From Hook Norton to Iowa

Back row L to R : Pete Sugden, Anna Gionnis, Daisy Musk, Georgie Campbell, Jess and Imy Sheppard, Harry Allwood, Dan Boyd. Front row : Josh Newman and James Gionnis As the league Track and Field season draws to a close, we have a report on our senior team's final league fixture of the year together with a report on Wednesday night's penultimate Warwickshire AA Open Graded meeting in Leamington. There are also reports on the ever popular Hooky 6, Charlotte Gravelsons in the England Athletics U17 Heptathlon competition in Manchester and Louise Stewart and John Butler competing in the Broadmeadow Runs Event. There is also a report on the latest Midlands Aquathlon Series fixture from Ali Skirvin. Finally we have a note from one of our international athletes, Jack Sumners, as he prepares for his new life in Iowa. Enjoy the rest of your week. Best Wishes David Jones. From the top : Group photo - Anna Gionnis, Amy Sheppard, Daisy Musk, Georgie Campbell and Jess Sheppard. Ollie Creswell, Anna Gionnis and George Fox-Rowe Photos courtesy of Mike Sheppard. Midland League Division 3 T&F. Report - Paul Hawkins. The final league match of the season was held at Wyndley Leisure Centre at Sutton Coldfield on Saturday 8th August, with the Stratford AC team sitting in third place behind strong teams from City of Stoke and Telford AC. Stratford had a strong team of 30 athletes despite absences due to holidays and injuries and they were supported by a team of 9 officials. Team Manager Paul Hawkins was pleased to welcome seven athletes making their senior league debut, four from the club’s juniors and three who had come in from the club’s Vets League team who competed the previous week. Although every athlete helped with the teams success there were some standout performances. Ollie Cresswell raced over the senior hurdles for the first time and looked very impressive as he stormed to a win in a fast time of 15.1 seconds. Almost as impressive was that Ollie went straight to the 400m where he came second in the B race in 53.1. Both female high jumpers were in the team for the first time and both won their event with Faye Gourlay winning the A event on countback while Evie Lowe won the B event. George Fox-Rowe was also making his senior debut running very strongly in the 400m hurdles and then jumped 11.83m in the triple jump, an enormous personal best of 1.6m. Dan Boyd was another jumper who was delighted with a big PB of 6.58m to win the long jump. Dan also had good runs in both the 100m and 200m. Kaili Woodward has had an injury hit season but has still been a regular in the team and jumped well in her main event, the long jump, to finish second and then did her first ever triple jump to also finish a fine second with a jump of 10.69m. The pick of the middle distance runners…