YDL @ East kilbride Sunday 4.5.14

Young Athletes Development League @ JWSC East Kilbride Sunday 4.5.14

On International Star Wars day (May the 4^th be with you) some of our young athletes from East Kilbride Athletic Club made a great start to the season.  There were some fine performances, some personal bests and even a Club Record.

Under 13 Girls:

Rebekah Sykes 150m 22.3

Lucy Muirhead 1^st 800m 2:38.26

Sarah Connolly 1^st 1200m 4:14.87 * U13 CLUB RECORD*

Under 13 Boys:

Owen Selfridge 5^th 100m 14.17

Calum Hopkins 2^nd B 800m 2:42.41, 200m 30.61 & Long Jump 2^nd B 3m 54cm

U15 Girls:
Robyn Peacock 4^th 800m 2:44.35
Rebecca Russell 6^th 300m 49.61

U15 Boys

Ryan Clydesdale 6^th 200m 26.95 & 2^nd B Shot Put 6m 64cm

U17 Women
Chloe Mason 1^st 100m 13.35
Nicole Sharp 3^rd 200m 27.75
Heather Addison 1^st 1500m 5:09.23



U17 Men
Greg Kelly 1^st 100m 11.94
Callum Field 2^nd 200m 23.58
Martin Lynas 2^nd 1500m 4:38.44

If anyone is missing from these results please let us know via the club email address or ekacpb@gmail.com

Please note Club Records & top 20’s on website have been updated.  Spread the word, get training and get competing #blackandyellow

Female Top 20's

Female Top 20's now up to date at http://ekac.org.uk/club-records.php

Club Records

Hey folks now that the track and field season is well and truely underway we have come up with a new way of updating the club records, top 20's and club pb spreadsheet. If you set a new PB email the details including name, age group, event, performance, venue and date to ekacpb@gmail.com
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So get out and get competing and start setting new PB's to tell us all about!  Yazzzz
#‎blackandyellow‬

Press Report for EKMC 1.4.14

Following a highly successful winter cross country and road racing season East Kilbride Athletic club turned its attention to track and field on Tuesday 1^st April. Keen to test the fitness their young athletes had worked hard on all winter the coaches devised a middle distance time trial, primarily for the younger members of the club. To make the evening more interesting the senior mens’ squad agreed to act as pacemakers to help the racers target personal best times.

The change to lighter evenings was accompanied by a brief respite in the wind and rain providing reasonable conditions, if a little cold.

The evening was kicked off with the under 11s running 600m over two heats. The youngsters were all desperate to run as fast as possible with Cameron MacDonald and Holly Coutts deciding after 100m that the pacemaker simply wasn’t fast enough and leaving him in their wake. In spite of grim predictions from their coaches Cameron maintained the blistering pace to record a time of 2:01:2. Not only was it the fastest 600m of the evening, it was also third fastest by an under 11 in club history. Holly fought bravely to the end but was pipped, by a second, on the line by Abbie Kirwan who stormed the final 100m to record 2:10:5, again third fastest on the record list.

800m was the distance for the under 13s and above, run over 3 heats. A number of gutsy performances were on display in the first two heats with pbs being decimated all over the place. The greatest improvement on the evening went to Hannah Dickson who knocked 24 seconds from her previous best time.

The final heat was hotly anticipated as the club’s big guns lined up for a crack at some already impressive times. At under 13 the best time was recorded by Owen Selfridge, running a strong, consistent two laps to record a pb of 2:37:6 on his first day as an under 13. Sarah Connolly ran an equally strong race to finish in a pb of 2:44:5 as fastest girl.

Under 15 races were won by Matthew Kirwan in 2:53:8 and Chloe Mulligan who is used to much shorter distances in a pb of 2:53:2. Under 17 Honours fell to Kyle Fenix, another short distance specialist, in 2:38:1 and Rachael McCusker in 2:58.5 both pbs. The fastest time of the evening was set by under 20 Shannon McMahon who ran an impressive 2:33:6, just behind pacemaker Jamie Clements who won bragging rights over his team mates and a small prize by hitting his target exactly with a time of 2:30:0.

The aim of the evening was to test the athletes current form. With over 40 pbs from 46 runners the coaches agreed the hard miles in wind, rain, snow and mud over the winter were well worth the effort. Thankfully the athletes and spectators all enjoyed the ordeal as well.

EKMC 1.4.14

Well done to everyone involved in a great opening night to our track and field season.  Our inaugural EKMC meet produced 43 (yes forty three) PB's.

Thanks to all officials, pacemakers, coaches and athletes.

600m

U11 Male                                            U11 Female

Cameron MacDonald   2:01.2              Abbie Kirwan                2:10.5

Euan Sweeten               2:07.4              Holly Coutts                  2:11.9

Ross Hamilton               2:09.2              Leah Muirhead              2:12.8

Evan Selfridge               2:13.4              Maja Robertson            2:24.6

Paul Cairns                    2:14.6              Kayla McCrone            2:25.7

Luca Galgani                 2:26.6              Sarah Clydesdale           2:28.0

David Fox                     2:31.0              Hannah Hamilton           2:37.8

Dean Gilmore                2:32.1              Madeline Hopkins         2:44.6

Finn Coffield                 2:32.6              Hannah McCafferty       dnf

800m

U13 Male                                            U13 Female

Owen Selfridge             2:37.6              Sarah Connolly             2:44.5                         

David McGiven            2.49.6              Lucy Muirhead              2:57.6                         

Thomas McCourt         2:50.0              Sophie Forsyth              2:58.1                         

Joseph Hagan               2:54.5              Rebekah Sykes             3:06.2             

Liam Woods                 2:58.9              Lara Brown                  3:06.5                         

Rudy Brown                 2:59.3              Hannah Dickson            3:06.8                         

Aaron Gilbride              3:07.7              Aimee Docherty            3:20.6                         

Jason Gilmore               3:13.7              Ciara Boyle                   3:23.3

                                                            Robyn McLean             3:26.5

Lillian Trail                     3:30.2

                                                            Abbie McLauchlin         3:38.8

U15 Male                                            U15 Female

Matthew Kirwan            2:53.8              Chloe Mulligan             2:53.2

Rebecca Russell             2:56.9

                                                            Lori MacDonald            3:14.5

Caitlyn McPhillie            3:30.5

                                                            Sian Fyfe                       3:37.2

U17 Male                                            U17 Female

Kyle Fenix                    2:38.1              Rachael McCusker        2:58.5

                                   

                                                            U20 Female                                       

                                   

                                                            Shannon McMahon       2:33.6