Sevenoaks Athletics Club

Sevenoaks AC

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SAC U15 girls are Kent County Champions

Sevenoaks ACs U15 Girls Cross Country Team scored a famous victory winning the Kent Cross Country title on Saturday 8th January at Brands Hatch, writes Head Coach Darrell Smith.

Nineteen Juniors competed for the Club in cold, windy, wet and muddy conditions over a testing course.

A total of 8 runners toed the line for Sevenoaks AC U15 Girls team, up against the top Clubs in Kent including Blackheath and Bromley Harriers, Tonbridge AC and Medway & Maidstone AC.

Sevenoaks top scorers Eliza Nicholson, Ella Baker and Holly Diprose ran really smart races. Approaching the uphill finish, with 700m to go, all three moved up and into the winning Team position placing 4th, 6th and 8th respectively.

Following these performances all three hope to be selected to represent Kent at the National Inter-Counties Championships in March.

This win is the Club's first County Team title in its 50 year history!

SAC Handicap January 2022

Tony Horlock won the January handicap race by twenty-nine seconds, ahead of John Denyer.

Andrew Mead in third place was fastest overall, with Lucy Wilkes in fifth the fastest woman.

Winner of the previous three races, Sam Znetyniak, was fourth.

The second race of the 2022 series is next up. It starts from the Sevenoaks School track at 08:30 on Sunday 27th February.

The full details are here.

KFL 2021-22 Match 4 - Minnis Bay

Sevenoaks AC women retained their lead in the Kent Fitness League after the fourth match at Minnis Bay on 2nd January.

The cross-country course at Minnis Bay is unique, adds Jim Knight. Runners start at the end of Marine Parade and follow the coastal footpath towards Reculver Towers. After 3 miles, they turn inland, across the fields, over the railway embankment and then they have to jump over five deep mud-filled dykes before returning to the embankment for the final two miles to the finish. The dykes get progressively deeper and wider. The first is jumpable, but the 3rd is virtually impossible to cross without falling into waist-deep mud. A real cross-country course.

27 Sevenoaks AC athletes joined the 467 runners taking part in the race. By the finish their pristine white SAC vests were various shades of grey and brown.

The SAC women’s team ran well and were just beaten into second place by Canterbury Harriers. With two wins each, Sevenoaks and Canterbury have the same score in the series, but on count-back Sevenoaks retained their lead. The next two races, at Rough Common, Canterbury and Knole Park, Sevenoaks will be crucial in deciding the series winner. The SAC scorers on the day were Bridgit Weekes, Cath Linney, Suzy Claridge and Hannah Sangham with the rest of the team also running brilliantly over the soaking course.

Meanwhile, Jamie Philip was third overall, and first veteran, in his first appearance in the league. Along with fellow-scorers James Graham, Jonathan Marsh, Andy Evans, Mike Lochead, Ed Saunders, Richard Alford-Smith and Harvey Taylor, Jamie led the SAC men to seventh place on the day, but fifth after four races.

All this meant that Sevenoaks AC's combined team were fifth on the day and stay fifth in the standings. The SAC results were:

The full results are here.

The next (fifth) match is at Blean Woods, Rough Common on 6th February.