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Junior Club Championship 24th June

The cool and wet weather on Sunday probably reduced the number of entrants for the junior club champs but there were still enough contenders to produce some excellent competition.

Last year’s under 11 girls champion Eleanor Palmer retained her title with Kate van Gorkum 2nd and Josie Farmer 3rd.  Eleanors 1.27m high jump was particularly impressive.
Phillip Bearman won the under 11 boys title with a good all round performance ahead of 2nd placed Jesse Webster. Finlay Robjohn claimed the bronze medal.

The boys and girls under 13 age groups had the biggest entries of the day, ten girls and 13 boys.
The girls competition was particularly close with Katie Churchman just holding off Bethany Hamlet  to win the trophy and Lucy Paskell coming 3rd only a couple of points ahead of joint 4th placed Shannon Kay and Sophie Denmead.
Hugo Fleming was a clear winner of the boys competition but 2nd and 3rd places were very close with Sam Odell just beating Robert Litchfield.

Carla Letheby won the under 15 girls trophy with some quality throwing. Kim Dawkins was 2nd with Abbie Wroth 3rd.
Louis Johnson retained his under1 5 boys trophy with some excellent sprinting and jumping .Harry Marchbank narrowly beat Joe Walsh in the battle for 2nd and 3rd.

Rosie Marino celebrated her English Schools qualification by winning the under 17 women’s championship with some superb sprining and hurdling. Last years winner Rebecca Pickering performed well to finish 2nd with Chelsey Lavall winning the bronze medal.
In the under 17 men’s competition Ramon Wright held on to his trophy from last year, with Mark Partridge 2nd and Jack Marchbank 3rd.
Thanks to all the officials and helpers who gave up their time to ensure a very smooth meeting.

Surrey Schools Championship 9th June at Kingston

Four of Walton’s athletes appeared at the Surrey Schools champs at the weekend.
In the intermediate girls age group Rosie Marino ran 46.87 for 2nd place in the 300m hurdles and Nathalie Jones ran a pb of 44.08 for 4th place in the 300m flat.
In the intermediate boys 800m Alex Ferrelly ran 2.07 in his heat to qualify for the final then improved to 2.06.12 to finish 2nd in the final.
In the junior boys 1500m Ben Kennard ran a good personal best of 5.00.19 . 

If anyone else competed that we don’t know about please let us know

Norwich Union Grand Prix Trip – August 3rd 2007

It’s that time again! As with the past two years we are organising another trip to Crystal Palace to see the Norwich Union Grand Prix.
 
We can expect an excellent night of athletics again this year.  We have reserved a block of 50 tickets in the Jubilee stand, where we were last time, for the meeting on Friday 3rd of August. However, this year, thanks to some early pre booking – we now have tickets 3-4 rows from the front, so you’ll be right up with the action !
 
We are getting a 20% discount on adult bookings so tickets will cost £14.40 for adults and £9.60 for under 16’s/OAPS/NUS
 
Again, as with last year, we will not organise transport to the venue, its much easier to travel by train via Clapham Junction to Crystal Palace station, a few minutes walk from the stadium.
 
The tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis, so let me know how many tickets(adults + concessions) you want by either  
 
emailing me @   jonladley@hotmail.com ,  
speaking to me at training, or  
ringing me on  07779 335 405.
 
Due to the nature of the reservation process we will need payment within the next few weeks, either in cash or by cheque

WALTON OPEN MEETING

Our annual spring open meeting will be held on Sunday 22nd April at Stompond Lane.

As usual we will have a full programme of events, except for the long throws, for most age groups.

The full programme and an entry form can be found by following the link below.
Please make every effort ot support the event. As well as being an enjoyable pre season competition it is an important fund raiser for the club.
Such an event can’t be held without a lot of help from officials and parents. Anyone who is available to help on the day,  whether experienced or not, would be very welcome and should contact Debbie Singleton on 01932 – 225351 or email jackanddebbie@btinternet.com