There were pleasant weather conditions for this second match of season at Norman Park, Bromley, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Third after the first match, the Team went in a little bigger in number and stronger than the first match. And so it proved with the Team moving up to 3rd overall.
There were individual wins for Matthew in the 800m, Teddy in the Hurdles and Long Jump, George in the Shot (7m59cm a Club Record) Olwyn in the Discus and Long Jump (5m05cm a Club Record) and Cora in the 800m (2.35.2 a Club Record).There was also a win for our U15B 4 x 300m, the last event of the day.
However it was the overall Team performance that stood out. Despite all our Age Group Teams (U13G,Y13B,U15G) and all finishing 4th in their respective age-groups, we still managed to come 3rd overall.
The full results are here. Our next match is on the 5th July at Medway Park Maidstone.
Nine Sevenoaks AC Junior Athletes competed at the Kent Track and Field Championships at Ashford on 10th and 11th May, coming away with two Bronze, a Silver and one Gold, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
On the Saturday , Brianna Kuranga threw 9m 62cm in the U17W Shot to place 3rd and Liv Mtungwazi was winner of the U17W 200m clocking 25.01.
On day two, Liv Mtungwazi came back after winning the 200m on the Saturday to place 3rd in the U17W 100m. Then at the end of the day a superb throw by Imogen Mace of 32m 32cm in the last round of the U15G Javelin secured her place 2nd. Her first medal at County level.
The full results are here.
A cool morning turned into a warm afternoon as SAC embarked on its first match of 2025, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
A combination of Easter and Track maintenance hindered our preparation for some of the Field events but we still managed to fill 82% of events.
The Team as a whole ended up 4th out of 8 Teams, just 24pts short of Folkestone AC who were 3rd. There are three more matches over the course of the Summer and I’m hopeful we can move up the leaderboard.
In terms of individual performances:
In the U13G an outstanding set of throws by Georgina Davidson-Nwoso meant wins for her in all 3 throws, Discus, Hammer and Shot.
The stand-out performance in the U13Bs was William Chetty who won the High jump in 1.25 after just 2 practice sessions.
In the U15Gs Imogen Mace threw a Club record of 26.77 to win the U15G Javelin and U15Bs 4 x 300m Team were winners in the last event of the day to cap off a successful day.
The next Match is on 18th May at Bromley.
Sevenoaks AC Athlete, Holly Diprose, continues to improve this season, placing 12th at the English Cross Country Championships, held at Parliament Hill Fields, London on Saturday 22nd February, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Competing in the U17 Women’s 5K Race, the Kent Champion was just outside the top 25 after a kilometre, but gradually moved up to 14th, taking two more Athletes at the finish to place 12th.
There was also success for Eva Vitorino Hiietamm who placed 38th in the U13 Girls Race, an age group she will still be eligible to compete in next year.
Both Holly and Eva are set to compete for Kent in the UK Cross Country Champs on March 8th.
In all, a dozen Sevenoaks AC junior athletes competed at the historic championships, also known as "the National", at the iconic Parliament Hill course:
JW: Poppy Crosthwaite 94th.
u17W: Holly Diprose 12th; Ella Baker 74th.
u15B: James Ross 163rd.
u13G: Eva Vitorino Hiietamm; Chloe Robinson 232nd; Arabella Chen 275th.
u13B: Robert Benjamin Dilley 151st; Gabriel Maduit 184th; Zack Beckett 220th; Hadrien Maduit 239th; Maurice De Baets 244th.
The full results are here.
Liv Mtungwazi (Sevenoaks AC) took sixth spot at the National U17 Womens Indoor Track and Field Champs on the 9th Feb at the Sheffield Arena, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Competing in the 200m Liv set a PB in the heat, qualifying for the semi final where she improved her PB again to 25.33.
Despite securing a top 6 position she just missed qualification for the five athlete final.
Liv will compete, along with many other SAC Juniors, at the Kent Indoor Championships on 15th-16th March at Lee Valley.