At a very windy and blustery Telford Athletics Track Tamworth AC competed in the first match of the season for the Youth Developement League Upper Age Groups of u17 and u20.  After a series of injurys and with it being a Bank Holiday Tamworth were reliant on just a team of 11 athletes in each age group. They put out the best performances and are now leading the league against other teams from City of Stoke, Telford, Royal Sutton Coldfield, Tipton Harriers, Nuneaton and Harborough and finally Saffron AC.

Tamworth won 28 events on the day.

U17 boys

Dan Cartwright won his 100m and 200m races with times of 11.2secs and 23.1secs  and 3^rd in the discus with a throw of 19.67m

Ben Hogan came 2^nd in his 100m race with a time of 12.8 secs and 1^st in the long jump with 5.47m

Max Kent ran the 1500m and 3000m coming 3^rd with 4 min 47.02 secs and then 10mins 35.01 secs followed by throwing a javelin into 2^nd place with 14.90m

Owen Sherriff took 2^nd place in the 100m hurdles with 15.8secs and 1^st  in the 400m hurdles with 57.5secs also getting the qualifying time for English Schools.

Owen Sherriff

The 4 boys then came 2^nd in the 4 x 100m relay with 47.3secs.

U17Girls

Lucy Wheeler ran in the 100m and 200m coming 3^rd and 1^st respectively with times of 13.3 secs and 27.3 secs and then threw a shot into 2^nd place with a throw of 8.89m

Omi Dixon took 1^st place in her B race with a time 27.6secs in the 200m

Rachel West was 1^st in her 300m with a time 46.5secs and then went onto win the high jump with 1.40m

Lauren Swindell won her B race in 300m with a time of 46.6secs and then went onto claim 1^st in the long jump with 3.43m and 4^th in the javelin with a throw of 20.54m

Eve Clawley ran the 1500m coming 2^nd with a time of 5mins 11.06 secs and then went onto help the u20 girls secure points in the 200m with a time of 28.5secs and the long jump coming 4^thwith a jump of 3 .11 m

Charlotte Vincent was 2^nd in the high jump with 1.35m and 2^nd in long jump with 3.94m

Emily Findlater ran 100m hurdles with a time of 16.7secs to come 1^st and then went onto the 300m hudles with a 2^nd place of 49.2secs. Emily then went on to help the u20 girls in the 400m with a time 64.1secs coming 1^st

Charlotte Bush ran the 3000m coming 2^nd with a time of 11mins  50.07secs and 2^nd in discus with a throw of 11.98m

The 4x100m  relay team of Vincent, Bush, West, and Wheeler then came 3^rd with a time of 54.1secs and the 4 x 300m relay team of Bush, Swindell, Clawley and West came 2^nd with a time of 3 min 07.7 secs

The U20b started the afternoon off with a win from the 400m hurdles with Daniel James with a time of 67.3 secs he then went on to the long jump coming 2^nd with 5.20m and the triple jump coming 1^st with 10.75m

Harry Everitt coming back from injury came 1^st in his 100m race  with a time of 11.8secs

Tom Randolph took 1^st in the 400m with a time of 50.2secs and 2^nd in the hammer with a throw of 8.27m

Jake Allman took 1^st place in the 400m B race with a time of 51.7secs and 2^nd in the 200 with a time 24.1secs

Tom Ainsworth took 1^st place in the 100m B race with a time of 11.5 secs and then took 1^st place in the 200m with 22.8 secs

The 4x 100m team of James, Allman  Randolph and Ainsworth then took 2^nd place with a time of 48.3 even with Ainsworth pulling his hamstring and hopping across the line to score valuable points.

The 4 X 400M team of James, Allman, Sherriff and Randolph then took 1^st place with a time of 3 min 48.0 secs.

The U20G started off with a win in the 400m hurdles with Isabelle Neville coming 1^st with a time 65.1 secs a new PB she then went onto win the 100m B race with a time 13 secs and came 3^rdin the javelin with a throw of 12.38m

Alice Mellor coming back from injury last year having broken her ankle and pulling a hamstring took to the track for the first time with a 100m and 200m coming 5^th in both races with times of 14.3secs and 30.2secs

Charlotte Cornbill did both the 800m and 1500m coming 2^nd with a time of 2min 58.7 and 1^st with a time of 6min 25.06 secs and then 4^th in shot with a throw of 4.62m

Hannah Tisdale in her 1^st league meeting for the club also ran in the 800m and 1500m coming 1^st in the 800m B race with a time of 3 mins 06 secs and 3^rd in the1500m A race  with a time of 6 min 19.02 secs

Hannah Tisdale

Beth Devonshire came 2^nd in the 100m hurdles with a time of 19.7secs  and 400m hurdles  with a time of 74.8secs she then threw a discus 12.63m to come 4^th

The 4 x 100m relay team of Cornbill, Neville, Devonshire and Mellor bringing them home with a win of 55secs

The 4 x 400m relay team  of Dixon, Devonshire , Findlater and Neville came 1^st with a time of 4 min 28.9 secs

Tamworth AC did well to win this match with so few athletes and now look forward to keeping their lead at the next match to be held at Royal Sutton Coldfield’.s track on the 28^th May.