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
Warwickshire / Worcester XC Championships – Brilliant BRAT Results!
The first weekend of 2019 was a very busy and successful one for BRAT athletes. BRAT senior women’s cross country teams won both the Worcestershire and Warwickshire championships as well as Molly Browne being individual champion in Worcestershire. – Worcestershire Team Championship (Gold): Molly Browne (Gold) -1st, Eloise Lee – 4th, Rachel Farquhar – 8th – Warwickshire Team Championship (Gold): Becky Tipping – 4th, Anne Kenchington – 6th – Katrina Rye 8th. In the men’s events:– Worcester Team Masters Championship (Silver): Jonny Cullen, James Marshall, Anthanios Tsolakis, Simon Lanckham, Ashley Fawke and Iain Squires– Worcester Individual Masters Championship (Silver): Jonny Cullen – Warwickshire Team Masters Championships (Bronze): Chris Ashford, Nick Lewis, Rene Vergo and Adam Western were bronze medallists in the Warwickshire championships – Warwickshire Individual Masters Championships (Silver): Chris Ashford Junior age groups Morgan Hill and Rueben Kite were both seventh in their age groups and altogether 42 BRAT’s…
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.
Midlands Autumn Road Relays – Time to Enter
Men 6×5.85km, Women 4×4.35km Hello BRAT mates, still hanging onto Summer, but need your attention for September. We can enter as many teams as we want to pay for, and everyone is welcome regardless of standard. Teams are selected in anticipated order of speed, so any new runners concerned about being thrown on A team first leg can relax. The race attracts fast and slow, young and old, too thin and too fat, 800m to marathon runners. Give it a go and I bet you get a good time out of it. I have to enter number of teams and squad names by 2 September, so please let me know well before that. Squad entry is actual places x 3, so just need a possible-probable-definite. I will need from everyone: English Athletic completion number (you tick this box at BRAT club renewal), membership must be paid up to date (shows…
BRAT multi-event junior wins bronze…
Josie Williams has won a bronze medal at the Midland Championships in Nuneaton. It was in the Girls under 13 quadrathlon (100m, long jump, shot and 600m). It was a brilliant result for Josie and for fellow BRAT competitor Monique James Thomas, who finished 8th out of a field of 21. Well done girls!
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…
Dates for the Diary
Despite the continuing very un-British summer the autumn road relays are in sight and the mud of cross country is just over the horizon (yes it really is that time of year already !) Please keep the following dates free and do your best to run in these events. More details to follow. See Events Calendar for venue details Saturday 22nd September – Road Relays – Sutton Park Saturday 10th November – XC League race-1 Saturday 1st December – XC League race-2 Saturday 12th January – XC League race-3 Saturday 9th February – XC League race-4
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.
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!…
Zac Humphries breaks the club record for the sixth time this year.
Competing in the Cheltenham Harriers open meeting on July 5th, Zac broke the U13 Boys 75m Hurdles club record for the sixth time this year, in a time of 12.5secs. This now ranks him 9th in the UK this year.
DY4 0BS is the new PB5 SB2
Last night saw the third instalment of BMC regional races at the Tipton Track (DY4 0BS) BRATs were out in force recording 5 Personal Bests and 2 Season’s Bests Proceedings got off to a flying start in the first race (5000m) with Mark Ince leading BRATs home in a solid season’s best, closely followed by Nathan Warren with a new PB and sub-17 performance in 16:56.67. Nathan himself was chased home by track debutant Thanos also scoring a PB. Next up was Molly Browne in her favourite event (not) the 1500m. Unperturbed Molly sliced a massive 5 seconds off her PB and also claimed a new (to be confirmed) club record which has stood for 14 years. Abayomi dropped down to 800m and undaunted by the pace stormed around 2-laps to also record a new PB in 2:14.43. (those 4 x 400m relay legs are paying off). Bournville’s Henry…