Yearly Archives: 2021

Last Sunday at Tonbridge The sports facilities at Tonbridge School – and especially the athletics facilities – always make a great impression on visitors to the track – and especially those visiting it for the first time, as was the case for most of us on Sunday. We managed to find some shade from Sunday’s...

Last Saturday at Brighton Yes this last weekend has been very busy with competitions on both Saturday and Sunday On Saturday we had the Sussex Championships for both under 11s and under 13s at Brighton and then on Sunday we went to K2 for a match for our senior athletes (including under 17s and under...

Sussex County Championships on Sunday July 4 I have been away for a few days (in the Yorkshire Dales) and have only just caught up with what our athletes did at the Sussex County Championships down in Brighton on Sunday. Ollie Strange had a very busy day in the under 15 sprints – earning 2...

Match for under 17s and under 20s on Sunday June 27 We only had 3 athletes able to compete alongside athletes from Eastbourne and Lewes in the composite team known as Team Sussex. A 3 were throwers with Ella Kessell in the under 17 hammer and discus, Lucy Rogers in the same events as Ella...

Sussex Schools Championships on Saturday June 19 Having thrown a pb at June 12’s Sussex Schools Championships Ella Kessell had another opportunity to compete on the second day of the schools champs. And another pb, but this time an improvement of some 5 metres with the 3k hammer going out to 30.75 metres. Match for...

Thursday evening meeting at K2 for under 13s and under 11s Just a few days after the league match at K2 on Saturday June 5 many of our under 13 athletes were back at K2 for another meeting on Thursday evening. Again the sun shone though as the evening progressed  it began to feel a...

Saturday’s Match for under 13s and under 15s at K2 Warm sunny weather is always good for athletes and that’s what we had for our match at K2 on Saturday. For most of our athletes this was their first experience of club athletics and with the support of parents we had a great day. We...

Match on Wednesday May 26 at Lewes We had 11 athletes competing on Wednesday evening down in Lewes. A number of good performances as I will talk about in a moment – but why weren’t more of our athletes taking part and getting some competition under their belts ? In his first competition since joining...

Match on Wednesday May 26 at Lewes Some of our under 15s and under17s (and also some of our under 13s as entry was widened to this age group in the middle of last week) will be in action on Wednesday evening down in Lewes. We wish them well. Match coming up on Saturday June...

Match on Wednesday May 26 at Lewes A reminder of an athletics meeting at Lewes on the evening of WEDNESDAY MAY 26 for under 15s (school years 8 and 9) and under 17s (school years 10 and 11). Athletes enter themselves for this meeting and details are available on the Sussex Athletics website. We’d like...