Girls' Athletics disruptions to the Friday afternoon athletics training schedule took its toll on all the athletes. Luckily we managed to establish a team for the annual Independent School Girls' athletics competition. As predictable the weather was atrocious but a number of girls secured some outstanding performances.
• a fantastic achievement. The third and fourth form girls entered the English Schools' track and field cup. The first round of the competition saw the girls' progress to the regional round which took place at Gateshead International Stadium. For the first time all season the sun shone
Helen Megone:
1st
1500m
and all the athletes relished the opportunity to compete at such a
Libby Brown:
1st
800m
fantastic venue! All the girls must be congratulated on their
Hannah Lawrence:
1st
Javelin
commitment to athletics and they all performed well.
Pippa Martin
1st
Discus.
Luckily the York and district athletics championships managed to go ahead and a number of girls were chosen to represent the athletics team in the school championships. Alice Creswold, Millie Grant and Olivia Shread all qualified to represent the junior team at the district. Helen Megone was chosen to represent the inters
Particularly notable performances on the day were from: • Pippa Martin in the discus •j-^rt-.
• Libby Brown and Alice Greswold secured, extremely convincingly, first and second place respectively in the 800m • Millie Grant and Sally Hicks both performed well in the javelin
at 1500m and Libby Brown qualified in both the 300m and 800m.
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