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Southend AC shine in UKA YAL League Already the UKA YAL League matches for 2008 have finished with a great success for Southend AC shining in 1st place in the league. With us winning 3/4 matches, (2nd at Thurrock match) this now means that Southend AC are back where they belong in the Southern 1 East league for 2009.
May 4th London (M.E) Southend = 1st June 1st Southend (Garon Pk) Southend = 1st June 22nd Ilford Southend = 1st July 20th Thurrock Southend = 2nd
More details to follow soon
——–——————————————————————————————--———————————————————————————————Success at SAC Club Championships & Open ‘08 WELL DONE AND THANKS! To all those that helped out and competed. Despite the windy conditions, and the 1 odd shower of rain many athletes from the local area, as well as other clubs turned up to compete. With the Gold medals running out, due to so many people showing up the day was seen as a great success. I am sure Keith Palmer is typing up the results right now!
RESULTS WILL APPEAR HERE/ON THE RESULTS PAGE ONCE MADE AVAILABLE Geoff Smale in the Javelin competition
——–——————————————————————————————--———————————————————————————————EYAL Current positions Below you can find the current rankings for the top 12 eastern clubs after 4 matches:>1 BEDFORD 27 2786 Below you can find the current rankings for all eastern clubs after 3 matches: > 1 BEDFORD 20 2127.5
With only 1 more EYAL match to go, lets hope that not to many people are away on holiday!!
——–——————————————————————————————--———————————————————————————————Eastern Athletic Association Championships - Cambridge, 6th July A fistful of medals were collected by the youngsters from Southend at the Eastern Champs last weekend:
GOLD Kevin Brown Triple Jump 13.41m Felicity Clarke 300m Hurdles 46.2 Eleanor Evans 80m Hurdles 12.59 Amy McDonald 200m 26.43 Amy McDonald 300m 42.73 Callum McLean 80m Hurdles 12.5 Peter Smale 800m
SILVER Amy Garnett 1500m 4.51.9 Jake King 200m 23.1 Sian McGrory 200m 27.56 Steve Whittaker 800m Jessica Mead 800m 2.25.78
BRONZE Kevin Brown Long Jump 5.84m Natalie Woodhouse High Jump 1.45m
English National Schools Championships 11/12th July A small but elite crew of our youngsters found themselves with invitations to Gateshead last weekend with results as follows:
Senior Boys 3000m Ben Hunter 3rd 8:28:05 - PB by 1sec
Inter Boys 1500m David Smale 3rd (ht) 4:08:15 9th (F) 4:08:78 100m Hur Jerelle Mensah 6th (ht) 14.31 Pole Vault Jack Withringston 6th 3.90m Aaron Kaye 12th 3.65m
Junior Boys 80m Hur Bradley Dudman 1st (ht) 11.5 3rd (s/f) 11.48 6th (F) 11.49
Excellent performance from Ben Hunter, running himself into a life-time’s best by 1.79s, having established his 8:29:84 only 6 weeks ago.
Well done boys!
EYAL Table 2008: After 3 rounds Below is the current table for clubs in the EYAL league after 3 rounds:
1 Bedford 20 2127.5
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Happenings in the next 10 days: July 11/12 Sainsbury’s English Schools Championships Gateshead July 11/13 Norwich Union Beijing Trials and UK Championships inc. Walks, Birmingham July 12/13 International Combined Events (Snr/U23) Hexham July 19 Schools International Bedford ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Calling all U13+U15 Athletes As the track season will soon be coming to a close, cross country will be starting, but if that’s not for you then Sports Hall is! The indoor sporting event takes place over the winter, including the beginning of next year, and includes sprinting events, as well as field events such as standing long jump. For more details on Sports Hall, visit the official website: Sports Hall website. More details of fixtures for the local area will be displayed as soon as possible, so do not forget to check back here in a few weeks time! ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Walking Report The 2nd of this season's London Inter Club Challenge athletics meetings took place at Ashtons Track, Woodford Bridge on a warm Saturday afternoon, with the 3,000 metes walking race being the curtain raiser.
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— EYAL match success: 2nd place Well after the 300 point win in our home match in the UKA league, we are also did brilliant in the EYAL match held at Basildon. The weather was great, with the temperature at about 25°C Current position in the EYAL League after 2 matches can be found on the Club Page (down the page) Thanks goes out to all those who helped out in officiating on Sundays EYAL match. ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— UKA Home match success: 300 point lead The 2nd round of the UKA league saw our home match at Garon Park. From the beginning of the match Southend lead, and by the end of the day a 300 point lead made Southend the winners!! Thanks goes out to all those who helped out at Sundays UKA home match, athletes and parents. AFTER A FEW PROBLEMS WITH THE RESULTS SOFTWARE, RESULTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Essex PB5On the same day as our UKA home match, the annual Essex PB5 and fun run took part, and of course, Southend Athletes were taking part: Jordan Lacey, the only Southend runner in the fun run, was the first female runner home and received a trophy and medal for her achievement. Out of the whole race Jordan finished 3rd. Whilst the 5 mile race saw the following performances: 1st Adam Hickey 0:25:12 4th Hendrik Ziestsman 0:25:55 Essex PB5 full results 8th Paul Wittaker 0:26:46 Essex PB5 fun run results 23rd Steven Wittaker 0:28:51 117th Ana Ockendon 0:37:40 154th David Balding 0:42:06 ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— SOUTHEND WIN THE FIRST UKA MATCH BY 164 POINTS!! Over the weekend the first UKA match was held at Mile End, London. With a great turnout of Southend Athletes, nearly all events had at least 1 person in them. Nearly all the relay teams had a Southend team in them, which from this made a 164 point lead, the other clubs were left dazzled!! Full results can be found by clicking here
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Essex County Championships Many Southend Athletes took part over the 3 day Essex County Championships, from which seemed to be a record breaker for the weather!! With not a drop of rain over the championships many PBs were produced: Results for Southend AC athletes are highlighted in BLUE: Essex County Championships Day 1 Essex County Championships Day 2 Essex County Championships Day 3
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Mike Seaman celebrates his 80th birthday!! I sure everyone knows who Mike Seaman is with his famous red and white bobble hat you really can’t miss him! A member of Southend Athletic Club since 1960 Mike is a very familiar face on the timekeepers stand. Mike was truly surprised when Tuesdays training night turned into a celebration for his 80th birthday. Old and new club members were there to wish Mike all the best with gifts and birthday cake for all! Click here to view Mike Seaman's achievements
Mike Seaman accompanied by Club Life Member, Coach and Essex County President, Ron Dawson.
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Basildon's THE GAMES Active Basildon, are working alongside with Basildon Athletic Club, to host THE GAMES. If you are getting excited about the Beijing Games and have fancied your self as a top international athlete, then this is your opportunity to compete on a top quality facility with other people of your age in the district, under the eye of professional coaches. Entry form and a lot more details can be found here——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Bluebell 5 mile Over the weekend, the Bluebell 5 took place round the beautiful Little Haven Nature Reserve. Southend road runners took part in the race, with the following performances:
Bluebell 5 mile winner, Pete Smale
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— First matches of the season: SWL SOUTHEND’S WOMEN back in Southern Women’s League. Southend’s Senior Women’s section made their first foray into the Women’s League for the first time since 2006 when they were forced to withdraw for the lack of a team.
This year, in the relatively new Senior Division 2, nine members of the Club’s Women’s section travelled to Crawley for the first of the season’s fixtures, in a double event with the Premier Division, and declared themselves pleased with their third place. With key members of the squad absent mainly through work or injury, the small deficit of 16 points behind Maidstone & Medway would easily have disappeared with the full squad – and who knows, we might even have beaten Havering!
The 7 ½ laps of the 3000m was led from the gun by Danielle Hurley who was never headed, even by the athletes in the Premier Division race which ran simultaneously with Division 2. Gradually extending her lead lap-by-lap, she produced a best-ever run of 10,54.2 while Sarah Jeffery found 11,57.5 sufficient to win the B string. Barely an hour later, Danielle ran a 1500m – the time of 5,18.7 was a mere one second outside her best. Kerry Holland, in her first 1500m track race, won the B string with 5,26.4.
With no B String, Emily Burgess was left to lead the 800m runners home – in a best ever run of 2,24.8.
The 400m is a hard event – as Emily and Kerry discovered in their first outing over the distance with resulting times of 66.8 and 71.2.
Red vests were to the fore in the 200m as well, when Flo Marriner and Felicity Clarke, now an U17, were double winners with 27.9 and 28.3 respectively. Felicity and Kerry both undertook the Javelin for points and both finished 3rd.
Dani French and Jenna Longhurst, also in their inaugural competition in this League, covered a range of events during the afternoon, Dani collecting a 1st in the B string Long Jump (3.90m), behind Jenna’s 4.51m, a 1st in the B string Triple Jump (8.35m) behind Jenna’s 9.45m and a 3rd in the 100m Hurdles.
Team Manager June Cork declared herself very pleased with the team spirit and with the final result. Havering & Mayesbrook 96; Medway & Maidstone 78; Southend 62; Highgate H 
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— FIRST UKA MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED The first UKA meeting has been postponed - and put forward 2 weeks. The original date for the meeting was: - Sunday 4th May - Mile End, London The new date for the meeting is: - Sunday 18th May - Mile End, London The change of the date is due to the first day of the Essex County Championships on bank holiday Monday - the lack of athletes competing in the UKA match would be too small to run the match.——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— First matches of the season: EYAL and SWL Over the weekend the first few track meetings took place for both age groups Saturday 26th saw the first round of the Southern Women's League held at Crawley (above) While Sunday 27th saw the first round of the Eastern Young Athletes League held at Braintree. Well done to Liz Frith team manager (for one day only!) for stepping in at the last minute allowing the boys to compete in the EYAL match. While full time team manger Brian McGrory took charge of the girls team. Also thanks goes to the parents of athletes for helping out... EYAL—Braintree results——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Nicola’s 5, Canvey Island On Sunday 20th April the Canvey 5 mile saw many Southend Athletes take part:2 441 Paul Whittaker M 00:25:36 5 442 Steven Whittaker M 00:27:06 25 348 Peter Binns M50+ 00:30:37 35 255 Danieille Hurley F 00:31:14 36 254 David Hurley M40 00:31:16 74 337 Kerry Holland F 00:33:57 83 157 Kyle Aldridge M 00:34:54 122 266 Glen Taylor M50+ 00:37:25 155 451 Fiona Hawkins F35 00:39:01 178 237 Susan Crompton F35 00:40:06 258 151 David Balding M40 00:44:10 322 433 Marion Bullock F45+ 00:47:58 368 434 Tony Bullock M50+ 00:52:31 
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Flora London Marathon Sunday 13th April 2008Congratulations to all the Southend AC members who pounded the streets of London last weekend.
The results to hand so far are:
Hendrik Zietsman 2:30:30 (the 2008 winner of the Jimmy Lowen Anniversary Trophy, first awarded in 2007 to commemorate Jim Lowen’s 60 years’ membership of Southend AC) Michael Smith 3:06:12 Melanie Ling 3:30:03 John Willis 3:59:03 Fiona Hawkins 4:00:32 Bernard Wright 4:01:56 Glen Taylor 4:04:44 Ian Glover 4:10:10 Mathew Gillard 4:12:59
There were other entrants from the Club but as soon as we find out how they got on they’ll be added to this list. ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Lee Valley Open Meeting The brand new athletics centre at Lee Valley, saw Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club host an open meeting . A handful of Southend Athletes went to the meeting:In the U15 girls 800m, Southend saw Natalie Woodhouse finish in second place producing a time of 2.31.77. In the 75m hurdles race Natalie produced 13.75, despite very windy conditions. Sticking with the 800m races, Kyle Aldridge produced a finishing time of 2.20.29 in the under 17 men’s race, while Oliver Woodhouse, in the under 13 race finished with a time of 2.55.64. Oliver also took part in the 200m (32.40) and the long jump (3.95). Ghanelle Edward in the girls 100m sprint flew into first place with a time of 13.98, followed by Leanne McGrory (14.87). Later on Ghanelle took part in the 200m race, finishing first with a time of 29.23. In the next heat Sian and Kerry McGrory came 1st and 5th (14.28) and (16.91). Later on Sian and Kerry both took part in the 200m race: (29.51) and (35.76). Also in the long jump Kerry, jumped a distance of 3.15. Tom Watts took part in the 100m sprint producing a time of 13.34, while in the 200m he produced a time of 26.37. Tom later took part in the long jump, finishing with a jump of 4.66. Other performances included: Kyle Marshall in the 100m sprint (15.24) – Jake King in the 400m (54.45) – Jerelle Mensah in the 100m hurdles (14.36) – and Amy Mcdonald in the 200m sprint (27.93) Amy McDonald winning the 200 m race
Photo from Penny McDonald
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Snow for Southend Athletes Training Whoever said that Southend Athletes stop training because of the weather? Despite spikes freezing over, and a few cm’s of snow settling on the track, a handful of Southend Athletes still turned up to do their training at the track on Sunday morning!!
Photo from Claire Cornwell ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Havering Mayesbrook Spring Warm Up # 2The second of Havering’s warm up meetings took place on Saturday 5th April. The squad of Southend Athletes performed in many events: Under 15 girl Natalie Woodhouse was the first Southend Athlete to hit the track in the 800m, finishing 1st with a time of 2.28.4. Natalie later took part in both the 75m hurdles and high jump producing 13.1 and 1.30. While the younger Woodhouse Oliver took part in the 800m (2.49.1) and the long jump (3.78). Rob Frith also took part in the under 13 boys 800m finishing first with a time of 2.32.0. The Southend under 17 men included Tom Frith and Kyle Aldridge in the 800m, with Tom finishing 1st and Kyle finishing not far behind in 5th place. Soon after the middle distance races had finished, the sprints started. Kerry McGrory took part in the 100m, 200m, and later, the long jump: 15.8, 34.1, and a jump of 3.54. Sian McGrory took part in the 100m, producing a time of 13.9, and later took part in the 300m finishing 2nd with a time of 45.7. Leanne McGrory took part in the 100m, with a time of 14.1: later followed by her performance in the 200m (29.5) Eleanor Evans produced times of 14.0 in the 100m and 12.6 in the 80m hurdles. Emma Collard took part in the 100m with 13.1 and 200m, with 26.2. Other performances included: Alice Galvin in the under 17 women’s 100m sprint, finishing 3rd with a time of 14.1. Jordan Lacey took part in the 3000m for under 15 girls, and finished with a time of 11.15.9. At the much shorter distance of 300m, Bianca Ashbrook took part with a time of 46.2, and later taking part in the 200m with a time of 29.1. Ghanelle Edwards also took part in the 200m with a time of 27.9. In the long jump area of events, under 15 boy Tom Watts finished 2nd with a jump of 4.78, while the younger Mitchell Turffrey in the under 13 boys long jump finished 1st with a jump of 4.47. Well done to all Southend Athletes who took part
——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Havering Mayesbrook Spring Warm Up # 1The first spring warm up meeting by Havering took place on Saturday with many Southend Athletes taking part in many of the events on the timetable: The under 13 girls, 80m sprint saw, just one Southend Athlete take part, Kerry McGrory with a time of 13.6, later followed by her performance in the 150m sprint with a time of 25.5. The Southend dominated 80m sprint, heat 1, for under 13 boys saw Mitchell Turffrey flying in with a time of 11.8, followed by his team mate, Michael Law, in a time of 12.1. Later Mitchell won the 150m sprint with a time of 20.8, with Michael a few places after in a time of 23.7. Mitchell also won the long jump with a jump of 4.67. The under 15 girls 80m, included Sian McGrory and Leanne McGrory with 11.7 and 11.9. Leanne later took part in the 150m sprint in a time of 21.7, with Sian coming in with a time of 21.3. Bianca Ashbrook followed with 21.9. The next heat was lead by Olivia Law, with a time of 11.3. Olivia Law also took part in the 150m sprint with a time of, 21.1. As the day progressed on, the 600m was just around the corner with Natalie Woodhouse taking 2nd place in a time of 1.49.9. Natalie also took part in the under 15 girls high jump, jumping into 1st place with 1.35. In the long jump Natalie came 2nd with a jump of 4.30. Tom Watts being the only under 15 boy for the 150m was forced to run with the under 17 men, beating one of them! Tom came in 3rd overall, but 1st in the under 15 race, 2.9 seconds ahead of the 4th under 17 with a time of 19.7. The long jump also saw Tom taking part producing a jump of 4.57 coming 2nd. Later on Tom took part in the 300m, (with another under 15!!), and produced a time of 40.9 seconds, in 2nd place. Amy McDonald, took part in the 150m sprint producing a time of 20.0 in 1st place. In the 300m Amy also won with a time of 43.4 seconds. ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— SUBSCRIPTIONS: Please read this: it is VERY IMPORTANT Subscriptions for this year have now taken place: if you have not settled your subs then you are not a registered athlete from which you may be refused entry to certain competitions. YOU MUST CONTACT THE CLUB IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HAS NOT BEEN SETTLED A.S.A.P ——–———————————————————————————--———————————————————————————————
Chelmsford Warm up This weekend saw quite a few athletes from Southend take part in one of the first 2008 track meetings. Chelmsford Athletic Club organised their meeting today, with a big turn out in athletes despite the freezing temperatures of around -1°C, the snow, and the strong winds. Please send in any photos or results that you would like to see on the site——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Inter Counties Cross Country Championships This weekend saw many Southend athletes competing together with other clubs in Essex in the Inter Counties Cross Country Championships at Nottingham. The event was broadcast live on TV across the whole nation. The results can be found on the results page.——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— RESULTS OF THE BOXING DAY HANDICAP PIER RACE 2007 Before the results we should, once again, thank Vice President Tony Bullock and his wife Marion who sponsor the Pier race each year, and Mike Seaman who organises the handicapping – an incredibly difficult task. Thank you also to the Timekeepers and Recorders who turn out to support the event. This saw only 22 members taking part in our annual event on Southend’s world-famous structure. To some extent, this mirrors the turnouts in the autumn’s cross country and road events which were similarly smaller than for quite a few years. The first three runners to finish were all making their debut on the boards and had joined the club earlier in the year: consequently they were on a beginners’ rather steep learning curve which makes them rather difficult to handicap fairly on the basis of cross country events over a variety of courses and odd distances. First home was Jessica Mead, an under 13 girl, who had a lead of 26 seconds over Kerry Holland, an under 2 Woman, who in turn was 12 seconds ahead of Fiona Hawkins (Veteran) with Kyle Aldridge (under 17 Man) only one second later. Kyle’s actual time of 13m 56s shows an improvement of two minutes (give or take a second) over his winning time in 2005 which in turn was over two minutes faster than his debut run as an under 13 the previous year: this represents a rate of improvement which is more than twice the long-term rate for boys of that age. Camilla Smee was again the fastest female with a time of 14m 6s, while veteran Chris Cattano was the fastest male with 12m 43s in his debut run on the Pier. We are pleased to report that Sarah Jeffery, who slipped at start and hurt her back, has suffered no lasting damage and is back in training and racing. MIKE SEAMAN, Hon. Handicapper ——–———————————————————————————--——————————————————————————————— Finally...the club has a website Tuesday 11th March saw the club website up and running, with flyers being distributed at training to everyone!! The idea of the website was only brought up at the beginning of this year, and was proposed at the clubs AGM. From then, weeks later the site was up and running with a massive success in visitors (from which crashed the site meter!!) If you would like anything on the website then PLEASE contact the webmaster.
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