News: August 2023

Following last weekend's final league matches in the Southern Athletics League it has been confirmed that we will again be competing in division 2 next season.Well done to all those athletes, officials and team managers for a fantastic effort this year.

A full report on the final match will be available next week,

Nine SNHAC athletes travelled to Lee Valley at the weekend to take part in the SEAA U17/15/13 Championships.
U13’s Stanley Wilkinson 100m and Riley McNally 100 and 200m were taking part in their first Regional Championships, learning about call up times, call up rooms and being escorted out to their events.
U15 Emily Rapley reached the semi final of her 100m running 13.11 in the heat and finished seventh in the long jump with a PB of 4m90 and Alfie Kenlin took part in the 100m.
Four U17’s were in action. Thomas Redfern ran 52.11 in his heat of the 400m and 52.52 in the final. Jamie Timms reached the final of 100H Running 14.97 in his heat and 15.44 in the final. Jamie threw 43m08 in the Javelin.
Samuel Dear enjoyed his run the 1500m Steeplechase and his time of 4.54.36 was good enough to win the silver medal.
Bobby Pitman reached the semi final of the 100m running 11.89 in the heat and 12.03 in the semi-final. A throw of 43m28 secured second place in the in the Discus.
Full results on the website.

A dry but windy day saw some great performances from the Clubs youngsters who fought for every point, but they came up short against a very strong Dacorum Team. Dacorum won with 735 points from Stevenage on 590, Bedford 482, Beds Lions 274 and Peterborough 169. With one team dropping out the Club’s officials and volunteers were kept busy with 6 events to Field Judge plus an additional 2 with Bedford at the beginning of the day. We also provided 4 Track judges and a Timekeeper. Luckily, we had brought extra Officials along to run Bedford’s Photo Finish system which wasn’t working so they all kindly transferred to Field and Track judging and set up EDM on long throws making everyone’s life easier!
There were A string wins for U15’s Hugo McFarlane-Cushing in the 200m 23.80, Aubrey Murray 1500m 4.34.7 and Thomas Paymar 80H 12.00. Thomas Redfern won the U17 400m 53.10, Tommy Cropley the 1500m 4.15.3, Ben Lewis the TJ 11m5, Bobby Pitman PV 3m30 and Edward Turner HT 23m97. The U17 boys also won the relay 46.90.
U15 Enid Whitten won the U15 Girls SP, DT and HT with 10m28, 22m69 and 29m18 respectively and new member Evie Lewis won the JT with a throw of 19m35. Fran Hart won the U17 Girls 800m 2.33.9 and Abigail Manson the 1500m 5.16.2.
The U15 Girls and U17 boys won their age groups.
A full set of results are on the website.
Mel and Libby were delighted with the team’s performance and are looking forward to the final on the 10th September at Stevenage.
Please let your team managers know if you are not available on the 10th so they can select someone else in your place.