The 2024 track season was our most successful yet with 25 athletes competing at county championships, earning twelve medals, writes coach Darrell Smith. We had 22 club records broken over the course of the season with four athletes qualifying for nationals.
In the Kent Young Athletes League (U13/U15), despite a great turnout and 100% commitment we couldn’t make the top six teams, so go back down to Division 2 next summer. I’m confident our team will be a strong contender to be promoted back up to Division 1, with a team that looks even stronger than last year.
With many of our U17s facing GCSEs, turnout in the Southern Athletic League was patchy, but next summer we have in excess of 20 U17/U20 athletes eligible, so hoping we can have more of a presence in this league.
The season culminated in July with the English Schools at Birmingham. In the U15B 300m Lucky Hayes placed 5th in his heat to narrowly miss the semi-final. In the U17M 100m Toby Vagg placed 7th. The best performance by an SAC athlete was Liv Mtungwazi, who placed 5th in her 100m semi-final, narrowly missing the final.