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Berkshire
Schools Athletic Association
Berkshire Schools Athletics has once again had a very busy few weeks. The first round of the English Schools’ Schools’ Cup took place at the Reading and Bracknell stadiums for the girls competition and were well supported with Downe House winning the Inter Girls at Reading with St Mary’s, Ascot winning the same event at Bracknell. The Junior Girls was won at Reading by Queen Annes and at Bracknell by The Marist. This year we were delighted that there were more boys schools participating, so competitions were held at both Bracknell and Reading. The winner of the Junior boys at Bracknell was The Forest and Reading Blue Coat at the Reading track. The Inter boys saw Windsor Boys School as victors at Bracknell and Reading Blue Coat School were the Inter boys winners at Reading. The track and field championships for Under 15, Under 17 and Under 19 athletes was held last Saturday in Reading on 14th June. There some excellent performances with six Championship Best Performances being recorded by Shelayna Oskan (Slough) Senior Girls 400m, Rose Reynolds, (Bracknell) Senior Girls 100mhurdles, Ashley Fry, (Slough) Inter Boys 400mHurdles, Seamus Burke, (West Berks) Junior Boys 200m, Zac Seddon (Wokingham) Junior Boys 1500m and Sam Maguire (Reading) Junior Boys 80mHurdles. The two George Saunders medals presented for overall best performances went to Helen Broadbridge (West Berks) for her excellent throw in the Inter Girls hammer and Bertie Lewis (West Berks) in the Inter Boys 100m Hurdles. Despite coming first in none of the individual age groups the victorious aggregate team was Wokingham closely followed by West Berks who won a total of four. There were many athletes recording English Schools entry standards on the day and for the first time ever the selectors had the difficult task of choosing from more than 35 athletes who had achieved the English Schools entry standards. The final team of 35 representing Berkshire will compete in the English Schools championships at Gateshead in July. Teams will also be representing Berkshire in the regional finals of the Combined events which is being hosted by Berkshire Schools at Palmer Park, Reading at the end of June and it is hoped that some of these athletes will progress to the English Schools finals in September. In conclusion I would like very much to thank all the Berkshire A.A. officials who have given up so much of their time to help out at all the above events and without whose help we would have great difficulty in running such successful competitions for all our athletes in the Berkshire Schools. Stella Bacon Hon Sec Berkshire Schools A.A.
Schools International Athletics Board
Strathallan School, Perthshire Berkshire Junior Boys Zak Seddon of The Piggott School & Karnvir Hayer of Slough Grammar School represented England against the other Home Countries. Zak was first home on this occasion, finishing in second place in a time of 13:35, with Karnvir in 5th place, just a few seconds behind in 13:44. More information at http://www.esaa.net/
ESAA Sainsbury's English Schools'
Sefton Park, Liverpool
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