Our junior athletes along with supporters, volunteers and officials gathered at Whitley Bay on Sunday 21st May for the second fixture of the NEYDL Division One season alongside teammates from Allerton Juniors Athletics Club.
Massive well done and thanks to our officials on the day, Trevor McDermot, Sarah Johnson, Brian Burdon, Brian Thompson, Lily Thompson and Amy Pickworth – without the team of volunteer officials, these fixtures would not be able to go ahead.
Provisional results (they will be updated during the course of the week) have the DHAC/AJAC team finishing second with 624.5 points, behind Harrogate who scored 666.5 points.
In total DHAC had 34 athletes competing in 83 events across the day. Between them they set or broke 37 personal bests with two club records being broken on the day:
U15B 80mH – Hugo Douglas-Reeves – 12.60s (breaking his own club record set at Shildon in April)
U17M High Jump – Josh Davison – 1.72m (breaking the record from 2017)
HURDLES
Six athletes going over the barriers for DHAC on the day, five in the short hurdles and one over the long hurdles:
U13G: 70mH – Beth Johnson – 13.96s
U13G: 70mH – Isla Massingham – 15.68s (PB)
U13B: 75mH – James I’Anson – 15.82s
U15G: 75mH – Izzy Edinboro – 13.71s
U15B: 80mH – Hugo Douglas-Reeves – 12.60s (PB and Club Record)
U17W: 300mH – Tori Buckley – 50.70s
THROWS
13 of our athletes competed in the various throwing events across the day:
DISCUS
U13G: Sasha Patterson – 11.52m
U15B: Tomos Cowell – 25.44m (PB)
U17W: Madison Miller – 17.22m (PB)
U17M: Jack Wood – 15.61m (PB)
HAMMER
U15B: Tomos Cowell – 19.49m
U17M: Ashton Harrison – NM (unfortunately, no valid throw for Ashton, we’re sure he’ll be back to rectify that at the next fixture)
JAVELIN
U13G: Beth Graham – 7.23m (PB)
U13G: Lucie Hammond – 5.88m (PB)
U13B: Jacob Addison – 18.25m (PB)
U15G: Lottie Graves – 19.59m
U17M: Jack Wood – 6.84m
SHOT PUT
U13G: Beth Johnson – 6.75m
U13G: Ella Bartholomew-Millar – 6.72m (PB)
U13B: Jacob Addison – 6.39m (PB)
U15G: Lottie Graves – 10.56m (PB)
U15B: Tomos Cowell – 9.83m (PB)
U17W: Tori Buckley – 10.79m
U17W: Madison Miller – 7.57m
U17M: Josh Davison – 8.45m
U17M: Jack Wood – 6.25m
SPRINTS
DHAC provided 19 sprinters for the team across the 100m, 200m and 300m races:
100m
U13G: Lexi Adams – 14.74s
U13G: Lucie Hammonds – 16.34s (PB)
U13G: Beth Graham – 17.03 (PB)
U13B: Jacob Addison – 17.21s (PB)
U15G: Elizabeth Clay – 13.52s
U15G: Izzy Edinboro – 13.90s
U15B: Aidan Patterson – 14.39s
U17W: Jess Sweet – 13.14s
U17W: Libby Hammond – 13.40s
U17W: Fleur Liddle – 15.51s (PB)
U17M: Josh Davison – 12.80s (PB)
200m
U13G: Lexi Adams – 30.39s
U13G: Sasha Patterson – 31.35s (PB)
U13G: Ella Bartholomew-Millar – 32.84s (PB)
U13B: James I’Anson – 31.84s (PB)
U13B: Ollie Curran – 32.72s (PB)
U15G: Elizabeth Clay – 28.62s
U15B: Hugo Douglas-Reeves – 25.34s (PB)
U17W: Jess Sweet – 27.38s
U17W: Libby Hammond – 27.53s
U17M: Thomas Hill – 25.23s
300m
U15G: Izzy Edinboro – 44.01s
U15G: Lottie Graves – 48.43s
U15B: Aidan Patterson – 47.60s (PB)
U17W: Savannah Tarn – 45.20s
U17W: Libby Hammond – 45.56s
JUMPS
13 of our athletes took to jumping action, either into sand pits or over bars:
HIGH JUMP
U13G: Beth Johnson – 1.15m
U13G: Isla Massingham – 1.10m (PB)
U13B: James I’Anson – 1.25m
U15G: Chloe Graham – 1.15m (PB)
U17M: Josh Davison – 1.72m (PB and Club Record)
POLE VAULT
U17M: Thomas Hill – 3.20m
TRIPLE JUMP
U17W: Jess Sweet – 9.88m
U17M: Ashton Harrison – 10.34m
LONG JUMP
U13G: Lexi Adams – 3.52m
U13B: Donovan Tarn – 3.49m (PB)
U13B: Ollie Curran – 3.24m (PB)
U15G: Elizabeth Clay – 4.02m (PB)
U17W: Fleur Liddle – 3.52m
U17M: Thomas Hill – 5.27m (PB)
U17M: Ashton Harrison – 4.99m
MIDDLE DISTANCE
13 athletes toed the start line for the 800m and 1500m races on the day:
800m
U13G: Ella Batholomew-Millar – 2:49.56 (PB)
U13G: Isla Massingham – 3:05.47 (PB)
U13B: Ollie Curran – 2:31.46 (PB)
U15B: Matthew Foster – 2:23.47 (PB)
U17W: Savannah Tarn – 2:23.61
1500m
U13G: Sasha Patterson – 5:29.43 (PB)
U13B: Donovan Tarn – 5:39.69 (PB)
U15G: Chloe Graham – 5:35.08
U15B: Finn Pentland-Rice – 4:59.08
U15B: Willoughby Croslegh – 5:14.15
U17W: Sophie Bannister – 5:09.51 (PB)
U17W: Freya Talman – 5:16.39
U17M: Freddie Hall – 4:39.83 (PB)
RELAYS
DHAC provided eight athletes for the end of fixture relays. Unfortunately we couldn’t get any U17 relay teams on the day.
U13G: Lexi Adams & Sasha Patterson (plus two Allerton athletes) – 61.24s
U13B: Jacob Addison & James I’Anson (plus two Allerton athletes) – 61.93s
U15G: Elizabeth Clay & Izzy Edinboro (plus two Allerton athletes) – 53.12s
U15B: Hugo Douglas-Reeves & Aidan Patterson (plus two Allerton athletes) – 54.12s
Another fantastic day for the team, with exceptional performances across the board.
Results are still provisional, but they will be finalised and posted to Power of Ten soon. Latest results can be found here RESULTS
The athletes move on to the next NEGP meeting which is Wednesday 24th at Jarrow, some will be headed to York to represent the North East at The Northern Inter-Counties on 27th May and many of our athletes will be representing their towns at The Schools County Champs.