All the Presidents men (and ladies)

The full story behind another great weekend for Newark AC

Newark AC members spread themselves to a variety of locations this weekend wearing numerous different coloured vests depending on what institution they were representing.

At Wollaton Park Nottingham it was the Nottinghamshire schools cross country champs and the club provided 2 champions. Anna Smith was 1^st in the inter girls race and her brother Ben won the junior boys title.

Competing against Anna were Laura Burles 5^th, Eleanor Miller 11^th and Lauren Mills 12^th

Ellie White finished 3^rd in the senior girls race.

In the younger age groups Amelia Chrispin finished in 3^rd place in the year 7 girls and Joseph Monk was 4^th in the year 5/6 boys.

Those with Lincolnshire schools qualifications had their championships a few weeks back and so it was a trip to Northampton to represent Lincolnshire in the Anglian schools championships and again they didn’t disappoint. Amber Owens finished 2^nd in the senior girls. At inter boys level Max Cawthra was 7^th and Ed Buck 14^th. In the inter girls race the twins Tilly and Lauren Owens finished 45^th and 55^th.

Lauren Milller representing Oakham school finished 6^th in the senior girls at the Leicester & Rutland schools champs

Moving up the age groups we were represented in the prestigious British University Champs held in Graves Park Sheffield by Linton Taylor in the mens “A” race (each uni can enter their best 6 athletes)running for Leeds university finished a magnificent 10^th out of 333 finishers. In the mens “B” race for the remaining male athletes mature student Tim Bagguley (31) representing York university finished 281^st from a field of 573. Hannah Churchill representing Loughborough uni finished 176^thfrom a field of 621 in the ladies race.

We also had a 1-2 in the Newark park run courtesy of Martin Waite and Craig Renton