Yesterday evening, several of our juniors gathered at Darlington College to attend the Grand Final of the annual Darlington Sports Winner’s Scheme. There were nominations for Alex Boyer, Tori Buckley, Lily Large, Harriet Rogers, Rosie & Lily Thompson and Freya Talman in the Secondary School Sports Achievers group, with Alex being awarded third place. Hugo […]
As far as winners go, the day belonged to Carmel; they took most of the year groups and they were the overall victors as well. However, the real winners were our Junior Harriers – their strength shone through as they dominated most events, with medal after medal going their way, but more importantly their sportsmanship
Middle distance legend and broadcaster, Steve Cram, visited Hummersknott Academy last week to speak to a specially selected group of Academy students, made up from their successful cross country team and a small group of budding sports stars from Abbey and Mowden Primary Schools. The group included several of our Junior Harriers including Abbey pupils
As we know, many of our Junior Harriers excel at other sports as well as athletics and, as we’ve highlighted before, Harriet Rogers is just as much at home in the swimming pool as she is on the track. She was competing in Edinburgh recently and the following extract from Darlington Swimming Club’snewsletter shows youjust
With the last of the NYSD cross country meetings now just a distant memory, Darlington played host for the final event of the series before the focus returns to Track & Field again next month. The South Park Relays are always an exciting finale, producing the usual thrills and spills of a relay race, but
The Course The map above is a good representation of what awaited our athletes last weekend, as a white blanket of snow and ice covered the whole circuit. Nice to look at, but not the best stuff to have underfoot when you’re running! But the teams from Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and North Yorkshire didn’t
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Wyvern School played host once again for the annual Darlington Schools XC Championships. Hundreds of young athletes from Wyvern, Carmel, Hummersknott, Longfield, St. Aiden’s, Polam and the Education Village met on a cool, autumn afternoon to battle it out in a bid to qualify for the County Championships next year. It goes without saying that
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Now the schools’ cross country season is well under way, some of our juniors were back in action again last week. After a successful 1st round, teams from Hummersknott and Carmel progressed to the Regional Final of the English Schools Cross Country Cup, with the aim of making it to the Final on 24th November.
The secondary school cross country season began last Tuesday when hundreds of young athletes descended upon Preston Park for the 1st Round of the English Schools Cross Country Cup. Teams from the County Durham area entered this preliminary round, with the hope of progressing to the Regional Finals on the 10th November, and ultimately the
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As the track and field season looms ever closer, last Sunday Darlington Harriers played host for the final NYSD meeting this season. No mud here though! The ‘road’ relays were run around the tarmac footpaths of Darlington’s South Park, so at the end, trainers might have still been a bit sweaty, but at least they
Hundreds of young hopefuls turned out at a wintery Barnard Castle School for the Durham County Schools Cross Country Championships on Saturday. A host of our DHAC Juniors competed as they pounded the snow and ice in a bid to represent their County. It was a tough day, and the conditions got the better of
Harriet Rogers, 12 who swims for the Academy and is a member of the Darlington Amateur Swimming Club has qualified to swim in both the English and British National competitions this year. The British nationals will be held in Sheffield in July, whilst the Nationals take place in the same venue but later in the
Midweek saw the return of the NYSD track and field competition, this time at Middlesboro. Some fantastic performances on the evening, full results of which can be found here
Darlington Harriers will have a record-breaking 10 young athletes at the English Schools Cross-Country Championships. Nine of them will be representing County Durham, the biggest-ever club representation. They are Ben Lambert , Max Harris, Stella Jones, Catherine Roberts, Harriet Rogers, India Pentland, James Roberts, Lucy-Erin Hunter and Katie Noble. In addition, Emma Hart will represent
It was another big turnout at todays Whitby Cross Country with some big points scored for the teams across the board. Full results can be found here
Sunday saw the second instalment of this seasons Cross Country Season, venue, Acklam. Acklam Cross Country is more like a trail race with plenty grass to run on but trail paths on sections of the race. To see how our Harrier members got on across the age groups click here
