Early season for success for city club.
Posted by Nobody on 29 March 2017
Early season for success for city club.
The summer track and field season is just around the corner early season open events started last weekend. The City Portsmouth had a squad of throwers at Crawley while many of the sprinters headed for Bracknell.
Crawley:
Star of the show at Crawley out of the throwers squad was Heather Cubbage placing first in the shot (11.92m) and hammer (46.72m) for U17 girls the best result though was a wonderful discus throw of 39.18m ranking her 2nd in the UK at the moment. Brother William Cubbage also had a good day placing in the top 3 in the shot 8.18m, and discus 24.75. At the same meeting the club were well represented in the hammer event; Rosie Castle U23 38.1, Cerys Thomas U17 44.15, (also 26.12m in the discus), Tyler Pattison U15 boys 19.16m. additionally Tyler threw 7.52 in the shot, and 28.26 in the discus.
Another star in the making is young Sadie Blake who clocked 10.87 in winning the 75m 13 girls, ranking her 3rd in the UK at this early part of the season.
At the same meeting our two U17 girl multi eventers had a good day, Hollie Thurgood shot 11.67 and 19.79 for 150m. It was though Maddie Wilton with pb’s in the 300m 41.38 and a wonderful long jump pb of 5.48 placing her in the UK top 10 performers. Two other athletes at the meeting also had an early season work out U23 Hollie Fudge ran 19.51 for 150m and Callum Cook broke 10min for the first time for 3000m.
Bracknell.
Saw a collection of our sprinters heading for Bracknell insearch of some early season times unfortunately they all found themselves running into 4 mph head wind ! nevergood for sprinters.
In the 75m Rosa-May Sprake U11. 12.47 While in the 100m & 200m; Dougie Ness (U13 ) 14.44 29.98, Ella-May Sprake U15 14.4, 29.76 Sophie Brame U15 14,46, 28.72, Amelia Spry U15 13.46, 27.73. At the same meeting Gabbie Jones (U13) once again set a new pb in the shot 9.51m placing her 4th in the UK and added a Javelin pb of 25.96m, while Evie Jones gained a pb in the U13 girls Javelin of 13.71m.
All these performances are so encouraging for the clubs league meetings to come and for county and National schools competitions. Attention now turns to the clubs open meeting this Sunday.
