Sevenoaks AC athlete Holly Diprose continues to improve this season, placing 12th at the English Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, London on Saturday 22 February, writes head coach Darrell Smith.
Competing in the U17 women’s 5k, 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 for next year. Both Holly and Eva were set to compete for Kent at the UK Cross Country Champs.
A dozen Sevenoaks AC junior athletes competed at the National:
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.