Track & Field Review - U17
U17 age groups
It's the turn of the U17 age groups for the season review.
We start with the men which saw 5 all time top 3 age group performances. 3 of these were by Will Atkins (coach Nick Anderson) who had a tremendous season. Will broke the clubs 3000m U17 mens record at the clubs BMC meeting on the 5th July with an impressive time of 8 mins 35.64 secs which also saw Will finish the season as UK ranked no 4 for his age group. Ruben Price (coach Nick Anderson) went 2nd on the clubs all time age group 3000m list in the very same race. In addition, Will went 2nd on the clubs all time age group 800m and 1500m lists just behind training partner Harry Wilson who had an equally impressive season as an U17 last year. Oscar Webb (coach Tony Bateman) went 3rd on the clubs all time pole vault lists with a vault of 3.13m in March.
The U17 women are undoubtedly the clubs strongest age group with a huge amount of talented young athletes across run, hurdle, jump & throw. 11 individual top 3 all time performances were recorded within this age group and 1 team performance in the relay. The team performance came courtesy of Frankie Moulds, Carys Jeffries (both coached by Andy Fisher), Rebekah Smith (coach Dave McManus) & Elsie Brindle (coach Mark Upton) who went 2nd on the cluibs all time age group list in the 4 x 100m relay with their performance in the Wessex league in Oxford in April. In addition Rebekah went joint 2nd in the clubs 80mh lists with her time of 11.90 secs recorded in the UAG YDL match in Bournemouth in April. Elsie had a magnificent season, equalling the clubs age group 100m record with a time of 12.20 secs at the home Wessex League match in June and going 3rd on the clubs all time age group 200m lists with a time of 24.84 secs recorded at at open meeting in Aldershot in August. Elsie shares her age group club record with Arabella Wilson (coach Andy Fisher) who broke the clubs age group 200m record with a time of 24.46 secs at the Surrey County Champs in May. This time good enough to rank her 4th on the end of season UK age group rankings.
Mia Judd (coach Tony Bateman) broke not just the age group club record but the absolute club record with a magnificent jump of 1.74m in the high jump at the Biggish jumps festival in Woodford at the end of May. Abi Belward (coach Andy Fisher) went 2nd on the clubs age group all time shot putt lists with a putt of 12.54m at the schools national combined events champs in Bedford last month. Throws records were broken for fun in this age group with Erin McBriar (coach Martin McBriar) breaking the clubs age group hammer record with a throw of 42.69m at the clubs last Open Meeting of the season. Erin also smashed the clubs age group discus record with a throw of 40.17m recorded at the clubs home SAL match in August and this performance is good enough to rank Erin 3rd in the UK end of season age group rankings. For good measure, Erin also went 3rd in the clubs all time age group shot putt lists with her putt of 11.46m recorded at the clubs last UAG YDL match in Perivale at the end of July. Erin's training partner Evie Scott (coach Martin McBriar) also went over the 40m mark with the 3kg hammer at the clubs end of season open meeting last month and this takes the 2nd place spot in the clubs all time age group lists. Finally Jessica Howells (coach Andy Fisher) threw an enourmous 46.53m to smash the clubs all time age group javelin record and in doing so won the South of England U17 title at Lee Valley in August. In other years this would rank Jess UK no 1 for her age group but there is a particularly strong cohort of U17 women javelin throwers just now and Jess has to console herself with an end of season UK age group ranking of 5th.
All U17 records have now been updated on the website.