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.
Liv Mtungwazi (Sevenoaks AC) took sixth spot at the National U17 Womens Indoor Track and Field Champs on the 9th Feb at the Sheffield Arena, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Competing in the 200m Liv set a PB in the heat, qualifying for the semi final where she improved her PB again to 25.33.
Despite securing a top 6 position she just missed qualification for the five athlete final.
Liv will compete, along with many other SAC Juniors, at the Kent Indoor Championships on 15th-16th March at Lee Valley.
The 2024 Track Season was our most successful yet with 25 Athletes competing at County Championships, earning twelve Medals, writes coach Darrell Smith. We had 22 Club Records broken over the course of the Season with four Athletes qualifying for Nationals.
In the Kent Young Athlete League (U13/U15), despite great turn out and 100% commitment we couldn’t make top 6 Teams, so go back down to Div 2 next Summer. I’m confident our Team will be a strong contender to be promoted back up to Div 1 next Summer with a Team that looks even stronger than last year.
With many of our U17s facing GCSEs turnout in the Southern Athletic League (U17s and older) was patchy but next Summer we have in excess of 20 U17/20 Athletes eligible so hoping we can have more of a presence in this League.
The Season culminated in July with the English Track and Field Champs at Birmingham. In the U15B 300m Lucky Hayes placed 5th in his Heat to narrowly miss making the Semi Final. In the U17M 100m Toby Vagg placed 7th. The best performance by an SAC Athlete was Liv Mtungwazi who placed 5th in her 100m semi Final narrowly missing the Final.
A great weekend of Athletics and Cross Country for Sevenoaks Athletics Club Juniors, 16th/17th March, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
On Saturday Holly, Alice and Ella placed 35th,121st and 179th at the English Schools XC at Pontefract. The full results are here.
Meanwhile our Sprinters, Jumpers and Throwers were competing at the Kent Indoor Champs at Lee Valley achieving four top 3 placings:
U15G Shot - Brianna Silver
U15G Long Jump - Olwyn Bronze
U17M 60m - Toby Bronze
U17W 60m - Liv Bronze
The full indoor results are here.
Two Kent Leagues completed and SAC Juniors look set for a successful season, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Despite the diminutive size of the squad some great runs this weekend show we look competitive against the larger Kent Club rivals.
So far this Season, four athletes have placed in the top 16 in their respective age groups -
U13s James Ross, Gabriel Mauduit; Arthur Patten in the U15s and Holly Diprose in the U17Ws. All are in contention to be selected to represent Kent in December.
Team wise on Saturday , our U13G were 6th, our U13Bs 5th with scope for similar or better team performances in older age-groups at the Kent Champs in January. And our U17W team, who won as U15s continue to have a genuine medal chance this winter.
The event also saw 5 U11 athletes compete in a 1 mile race with William 5th and Eva 3rd. Future looks good.
