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Field Event Competitors – Guidance Notes Track & Field

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Athletics Weekly 18-12-08
Note from Charles Stuart Chairman, rounding off 2008 on a high note in its UK Club relay rankings our club has done fantastic:

4 x 100 U17 Men 4th with 43.9s,

4 x 100 U17 Women 7th with 50.3

4 x 300 U17 Women 15th.

Well done to all who participated.

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Trials and Tribulations in Combined Events, (Ashleigh Wood).
Having qualified at the Regional Schools Championships at Doncaster in June with a score of 4342 points in the Inter Girls Heptathlon, Ashleigh competed at Birmingham in September with a field of 39 athletes from all regions of England. For once the weather decided to behave itself and as Ashleigh was the sole Cleveland athlete in the Championships, the North Eastern Counties of Northumberland, Durham and Cleveland athletes sat together, encouraging each other. It was agreed as a combined North Eastern Counties team we could possibly challenge the bigger counties. We can dream.

Ashleigh started her journey with one of her favourite event, but her long legs especially after another growth spurt, meant she now had great difficulty negotiating the 80m Hurdles together with a questionable 4th position, put her in 7th place after the first event. Onto the High Jump which was the event which brought Ashleigh into athletics. It has not been a good year for Ashleigh in this event although she has a PB of 1m60. Again the growth spurt had affected her run up, its back to basics during the winter. Ashleigh dropped to 16th place. The next event was the Shot, originally one of her weaker events but some hard work over the season, especially with David Dawson's guidance, saw her achieve a PB 9m34 bring her up to 11th place. With the inside lane for the 200m, a nightmare for long legged athletes and competing in a quality race much faster than Ashleigh had experienced before, she finished the day in 8th position.

Much encouraged by this position Ashleigh looked forward to the second day, the first event was the Long Jump with good performances during the season, it was hoped this would be a god point earner, however none of the NE competitors did well and were given dubious jumps. Ashleigh pulled herself together and did a safe 2nd jump, going for a more ambitious jump for her 3rd, which was given as a no jump. With the officials appearing to be more interested on their own conversations, observed by many coaches and parents, it was a bitter disappointment she dropped to 10th position with her 2 least favourite events the Javelin and 800m to follow. The bad luck continued in the Javelin with 2 no throws given, not helped with all the girls saying the 2nd throw was a good one, Ashleigh concentrated on going for a throw and not playing it safe archived a valid throw, Ashleigh dropped to 12th place but expected worse. In the final event, the 800m Ashleigh found herself running on her own in her heat but managed to achieve a PB and keep her 12th position.

On reflection Ashleigh was pleased with her performance and her attitude, necessary in multi events, ''you pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again'', this was a big learning curve. Next year Ashleigh will be in the senior girls age group, the only event which changes is the Hurdles to 100m which is more suited to her physique. 80mH 12.21, HJ 1.51m, Shot 9.34m, 200m 26.67, LJ 4.87m, Javelin 20.26m, 800m 2:40.62, 800m 2:40.62. Overall Points 4013.

Not bad for an off day, at the end of a long season, still 7th on the UK Power of 10, Well Done Ashleigh.

Jean Simmons

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Sprint Relay Festival, Monkton Stadium, 17th September, 2008
The inaugural England Athletics (North East) Sprint Relay Festival was held at Monkton Stadium, Jarrow on September 17 th .  An impressive 51 teams from across the region entered the event, which featured the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 events for athletes aged under 13 through to senior. 

An excellent turn out of both composite and club teams, many travelling from as far as Middlesbrough, Hexham and Alnwick to compete, witnessed Middlesbrough Mandale AC take first place with 24 points, closely followed by Durham City Harriers & AC with 22 points.  Birtley AC finished third with 14 points, adding to the  England Athletics participation award which they won alongside Chester le Street AC for the highest number of entrants within the junior events.

The event was a joint collaboration between England Athletics (North East) and the Event Management Group for Speed, an organisation which works closely with the Governing Body with responsibility for the development of event specific coach and athlete initiatives.

Neil Cameron, Performance & Development Coordinator for England Athletics, commented “The Relay Festival provided a fitting end to what has been a very successful summer track season for the North East.  The large number of entries, from across the region, is evidence that such an event is welcomed by the Athletics community, and I hope that the Event Management Group alongside England Athletics can build upon the success of the event in years to come”.

NE Relay Festival Report England Athletics

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Eighteen year old Charlie Dryden had a day to remember at the Moorways Stadium in Derby
The talented athlete from Stokesley showed he had more strings to his bow than simply jumping when taking part in the National Junior League Grand Prix final for 2008.

Competing in the season long competition to find the best all round under 20 athlete in the league Dryden qualified for the final in fourth place but pulled out all the stops to win the Gold Medal on the day.

Dryden started the day just one centimetre short of his best ever in the Long Jump with a leap of 6.72 metres. He then turned his attention to the track where he ran two lifetime bests in the 100 and 200 metres turning in times of 11.23 and 22.66 seconds respectively. A delighted Dryden said after the event “I didn't expect to do so well today and I am over the moon”. He will now look to the 2009 season where he hopes to defend his title in twelve months time.

The best of Teessides young athletes put on a magnificent show in the inter counties under 17 under 15 championships held at Carlisle.

Competing against six other teams from the North East of England and the South of Scotland the team achieved several personal bests and event wins to eventually place second to the host team Cumbria.

In the under 15 boys age group Lee Burrell (Middlesbrough AC) scored a notable sprint double winning the 100 and 200m. Whilst Joel Dixon (Nunthorpe School) won the High Jump with school mate Jordan Gill set a personal a personal best in the Long Jump. Ian Swall (Middlesbrough AC) took the Discus honours.

For the girls at under 15 level Eleanor Mullen (Middlesbrough AC) was in the best form of her young career when placing 3 rd in the 100 metres in a time of 12.91 seconds. Emily fields (Middlesbrough AC) placed second in the 800 metres and in the field Vanessa Jacques (Middlesbrough AC) and Shelley Thompson-Lane (Macmillan Academy scored vital points in the field events.

In the under 17 men's team Joseph Cox (Middlesbrough AC) got the meeting off to a flying start winning the first event of the match in the 400m hurdles. In doing so Cox broke his lifetime best by over 1.5 seconds to move up to 32 nd place in this years UK rankings. Harry Harris and Ben Stevenson (Middlesbrough AC) placed second in the 100 and 200 metres respectively both recording seasons best times. Harris and Stevenson then combined Cox and Nikhi Ncube to take the 4 x 100 metres relay by over 30 metres. In the field Ben Daley (Middlesbrough AC) claimed third places in the Discus and Javelin before going on to win his speciality the Hammer.

In the final age group the under 17 women English Schools Champion Kayleigh Mills (Middlesbrough AC) put injury worries behind her to take the Hammer event. Whilst UK Schools Bronze medallist Ashleigh Wood (Middlesbrough AC) won the Long Jump and the Sprint Hurdles. North East Champion Sofiya Pela (Middlesbrough AC) put in a strong run in the 300m taking second place as did Kate Welford (Middlesbrough AC) when running under 26 seconds to claim second in the 200m. In the distance events Rebecca Macguire ran bravely to take second place in the 1500 metres in difficult conditions.

Cleveland Schools multi event athletes Nick Phelps and Ashleigh Wood go to Birmingham to compete in the English Schools Combined Events Championships.

Wood 16 is ranked in the 7 th in the UK in the pentathlon and will be looking to improve on her life time best score of 4342 points. The talented Wood is also ranked fourth in the Long Jump and then 13th in the Long Jump.

Seventeen year old Nick Phelps will be competing at Birmingham in the Decathlon aiming to improve on his best of 5389 points. Better known as a 400m hurdler ranked fourth in that event in the North East he also has impressive personal bests of 11.2 seconds 100m and 50.60 in the 400 metres.

Rick Betts

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Middlesbrough AC athletes at the UK School Games were in fine form at the Bristol University athletics track.
Kayleigh Mills won the bronze medal in Hammer competition whilst clubmate Ashleigh Wood repeated the feat by taking the Bronze in the Long Jump. Chloe Gill was unlucky to miss out on a medal in the Triple Jump Despite improving her personal best for that distance by 16 centimetres and Jayme Norton was also unlucky to miss out on a place in the individual 300m final when running the ninth fastest time of the qualifying rounds.

Rick Betts

Kayleigh Mills Hammer 3rd 43.8 m

Kate Welford 200m 4th 11.74 m

Chloe Gill Triple Jump 4th 11.74 m

Ashleigh Wood Long Jump 3rd 5.40 m also 4 x 100m (team did not qualify for finals)

Sofiya Pela 4x 300m relay (team didn't qualify for finals)

Jayme Norton 300M (heat 1, 4th 41.90 sec)

Joe Cox 400M Relay (team didn't qualify for finals)

Shaun Mcarthy Long Jump 11th 5.5 m

Full competition results

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Charlie Dryden
Finished 4th with 6841 points in the NJAL Grand Prix. After turning out to every junior match and putting in lots of great performances he will now be invited as one of the top eight finalist's to compete at the grand prix final on 14th sept at Derby. So good luck Charlie, it shows hard work really does pay off.

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2008 Senior team promotion match playoff position
Thank you to all athletes that have competed for the men's and women's senior team this year. Ultimately the team finished in second place, behind a really strong City of York team that will no doubt be promoted back up into the Northern first division from which they came down from after last year.

Our second place has once again guaranteed us a place at the promotion match for the Northern first division, for I think the 4th season running. Unfortunately half of our team will not be available on that particular day, due to several other commitments on an already very busy weekend; therefore we have decided not to enter our team for the promotion match this year as we feel it is a long way to travel in a match that we could not realistically contend in.

It is regrettable that the club could not produce a strong team on possible the most important match of the season and so I ask all athletes, coaches and officials to try to make themselves available for the promotion match next season, which will probably be in the last weekend in August or the first weekend in September.

Thank you

Glen Blenkinsop (Senior Men) and Rachel Fairless (Senior Women)

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From Michele Sullivan,
I would just like to thank all the athletes, officials, coaches and 'M & D Travel' for making my first season as Tees Valley Tigers manager an enjoyable one.  Well done to everyone who competed over the four matches, we saw great performances through out, loads of pb's for most of you. It show's all the hard work you and your coaches put in really does work. Keep up the good work.

Officials and Coaches, Obviously I can't name you all personally, I would be here forever but you all know who you are.

A massive Thank You to you all as matches couldn't go ahead without you. And finally thanks to 'M & D Trave'.l who gave us good prices and comfortable buses for our three matches to Carlisle. I know the sucess can carry on next year and we should have a bigger team with plenty of u17's coming through, so who know where we might end up. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ALL OF YOU.

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NJAL result Carlisle 27.07.08
After an enthralling match held in perfect weather conditions, Tees Valley Tigers composite team made up of Middlesbrough AC (Mandale) and New Maske Harriers athletes came a solid third place on the day ending the season 3rd overall.

the team on the day

click images to enlarge

gotcha camara shy Glen (circled)

setting off home, anyone missing?

Match Result:

Team Glasgow 539
Team Forth Valley 496
Tees Valley Tigers 401
Northern Reivers 352
Team South Lanarkshire 306
Team Tyne and Wear 104

Note team results (a) followed by (b)

100m Charlie Dryden 3rd 11.4, Chris Smallwood 2nd 11.4, 200m Charlie Dryden 2nd 23.3, Chris Smallwood 1st 23.1, 400m Greg Jackson 4th 53.4, Russ Best 3rd 53.5, 800m Tom Murphy 4th 2.03.9, 1500m Andrew Maguire 2nd 4.07.5, Adam Mitchell 3rd 4.30.0, 3000m Adam Mitchell 1st 9.12.2, 110mH Nick Phelps 2nd 15.8, Andrew Simpson 1st 20.4, 400mh Nick Phelps 1st 59.0, Elliot Hills 4th 68.0, 2000m sc Adam Mitchell 3rd 7.09.9, discus Max Alderson 2nd 41.29, Phil Swall 3rd 21.88, hammer Phil Swall 4th 38.27, Ben Daley 1st 29.48, high jump Joe Corrigan 4th 1.75, Ben Daley 3rd 1.70, javelin Max Alderson 3rd 36.53, Ben Daley 1st 36.15, long jump Charlie Dryden 2nd 6.42, Joe Corrigan 2nd 5.73, shott putt Max Alderson 2nd 12.42, Nick Phelps 2nd 9.24, triple jump Charlie Dryden 2nd 12.07, Elliot Hills 4th 10.40

100m Ashleigh Wood 1st 12.8, Ashleigh Stone 1st 13.1, 200m Becka Maguire 3rd 29.3, 400m Jenny Phelps 4th 65.6, 800m Becka Maguire 4th 2.13.2, discus Kayleigh Sullivan 3rd 31.82, Jenny Phelps 3rd 13.96, hammer Kayleigh Sullivan 2nd 43.37, Ashleigh Wood 3rd 19.56, high jump Ashleigh Wood 2nd 1.50, Ashleigh Stone 2nd 1.35, javelin Kayleigh Sullivan 2nd 28.95, Becka Maguire 4th 8.70, long jump Chloe Gill 1st 5.03, Ashleigh Stone 1st 4.99, shot putt Kayleigh Sullivan 5th 8.51, Jess Kennedy 4th 6.67, triple jump Chloe Gill 1st 11.59, Jenny Phelps 1st 9.67

4 x 10om 1th Ashleigh Wood, Ashleigh Stone, Jess Kennedy, Becka Maguire 52.0

4 x 10om 3rd Charlie Dryde, Nick Phelps, Chris Smallwood, Shaun McCartney 45.5

4 x 400m 3rd Nick Phelps, Russ Best, Tom Murphy, Elliot Hills 3.33.9

Guests

110mh Elliot Hills 20.6, javelin Adam Blower 22.98, 100m Aaron Harris 2nd 12.2, Andrew Simpson 3rd 12.4, 200m Ben Stephenson 1st 23.3, Aaron Harris 2nd 24.9, Andrew Simpson 3rd 25.8, shot putt Phil Swall 8.75

shot putt Ashleigh Wood 8.68

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28th - 29th June, ESAA Combined Events, NE regional finals Doncaster
The above meeting is the qualifying competition for the ESAA National Combined Events Championship Finals, which take place in Birmingham on the 20th - 21st September 2008.

Ashleigh Wood (Intermediate Girls) and Nick Phelps (Senior Boys), took part in the Doncaster competition, representing Cleveland Schools and both qualified for the finals in Birmingham, but sadly their achievements appear to have had no recognition either locally or even the Power of 10 which is supposed to rank all achievements.  They were a credit to there county and their athletic club.

Ashleigh competed in the Heptathlon 7 events over 2 days and was in the top 3 for the whole of the competition, achieving 3 PB's and gained her 2nd place out of 18 with an excellent score of 4342 points. This would appear to put her in 5th place in the rankings.

Day 1 - 80m Hurdles 11.4, PB High Jump 1.54, Shot 8.58, PB 200m 26.00.
Day 2 - Long Jump 5.62, PB Javelin 23.79, 800m 2.48.1.

Ashleigh has entered the U17 Heptathalon Championships in Birmingham on the 16th- 17th August in preparation for the finals in Birmingham in September.

Nick completed the Decathlon - 10 events over 2 days and was in the top 4 for the whole of the competition, achieving 8 PB's, gained 3rd place with an excellent score of 5389 points in his first decathlon. Nick archived a PB in the Javelin over 30m, but because of a heavy downpour the competition was restarted and this throw did not count! This would have given Nick 2nd place instead of 3rd.

Day 1 - 100m 11.2 PB, Long Jump 5.85 PB, Shot 9.79, PB High Jump 1.72 PB, 400m 51.2 PB.
Day 2 - 100m Hurdles 16.0, PB Discus 19.19, Pole Vault 3.00 PB Javelin 27.40, 1500m 4.39.0 PB.

Well done Ashleigh and Nick.

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Clairville 20.07.08 NYAL match 4
Middlesbrough AC came a gallant 2nd place behind a rampant Chesterfield who fielded athletes in nearly every event, this sees Chesterfield promoted to the Northern Premier league, congratulations to them on this achievement, commiserations to our own athletes for the effort they have put in this season.

Match Result:
Chesterfield 448
Middlesbrough AC (Mandale) 341
Harrogate 280
Tynedale 217

Full Results more>>

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Congratulations to our club athletes below who have been selected to represent the North East at the Uk Schools Games in August

Sofiya Pela 4x 300m relay 41.86 seconds, North East Champion 2008

Kayleigh Mills Hammer 46.79m, English Schools Champion 2008

Ashleigh Wood Long Jump 5.65m, North East Champion 2008, (also to represent NE in 4x100m)

Jayme Norton 300M 41.20s, Northern Bronze and Cleveland Record Holder

Kate Welford 200m 25.47, English Schools Finalist 2008

Chloe Gill Triple Jump 11.54, UK Schools Bronze 2007

Joe Cox 400M Relay 51.70, National CYP Silver Medallist 2008

Shaun Mcarthy Long Jump 6m20cm, Schools Inter Counties Champion 2008

Press article July 26 Evening Gazette more>>

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English School Championships 11th - 12th July Gateshead
Please Note below are club athletes who appeared on the ESC finalist results page, a link can be found at the foot of this article re the full finalist page, plus a further link for all the heats and semi finals.

Inter Girls
Hammer 1st K Mills 46.75, 12th H Corrigan 33.41,200 metres 8th K Welford 26.08,
Triple Jump 6th C Gill 11.13, 20th C O'connor 9.75, Shot 12th R Goodier 9.64

Senior Girls
Hammer 5th K Sullivan 43.65

Junior Boys
200 metres 4th R Hodgson   23.30, Discus 8th I Swall 36.03, Hammer 12th M Potts 40.72

Inter Boys
Hammer 17th B Daley 27.62,

Senior Boys
400 metres Hurdles 7th N Phelps 55.84, Long Jump 6th C Dryden 6.65.

Full Finalist Results. more>>

All the Heats and Semi Finals. more>>

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Northern League Div2 NE, Jarrow o6.07.08

Women's
100m Hayley Braithwaite 13.2, Frances Hubbard 13.4, 200m Emma Payne 26.6, Claire Turnbull 26.8, 400m Kirsty Legg 59.4, Jenny Phelps 65.8, 800m Faye Buckton 02:27.5, Shannon Penney 02:27.8, 1500m A Kristy Grant 04:59.8, 400m Hurdles Claire Turnbull 67.8, Hayley Braithwaite 87.0, 100m Hurdles Claire Turnbull 16.6, Emma Payne 16.4, Hammer Kayleigh Mills 45.91, Kayleigh Sullivan 44.22, Discus Kayleigh Sullivan 31.89, Rachel Fairless 16.00, Javelin Kayleigh Sullivan 27.48, Rachel Fairless 16.06, Shot Putt Kayleigh Sullivan 9.76, Frances Hubbard 6.82, Long Jump Jenny Phelps 4.84, Leah Kennedy 4.73, Triple Jump Leah Kennedy 9.92, Jenny Phelps 9.89, High Jump Leah Kennedy 1.50, Hayley Braithwaite 1.20, Pole Vault Rachel Fairless 3.00, 4x100m Relay 1st 51.2, 4x400m Relay 1st 04:21.9.

Men's
100m Andrew Appleyard 11.9, Aaron Harris 12.3, 200m Aaron Harris 26.2, Matthew Hamilton 24.9, 400m Joe Cox 52.5, 800m Mikhy N'Cube 02:03.7, 1500m Grant Hawkins 04:18.1, 400m Hurdles Nick Phelps 55.8, 110m Hurdles Glen Blenkinsopp 19.6, Hammer Phil Swall 33.09, Ben Daley 27.60, Discus Max Alderson 32.56, Ben Daley 21.60, Javelin Max Alderson 33.68, Ben Daley 31.28, Shot Putt Max Alderson 11.54, Matt Hamilton 7.62, Long Jump Charles Dryden 6.52, Charles Terry 5.34, Triple Jump Charles Dryden 13.15 Nick Phelps 12.84, High Jump Nick Phelps 1.50, Glen Blenkinsopp 1.40, Pole Vault Glen Blenkinsopp 3.60, Charles Dryden 2.20, 4x100m Relay 3rd 46.8, 4x400m Relay 3rd 03:38.6

Match Result:
1st 426.0 City of York, 2nd 376.5 Middlesbrough (Mandale), 3rd 322.0 Gateshead, 4th 291.5 Morpeth, 5th 280.0 Durham, 6th 122.0 Scarborough

League standings after 3 matches, final match Clairville 8th August:
1st (18 points) City of York A,
2nd (13 points) Gateshead Harriers & AC,
3rd (12 points) Middlesbrough AC (Mandale),
4th (9 points) Durham City Harriers AC,
5th (8 points) Morpeth Harriers & ACV,
6th (2 points) Scarborough AC.

Full Results. more>>

Press article more>>

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29.06.08, Tees Valley Tigers, the region's junior athletics team.
Finished runners-up to Team Forth Valley in the third round of the NJAL to keep their play-off hopes alive.

Max Alderson was again in outstanding form winning all four throw competitions, including the discus, when he flipped it out to over 40 metres, fine preparation for next week's English Schools Championships at Gateshead.

Chris Smallwood won both sprint events with Charlie Dryden taking the long and triple jumps with further successes from Elliott Jackson, Joe Corrigan and Phil Swall.

Jess Metcalfe also won four throws in the ladies event with Kayleigh Sullivan and Jayme Norton claiming their events, and these three will be in action at the ESAA Championships.

Emma Stokes won both 100m and 200m with Helen Corrigan winning the javelin, although she will contest the hammer at Gateshead.

Results:

Junior men:
100m, C Smallwood 11.8sec; 200, C Smallwood 23.8; 1500, E Jackson 4min 19.8; long jump, C Dryden 6.56m; long jump, J Corrigan 6.09; hammer, M Alderson 37.42; shot, M Alderson 13.41; shot, P Swall 9.60; javelin, M Alderson 35.47; triple jump, C Dryden 13.18; discus, M Alderson 40.41.

Junior women:
100, E Stokes 13.0; 200, E Stokes 27.4; 400, J Norton 60.1; shot, J Metcalfe 6.18; hammer, K Sullivan 43.83; hammer, J Metcalfe 26.62; shot, J Metcalfe 6.68; discus, J Metcalfe 22.05; javelin, H Corrigan 19.05.

Team:
1, Team Forth Valley 441pts; 2, Tees Valley Tigers 315; 3, Team Glasgow 312; 4, Team South Lanarkshire 266; 5, Northern Reivers 224; 6, Team Tyne and Wear 98.

Andy Ward

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Northern League Div2 NE, Jarrow o6.07.08
A good turn out and result would close the gap between ourselves and Gateshead Harriers & AC who are in 2nd place with two match points ahead of us.

Again as the last two match's in other leagues we are involved in, could all athletes, officials and supporters attending, please arrive early, and stay to support the team

Senior team selection. more>>

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NJAL Clarville 29.06.08
After a frantic days athletics, club positions on the day of the penultamate match are as follows:

1st Team Forth Valley 441

2nd Tees Valley Tigers 315

3rd Team Glasgow 312

4th South Lanakshire Athletics 266

5th Northern Reivers 224

6th Team Tyne & Wear 98

Total match points (sheets) break down. more>>

This seasons last match, is again at Sheepmount Carlise on Sunday 27.07.08, transport will be provided, details will be posted as soon as possible.

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NYAL Clarville 22.06.08
Well done to all athletes on a fantastic team performance which lead the club to 1st position and what will leave a tense final day (20th July) to try and gain promotion.  The conditions were terrible for all the athletes with a blowing gail, which blew down numerous trees and cancelled both the discus and hammer throws.

Highlights of the day included:

Rachael Highfield and Eleanor Mullen completed the sprint double in the under 13 and under 15 age groups, Kate Welford produced once again in winning the under 17 sprint double with Jess Kennedy claiming both sprint wins in the B race

Alex Grundsman moved up a distance from 800m to 1500m where he won very easily and also a win in the 200m, Shaun McCartney won the under 17 boys 200m and long jump whilst Ashleigh Stone won the womens long jump. Joe Cox and Greg Jackson continued their battle in under 17's 400m with Joe coming out on top on this occasion. Patrick O'Connor was up to his usual self winning under 13 boys hurdles, high jump and 800m

Both Emily Fields and Jessica Wilkinson won the under 15's girls middle distance races in the shape of the 800m and 1500m. Ashleigh Wood warmed up this years English Schools with a comfortable win in the under 17's girls hurdles with team-mate Christina O'Connor in 2nd place.

Also English Schools throwers Ian Swall, Matthew Potts and Rachael Goodier threw fantastically well.

NYAL returns to Clairville on 20th July the last meeting of the season where I hope all athletes can turn out to try gain promotion to the Premier League for next season.

Many Thanks,
Team Manager, Andrew Maguire

Please note results to be ratified, points may change, many thanks to Michele Sullivan who without her help, the results would have been delayed in publishing.

1st Middlesbrough (mandale) 344, 2nd Hallamshire 281, 3rd Cleethorpes 255, 4th Chester le Street 253.

After 3 matchs the league standings in this years NYAL:

1 Doncaster AC
16 match points  1665.0 total points 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 4.0 points per round

2 Chesterfield
15 match points 1670.5 total points 4.0, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0 points per round

3 Lincoln Well.
13 match points 1549.5 total points 3.0, 4.0, 3.0, 3.0 points per round

4 Spenborough
13 match points 1363.5 total points 3.0, 2.0, 4.0, 4.0 points per round

5 Middlesbrough (Mandale)
13 match points 1358.0 total points 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 4.0 points per round

full results. more>>

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Sofia's Golden Treble
Six young athletes from Teesside representing Durham at the Clubs for Young People, National Athletics Championships in Telford certainly had a day to remember on Saturday.

Representing Middlesbrough's Wellington ABC the six came away with no fewer than fourteen medals including four golds.

Sixteen year old Sofiya Pela-aliyu from Middlesbrough put behind her the recent disappointment of not being selected for the Cleveland Schools athletics team for the forthcoming English School Championships by setting an unprecedented performance by becoming the first Teeside athlete to win three individual Gold Medals on the track when taking first place in the 100, 200, and 300 metres races. Pela-aliyu then returned to be part of the silver medal winning 4 x 100m relay team.

The other Gold medal in performance came from the unlikely source of 12 year old Ashley Gray from Yarm. The Yarm school pupil put in a tremendous performance as a last minute substitute to take the Gold in the boys 200 metres.

Another athlete who would be ruing last weeks terrible weather conditions in Middlesbrough is fifteen year Joe Cox from Ingleby Barwick. Cox who could only manage 53.7 seconds when winning the young athletes match at Clairville stadium last week smashed his personal best fro the distance at Telford to win the Silver medal in a time of 52.50 seconds.

Brother and sister duo Katy and Jack Farrow from Middlesbrough took well earned medals in their track events. Katy taking the silver medal in the 1500m whilst younger brother Jack took bronze in the 800m and sprint relay.

The final member of the group to put in a medal winning performance was Sam Norton from Yarm. Norton younger brother of Cleveland Schools record holder Jayme took the Silver medal over 100 metres before combining with 200 metre winner Gray to take another Silver in the relay event.

The performances of the young athletes enabled the athletes representing Durham to win 5 of the 8 team trophies on offer at the Chamiponships. Team Manager Simon Healey was overwhelmed by the performances and said “its been a great day for the team and the area and the children did us proud”

Athletics: By Rick Betts

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Northern Athletics senior and under 20 championships
Saw medal winning performances for athletes of Middlesbrough AC ( Mandale ) and other locally based athletes.

Fresh from her personal best of of 4mis 33 secs set at Stretford last week Kirsty Legg returned to Manchester to take the Gold Medal in the under 20 womens 1500m in a time of 4 mins 43 seconds. Taking the Bronze medal in the same race was Legg's training partner Lauren Roche (Gateshead Harriers) in a time of 4 mins 50 seconds.

Middlesbrough AC's Kayleigh Sullivan fresh from her personal best performance in the Cleveland Schools Championships on the saturday had to settle for 5 th place in the Hammer event on the sunday with a performance just below her new seasons best.

In the men's track events Richard Kilty (Gateshead) continued his impressive form winning the 100 metres in 10.63 seconds. The Middlesbrough AC quartet of Nick Phelps, Adam Morrell, Andrew Macguire and Richard Morrell made the finals of their respective events. Phelps finished sixth in the 400m Hurdles whilst Maguire and Adam Morrell finished fourth and fifth respectively in the under 20 800 metres. In the senior 800 metres Richard Morrell repeated the feat of his younger brother in claiming fifth place.

In the field Ade Babatunde repeated his feat of last year by claiming the bronze medal with a distance of 14.07 metres. Charlie Dryden narrowly missed out on a medal in the under 20 Long Jump with a distance of 6.65 metres but returned the next day to take a well earned silver medal in the Triple Jump event with a distance of 13.28 metres.

Rick Betts

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NYSD Track & Field 03.06.08 Darlington
''The third fixture of the North Yorkshire and South Durham Track and Field League was held at Darlington's Eastbourne Stadium.

Nick Phelps, who had won the man of the match award at the second meeting for his 12.72m triple jump, was again in good form, this time winning the senior men's 400m in 50.9sec, while club colleague Claire Turnbull won the senior ladies event in 62.4sec and she also won the 100m in 13.4sec.

In the field events Ashleigh Wood, who had won the athlete of the match award at the first meeting in the long jump, showed her all round abilities by winning the shot with 8.43m, as well as the 100m in 12.5sec.

Other winners: 300m U-17 ladies K Welford 42.6, 3,000m U-17 menR McGuire 11-38.9, Shot senior men C Meynell 7.83

The fourth fixture will also be at Darlington, on Tuesday June 24, Mike Cotton, Evening Gazette 13.06.08''.

Full Results

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Match 2 Senior team 07.06.08 Jarrow
Thank you to the athletes and officials that showed up for the senior match at Jarrow on Saturday. The team was hit very badly with many of our athletes absent due to injuries. But our 6 male and 8 female athletes rose to the challenge to cover a total of 49 events between them (27 events plus both relays for the 8 women, and 20 events for the 6 men).

A special thank you to Hayley Braithwaite, Claire Turnbull and Frances Hubbard for competing in as many events as the rules allow, and with the male and female field athletes, helped us to be in 2 nd place after 22 events. Unfortunately, there are only so many events 14 athletes can do, and the lack of numbers resulted in us finishing 4 th overall on the day.

Congratulations to our regular thrower Kayleigh Sullivan for achieving PB's in the Hammer (44.69m), Discus (33.54m) and Javelin (29.99m), lets hope the senior matches continue to be so valuable for you and all the other athletes that have produced good performances for the team and themselves. Also that at the next match, again at Jarrow in 4 weeks, we can produce the team that we all know the club has, and we can then show these other teams the quality that we have at this club.

Thank you, Glen Blenkinsop and Rachel Fairless (team  managers)

Women : A Wood 1st 100m 12.6, 1st long jump 5.37m, 1st Triple Jump 11.01m, C Turnbull 3rd 200m 26.5, 3rd 400m 63.90, 1st 400m h 70.4, 2nd 100mh 16.90, F Hubbard 2nd b 100m 13.6, 400m b 69.3 3rd, H Braithwaite 2nd b 200m 26.90, 1st 400m h b 86.80, 100mh b 2nd 20.3, K Sullivan 1st hammer 44.69m, 2nd discus 33.54m, javelin 1st 29.99m, 2nd shot 9.18m, R Fairless 1st b hammer 14.25m, 3rd b javelin 16.49m, 2nd b triple jump 9.85m, R Goodier 3rd b discus 18.47m, 1st b shot 7.39m,

Men : Max Alderson 1st b hammer 23.63m, 1st b discus 34.00, 2nd shot 11.47m, Ali Bajwa 2nd discus 37.79m, 1st b shot 10.77m, Glen Blenkinsop 100m 3rd 12.10, 5th 200m 25.40, 4th b triple jump 10.24m, 1ts pole vault 3.60m, Steve Birse 3rd javelin 49.42m, Ben Daley 1st b javelin 36.79m, 3rd long jump 5.39m, Nick Phelps 2nd b 100m 11.70, 3rd 400m 51.60, 3rd long jump 5.79m, 4th triple jump 12.02m, Phil Swall 2nd hammer 32.92m.

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NYAL Doncaster 01.06.08
Alex Grunman gets athlete of the match as Middlesbrough AC Mandale come third, total points to be ratified:

1st Doncaster 443,
2nd Lincon W 387,
3rd Middlesbrough Mandale 315,
4th Birtley 159.

Many thanks to our hosts for a magnificent days competition, compliments to there statisticians on being one of the quickest clubs in NYAL this year to publish results.

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NYAL 18th May Barnsley
The Middlesbrough AC Young athlete's team enjoyed a successful if controversial weekend when competing at Bingley recently. The team finished in second place. However club officials believe that once the results have been checked and scrutinized first place is a distinct possibility.

The club are presently in fourth place in the league standings with only the first two guaranteed promotion. So a strong performance in the next match at Doncaster this weekend is essential to help to ensure a fighting chance of promotion to the Northern Premier league for the 2009 season.

In the under 13 boy's section winners for the club were Matthew Routh 100 metres, Patrick O'connor 800 metres and High Jump Ashley Grey 800 metres and Shot Putt, Dan Shippey Long Jump and Sam Norton Shot Putt. For the under 13 Girls Rachel Highfield scored a sprint double winning the 75 and 150 metres, Laura Simpson winning over 75metres and Kim Carson and Hannah Maclaren winning the 800 metres and High Jump respectively.

Moving up to the under 15 age group Richard Hodgson and Donald Hall were in commanding form in the boys sprints winning both sprint races with ease. In the discus Ian Swall won with an impressive throw by over 5 metres and Fola Ajegkibe was another good points scorer in the winning the Shot Putt. The Middlesbrough AC girls were also in fine form in this age category with another sprint double coming from Hannah Seagrave in the B 100 and 200 metres and her training partner Eleanor Mullen winning the a 100m in a very fast time. Emily Fields and Lauren Cuggy were outstanding in winning their 800 metre races in style. While Jess Wilkinson and Catherine Meynell won their races at 1500 metres.

At under 17 level the clubs track athletes showed their dominance by winning every flat track race in which the four athletes competed. Greg Jackson won the double in the 100 and 400 metres, Shaun McCartney winning the 100 and 200 metres and also the Long Jump. Nikhi Ncube had impressive runs winning the 400 metres and 200 metres while Joe Cox claimed wins in the 200 and 800 metres. In the field Ben Daley had a double winning the Shot and Javelin events. Completing this section for the boys Greg Jackson put in a fine performance winning the B Long Jump.

Not to be outdone by the boys the under 17 Girls section contributed greatly to the clubs points tally with no fewer than eleven wins. Kate Welford gained a fast sprint double over 100 and 200 metres and won the B shot event. Jess Kennedy winning the B 100 metres in under 13 seconds. Ashleigh Wood was again in excellent form winning the B 200m and winning the A Shot, Hurdles and Triple Jump. The latter being a lifetime best performance, which lifts her into the UK top 20 for the event along with team-mates Chloe Gill and Ashleigh Stone. Another winner was Rebecca Macguire who took the 1500 metre race. Multi event athlete Christina O'Connor was also a multi event winner in taking the B sprint hurdles and setting a new personal best winning the B Triple Jump.

U13b: 100m M Routh 13.4, S Norton 2nd 14.3,200m M Routh 2nd 27.80, D Shippey 3rd 32.90. 800m P O'connor 2.28.3, A Grey 2.39.80. Shot A Grey 7.22, S Norton 5.26. l/jump D Shippey 4.18, A Grey 2nd 3.70m. h/jump P O'connor 1.45

U13g: 75m R Highfield 10.60, L Simpson 11.20. 150m R Highfield 21.0, H Maclaren 24.3 3rd . 800m S Danson 2.56.80 2nd , K Carson 3.00.60. high H Maclaren 1.28. long jump L Simpson 3.54 4th , R Highfield 3.13 4th.

shot H Maclaren 3 rd 5.92, S Danson 2.92 4th

U15b: 100m R Hodgson 11.60, D Hall 12.2. 200m R Hodgson 22.90, D Hall 24.8. 400m F Ajekigbe 2nd 64.2. 80mh J Oreiderich 2nd 16.20. discus I Swall 33.48, J Oreiderich 2nd 18.29. shot I Swall 2nd 8.65, F Ajegkibe 7.45. Javelin J Oreiderich 2 nd 26.76, I Swall 2 nd 19.70.

U15g: 100m E Mullen 13.40, H Seagrave 14.30. 200m E Mullen 2nd 27.60, H Seagrave 29.30. 800m E Fields 2.21.7, L Cuggy 2.30.90. 1500m J Wilkinson 5.27, C Meynell 5.55.7. l/j
J Wilkinson 4th 3.85, L Cuggy 4th 2.79. h/j L Cuggy 4th 1.20. discus V Jacques 21.18 2nd,
L Vipond 13.04 3rd. javelin V Jacques 19.60 2nd , L Vipond 9.39 3rd. shot V Jacques 8.51 2nd,
C Meynell 7.19 2nd

U17m: 100m G Jackson 12.0, S McCartney 12.2. 200m S McCartney 24, J Cox 24.5. 400m
G Jackson 53.4, N Ncube 55.1. 800m J Cox 2.11.90

1500m N Ncube 5.00.7. shot/javelin B Daley 11.57/38.09. discus B Daley 3rd 23.19. long jump
S McCartney 6.15, Greg Jackson 5.44

U17w: 100m K Welford 12.7, J Kennedy 12.90. 200m K Welford 25.7, A Wood 25.7. 300m
C Frost 2nd 44.80. 1500m R Macguire 5.16.2. 80mh A Wood 11.9, C O'connor 13.7. discus
R Goodier 2nd 17.97, J Kennedy 3rd 11.65. shot A Wood 9.85, K Welford 5.76. javelin R Goodier 2nd 17.04, R Macguire 3rd 6.00. l/jump C O'connor 4.69 3rd, R Macguire 2nd 3.93. t/jump
A Wood 11.37, C O'connor 10.39

Rick Betts

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25.05.08 NJAL Carlisle
Middlesbrough AC (Mandale) and 'New Maske Harriers' compete in the NJAL together as the composite team 'Tees Valley Tigers (TVT)'.

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In conference 'club managers' club photograph policy

We travelled once again to Carlisle for the second NJAL match and enjoyed a very pleasant day of athletics, where everyone was willing to help the team; Tees Valley Tigers. 

With a full compliment of officials, some of us were able to enjoy a lazy day as spectators although our busy team manager seemed to have a "twin" with her as she was constantly 'to and fro' to "declations" and appearing to be in two places at once, checking and supporting all the team members.

The sun was out for a change, but performances were affected by the strong wind and athletes quickly resorted to filling in events to gain points. We had a smaller team with some of our Under 17s. who had travelled to the first match, competing at the Northern Championships at Wigan. But with athletes trying events for the first time and all gelling as a team we maintained our respectable 3rd match position behind the two very strong Scottish clubs.

Jean Simmons

Note team results (a) followed by (b) were applicable.

100m Charlie Dryden 2nd 11.6, Chris Smallwood 3rd 12.1, 200m Shaun McCarthy 6th 25.4, 400m Andrew Maguire 2nd 52.2, Russ Best 2nd 53.4, 800m Andrew Simpson 5th 2.37.3, Elliot Hills 4th 2.23.3, 1500m Adam Mitchell 3rd 4.25.9, Adam Blowers 3rd 4.32.9, 3000m Adam Mitchell 9.16.8, Adam Blowers 3rd 9.33.0, 110h Andrew Simpson 5th 20.1, 400mh Nick Phelps 1st 60.8, Elliot Hills 2nd 69.5, 2000m sc Elliot Jackson 3rd 6.34.5, Adam Blowers 3rd 7.04.0, discus Max Alderson 2nd 36.87, Phil Swall 4th 19.73, hammer Phil Swall 3rd 37.43, Max Alderson 1st 34.60, high jump Ben Daley 3rd 1.70, Nick Phelps 3rd 1.50, javelin Ben Daley 3rd 1.70, Max Alderson 2nd 33.60, long jump Charlie Dryden 2nd 6.58, Shaun McCarthy 1st 5.95, pole vault Nick Phelps 3rd 2.60, Phil Swall, 4th 8.98, triple jump Charlie Dryden 2nd 12.85, Nick Phelps 1st 12.21

100m Faye Winspear 1st 12.9, Olivia Cook 3rd 14.6, 200m Faye Winspear 1st 27.1, Jess Kennedy 1st 27.8, 400m Jenny Phelps 4th 67.8, discus Olivia Cook 4th 14.51, javelin Faye Winspear 3rd 17.43, Courtney Frost 4th 7.22, long jump Olivia Cook 2nd 4.69, Jenny Phelps 2nd 4.56, shot putt Olivia Cook 4th 7.00, Jess Kennedy 3rd 6.48, triple jump Jenny Phelps 2nd 9.83

4 x 10om 1st Faye Winspear, Jenny Phelps, Coutney Frost, Jess Kennedy 52.1

4 x 10om 4th Charlie Dryde, Elliot Hills, Chris Smallwood, Ben Daley 47.7

4 x 400m 2nd Nick Phelps, Karl Hawkins, Chris Smallwood, Russ Best 3.36

guests: javelin Adam Blower 22.98, 400m Karl Hawkins 53.2, w200m Courtney Frost 28.9, m200m Lee Hunter 27.9

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Northern Athletics U17/U15 Champs 2008 Robin Park, Wigan 24/25 May
The ladies of Middlesbrough AC (Mandale) were in fine form at the North of England under 17 Championships held at Wigan at the weekend.

The small group of 5 athletes won three gold medals one bronze and a fourth place.

Gold medallists on the first day came in due to the form of Kayleigh Mills in the under 17 Hammer throw and Chloe Gill in the Triple Jump. The clubs bronze medallist on the track came from Jayme Norton in the under 17 Girls 300m and in doing so Norton ran a personal best and was well inside the qualifying time for July's English schools championships at Gateshead. Unluckiest athlete was Ashleigh Stone who narrowly missed out on a medal in the Triple jump taking fourth place. On the second day the clubs only competitor was Ashleigh Wood and it was Ashleigh Wood who dealt with the pressure of being fastest entrant to claim the Gold in a time just outside her UK best leading performance of 11.52 seconds.

U17 women hammer Kayleigh Mills 43.22 1st, U17 womens triple Chloe Gill 11.31 1 st, U17 womens triple 4 th Ashleigh Stone10.53, U17 300m Jayme Norton 41.39 3 rd, U17 80mh Ashleigh Wood 11.55 1st

Rick Betts

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NYSD Darlington 13th May
There were several outstanding track results at the second fixture of the North Yorkshire and South Durham Track and Field League held at Darlington's Eastbourne Stadium.

Middlesbrough AC athletes again dominated the sprints with Rachel Highfield taking the Under-13 Girls 200m in 28.4secs, club colleagues Eleanor Mullen (27.6) won the Under 15 race, Ashleigh Wood (26.2) the Under-17 race and Claire Turnbull won the senior ladies' race in 26.9.

Andrew Maguire posted a fast early season time of 1:57.3 as he won the Senior Men's race. Ashleigh Wood, who had won the “Athlete of the Match” award in the opening fixture, for her leap of 5.32m in the Long Jump, was again in fine form. Ashleigh won both the Under-17 Javelin with a throw of 24.68m and the Triple Jump with 10.55m.

OtherWinners:

800m - Under-15 Girls: E Field 2:25.7. Senior Ladies: E Williams 2:19.2.

Triple Jump - Senior Men: N Phelps 12.72m. Senior Ladies: C Turnbull 9.59m.

Mike Cotton, Evening Gazette May 23rd 2008

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Barnsley NYAL 18.05.08, preliminary results indicate we came second with 325 points, 3 points adrift of the winners Bingley.

With two meetings gone this places us 4th overall in the league.

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NYSD results April 29th

Under 13 Girls
100m Rachel Highfield 13.9, Long Jump 3.05

Under 13 Boys
1500m Daniel Shippey 05:55.1, 100m 15.8, Long Jump 3.34

Under 15 Girls
100m Eleanor Mullen 13.4, Emily Field 14.0, Hannah Seagrave 14.1, Sally Leishman 14.3, Hannah Gapper 14.4, Jessica Wilkinson 14.4, Rachel Thomas 14.9, Catherine Meynell 15.1, Katie Carter 15.2, Faye McCluskey 16.0

1500m Emily Field 05:06.8, Lauren Cuggy 05:25.4, Jessica Wilkinson 05:39.3, Bethany Brown 05:44.1

Long Jump Hannah Seagrave 3.80, Jessica Wilkinson 3.73, Eleanor Mullen 3.69

Shot Catherine Meynell 7.91, Faye McCluskey 4.31

Under 15 Boys
100m Alex Grundmann 12.2, Donald Hall 12.4, 1500m Alex Grundmann 04:29.6

Under 17 Ladies
100m Ashleigh Wood 12.8, Kate Welford 12.9, Ashleigh Stone 13.1, Christina O'Conner 13.8, Rebecca Maguire 14.8

1500m Rebecca Maguire 05:15.6

Ladies Shot Ashleigh Wood 8.30, Christina O'Conner 6.59

Long Jump Ashleigh Wood 5.32, Chloe Gill 5.31, Ashleigh Stone 5.14, Christina O'Conner 4.64, Kate Welford 4.40

Under 17 Men
1500m Nick Woolley 04:59.3 Long Jump 4.97

Senior Men
Long Jump Nick Phelps (U20) 5.72, 1500m Adam Mitchell (U20) 04:21.4, Nick Phelps (U20) 04:40.7, Mehari Mabteab (U20) 04:45.3, 100m Andrew Appleyard 11.9

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North East Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Athletes from Middlesbrough AC, as well as other Teesside based athletes amassed over sixty medals 30 of them Gold and seven championship records between them.

Outstanding performence of the weekend was record breaking sprinter Richard Hodgson. Fourteen year old Hodgson won the 100m and 200m breaking the Championship Best performances in both events recording times of 11.21 and 22.60 respectively. The 200m time put Hodgson into 22 nd place in the United kingdom all time list.

For the senior men Silver medallists, Glen Blenkinsopp Pole Vault.

At under 20 level the Middlesbrough AC quartet of Adam Mitchell (5,000m), Charlie Dryden (Long Jump), Nick Phelps (400m Hurdles) and Joe Corrigan (High Jump) all competed with distinction to win Gold in their respective events. Other male medallists in this group were Nick Phelps (bronze shot silver javelin and triple jump), Joe Corrigan (Silver long jump).

For the under 20 women Gold medals were won due to terrific performances by Kirsty Legg in the 1500m, Faye Winspear at 100m, and Kayleigh Sullivan in the Hammer. Sullivan's performance in the Hammer was also a new championship best performance. Sullivan added to her medal tally with two silvers and a bronze in the Javelin, Discus and Shot respectively. In the women's triple jump Jayde Foster took a well earned bronze medal. In the under 17 age group there were no Gold medals for the young men of Teesside but there were encouraging medal winning performances from Grant Hawkins and Joe Cox. Hawkins took the silver medal in the 2000m event and Cox the bronze over 400 metres.

The under 17 women took four gold medals and set two championship best performances in the process. Leading the way was Ashleigh Wood who took the Gold and the record in the Long Jump, she then added the 80 metre hurdles title to her tally before taking the silver over 100 metres. In the field Helen Corrigan was in superb form breaking the championship record in the Hammer. The other Gold medallist in this age group was Sofiya Pela-Aliu, Aliu ran a controlled and relaxed race to set a new personal best in winning the 300 metre title. Silver medallists for the under 17 women were Chloe Gill in the Triple Jump and Kate Welford who set a new personal best in the 200m. Ashleigh Stone completed the medal tally in this category by taking the bronze medal in the Triple Jump.

In the Under 15 Vanessa Jacques was a multi Gold Medallist winning both the Shot Putt and Javelin titles and also claiming the silver medal in the discus. Emily Fields ran a superbly judged race to win the 800 metres. Other medallist were Jess Wilkinson and Eleanor Mullen. Wilkinson won the silver medal over the distance of 3,000m whilst Mullen took a brace of bronze medals in the 100 and 200 metre events. In the youngest age category (under 13's) Patrick O'Connor was again in superlative form winning three Gold medals in the Long Jump, High Jump and the 75 m hurdles. O'Connor setting a championship best performance time in the Hurdles. Joining him on the Gold medal trail was Matthew Routh who won the 100 metre title in the closest of finishes. Routh also took the silver medal at 200 metres. Sam Norton won the bronze medal in the Shot Putt.  Sole medallist for the under 13 girls was Rachel Highfield, who took the silver medals over 100 and 200 metres.

Rick Betts

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The next 'Tees Valley Tigers' (TVT) is Sunday 25th May back at Carlisle, Sheepmount Stadium.
We need as many u20's as possible for this match as it falls on the same day as 15's/17's North of England champs at Wigan.

The u17's played a big part in the first 'TVT' match and they will be greatly missed, but hopefully we can get all of the u20's in the club to come and compete and have a great day out.

We also need any officials who are free that day to come and help if possible, officials are an intregal part of matches and points are given to full complements we provide.

If you need anymore information contact me Michele Sullivan (junior team manager), I am at the track Monday, Wednesday and Friday or you can E-Mail me at juniorteam@middlesbroughac.org.uk.

Travel arrangements
The bus should leave Clairville at 8.30am and will also pick up at Wolviston service station around 8.50am, any changes will be anounced here, cost of travel per person is £5.

Michele Sullivan

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Senior Team Selection, York 03.05.08
Thank you to all those who competed or helped with the senior match at York on Saturday 3rd May. It was a difficult day due to late changes to the timetable and several athletes missing from our first match, but everyone worked hard for themselves and the team, with every athlete completing at least 2 events, and some doing much more. Next time we'll get Gateshead's A/B team.

Match Result
1 City of York 447, 2 Gateshead Harriers & AC 345, 3 Middlesbrough AC- Mandale 340,
4 Morpeth Harriers & AC 286, 5 Durham City Harriers AC 269, 6 Scarborough AC 186

Senior Men's manager Glen Blenkinsop, Senior woman's manager Rachel Fairless

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NYAL Jarrow Sunday 4th May
First season manager Andrew Maguire and stand in manager Julie Magurie steered our NYAL team to first place, with a fantastic 72 clear points of nearest rivals at Monkton Stadium in a double header match. Subject to scrutiny this places the club 3rd overall in Northern One East.

Marino Rea Danilowicz.

Managers Report
All athletes where a credit too the club throughout the day and I would just like to congratulate the whole team on a fantastic performance on winning the 1st YAL match of the season.

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Young sprinters Rachael Highfield (U13) and Matthew Routh (U13) started the day with wins in the 150m and 200m followed by both winning the 100m.

Last years AAA' finalist Ben Stephenson (U17) showed good early season form in taking the sprint double with fellow runner Chris Carsson going well in both. Donald Hall also had wins in the U15 age group.

One of the stars of the day was 14 year old Alex Grundsman who won the 400m and 800m which put him in the top 5 in the U.K. for both events.

James Dreiderick, Ben Daley, Matthew Potts, Lee Green and Ian Swall all threw exceptionally well gaining numerous wins for themselves and the club.

Jessica Metcalfe and Helen Corrigan also went well in their respective areas.

Kate Welford completed the double in both 100 and 200 metres for U17 Girls. Ashley Stone and Jess Kennedy also had good wins in U17 age group.

Ashley Wood (U17) was up to her usual winning ways by winning the long jump, hurdles and high jump.

Middle distance runners Nick Wooley, Rebecca Maguire, Lauren Cuggy and Jess Wilkinson all performed well in their events.

Patrick O'Connor (U13) showed his talent in taking in the 800metres, high jump and hurdles backed up by his sister Christina who also performed well.

Jayme Norton and Sofia Pelia both ran quick early season times in U17 Girls 300metres.

Joe Cox won the U17 Boys 400m and 800m followed by training partner Nikki Ncube in both.

Race of the day came in the U15 girls 800metres as Emily Fields pipped team-mate Amelia Mack on the line, however Amelia was harshly disqualified but put that behind her in winning the high jump.

All relay teams did fantastically well and earned the team a final product of a well deserved 72 point margin win.

Andrew Maguire, Team Manager

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Senior Team Selection, York 03.05.08
Below are the Men's and Women's teams for this Saturday's senior league match at York. Unfortunately we are not able to provide a coach for this match, but if anybody is unable to find transport to the match, whether you are an athlete, official, coach or spectator, please let me know as soon as possible and I'll do all I can do help.

The match will be at Huntington Stadium, YO32 9XX and all the start times are available on the team lists attachment. There are still several spaces to be filled, and if anyone has any problems with the selection, or wants to fill one of the spaces please contact me by e-mail seniorteam@middlesbroughac.org.uk, phone (details in attachment), or when I'm at the track on Wednesday night.

Thank you, Glen

Tees Valley Tigers athletics team
Made a solid start to their outdoor Track and Field season at Carlisle this weekend. The team that is a composite team from New Marske Harriers, Middlesbrough AC and Hartlepool Burn Road Athletic Club finished in third place behind to very strong Scottish composite teams that between them boast 9 separate clubs in their make up. The team was ably led by captains Charlie Dryden and Jayme Norton. Dryden had four individual victories winning the 100 metres, Long Jump, Triple Jump and Pole Vault. In the women's events Norton claimed third place 400m with a new personal best performance.

In other men's events Nick Phelps won his specialist event in the 400m hurdles and also won the b Triple Jump. In the field Max Alderson had trio of wins in the Shot Putt, Discus and b Javelin. Phelps and Alderson also scored valuable points in the Pole Vault and Hammer respectively. Andrew Maguire and Ben Daley finished in second place for the team in their specialist events of the 800 metres and Javelin.

In the ladies team sprinter Faye Winspear fine tuned her preparations for next weeks British Universities Championships with wins in the 100 and 200 metres. Making it a clean sweep for the team in the sprints Jess Kennedy and Ashleigh Wood won the b events in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Kayleigh Mills had a busy day with wins in the Javelin and Shot Putt and second place in the Hammer. Other victories for women's team came from Ashleigh Wood with a personal best in the Long Jump, Jess Metcalfe in the Discus and Ashleigh Stone and Olivia Cook in the Triple Jump.

Rick Betts

Men:
100m a 1 st C Dryden 11.4, b 5 th A Simpson 12.6, 200m a 5 th J Corrigan 25.1, b A Simpson 6 th 25.1, 400m a 6 th K Hawkins 55.0, b V Perry 59.90, 800m a 2 nd A Mcguire 1.58.3, b 4 th E Hills 2.24.2, 3000m 4 th A Mason 9.17.90, 110h a A Simpson 5 th 19.80, 400h a 1 st N Phelps 58.80, b E Hills 2 nd 68.80, Discus a M Alderson 1 st 37.80m, b 2 nd B Daley 22.19, Hammer 2nd M Alderson 36.46, Javelin a B Daley 2 nd 39.43, b M Alderson 1 st 37.92, High Jump 3 rd V J Perry 1.80m, b 4 th J Corrigan 1.75m. Long Jump 1 st C Dryden 6.35m, Pole Vault a 2 nd N Phelps 2.20m, b 1 st C Dryden 2.20m, Shot Putt a 1 st M Alderson 12.24m, b 3 rd N Phelps 7.85m, Triple Jump a 1 st C Dryden 13.39m, 1 st N Phelps 12.92m

Women:
100m/200m a F Winspear 12.80/26.0, 100m b J Kennedy 13.30, 200m b 1 st A Wood 26.10, 400m 3 rd J Norton 60.10, 1500m 3 rd R Macguire 5.13, Hammer a 2nd K Mills 44.50m, b 1st J Metclafe 22.46, High Jump 3 rd A Wood 1.50m, Javelin 1 st K Mills 30.40m, b E Stokes 8.19m, Long Jump 1 st A Wood 5.48m, b A Stone 4 th 4.18m, Shot Putt 1 st K Mills 9.36m, b J Kennedy 6.36m, Triple Jump 1 st A Stone 10.34m, b 1 st O Cook 10.26m.

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Tees Valley Tigers travel arrangements Carlisle 27th April 2008.
The bus will leave Clairville at 8.30am and will also pick up at Wolviston service station around 8.50am.

Cost of travel per person is £5. If there is any athletes, u20's or u17's that I have not been in touch with who would like to compete please e-mail me, Michele Sullivan at: juniorteam@middlesbroughac.org.uk or you can find me at Clairville in around the throws area Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.

The more athletes the better fun we have, helpers are required as well as officials. So come and have a day out with us. please confirm you are coming to reserve a seat.

Michele Sullivan

Tees Valley Tigers compete in the Junior League, (NJAL) Tyne League which is made up of Team Forth Valley, Northern Rivers, Team Tyne & Wear, Team Glasgow, South Lanarkshire Athletics and ourselves.

Tees Valley Tigers is a combination of athletics from Mandale, New Maske, Burn Road and Darlington Quakers, the competition is open to Junior athletes who will be given priority, but under 17 year old athletes can compete, either in the team if there is a vacancy or as a guest, this is a fantastic opportunity to gain competitive experience.

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13.04.08 Anne Marie Readshaw Memorial Open.
Middlesbrough AC (Mandale) athletes were in top form at the Shildon Open Meeting held at the weekend.

In the youngest age groups the club had the two outstanding performers in the under 13 boys section multi eventer Patrick O'Connor won 3 gold medals in the Long Jump, 800metres and the High Jump. O'Connor's performance in the High Jump moved him into top position in the UK rankings for 2008. To complete his medal tally O'Connor finished 2 nd in the 200m. For the girls in this age group Rachel Highfield set two personal bests in completing a sprint double in the 100metres and 200 metres.

In the under 15 boys age category Donald Hall had a comfortable victory in the 200m winning by over a second with a new best time. For the under 15 girls Emily Fields produced a solid performance to take the 800 metres. In the field Catherine Meynell convincingly won the Shot Putt to move into second place in the North East rankings. Gaining second places for the club were Amelia Mack (Long Jump) and Eleanor Mullen (200m).

For the under 17 men sprinter Ben Stephenson showed impressive early season form winning the sprint double at 100 metres and 200 metres. Whilst Grant Hawkins was equally impressive in winning the 3000 metre race.

The closest race of the day came in the under 17 women's section where athletes from Middlesbrough AC completed a clean sweep in the 200m, the trio led home by the in form Kate Welford included Ashleigh Wood and Jayme Norton respectively. Wood was in fine form in the field events winning the High Jump and the Long Jump. Finishing off a good day for the clubs under 17 ladies were Kate Welford and Jess Kennedy who finished 2 nd and 3 rd in the 100 metres.

At senior level the club also provided winner in the shape of Faye Winspear and Liam McDonnell. Winspear was again in great form winning bot the 100 and 200 metres. Whilst Emma Stokes finished 3 rd in the 100 metres. In the senior men's age group under 20 athlete Liam McDonnell was again impressive over 400 metres with an easy win and Joe Corrigan claimed second place in the Long Jump.

Rick Betts

Middlesbrough AC medallists:

u13 Boys 200m 2 nd 29.30, 800/Long/High 1 st 2.29.0/3.97m/1.52m Patrick O'Connor

u15 Boys 200m 1 st 25.50 Donald Hall

u13 Girls 100/200m 1 st 14.0/28.90 Rachel Highfield

u15 Girls 200m 2 nd 28.00 Eleanor Mullen, 800m 1 st 2.24.80 Emily Fields,
L/Jump 2 nd 4.31 Amelia Mack, S/Putt 1 st 8.08 Catherine Meynell

u17 Men 100/200m 1st 11.50/23.00 Ben Stephenson, 3000m 1 st 9.22.10 Grant Hawkins

u17 Women Long/High 1 st 5.08m/1.60m 200m 2 nd 26.30m Ashleigh Wood L/Jump 3 rd 4.79m Ashleigh Stone, 100m 2 nd 12.80s Kate Welford, 100m 3 rd 13.10m Jess Kennedy, 200m 1 st 26.20m Kate Welford, 200m 3 rd 26.50m Jayme Norton

u20/Sen Women 100/200m 1 st 12.90/26.0s Faye Winspear, 100m 3 rd 13.20s Emma Stokes

u20/Sen Men 400m 1 st 53.9 Liam McDonnell, L/Jump 2 nd 5.96 Joe Corrigan

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