Kent Young Athlete League Match, 5th July Gillingham
Our U13/U15s repeated their Team performance from the 2nd match with a 3rd place Team finish, further establishing their position and pulling further away from 4th placed Folkstone, writes head coach Darrell Smith. With the final match on the 16th August, the Team looks to be in a strong position to hold onto 3rd but not quite within reach, this year, of making the top 2 teams and gaining promotion.
In the U13Gs there were wins for Autumn Harden in HJ (1.20) and Georgina Davidson-Nwosu in the Shot (6.91), Discus (23.03), and Javelin (18.89). In the U13B there were wins for Teddy Grobel in the Hurdles in a very fast 13.1. Charlie Bayliss won the Shot in 7.48. In the U15G Olwyn Mtungwazi won the Long Jumping 4.92 and Imogen Mace win the Discus (21.48) and Javelin (29.02).
Kent Schools, 14th June, Gillingham
Ten Sevenoaks AC Athletes competed for their respective Schools at the All Kent Championships at Gillingham on the 14th June. Special mention to Imogen Mace (Javelin) and Liv Mtungwazi (200m) who won their respective events and have both been selected to represent Kent at the All England Schools Track and Field Champs on the 12th July, Birmingham.
U13 Kent Call ups
In addition to Liv and Imogen, two more Athletes have been selected to represent Kent and County Matches. In the U13 Girls, Georgina Davidson-Nwosu (Discus) and Cora Old (800m) are representing Kent at a Inter County Match on 3rd August.
English Schools Track and Field Champs, Birmingham, 12th and 13th July
Two of our best made it all the way to the English Schools Champs, the premier event of the Summer. Liv Mtungwazi thought she hadn’t made the U16G 200m Final but then found out just minutes before that she was allowed to run. Liv finished 9th in the Final, her first National Final. In the U14G Javelin, Imogen placed 10th in her first National Final. Both will take this experience forward.
There were pleasant weather conditions for this second match of season at Norman Park, Bromley, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Third after the first match, the Team went in a little bigger in number and stronger than the first match. And so it proved with the Team moving up to 3rd overall.
There were individual wins for Matthew in the 800m, Teddy in the Hurdles and Long Jump, George in the Shot (7m59cm a Club Record) Olwyn in the Discus and Long Jump (5m05cm a Club Record) and Cora in the 800m (2.35.2 a Club Record).There was also a win for our U15B 4 x 300m, the last event of the day.
However it was the overall Team performance that stood out. Despite all our Age Group Teams (U13G,Y13B,U15G) and all finishing 4th in their respective age-groups, we still managed to come 3rd overall.
The full results are here. Our next match is on the 5th July at Medway Park Maidstone.
Nine Sevenoaks AC Junior Athletes competed at the Kent Track and Field Championships at Ashford on 10th and 11th May, coming away with two Bronze, a Silver and one Gold, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
On the Saturday , Brianna Kuranga threw 9m 62cm in the U17W Shot to place 3rd and Liv Mtungwazi was winner of the U17W 200m clocking 25.01.
On day two, Liv Mtungwazi came back after winning the 200m on the Saturday to place 3rd in the U17W 100m. Then at the end of the day a superb throw by Imogen Mace of 32m 32cm in the last round of the U15G Javelin secured her place 2nd. Her first medal at County level.
The full results are here.
A cool morning turned into a warm afternoon as SAC embarked on its first match of 2025, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
A combination of Easter and Track maintenance hindered our preparation for some of the Field events but we still managed to fill 82% of events.
The Team as a whole ended up 4th out of 8 Teams, just 24pts short of Folkestone AC who were 3rd. There are three more matches over the course of the Summer and I’m hopeful we can move up the leaderboard.
In terms of individual performances:
In the U13G an outstanding set of throws by Georgina Davidson-Nwoso meant wins for her in all 3 throws, Discus, Hammer and Shot.
The stand-out performance in the U13Bs was William Chetty who won the High jump in 1.25 after just 2 practice sessions.
In the U15Gs Imogen Mace threw a Club record of 26.77 to win the U15G Javelin and U15Bs 4 x 300m Team were winners in the last event of the day to cap off a successful day.
The next Match is on 18th May at Bromley.
Sevenoaks AC Athlete, Holly Diprose, continues to improve this season, placing 12th at the English Cross Country Championships, held at Parliament Hill Fields, London on Saturday 22nd February, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Competing in the U17 Women’s 5K Race, the Kent Champion was just outside the top 25 after a kilometre, but gradually moved up to 14th, taking two more Athletes at the finish to place 12th.
There was also success for Eva Vitorino Hiietamm who placed 38th in the U13 Girls Race, an age group she will still be eligible to compete in next year.
Both Holly and Eva are set to compete for Kent in the UK Cross Country Champs on March 8th.
In all, a dozen Sevenoaks AC junior athletes competed at the historic championships, also known as "the National", at the iconic Parliament Hill course:
JW: Poppy Crosthwaite 94th.
u17W: Holly Diprose 12th; Ella Baker 74th.
u15B: James Ross 163rd.
u13G: Eva Vitorino Hiietamm; Chloe Robinson 232nd; Arabella Chen 275th.
u13B: Robert Benjamin Dilley 151st; Gabriel Maduit 184th; Zack Beckett 220th; Hadrien Maduit 239th; Maurice De Baets 244th.
The full results are here.