Juniors and Teens Achievement Awards

We celebrated the achievement of two (out of many) good Juniors and Teens who through their consistency in training, representing the Club and in the case of the Teens, their performances, 'won' the Juniors' and Teens' Achievement Awards.

Although, we had presented the Juniors Award to Albert at the Awards ceremony, there were not many other Juniors there to witness it, so we took the opportunity of another warm Wednesday evening training session to present him with his 'keepsake' Award Shield, in the company of some of his peers.

Albert with his Junior Achievement Award Shield, with his fellow Juniors

Albert won the award, but it was a really close run thing. We were only able to separate the top 3 on their participation in the regional and national XC races. In 3rd place was Henry Thomas with 15 points, 2nd with 16 was Brecon Musk and just one point ahead on 17 was Albert Platts. Well done to all three boys.

In the Teens, the winner was not present to receive her award at the awards session, so again we did it at a Wednesday night training session. In third place was Toby Conway with 26 points, second was Ed Knight with 29 points and first (again) was Aria Stavrakakis with 36 points. Well done, all.

2026 Teens Achievement Award Winner, Aria Stavrakakis (and indeed 2025's!)

One contributory reason why Aria won the Teens award was her breaking some Club age group records. This year, as we have changed to even numbers age categories, i.e. U10, U12, U14, ... practically most good performances will set new records, so we're not including records broken this year, but will just focus on attendance at training, representing the Club and performance improvement, including achieving EA PB Awards standards. In the Juniors we'll focus on the same, as EA now have set some U10 PB Awards standards, in addition to U12s.