Several of our Junior Harriers represented their schools recently when they took part in the Durham County Miniathlon Championships at Monkton Stadium. The Year 7 athletes each had to compete in a running, throwing and jumping event with points being awarded for their performance. The Miniathlon is a development event giving competitors a taster of […]
It was a proud day when, after another hard fought victory, the DHAC/Allerton composite team were finally crowned as NEYDL Division 2 (South) Champions. They can now look forward to competing against the ‘big guns’ in Division 1 next season. The final meeting of the four was as action packed as ever with some top
Our juniors were in fine form last weekend at the second NEYDL meeting, and the tremendous team spirit within the DHAC camp was a joy to be part of. Our athletes were ‘buzzing,’ with smiling faces, and always really supportive of each other. After the success of the Darlington/Allerton joint venture at the first NEYDL
Hundreds of athletes descended upon Middlesbrough last weekend for two days of full on competition at the North East’s premier track and field meeting. Clubs from all over the region were represented, in all age groups from Under 13 and above in the ever popular NECAA Championships.The weather had settled and the athletes could look
It was an exciting start to the long awaited first match of the North East Youth Development League last weekend. Last season it had become very apparent that the smaller clubs stood no chance of competing against the clubs with more athletes in the overall standings. So this year, to equal things up a bit,
They’ve been a long time coming, but at last, the results for the first NYSD meeting are out! There was a great turnout of young North East athletes all eager to get started with the first of the six track and field fixtures. Amongst them were, of course, a host of our junior Harriers so
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Last Sunday, hundreds of athletes from the North East and beyond, came together to celebrate the life of a remarkable young man whose story has touched the lives of many. The Kieran Maxwell Memorial is now in its second year, and this time the event had moved location to the Middlesbrough Sports Village. The Under
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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Hundreds of athletes from Under 13’s to Seniors descended upon Pontefract last weekend as ‘Northern Athletics’ held their annual premier cross country competition. The popular North of England XC Championships attracted clubs from Alnwick to Ambleside, from Richmond to Rotherham, and the best of their endurance athletes were out in force.There was an excellent turnout
Last weekend, hundreds of athletes descended upon Cardinal Hume School, Wreckenton for one of the North East’s most important meetings of the cross country calendar. Club runners from all over the North East were brought together to battle it out at the 113th Annual NECAA XC Championships, and it goes without saying that DHAC were
The ever popular Preston Park, once again played host for some more cross country action last Sunday. Hundreds of junior (and senior) athletes descended upon the Victorian estate for the 3rd fixture of the NYSD series of cross country races. Not surprisingly, numbers were down a little on what we’re used to seeing; with all
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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The conditions may have been horrendous, but it didn’t stop twenty four of our junior Harriers turning out in what some might call, proper cross country weather! Yes, it was wet, but the first fixture of the NYSD XC runs was as popular as ever, and clubs from across the region came together to battle
When Lancelot “Capability” Brown designed the landscaped grounds of Harewood House back in the 16th Century, I’m sure he’d never considered that one day they would be used by thousands of individuals to race against each other on foot! But last weekend, this was the setting for a huge turnout of the north’s best cross
The turn out this time was understandably lower than normal after the Durham County Cross Country the day before. However, there were still one or two hardy individuals who’d run at Barnard Castle that were ready for another outing, and as ever, the Under 11’s turned out in force! Under 11 Boys The weather conditions
Normally reserved for runners of the four legged variety, last weekend saw Redcar Racecourse host a racing event of a different kind. The North East Counties Athletics Association cross country championship took place on a cold and wintry Saturday, where over 1,000 runners from 40 clubs met for the regions biggest annual championship race. The
It was another great turn out of Junior Harriers last Sunday for the fourth of the NYSD Cross Country meetings. Even with some of our regulars not there this week (more on that later), there were plenty of blue and white vest flying the flag for Darlington. Under 11’s There were 6 of our junior
Round 3 of the NYSD Cross Country runs saw the biggest turn out of the series so far from our Junior Harriers. 28 eager athletes donned the blue and white vest from the Under 11s, Under 13s and Under 15s, and even with a few of our regulars elsewhere, we still had more juniors than
