Ten athletes from Tamworth AC shone this weekend in what was a magnificent show of talent from school age athletes who came from counties all over England. They were competing at a very hot and humid Alexander Stadium in the English Schools National Finals. Over the 2 days all the Tamworth AC athletes supported each other in what was one of the biggest track and field competitions held. They helped each other through the ups and downs of competing against the best athletes from England and gained valuable large competition experience.

Competing in the Staffordshire County Team:

Isabelle Neville ran in her last English Schools competition in the 400m hurdles coming 3^rd in her heat with a time of 65.16 secs narrowly missing out on the final.

Dan Cartwright in the inter boys 200m came 3^rd in his round 1 heat with a time of 22.76 secs and then 5^th in his semi-final with a time of 22.73 secs

Eve Clawley ran in the inter girl’s 300m coming 7^th in heat with a time of 42.82 secs

Niamh Kilgallen junior girl’s high jump came 10^th with a jump of 1.58m

Siân Hubbbard junior girl’s pole vault came 7^th with a vault of 2.75m

 

 

Competing in the Warwickshire County Team:

Jacob Spencer running in the inter boys 200m came 2^nd in his round 1 heat with a time of 22.28secs then 2^nd in his semi-final heat with 22.18secs and finally an incredible run in his final to come 4^th with a time of 22.03 secs.

Lucy Wheeler running in the inter girl’s 100m in her round 1 heat came 6^th with a time of 12.85 secs

James Sherriff running in the inter boys 400m came 5^th in his heat with 51.48 secs

Amy Cook throwing the javelin for junior girl’s came 11^th with a throw of 31.04m

 

Finally competing in the Leicestershire County Team Isla Crameri for junior girl’s pole vault came 4^th with a vault of 2.90m