07/09/2010

NEW WEBSITE AND BLOG

We are in the process of setting up a new Club website with an embedded blog. The new blog can be found at: http://www.chesterlestreetac.com/

18/08/2010

Commonwealth Games 2010 - Scotland Team

Wednesday 18th August

Congratualtions to our UK champion Freya Murray on gaining selection to compete in the 5000m at the Games in Delhi in October. With incredibly tough selection criteria, Freya had to run two performances at sub 15:35 to gain selection - a task she achieved!

Good luck Freya!

North East Harrier League

Wednesday 11th August

In the 800m's, Anna Fawcett finished 3rd in the U15 girls with a time of 2:28.55 whilst Callum Morgan ran 2:07.72 in the U17 mens race. Claire Simpson won the 3000m with a time of 10:01.24 and Angela Hunter was 3rd with 10:44.7.

Northern Steeplechase Champs, Stretford. Tuesday 10th August
Emma Raven comfortably won the Northern Athletics 2000m Steeplechase Championships in 6:42, following a two-week seasons break.

QuadKids Athletics

8th August 2010


In the final match of the series, our growing and fast improving squad of U12 athletes competed well bringing home a superb collection of 5 gold, 3 silver and 9 bronze medals and 6 overall trophies (from the 5-event grand prix).

Cailtin Llewellyn was the top point scorer of the day in the U9's winning two bronze medals in the 50m sprint and the 400m, and with a tremendous throw of 15.59m in the howler, a gold!

Nathan Fawcett topped the results table in the U10's with Sam Overal in 3rd place. Together with Joe Halpin, the boys performed well with Nathan finishing third in the 50m with a time of 8.1 seconds, and Joe just behind with a time of 8.9seconds. Nathan won the howler with a throw of 32.25m and also won the 400m with an impressive time of 70seconds whilst Sam took bronze in 74 seconds.
In the competitive U10 girls competition Emily Corless claimed the third overall spot with a joint 3rd place finish in the 50m with a time of 8.1seconds and a gold in the standing longjump with 1.74m. Struggling with an injury, Rebecca Wood bravely competed and finished just 3points ahead of club mate Amy Jack in the overall standings. With Rebecca finishing just ahead of Amy in the sprint, long jump and 400m, Amy unleashed a 15.65m howler throw to take a well deserved bronze medal, just 30cm further than Emily.

In the U11 boys, our trio of Kieran Pinkney, Corey Bell and Owen King finished in 1st, 5th and 7th on the day with Kieran throwing an impressive 36.97m in the howler, Corey racing to equal 5th in the 75m with 11.9(just behind Kieran) and Owen showing talent for the longer distances with a 3rd place run in the 600m (with 2:13) just behind Kieran who won in 2.01.

Olivia Nelson and Jessica Parker battled it out for 3rd and 4th in the U11 girls with Olivia picking up two bronze medals for the 75m and long jump and Jessica claiming the bronze in the howler only 1cm short of the silver medal. New athlete Abbie Dinsdale made her debut for the club and ran in the 75m and threw the howler.
Our sole U12 athlete, Beth Brown battled hard all the way to the finish line in the 600m running 2mins 30.

Grand Prix Points

After collecting points (like decathlon points scoring) in each of the 5-matches, Sam Overal came out on top in the U10 boys competition with a total of 1008, with clubmate Nathan Fawcett collecting the third placed trophy. Caitlin Llewelln also finished 3rd in the U9's, a superb achievement as these points were accumulated from only 3 of the 5 events. Emily Corless won a trophy for 4th place in the U10 girls whilst Rebecca Wood just missed out finishing in 6th. In the U11 age group, Tom Cowperthaite who missed the final match finished 3rd overall whilst Olivia Nelson collected the 4th place prize. Jessica Parker also came close to a trophy finishing only 10 points behind the 5th place girl.

In total over the whole series, the squad collected 17 gold, 23 silver and 23 bronze medals, a total 63 medals. The following 28th athletes competed including:


U9
Oliver Barrett
Caitlin Llewellyn
Christina Elsdon

U 10
Sam Overal
Nathan Fawcett
Jonathan Langley
Joe Halpin
James Heydon
Emily Corless
Rebecca Wood
Amy Jack

U11
Tom Cowperthwaite
Kieran Pinkney
Owen King
James Hunter
Corey Bell
Jarryd Purvise
Olivia Nelson
Jessica Parker
Lucy Elsdon
Ellie Heydon
Olivia Campbell
Lauren Beanland
Bethany Lee
Amy Thew
Abbie Dinsdale

U12
Scott Armstrong
Beth Brown

10/08/2010

Darlington 10km

8th August 2010

Maxine Czarnecka led the ClS contingent home as 2nd placed female with a solid performance of 36:00, her 2nd fastest ever. Tracy Laws was next home in 36:30, lacking the longer endurance after a summer concentrating on the track. David McGuckin led the men's team home in 40:07 (86th) winning his age-group. He was backed up by Keith Robershaw in 128th (41:19), Robert Brannon in 344th (47.06) and coach Joe Elsender in 1:09.04.

NE Harrier League, Jarrow

Th club had four athletes racing against the clock in the 1500m. First year U15 Anna Fawcett won her age-group in a time of 5.00.4, once again coming agonisingly close to breaking 5mins for the first time. Thomas Goulding was also close to his PB in the boys race where he finished 6th in 4:41.0. PB success did come for Callum Morgan who removed another second from his PB recording 4:21.6 when finishing 4th in the U17 competition. Angela Hunter finished 2nd in the senior women's event running 4:59.8.

On the in-field, Mia Hodgson won the high jump with a clearance of 1.50m which was only 1cm short of equalling her PB.

22/07/2010

NE Road 5km Champs

Silksworth, Sunderland, 21st July

First home in 20th position was Matty Tomlison recording 16:43 followed by Stewy Bell in 17:05. Claire Simpson led the Chester ladies home finishing 3rd female overall with a time of 17:32. Maxine Czarnecha followed her in shortly after in 4th place with 17:29 and Angela Hunter completed the team in 6th place in a time of 18:32. (There are currently no results avaialbe past 100)

Grangemouth Open Graded
Meanwhile, Emma Raven ran a new PB (and Scottish Native Record) of 10:05 in the 3000m steeplechase, removing 4 seconds from her best. She suffered an unfortunate fall at the first waterjump due to poor lighting (10pm at night) and torrential rain but battled hard lapping the entire field twice.