Senior T&F League – Mixed Start to Season
After the first two meetings of the track and field season the BRAT team are in fourth place, just a single point above the relegation zone. The first meeting in May saw a number of athletes making their debut for the team; Helen Callaghan, Dawn Gallagher, Claire Fudge, Rachel Brown, Rachel Farquhar, Reuben Kite, Chris Burrows and Matt Pollard. We only had eight women available on the day so it was always going to be an uphill struggle, however we managed to finish fifth and were only nine points behind Wolverhampton in fourth place. Our winners on the day were Alex Clegg who did a treble in the A string of the 110 hurdles, pole vault and shot plus winning the B string Discus. Ren Zhang took the win in the B 110 hurdles and Hannes Petzer won the B shot. With more women available for the second meeting at…
Heart of England Athletics League – Match 1, Sunday June 2nd.
Well done to all our young athletes and a BIG THANK YOU to families, coaches and officials for supporting our junior team at the first Heart of England match for the season at Banbury Stadium! We saw fantastic performances all round. Our U15 girls and boys team achieved 1st place in their age group and stand out performances from Lily Smith saw her breaking our U13 H/J club record at 1.36m and Maisie Scamp in the U15 HJ with 1.46m! In spite of having no U17 female team we placed 4th for the match, just a few points behind Corby. Lets see if we can get that 3rd place off Corby at the second match this Saturday, 15th June at Pingles Stadium, Nuneaton!!!
It’s Gold for John
Flying the BRAT flag at the Midland U20/Senior championships , John Stolberg came 5th in the U20 400 Hurdles final in a personal best time of 60.95s , before storming to victory in the 2000m steeplechase in a time of 6m 54.70s and winning hie first gold medal in a regional championship.
A Ten for Clegg
Senior Men’s National Decathlon Championships – Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May at Bedford. Alexander finished in 17th overall (one place behind Harry Hillman pictured). They both won silver medals for their regions – Harry for Wales, Alexander for the Midlands.
BRAT youngsters shine at County Championships
On a beautiful sunny and warm spring weekend on May 11/12th our youngsters produce 28 performances in finals at the Warwickshire and Worcsetershire championships and came away with a magnificent 5 golds, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals. Star performance was by U13G Lily Smith, at the Warwickshire championships, who won both 200m in 29.40s, after a 29.25s heat, and Long Jump with 4.60m. She then followed these up with a second place in the 100m in 13.92s, following a 13.69s heat. Not to be out done, sister May Smith won the U13G Discus with throw of 14.14m. Another discus winner was U13B Solomon Humphries with a pb throw of 17.88m, ranking him in the UK top 20. Our final winner was Jacob Gosnall in the Long Jump at the Worcestershire Chjampionships, with a leap of 4.29m and he also secured 3rd place in the 100m in a time of…
Track & Field League – Call to Action
Fellow BRATs – help needed in first athletics league match of the season. On Sunday 19th May the BRAT athletics team will be involved in the first meeting of the season in Gloucester. Many thanks to those of you who have already responded however the women’s team are still short in a number of events;800/1500/3000m 100/400 hurdles races Long jump/High jump/Triple jump/Pole vault Javelin Can you help? We need to gain as many points as we can which means filling as many of these events with ideally two athletes in each. The call for hurdlers, triple jumpers and vaulters is rather ambitious – I would suggest having a go only if you’ve done it before! However, Long jump, High jump and Javelin – we can teach you to be more than competent and get us some valuable points in the next few weeks. If you are interested in running, jumping…
Midland Counties Indoor Championships
The BRAT sprint hurdlers enjoyed a very successful day at part 1 of the Midland Indoor Championships at HPC Birmingham on February 10th. Prince Ayeh replicated his outdoor sprint hurdle success at the outdoor championships last year by winning the 60mH in a pb time of 8.86s. Three of our young hurdlers who have moved up an age group also had a pleasing day with Eve Godsal finishing 4th in the final of the U15G 60m H in a pb time of 9.96s ,an improvement of 0.3s from her last race and similarly Zac Humphries also finished 4th in the final of the U15B 60mH in 9.92s. John Stolberg had a brilliant race in the U20M 60mH coming 6th in a pb time of 9.10s, an improvement of 0.6s. Unfortunately Simran Watson had a poor start in her heat of the U15G 60m H and whilst she finished 3rd in…
2nd Midland Counties indoor open meeting
Some very fine performances were recorded by the large number of BRAT athletes who took part in the second Midland counties indoor and outdoor throws open meeting on January 26th/27th. Star performance was by Lily Smith who broke the club record in the U13 Long Jump with a fantastic leap of 4.47m , to place her 3rd in the UK this year. Later she ran 8.83s for 60m to place her in the UK top 40. N ot to be outdone sister May recorded a pb of 3.93m in the long jump and 9.25s in the 60m. Other results which included numerous personal bests were ;- Masters 60m James Colclough 7.79s Senior 60m Hurdles Prince Ayeh 8.89s (pb) U20M 60m H John Stolberg 9.75s (pb) U15B 60mH Zac Humphries 9.82s (pb) U15B 60m Kai Lindsay-Duffy 8.32s(pb) U15B Shot Solomon Humphries 5.71m U20W 60m Naomi Johnson 8.29s (pb), Eva Gunn 8.68s…
2019 Track and Field – Strong start for BRAT’s
The start of the season took place for the track and field athletes in Sheffield with some great results for our competitors. Individual recognition for:– Alex Clegg Midlands U23 (Bronze) – Indoor Heptathlon Championships (4371pts). Juniors took part in the first Midland Counties indoor open meeting in Birmingham with a great deal of success. – U13G Lily Smith LJ 4.25m, 60m 8.9s, May Smith LJ 3.73m (pb) 60m 9.2s, – U15G Carrie Williams 60m 8.49s, Lilian Smith 9.34s, JT 20.41m, Eve Godsal 60mH 10.8s, Simran Watson 60mH 11.28s, Maisie Scamp HJ 1.35m, 60m 8.80s, LJ 3.98m, Josie Williams LJ 4.44m, SP 8.62m, 60m 8.78s, Keira Valentine 60m 8.87s, Mali Lloyd griffiths HJ 1.25m, 60m 8.63s – U20W Naomi Johnson 60m 8.34s– U15B Kai Lindsay-Duffy 60m 8.41s
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.
Safe! – T&F League Match 4 Report
The BRAT track & field team saved themselves from the threat of relegation on Saturday at Stoke by finishing in fifth place on the day, whilst Stoke could only manage second, which was not enough for them to save themselves. In reality, we were always going to be fairly safe given that Halesowen had finished bottom in all three of the previous meetings and have struggled to get athletes out to compete but given that we only had eight women available again then there was still the feint possibility that we could still trip up. Our winners on the day were Jonny Briggs (Discus A), Jack Vickery (Hammer B) and Hannes Petzer (Javelin A) and making her debut for the team, Sophie Dalley – welcome to the team Sophie. In the end we finished third in the division but that only tells part of the story. At the halfway stage…
Close run thing… T&F League Match 3 Report
Despite having only 8 women available for the third league match of the season, the BRAT team managed to overcome a relegation threatened City of Stoke team by just five points and therefore all but assure ourselves of remaining in division two next season. Naomi, Eva, Amelia, Molly, Eloise, Amanda, Judith and Rosie (on debut) managed to grab vital points on a sun-drenched, World Cup fuelled Saturday in Abingdon. Providing excellent support were the men’s team who managed eight wins on the day, including winning 6 of the 8 throwing events and coming second in both the remaining throws. Winners on the day were Jonny Briggs (Hammer A and Discus A), Igor Huszak (Javelin A), Dan Robinson and Martin Matthews taking A and B wins in the 5000m and a hat-trick of wins on debut for Hannes Petzer (Javelin A, Hammer B, Discus B) – welcome to the club Hannes!…