Youth Development League – Upper Age, Match 2

Starting with the Men’s U20 sprints, there were PBs aplenty.  Alex Cronje finished 2^nd in the A-string 100m with a new PB of 11.89, with Luc Balayer in the B-string race, also finishing 2^nd in a season best of 12.14.  Alex Cronje also ran a PB in the B-string 200m finishing 2^nd in 24.22, and Matthew McKenna ran a PB of 23.75 in the A race, finishing 3^rd.

Matthew McKenna also ran an impressive personal best of 49.77 in the 400m, finishing 1^st.

In the U20 Women’s sprints, Tobi Aderoju ran the 100m in 14.34, finishing 4^th.

The U17 men had an equally impressive amount of PBs in the sprints.  In the 100m, James Skeet finished 4^th in the A-string race in a new PB of 11.65, with Kane Dedewo running 11.72 in the B-string race to finish 2^nd.   James Skeet also ran a PB in the 200m A-string race, finishing 3^rd in 23.87.  Dylan Haarhoff continued his good form to run a PB of 24.63 in the B-string race, finishing 2^nd.

Jensen Chowdhruy ran a wind legal PB of 12.39 in the non-scoring 100m, Dylan Haarhoff ran a PB of 12.16 in the same event and Jake Morris ran 25.26 in the non-scoring 200m.

Moving up the distances, Adam Claudet ran a PB of 2:17.33 in the U17 800m, finishing in 5^th and Alfie Pike ran a PB in the U20 3000m, finishing 2^nd in 9:43.72.

Moving onto the field events, in the U20 Women’s competition, Tobi Aderoju competed in the U20 shotput, discus and hammer, throwing 7.37m in the shot for 3^rd place, 12.78m in the discus for 4^th and 18.09m in the hammer for 2^nd, a good day for Tobi.

The U20 Women’s high jump was won by Tori-Ann Anderson who impressed by jumping 1.69m, breaking her own U20 club record and qualifying for English Schools.

Chia Brown competed in 3 events on the day, jumping 1.40m in the U17 high jump for 5^th place. Chia then threw 21.15m in the U17 discus for 3^rd place and then a PB of 30.53m in the U17 javelin A-string for 2^nd place. Also in the U17 javelin was Hazel Ingham who finished 2^nd in the B-string with a throw of 15.71.

Sticking with javelin, Alex Cronje threw 27.88m for 3^rd in the U20 A-string and a new PB.  Alex also competed in the U20 long jump, jumping 5.04m to finish 2^nd in another PB.

Jake Morris competed in the U17 long jump, jumping 4.91m for 4^th place.

Lastly, the U17 4 x 100m relay team, comprised of Kane Dedewo, James Skeet, Jensen Chowdhury, and Dylan Haarhoff, never having run before and some competing in their first ever relay, ran 47.37 for 4^th place.  This however, is only 0.37s away from the U17 club record.  An impressive run by the young men.  A bit more practise with the batten and I am sure this record will fall!

Overall, on the day, Walton finished in 6^th place in the team standings.

Well done to everyone who competed and congratulations on a huge amount of personal best performances.

The final match of the season is in Sutton on Sunday 30^th June.