athletics Combined events permit meetings are a bit like hens teeth in the UK, so despite the cold weather, Seni Purnell & Abi Belward (both coached by Andy Fisher) made the trip to Yeovil to take part in the Somerset Schools Combined event champs on Saturday & Sunday which for Seni was also the first part of her journey to the English Schools Combined events champs in September.

Seni achieved the pretty unique feat of coming 2nd in a pentathlon despite only scoring in 4 of the 5 events after no heighting in the high jump. Nevertheless, Seni had the consolation of a World Athletics listing in the long jump after jumping 5.11m and is safely through to the Regional schools CE champs in June.

Abi didn’t have the best of competitions but finished with a respectable 4191 points in the Heptathlon which currently places her 34th in the World U18 lists.