Monthly Archives: August 2015

Results from Bank Holiday Monday’s Open Meeting at Crawley It was good to see seven of our athletes competing at K2 on Monday amidst some rather miserable weather. Under 11 Tallulah Sullivan was busy all day with runs in the 75 metres (12.31 seconds), 150 metres (24.26) and 600 metres (2 minutes and 4.63 seconds),...

In the inter-county match at Hendon on Sunday Abby Beswick produced a couple of second-place performances for Sussex. In her heat of the 200 metres she was a comfortable second in 25.57 seconds. In the final later in the afternoon she again came second, this time in 25.37 seconds. The girl who beat her in...

We have a couple of athletes representing Sussex in this weekend’s South of England Under 15 and Under 20 Inter-County match at Barnet on Sunday August 23. Counties from Cornwall to Norfolk take part match in what is normally a very high-level competition. Henry Aronson will be running in the under 15 boys 1500 metres,...

With only 5 men and 7 ladies available for Saturday’s senior match down in Bournemouth we were bound to find the match difficult – however hard our athletes worked during the afternoon. And with the home team Bournemouth using some of their British League athletes to fill in some of their gaps it was going to...

In July of this year Sarah Rusling beat Cat Shin’s senior ladies long jump record of 4.96 metres when she jumped 5.00 metres in the senior match at Portsmouth. However in the Horsham Open meeting on Sunday Cat took the record back when she jumped 5.01 metres – her first time over 5 metres. Under...

Looking backwards It’s taken me most of the week to catch up with all the matches that we were involved with during July – ranging from the gales that Abby Beswick had to run into at the English Schools Championships in Gateshead to the heavy rain that our under 15 team had at Horsham last...