There was a good turn out of U.13 and U.11 athletes at the Woking Young Athletes Open Championship this year, with a number of personal bests for the season.
The open had a large number of competitors this year with some 700 athletes taking part, making all events very competitive.
Results were as follows:

U.11 Girls
Eleanor Palmer 600M 2.18, long jump  2.83m
Scarlet Watkins 600M  2.43
Grace Dickinson 80M  13.6 (pb)

U.13 Girls
Abi Wroth high jump  1.25m
Shannen Kay 800M  3.10.3 secs. 100M  16.51, long jump  3.04m
Katie Draper 100M – 15.04, 200M  30.85
Carla Letheby shot – 8.09m, discus – 23.73m
Amber Watkins 100M  16.82 (pb), long jump  3.39 (pb)

U.13 Boys
Josh Corrigan 80M hurdles  14.77 (pb), javelin 28.11m, high jump – 1.40m

Best results of the day for the girls were by Abi who was 4th in the high jump and Carla who was 2nd in the discus and 3rd in the shot. Katie was 2nd in her 200m heat and just missed out on a place the final.

Josh Corrigan was the only boy from the club but managed to come 2nd in the hurdles despite being the slowest qualifier.  Josh went on to win silver in high jump and came 4th in the javelin with one of his best throws of the year.

Carla Letheby & Josh Corrigan represented Surrey in the South of England U.13 Intercounties Championship at Kingsmeadow this summer.  

The competition was extremely tough with some outstanding times and distances recorded.

Carla was third in the javelin and shot and 4th in the discus.  Carla threw a pb in the shot of 8.82m to maintain her no. 1 ranking in Surrey and moved her up the rankings to no. 11 nationally.

Josh was 6th in the high jump in a close competition and 5th in the javelin.

Surrey were the overall winners with the boys team first and the girls team second.  Carla was the top scoring Surrey athlete.

Hugh Fleming ran in the 800m non-scoring event with a time of 2.34.9.  Hugo is a first year U.13 so this was a good achievement as he was running against boys a year older than himself.

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The SWL team saved the best for last with 2nd place and a best score of the summer at Kingston.
Walton were beaten by Bexley but clinched second in the final event beating Hastings in the 4 x 400m relay. Bournemouth were 4th in the match and Worthing 5th.
The result confirms Walton’s place in the top half of the league.
The senior distance runners led the way with A string wins in the 800 and 1500 by Jo Locker and the 3000m from Nat Warren and a B string 1500 win by Claire Pearce. Bonnie Chouls picked up two 2nd places in the B string 800 and 3000.
Helen Williams did the sprint double winning the 100m and 200m with Hannah Gray getting two 4th places in the B races. Helen also won the A long jump with Jo Regan winning the B event. Jo also won the B triple jump with Tina Howell finishing 2nd in the A string.
Debbie Singleton managed 2nd in the pole vault and Rebecca Pickering vaulted a new pb to win the B string event.
The opposition throwers were strong but Debbie Jo and Tina picked up some valuable points.
Rosie Marino won the 300m hurdles and was 3rd in the 80m hurdles.
Although they didn’t have many event wins the juniors scored consistantly well across all the events. Chelsey Lavall won the A string high jump and there were B string wins for Brit Hijkoop in the long jump, Abi Wroth in the sprint hurdles and there were a host of 2nd and 3rd places. Carla Letheby threw pb’s in the discus and javelin for two 2nd places. Kim Dawkins was 2nd in the B string high jump and 800m, Nat Jones was 2nd in the A 800m and the B string 100. Nicola Aylett managed 2nd in the B string shot and Chelsey 2nd in the B javelin. Ellen Sellwood scored well in the sprints and was 3rd in the A shot. Nicola and Carla finished 3rd and 2ndin the 1500m races.

Congratulations to all the girls on a very strong finish to the season.

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