This years Walton AC Awards evening will be held on Saturday 14th of November.

For those people that haven’t been before, it’s essentially a fun end of season celebration with night of food, drink, a few team games and  prize giving. You certainly don’t have to be winning an award to come.

As with last year we will be presenting trophies to all age groups from U11 upwards.

Age group winners and medalists will be decided on the basis of their performances across the season in track and field matches with the number of times they have represented the club being taken into consideration.
 
The leading three athletes in each age group will be presented with gold, silver and bronze medals and the winner will be awarded the age group championship trophy for a year.

The Awards evening will be held at St Andrews Church Hall (just opposite the club in Hersham Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, KT12 1LG).

Starting at 7:30pm the evening will consist of:

Presentations
Raffle
3 Course Meal (Bring your own drinks)
Fun and Games

Tickets cost £5 in advance and £7.50 on the door.
There is a limit of 100 tickets, so get in early and buy in advance

Please contact Jon Ladley for tickets either:

At the club on Tuesdays and Thursdays
07779 335 405
jonladley@hotmail.com

Trophy Winners & Medallists

The Lily B fixture next Saturday is for girls of all age groups from U13 to U17. The first match is at the Spectrum Guildford. There is a full programme for these age groups.

U11s can compete as well in 75m, 150m, long jump and relay.

There is no limit on the number of athletes taking part.

Any girl wanting to compete for the club should make themselves available next Saturday

The YAL fixture is at Walton and there will be no training on the day as all athletes should be competing.

Selection will be based on the results of the first YAL match and the Lily B match the preceeding saturday. This League is for boys and girls age groups U13 to U17 with only two athletes per event.

There will be non scoring events for 100m and 800m plus throws. So all athletes are encouraged to participate in these events.

Further details of both matches can be found below.

Those wishing to compete in these matches should email Terry and Wendy Letheby on Letheby4@aol.com

Walton athletes had a successful weekend at the county championships continuing our recent trend of increasing participation and improved results.

A total of 26 athletes competed and picked up 19 medals including seven county titles.

Carla Letheby repeated her amazing feat from last year of winning four county titles. She won the under 17 women’s discus, javelin and hammer (in which she set a new club record) and also entered and won the under 20 women’s discus. Carla has now won 11 county outdoor titles in three years. She wasn’t the only winner in the age group as Kate Lee knocked a second off her pb to win the 300m hurdles. Lisa O’Brien set new bests in winning silver in the 80m hurdles and bronze in the long jump. Kate Lee was 4th in the 80m hurdles and Sinead O’Brien.set new pb’s in the shot and discus in both of which she finished 6th.

In the under 15 girls hammer Leanne Jupp and Emma Francis recorded pb’s and picked up silver and bronze medals. Camilla Papa came 2nd in her heat of the 100m (with Lucy Paskell 5th) and finished 5th in the final. Alice Wills ran a season’s best for 5th in the 1500m heats and was almost as quick in the final.

Two under 13 girls entered, Lucy Weir long jumped to a new pb and came 4th, omly missing a medal by a few centimetres and Issy Stewart had the busiest weekend of any of the Walton athletes. She entered six events, produced pb’s in five of them and won medals in three. PB’s in shot, discus and javelin won two silvers and a bronze and a 100m pb on Saturday was follwed on Sunday by an 800m pb in the heats and another one for 6th place in the final.

Rosie Marino led the way for the under 20 women with a silver medal in the 400m hurdles. Ellen Sellwood and Rebecca Pickering both came 6th in the finals of the 400m and the 100m respectively.

There were two titles for the senior women, Kaylee Price won the sprint hurdles and Susie McLoughlin won the 400m hurdles. Jo Regan was 4th in the long jump and 5th in the hammer.

Lewis Bateman came 4th in his heat of the under 15 boys 100m and qualified for the final. Hugo Fleming was 4th in the high jump, (missing a medal on countback) and won his heat of the 800m comfortably. In the final he led for all but the last few metres and won the silver medal.

Ben Kennard won the silver medal in the 400m hurdles for under 17’s and in the 3000m George Thomas ran his second fastest ever time.

Martin Norman ran a pb in his heat of the under 20 men’s 400m and in the 800m Alex Ferrelly ran a seasons best for 5th place in the final.

Adam McCarthy ran strongly to win sliver in the senior men’s 400m hiurdles and David O’Connell was 6th in his heat of the 400m.

Meanwhile in the Sussex Championship, Julian Langley won the silver medal in the senior men’s sprint hurdles.

The improvement in entrants and results over the last four years is impressive.

As the outdoor season starts it’s a good time to produce a report of a fairly successful indoor season.

Only eight Walton atheltes entered the various indoor championships but between them they secured 2 national masters titles and a bronze medal, a South of England senior bronze medal, 2 Surrey senior titles and 3 other Surrey medals.

The South of England Indoor champs came first on 17th/18th  January at the Lee Valley stadium where Helen Channon came 3rd in the senior long jump and new member Greg Conlon was 4th in the senior pole vault.

It was Lee Valley again on 22nd February for the Brintish Masters Indoor pentathlon champs where Andrew Kennard won the M40 title and Jo Regan came 3rd in the W40 event.

The action moved to the Sutton arena the following weekend for the Surrey Indoor champs wher Greg Conlon set a new senior men’s club record, winning the county pole vault title with 4.45m. Kaylee Price won the senior women’s 60m hurdles event in 9,.21s. There was a silver medal for Jo Regan in the senior long jump and bronze medals for Carla Letheby in the under 17 shot and Kate Lee in the under 17 high jump. Mark Partridge recorded a pb to come 4th in his heat of the under 20 mens 60m, just missing out on a final place.

It was then back to Lee Valley where in the British Masters Indoor champs Jo Regan won the W40 long jump and was 4th in the 60m.