City of Stoke AC	399.5
Tamworth AC	355.5
Cannock and Stafford AC	237
Burton AC	129

On a very wet Wednesday evening Tamworth hosted this SAN sponsored event for young athletes from Staffordshire. The meeting has a different format to other competitions in that if “A” and “B” athletes from the same Club come 1^st and 2^nd they receive the points for those positions.

Although the weather was dreadful, everyone stayed in good spirits to make the event a success.

For Tamworth AC, making their competition debuts were Sophia Smith and Layla-Hope Hughes, Sophia came 3^rd in the under 11’s 75m, with Layla 4^th in 12.5 and 12.7 secs, good scoring and the same girls came 2^nd and 4^th in the 150m in 26.3 and 26.7 secs. In the 600m Jessica Husselbee broke her PB to win in 2:08.0 with Darcey Wileman chasing her home in 2^nd place. The same two girls also contested the Long Jump, this time Darcey finished in front only missing first place on count back. The other event for under 11’s was the Vortex and Olivia Kidd and Lacie Beasley contested that for Tamworth. Olivia also guested in the 150m and Long Jump and Lacie the 75m and Long Jump. Our other under 11 guest athletes were Summar Bissel 75m, 150m and 600m and Isabel Gray 75m and Long Jump.

There were only four Under 11’s boys competing, Dylan Thomas won the Long Jump and came 2^nd in both the 75m and 150m, Samson Taplin in his first competition came 4^th in both 75m and Long Jump and threw Vortex, very promising, Kian Griffiths competed in the 600m and 150m and Joseph Sheard ran 600m and threw the Vortex. Dylan, Samson, Sophia and Jessica combined to run the mixed 4 x 100m relay.

In the under 13 girls, Rosa Farmer was 2^nd in the 100m with Brodie Horler 3^rd, Rosa was also 2^nd in the 200m. Brodie won the Long Jump with Tilly Farmer in 3^rd and Tilly won the 800m in a new PB of 2:39.3. Rose Young was our other scorer in the 800m. Grace Thompson-Moore won the Javelin with a new PB of 18.19m and Ellie Lewis came 2^nd, Ellie also came 2^nd in the Shot with 6.82m, and Grace was 3^rd in the 200m. Emily Webb won the High Jump with Matilda Husselbee 3^rd and guesting were Holly Hancock in the 200m and Long Jump, Lily Gozzard 200m and Javelin, Bethany Livingstone in the 100m, Long and High Jump and Chloe Massey in the Long Jump and High Jump.

There were only four under 13 boys and just one under 15, Thomas Ladkin, he certainly played his part finishing 3^rd in the 100m in 12.8 secs, 3^rd in the Long Jump and 2^nd in the High Jump, younger brother Jack was 3^rd in the under 13’s Long Jump, 3^rd in 200m and 5^th in the High Jump, Alex Hall came 2^nd in Long Jump, 3^rd in the 100m and 4^th in the 800m and Reilly Allan ran the 100m, 200m and threw Shot. Toby Douglas had three 2^nd places a PB of 6.81m in the Shot, 20.52m in the Javelin and 1.15m in the High Jump. Toby then combined with Thomas, Reilly and Alex in the boy’s relay.

For the Under 15 girls, Grace Young and Sophie Godber contested both 100m and Long Jump, Sophie also threw Javelin. Lacey Bailey was 2^nd in the 800m in 2:40.7 and Lucy Hornby was 5^th, Lucy also came 2^nd in the Shot with 6.29m and threw Javelin and Lacey finished 5^th in the Shot. Zoe Osinowo who has only been a member for a few weeks cleared 1.15m in the High Jump, with Blubel Gozzard clearing 1.10. Both these girls also ran in the guest 100m. To finish the day Tamworth entered 3 teams in the girls 4 x 100m relay, finishing 2^nd 3^rd and 5^th.

The Club would like to thank everyone who braved the awful weather, for the kids and parents and although they will not see this report, have to mention Bryan Mills from Tipton Harriers who produced and ran the team of qualified experienced Timekeeper’s and to Bob Hughes and Shaun Ainge from Cannock and Stafford who were Track and Field Referee and also persuaded some of their colleagues to come along and help. To our Track Judges Sharon Ward, Liz Neville and making his debut on the stand and loving every minute Richard Husselbee. Of course, our Field Judges, who still managed to keep all the Field Cards readable, To Gordon and Lorraine Densley, Matthew Hargreaves, Matt Evans, Dave Williams, Felicity Gray, Howard Bush, Catherine Pendlebury and Paul Tasker. To Matt Evans again, who arrived early to set up and stayed late to clear away along with Dave Williams. To Sam Husselbee for being on hand for any medical/first aid emergencies and of course Pat Wileman again here early to make sure everything ran smoothly catering wise. To Phil Owen and Ron Scholes our announcers who looked to be having fun all evening as well as making sure athletes were where they should be, when they should be. Finally, the family Godber, Andy for the wonderful job he made of recording, to Lorraine and Ben who made registration run smoothly in fairly difficult circumstances and assisted Andy. I understand Ben was also very helpful to the Track Judges. Everyone, thank you so much.