Awards Night
Awards Night!!!! Join us with your family and friends for a great evening to celebrate our young achievers and our fantastic club. Get your tickets here: https://bratclub.co.uk/product-category/events/ Awards Night Bake off competition!!! We are running a bake off competition on the evening and would like as many of you as possible to enter. To celebrate the diversity of our club we would like you to bring in a homemade cake or sweet that reflects you and your family. It might be a favourite family recipe or some ethnic/cultural speciality. There is a prize for the winning entry. We will offer the cakes and sweets as dessert for a small donation. The money collected will go towards badly needed training and competition equipment for our junior section of the club. Donations for the raffle ticket prizes! Julie has been busy organising our raffle for the awards night with some…
BRAT Juniors represent Warwickshire at Intercounties Meeting
Following their successes at the Warwickshire championships earlier in the season, four of our U13 athletes were selected to represent Warwickshire at the Intercounties match in Nottingham on September 8th. Congratulations to Zac Humphries, Eve Godsal, Monique James-Thomas and Lily Smith on their selections as the ‘A’ string athlete in their respective events. Despite a wet, windy and cool day all performed well in their toughest competition of the year. Zac won the 75m H in 12.66s, Eve was 4th in the 70m H in 12.80s, Monique was 3rd in the shot with a throw of 8.32m and Lily 4th in the Long Jump with a leap of 4.31m, all just below their season’s personal bests, achieved in better conditions.
Super BRAT’s success at National Masters Championships
Three BRAT athletes took part in the National Masters T & F championships at Alexander Stadium on August 25/26th and they came away with a superb haul of five medals. Star performance was by our new member Hannes Petzer who won the M40 Javelin with a club record throw of 50.95m and was runner up in the Discus with another club record performance of 36.01m. Two more silver medals were won by Cat Goulder Davies in the W40 100m and 200m in 13.97s and 29.46s respectively. A fourth silver medal was won by James Colclough in the M35 400m in a time of 53.62s and he also came 5th in the 200m in 24.64s into a very strong head wind.
Hale storms to Bronze medal at ESAA Championships
Due an injury at a schools meeting Josh Hale didn’t have the ideal preparation leading into the English Schools Championships at Alexander Stadium on July 13/14th, but he came a comfortable second in his heat in 50.27s to qualify for the next round. In the semi final he excelled breaking the club record yet again , dipping below the 50 second barrier with a time of 49.90s , again finishing second. In the final, he ran a great race again in finishing third and a bronze medal in another fine time of 49.93s.