WSEH GIRLS ECLIPSE LOCAL RIVALS
Hillingdon AC played host to this fixture, the 3rd in the series of four matches, which traditionally has proven difficult in previous seasons due to the school holidays. Sundays match was to be no different; however the depth within WSEH AC saw the manager able to field a full team with the help of athletes tackling unfamiliar events. filling gaps, enabling the team to finish the day as clear winners to second placed Guildford & Godalming by a massive 165 points!
Match Result
1st WINDSOR SLOUGH ETON & HOUNSLOW A.C. 505pts
WSEH AC made the long trip to Norwich last Sunday to contest the final match in their National Junior(U20) League series. Holiday absentees and injuries and athletes away competing in the World Junior Championships, decimated the Mens team but fortunately there were no significant gaps in the Ladies team and 19 personal bests on the day helped to boost the points tally. As such the local club finished in 5th place in the match and 3rd overall in the League with every chance of making the National Finals match in Derby in September.
Match result: 1, Shaftesbury Barnet 503,
Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow AC members were saddened to learn of the recent death at his home in Hordle, near Lymington of Len Runyard. Len was the founder of Eton Athletic Club back in 1948. The club’s headquarters at that time were on the Eton College cinder track at Agars Plough, later to become the site some 50 years later of the Thames Valley Athletics Centre, the current home of the Athletic Club.
WSEH AC maintained their unbeaten tag in the National Young Athletes Premier West series with a resounding victory in their match at Hendon on Sunday.
Match Result: WSEH AC 626pts, Bournemouth AC 418pts, Hillingdon AC 376pts
Male report by Dennis Daly
The Bershire U13 County Championships were held midweek with WSEH AC being well represented.
With a haul of 3 medals, Isabelle Charters claimed GOLD in the Long Jump with a PB of 4m66 along with 2 SILVER medals in the 75m and 150m.
A fast race was on the cards in the 600m and it was proved right as FIVE athletes broke the 1 min 50 sec barrier. Tilly Compton-Stewart just missed out on a medal finishing 4th with a PB 1m47.1 closely followed by Gemma Burgin in 5th with a PB 1m49.3. Also running for WSEH were Emily Tebbit finishing 10th in a PB 1m57.8 and Emily Osman 14th in PB 2m08.5.
The young athletes of Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow Athletic Club travelled to Guildford for the second Alder Valley Girls League match of the season. With many athletes competing in the English Schools Finals and others earning their Duke of Edinburgh awards, it fell to the remaining members of the Club to earn the deserved win over local rivals Reading, on what was a very hot day. This illustrating once again the depth of talent contained within WSEH AC.
Match Result
1st WINDSOR SLOUGH ETON & HOUNSLOW A.C. 423pts
2nd READING A.C. 405pts