Teens PB Awards Achievements in 2024

As part of the evaluation of the Teens Achievement Award, I have been checking which Teens' performances achieved England Athletics (PB Awards) standards.

There are 9 levels of standard, higher being better. There are standards for Under 13s and up, but not all events have standards, for reasons I will not go into here.

On refelction, I think that these achievements were not presented in a way that highlighted how outstanding these performances are, so I decided to publicise them now, before announcing the winners of the Juniors and Teens Achievement Awards. Congratulations to all those who made the list.

NB some Juniors' performances were good enough for U13 PB Awards, albeit they are still U11s (noted).

Event	Person	Age category	Performance	Unit	Level
100m	Niall Bagot	U15	13.91	s	1
100m	Tom Hoskins	U15	13.34	s	3
100m	Aria Stavrakakis	U13	15.2	s	4
200m	Aria Stavrakakis	U13	32.09	s	3
200m	Lucy Laight	U13	32.7	s	3
300m	Daisy Van Wyk	U17	46.77	s	3
300m	Mimi Van Wyk	U15	48.64	s	2
400m	Lewis Jones	U15	55.73	s	5 (for U17)
600m	Evie Mence	U13	2:11.00	m:s	3
800m	Emma Cunningham	U13	2:58.07	m:s	2
800m	Annabel Campbell	U11	3:02.01	m:s	1 (for U13)
800m	Ephra Coupland	U11	3:04.04	m:s	1 (for U13)
800m	Evie Mence	U13	3:00.0	m:s	2
1500m	Toby Conway	U13	5:47.96	m:s	1
70m Hurdles	Aria Stavrakakis	U13	12.2	s	6
Long Jump	Niall Bagot	U15	4.12	m	2
Long Jump	Seb Compton-Evans	U15	3.99	m	1
Long Jump	Evie Mence	U13	3.66	m	5
Long Jump	Lucy Laight	U13	3.63	m	5
Long Jump	Aria Stavrakakis	U13	3.54	m	5

I would highlight the following:

1. 13 members have achieved the minimum standard or above, which is quite a high percentage of those who did compete at the meetings

2. We seem to be quite good at Long Jump

3. Lewis Jones level 5 (for Under 17) is equivalent to about a level 8 performance for his age category, but there isn't a PB Award standard for 400m for Under 15s.

4. the highest level attained was by Aria Stavrakakis. whose 12.2s 70m Hurdles performance achieved level 6 - she also appears four times on the list!

We will be measuring the Teens', and indeed Juniors', performances on the grass track and jump pit, this summer, so we can see how they are developing, and which events they should be competing in, if they wish to achieve the PB Awards standards.