BRAT Juniors Power to Historic Best-Ever League Finish!
History was made last Sunday as the West Midlands Young Athletes Cross Country League concluded its 2025/26 season. After five gruelling fixtures, the BRAT junior squad secured a magnificent 4th place overall—the highest league finish in the club’s history! Breaking into the “Top 4” is a massive achievement and a testament to the depth and dedication of our young athletes. We finished the season with a massive 26,940 points, holding off fierce competition to set a new club standard. 🏆 Team Glory: A Hat-Trick of Podiums It wasn’t just the overall table where we shone. Three of our boys’ teams produced outstanding campaigns to bring home league medals, showing the strength of our packing in these age groups. Our U17 Men also put in a strong shift, finishing just outside the medals in 4th place, while the U11 Girls secured a solid 6th place finish in a very competitive league.…
U15 Boys Closing in on Title as Throws Squad Hits “Quadruple Gold”
The penultimate fixture of the Sportshall Athletics League was a showcase of BRAT athletics. With a clean sweep in the U13 Shot Put and vital wins on the track and in the jumps, the club is in a fantastic position ahead of the Grand Finale on March 7th. 🥇 Field Event Fury: The Throws Squad The headline story of the match was the absolute dominance of our throwers. The club achieved a spectacular “Quadruple Gold” in the U13 Shot Put, winning every single category available! ⚡ U13 Highlights: Speed & Power The U13 girls were in electric form in the gym, particularly in the Speed Bounce, where we took maximum points. 🌟 U11 Highlights: Oscar & Leo Shine Our youngest athletes provided some of the most exciting moments of the day. 🏆 U15 Boys: The Title Charge The U15 Boys are now tantalizingly close to the league title. They dominated…
🥉 The Battle for Bronze: All Hands on Deck for the Season Finale!
This Sunday, the West Midlands Young Athletes Cross Country League concludes at Wolverhampton—and we have a massive opportunity. After four grueling races through mud, rain, and hills, BRAT currently sits in 4th place overall. We have had some spectacular individual performances and strong squad turnouts, but the job isn’t done yet. We have one clear target for the final race: Catch Birchfield Harriers. The Mission: Overtake Birchfield We are currently chasing Birchfield Harriers for that podium spot. The gap is real, but it is absolutely bridgeable. In cross-country, points aren’t just won by the athletes at the front—they are won by the sheer volume of teammates crossing the finish line. If we field full teams in every age group, the swing in points can be enormous. We have the talent to take 3rd place, but we can only do it if we out-number and out-run them this Sunday. 📢 A…
Snow, Ice, and Grit: A Challenging Day at Nuneaton! ❄️🥶
Date: 11th January 2026 Event: West Midlands Young Athletes Cross Country League – Match 4 Cross country runners are known for their toughness, but this weekend, the weather really put us to the test! 😅 While Nuneaton was ready to go, a blanket of snow in Birmingham made travel impossible for many of our amazing athletes. 🚫🚗 As a result, BRAT faced our toughest fixture in ages. After soaring to a spectacular 2nd place overall in December, the snow and a smaller squad meant we finished 7th Overall in Match 4. Ouch! 😬 It was a tough day for points, especially on the girls’ side, where a lack of numbers cost us big time in the overall standings. BUT, for those heroes who braved the icy roads to get to The Pingles, there were some truly epic performances, including a standout team victory! 💪🥇 The Challenge: A Struggle for Numbers…
BRAT Club Junior Success at County XC Championships
Warley Woods – Saturday 13th December 2025 It was a fantastic day of racing at Warley Woods for the combined Worcestershire and Warwickshire County Cross Country Championships. BRAT Club’s junior athletes turned out in force, delivering standout performances across the age groups. From individual battles to dominant team victories, our young runners did the club proud in challenging winter conditions. Here is a roundup of the action from the Under 11 to Under 17 categories. Under 11 Boys: Warwickshire Team Champions! The U11 Boys put in a dominant display to bring home the Warwickshire Team Gold, beating stiff competition from Stratford and Leamington. Team Result: 🥇 1st Place – BRAT Club (14 points) – Logan Pearce, Leo Dunigan, Lucas Sacremento Guillaume. Under 11 Girls: Team Silver Our U11 Girls packed well to secure a brilliant Team Silver in the Warwickshire standings. Team Result: 🥈 2nd Place – BRAT Club (22…
Strong Throws and Flying Finishes: BRATs Shine at Sportshall League Match 2! 🤩
Date: Sunday, 30th November 2025 Event: Birmingham Sportshall League 🏆 It was another action-packed afternoon for BRAT at the second fixture of the Sportshall League. With a great turnout across all age groups, our athletes delivered some standout individual performances—particularly in the field events—while our relay teams battled hard for every point. 💪 Here is a round-up of the day’s action:—–U15 Boys: Muayyad Leads the Way! 🚀 The U15 Boys squad had a fantastic afternoon, finishing 2nd on the day and cementing their place as 2nd in the Overall League Standings. 🥈 A huge congratulations goes to Muayyad Mohamed, who was the top performer of the match. Muayyad scored an incredible 118 points on the day to lead the team, securing maximum points in the Triple Jump 👟 and Speed Bounce, along with a strong run in the 4 Lap. The “Throws Squad” was also in dominant form. Temi Dada…
BRAT End of Season Open – Sunday 7th Sept
This was the first open that BRAT have hosted in many years. It was great to see athletes attending from far and wide to attend an event in which the majority of events sold out. A host of new officials supplemented the experienced core team of officials. With the exception of Chief Starter, Ray Lloyd, all officials were from within the club. Additionally, a largely new events team worked together behind the scenes to make the event work. Full results can be found on Entry4Sport on this link and on PowerOf10 here. Photos courtesy of Imageineering can be found on these links: We hope to see you at our events in 2026.
Warwickshire & Worcestershire County XC Champs- Solihull Riding Club Saturday 14th December
Write-up by: Nick Price (Junior XC Team Manager & Endurance Lead Coach) Some excellent performances by the juniors at the County XC Champs at the new testing course at the Solihull Riding Club. It was good for the juniors to experience racing on pasture / farm land rather than parks! The Champs is one of the qualifying races for the Inter Counties XC Champs at Nottingham on 8th March with 8 athletes from Warwickshire and Worcestershire being selected! Overall we achieved 4 podium medals and 3 team medals during the day which was a great team effort! U11G – Nya ran away with the race and looked comfortable winning her 2nd County XC Champs in a row! Isabelle 21, Veronica 25. Team 4th U11B- Another excellent performance by the U11s with a great 2nd team place again!! George 5, Thomas 11, Zachary 13, Jeevan 19, William 20, Walter 21, Sebastian…
Sportshall Is Back!
Sportshall Athletics. If there was ever a form of organized chaos in athletics. This is it. The degree to which it is organized or chaotic varies from match to match and from club to club, but I’d like to think that BRAT veer slightly towards the organized side of things. It’s somewhat surprising, given the number of new faces we see taking part, not knowing quite what to expect. In Matt’s absence, I had the please of giving out the numbers. This gave a me a great opportunity to assess the general feeling of our athletes. I’d say that there were a lot of nerves on show, so congratulations to all of you that felt nervous at the start but conquered those nerves to put in some great performances. Our u15g team won overall and our u15b were pipped to first place by a handful of points. Out of our…
Heart of England League – Banbury – 23rd June 2024
the Heart of England league. Rewind back to this time 2 years ago and we were in division 3. Since then, we have had 2 consecutive seasons of promotion. My expectation was that we would hold our own and finish comfortably around the middle of the division.
County Champs 2024
There was fierce competition last weekend at the Athletics County Championships (both Warwickshire and Worcestershire). The competition for the most sunburnt spectator was marginally less intense than the competition for the most vociferous! Yes, we were blessed with an uncharacteristically hot weekend which was tempered slightly by a cool swirling breeze. I’m not sure if it was just me, but it did seem as though there was a headwind on both the home straight and the back straight, but we really shouldn’t complain given how unseasonably warm it was! As junior team manager, I take great pleasure in seeing our athletes apply what they have learnt in training to competition. I know that all the coaches share this view. Training and competition are different. You can not replicate the adrenaline rush you feel in a race when someone creeps on to your shoulder or the euphoria you feel when you…
West Mids Junior Cross Country League – Walsall – 22nd October 2023
A great start to the season with the club in 4th place overall with 49 athletes competing across the age groups. Star team of the day was the U11 Boys in 3rd place with the U17W 7th, U17M 6th, U11G 6th, U15B 8th, U13G 8th, U13B 4th, U15G 7th so excellent results across the age groups. Individually we had some great performances with U11G Nya 5th, U13B Ollie 6th, U11B Charlie 9th with top ten finishers. But it does not show the true picture of the performance with lots of athletes moving up an age group and still achieving high placings. Then there is the individual improvements of athletes which all adds up towards that 4th overall team on the day! Remember that if you finish in 50th that is still 151 points for the club so all your efforts add to the overall total. Thank you again for the…