The first fixture of this years Sportshall Competition took place on Sunday November 10th at Blackpool and the Club had a lot of their youngsters out – 25 in all – making a promising start to the three fixture season.
Not only did the athletes perform exceptionally well, their behaviour and attitude was excellent – a credit to their families and Blackburn Harriers.
A big thank-you to all the adults who provided transport & encouraged the athletes today and a special thank-you to Deborah, Julie, Brian, Russell & Tony, who ran the long jump events, and also to Annaliese, Nikki & Amanda, who helped with the team management.
Blackburn Harriers’ team positions from today’s competition were:-
U11 Boys – Second
U11 Girls – Third
U13 Girls – Second – A remarkable result as there were only 2 girls in the team!!
Overall – Fourth
Sam Farnworth was also U11 Athlete of the Match.
Sam Farnworth
Full Results HERE
Results from this fixture were very good individually as well as for the Team and the following athletes achieved top 6 finishes, scoring points for the teams:-
Charlotte Williams (U13) – 1st Shot putt (SP), 1st Long Jump (LJ), 2nd Triple Jump (TJ), 3rd 2 laps
Leah Yates (U13) – 3rd SP, 5th Vertical Jump (VJ)
Luis Billington – 2nd TJ, 2nd= Speed Bounce (SB), 5th Javelin
Jonathan Eastham – 6th Target Throw
Sam Farnworth – 1st 1 lap, 1st 3 laps, 1st LJ & 2nd= SB
Harry Jackson – 6th Jav
Harry Singh – 1st VJ, 5th= LJ
Loukas Yates – 2nd LJ
Eleesha Charnley – 1st= LJ, 3rd VJ, 4th= 1 lap, 5th 3 laps
Amy Davies – 1st= 3 laps
Emily Raine – 1st 1 lap, 3rd LJ
Charlotte Williams
Other athletes achieved new personal bests:-
Kate Angland – Chest Push (CP) & 1 lap
Abigail Armas – TJ, CP, 1 lap
Olivia Blow –TJ, SB, 1 lap & 3 laps
Chloe Jameson – LJ, 1 lap & 3 laps
Emily Laycock – TJ, 1 lap & 3 laps
In addition, the following nine athletes made their sportshall debut:-
Ben Boocock; Keane McAuley; Ty McAuley; Leona Gibson; Katy Gowdy; Poppy Jones;
Danielle Probert; Rachael Westwell; Scarlett Webb
Our Relay results were excellent with the U11 Boys in 1st place, the U11 girls in 2nd and the U13 girls (with help from Katy & Emily L) finishing 3rd.
(Thank-you Nikki for the forward roll training at half term)
