Sherman Cup and Davison Shield – Junior Athletes Report

In windy but dry and mild conditions at Temple Park the club’s young athletes turned out in some force for the Sherman Cup and Davison Shield.

The day started with the non competition under 11s races. Our 2 girl runners Aoife Bell and Iona Johnstone both ran hard to finish 6^th and 25th respectively. Our only runner in the boys race, 9 year old Tristan Crang did well to finish 55^th.

We had an encouraging turnout in the under 13s races. Willow Morris ran very well to finish 3^rd in the girls race, ably followed by Anya Crowder 12^th, Amelia Hunter 19^th, Lucy Oliver 29^th, Freya Bell 33^rd, Jessica Hunter 35^th and Jessica Ord, in her first race, 44^th.  Willow was our only first 3 finisher of the day. The team finished 3^rd

In the boys under 13s, new member Theo Barron led the way in 6^th with Oliver Douglass in 9^th, Noah Curran 10^th, Ben Asquith 30th and Oliver Ezeoke 32^nd.  In his first club cross country race, Cameron Marshall also ran well to finish 73^rd.  With Theo not yet scoring for the club, the team finished 3^rd.

Our under 15 boys were under strength but David Race fought hard to come in 13^th. Jack Garrett and Robbie Richardson, another debutant, finished 31^st and 46^th.  Well done to Jack and Robbie for ensuring that we finished a team in 7^th place.

We only had one runner in the under 15 girls with Jamilla Nessa doing well to come in 50^th in only her second cross country race.

In the under 17/20 Women’s race, Elisha Tait led our runners in a fine 5th position. She was backed up by Jessica Leslie in 12^th and Amy Baker in 14^th to achieve our only team victory of the day.  Nicole McIlvaney, 21^st, Emma Dixon, 24^th, and Jasmine Crang, 25^th, completed a good overall performance in this age group.

James Morris was first counter in the under 17 Men in 7^th followed by Will Dixon in 9^th and Alex Armstrong in 10^th.  Up against the very strong Morpeth squad, the boys continued to improve to finish 2^nd in the team race. Well done to Alex for rushing back from holiday to make up the team!

Thanks to all family members, friends, coaches and club officials for supporting the athletes.