Junior News Section
Great Yarmouth & District Track Meet - 19 August 2010
6 Black Dog Juniors competed in the 2nd Gt. Yarmouth Performance Meet
U13 Boys:- Luke Spear won the 100m in 14.5 seconds with Nicky Sparkes coming 5th in 16.8 seconds. Luke also won his heat of the 200m race in 30.4s and Nicky was 4th in the same heat recording 36 seconds. Luke jumped 3.98m to win the U13 Long Jump and Nicky jumped 2.92m to finish in 6th place.
U11 Girls:- 80m: Jessica Sparkes came 5th in the second heat in a time of 15.2s and Amy Spear was 2nd in the third heat in 13.6s. 600m: Jessica, 9th in 2:28.7 followed by Amy in 11th 2:45.0 Turbo Javelin: Jessica threw 7.00m to finish 7th while Amy managed 5.48m to finish 10th.
U11 Boys:- In the 80m Nathan Oldman was 5th in 13.9, just beating Thomas Cookson (6th) in 14.0 seconds. The 600m saw Thomas coming 5th in 2:22.6 beating Nathan in 6th (2:29.1). Thomas was 5th again in the Turbo Javelin throwing 11.63m and Nathan 7th with a 9.03m throw.
Great Yarmouth & District Track Meet - 15 April 2010
On 15th April, six Black Dog Juniors took part in the Great Yarmouth and District warm up track meet. The weather was pretty cold and there was a head wind in the home straight.
First up was the mile. Kieran McMorran ran strong to just beat GY runner Dominic Oliver on the line in a PB of 5:18.7. Marcus Sladden competing in his first track event came home in a respectable 6:02.3.
William Oldman restricted himself to the long jump, finishing 3rd in the U13's with a 3.5m jump and Campbell McMorran, again competing in his first track meet, also managed 3rd in the U11 age group jumping 2.52m.
Lucy Emmett was 4th in the U11 75m event coming home in 14.7 seconds. Not bad for an 8 year old. In the next heat Nathan Oldman ran the best that I've ever seen him run to finish the 75m in 13.07 seconds in 3rd place. In the 600m, Nathan started strong but faded in the end to come home thrid in the U11's in a time of 2:37.6. Campbell, running in his first ever race showed good promise by starting slowly and overtaking most of the field on the last lap to come home 3rd in the race and 2nd in the U11 boys in a time of 2:28.7. Likewise Lucy ran a good race, finishing strong in 4th place just behind Campbell to come home 2nd in the U11 girls in a time of 2:35.2. Marcus finished the evening off with a 150m blast in 21.2 seconds.
Suffolk County Cross Country Championships
Five Black Dog juniors took part in the postponed Suffolk County Cross Country Championships at Newmarket on Sunday 14th February. The weather was cold but otherwise fine. The course was uninspiring and a bit disappointing after the excellent Stowmarket event the week before. First up was Ruby Oldman coming home in 15:26, 15th place in the 3k U13 Girls event. Next to go were the U13 Boys (3k), Ted Oldman was first Black Dog back in a respectable 12:46, 11th place, followed shortly afterwards by William Oldman in 14:53, 18th place.
The U15 Boys had a longer 4k run. Kieran McMorran came home in an excellent 4th place (16:00) beating several of his regular competitors for the first time. Miles Kingston managed to complete the course in 22:25, 14th place which was an excellent effort considering the amount of training that he'd missed in the last couple of months.
Juniors Watford Trip 12 August 2009
A number of Junior Black Dogs accompanied Club Chairman John White to a summer trackmeet in Watford on August 12th. This high quality open event was a chance for some of the juniors to experience running on a proper track and to compete with and watch the very best runners from eastern England. All runners achieved personal bests. Rory Lacey ran the 100m (13.82) and was narrowly beaten in his heat in the 200m (28:06). Amongst the 17 heats in the 1500m, were two Black Dogs - Kieran McMorran (5:04) and Miles Kingston (5:44). Rhys Spencer finished the 3000m (11.57) which didn’t start until 10.30pm!.
Juniors Trip to Watford
We left Bungay Sports Centre at 4.30pm and fortunately had clear traffic all the way to Watford arriving at 6.45pm into a packed car park. First event was off at 7.00pm, so by the time we'd parked up and registered Rory only had 5 minutes before his 400m race to prepare. The temperature was in excess of 25 degrees as well, so not the ideal start. Rory ran a slightly disappointing 1:08.5 which was undoubtedly down to the rushed preparation.
Kieran and Miles both had more time to soak up the atmosphere and warm up properly before their races and both ran really well. Miles ran 2:48.8 beating his PB by 7 seconds and Kieran came home in 2:30.9 knocking 9 seconds off his previous time. Unfortunately there were nearly 200 runners entered into the 800m resulting in 17 heats, so the 200m started over half an hour behind schedule, but Rory ran a very creditable race, taking it easy over the first 100, then powering through the final 100m to come home in 29.03.
We left Watford at 9.30pm and arrived back in Bungay at 11.30pm.
Important Phone Numbers:
Welfare Officer: Paul Seary 01986 896824
Junior Coordinator: Margaret Burton 01502 710626
Junior Coach: John White 01728 668968 (h) or 07712836209 (m).
