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Hosting the EYAL Plate final at Stevenage on the 10th September the Club welcomed teams from City of Norwich, HPX, St Albans, Cambridge and Coleridge and Thurrock. It was a close contest, the result in doubt until the last field events were added, which saw the home team win by 85 points (587.5) from City of Norwich 502 with Thurrock in third 482.5
The result was great teamwork from the Club’s young athletes who contested every event for every point. There were early wins in the PV for U15 Edythe Oughton 2m20, Hugo McFarlane – Cushing 2m50 and U17 Bobby Pitman 3m10.
Nathanael Bullen won the U13 100m, Hugo Mafarlane- Cushing won the U15 300m and Thomas Redfern won the U17 400m. There were 1500m wins for U13 Hazel Spitzer, Serena So and Eleanor Roberts U15 A and B, Abigail Manson and Hannah Cook U17 A and B. Thomas Pymar won the U15 80H and Jamie Timms the U17 B 100H.
In the Field there were HJ wins for U13 Monty Norwood and U17 Jamie Timms and Rose Cook won the B U15 Girls LJ. Florence Fausset won the U17 B TJ. Ishar Bacharach won the U13 B SP. Jessica Nicholls won the U17 HT, Zachery Czech won the U15 HT and Edward Turner the U17.
Full results are on the website.
The Club won both U17 Boys and Girls Age Groups as well as the overall Trophy.
A huge thank you to Libby and Mel for team managing throughout the year and the many officials and volunteers who helped make the match a success. A special thank you to Norman West who has been the starter at our home matches for many years and retires this year.

Trialling a completely different method of entering SNHAC/HAWCS Club Championships using Roster, saw a record entry of over a hundred for the event on Saturday 2nd September. Parents, siblings, young athletes and volunteers all joined in to officiate the 8 Field Events on offer, act as Track Judges, Timekeepers, help with refreshments and provide photo finish. The odd glitch with WiFi didn’t dampen anyone’s spirits and there were personal best performances in all events.
The highlights of my day included watching Dylan Baines pole vault 4m20 on an 8 stride run up, seeing Jacob Kinchin Smith dip below 11 secs for the 100m and seeing the competition between Bobby Pitman and Nile Odejimi Riley in the Long Jump. Nile determined not to be beaten by the younger athlete (but a specialist triple jumper) took top spot with 6m68 while Bobby added 35cm to his PB to record 6m20.
The event ended with inter squad relays (not sure who won the battle) but the last race saw a brilliant display of last leg running by Jacob Kinchin Smith (mixed U20 team) overhaul a mixed age team of jumpers to win by the thickness of a vest!
Full results and pictures (thanks to Michael Joseph) will be on the website and medals/trophies will be awarded on Thursday 21st September at 6.30pm

SNHAC made excellent use of home advantage to win the EYAL plate final at Ridlins on Sunday beating Norwich, Herts Phoenix, St Albans, Thurrock and Cambridge. Both the U17 women and U17 men also won their age group trophies. Full report to follow.

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.