Cross-country is a bit like Marmite - you either love it or hate it. And it seems many of our youngsters are in the first category. So much so, that one lad who dropped out of the Juniors has now rejoined because he enjoyed it so much but wasn't happy with his placing in the races! And a certain young lady decided that running one XC race in an evening was not enough and so did the year above hers as well!!!
Helen Pauling, our local 'Schools Games Organiser', recently put on two "XC type" after-school events for children from local primary schools, one at Deer Park and the other at Kingshill and as you can imagine, many of our Junior members participated and did well. I call then XC type races, as they involved running around the outside of the playing fields, so not really XC as there's no real hills, water crossings or large quantities of mud to slog through!
The first event was held at Deer Park on Tuesday 28th February and the second at Kingshill on Tuesday 7th March. Races were held for years 3 to 6, with years 3 and 4 running 1000m and years 5 and 6 running 1500m.
There were many good performances, and I will just highlight the children who "podiumed":
Tilly and Annabel Campbell (something in the genes?)
Eleanor Brookes
Jessica Ross
Rory Brown
Francesca Paddock
Some of our Juniors are competing in the county schools cross country championships on Saturday at Newest and we wish them all the best with that:
Jess & Matthew Ross, Elenor Fraser, Aria Stavrakakis, Ted Lockhart, Eleanor Brookes, Henrietta Davidson, Gabriel Lawrence, Persephone Southey and Evie Mence.
Results
Deer Park races, 28/2
Girls:
Year 3 girls
Tilly Campbell 3rd
Year 4 girls
Annabel Campbell 1st
Abigail Cunningham 4th
Year 5 girls
Eleanor Brooks 3rd
Francesca Paddock 7th (should have run in year 4 race but was late for the start!!)
Lucy Laight 14th
Katie Leicester 15th
Year 6 girls
Jessica Ross 2nd
Emma Cunningham 6th
Boys:
Year 3 boys
Charlie Cutler 10th
Alex Willis 15th
Year 4 boys
Stanley Harrison 5th
Macsen Curtis 17th
Year 5 boys
Rory Brown 2nd
Year 6 boys
Matthew Ross 5th
Kingshill races, 7/3
Girls:
Year 3 girls
Tilly Campbell 5th
Year 4 girls
Francesca Paddock 1st
Annabel Campbell 4th
Nell Halliday 5th
Isla Wright 7th
Abigail Cunningham 9th
Annaliese Crawford 10th
Year 5 girls
Katie Leicester 13th
Lucy Laight 15th
Year 6 girls
Jessica Ross 3rd
Emma Cunningham 5th
Eleanor Fraser 8th
Lucy Laight 16th
Boys:
Year 3 boys
Alex Willis 18th
Year 4 boys
Stanley Harrison 7th
Macsen Curtis 22nd
Year 5 boys
Gabriel Lawrence 14th
Year 6 boys
Matthew Ross 8th
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