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Track & Field AAA Standards |
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Notice to all Gloucester AC officials and helpers We as a club are obliged to supply the following [officials] at all track and field meetings which this club is involved in. Namely Midland Senior/YA League/Avon League - 1 Timekeeper, 1 Track Judge, A Field Team (minimum of 4) and we can use helpers where possible as long as a graded official is present to oversee the event. On Sunday 18th May Gloucester AC are hosting a Young Athletes match at Yate and we are obliged to supply the main officials, track referee, chief timekeeper, track marksman, field team (minimum of 6) results team, and we we need (male) helpers for moving hurdles as there are no stadium staff at Yate. The above are required to stage the meeting. Last but not least we need a refreshment team to sell them on the day and this will help offset the costs. The reason these requests are being made is because I am responsible for the meeting on the day. Ron Freeman (fixture/competition) Where parents take more than one athlete to a YA League meeting the club will re-imburse their mileage. Likewise officials to Senior/YA matches |
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Gloucester AC win Women’s Midland League Division 5 Although just pipped into second place on the day, Gloucester Ladies won their first Midland League title on Sunday 19th August 2007 at Telford. A resurgent Stratford team came from fifth place in the table to surprise everyone with their win but the lead that Gloucester had established earlier in the season meant that they would have had to be beaten into sixth place in order to fail in the league promotion stakes. Second place on the day was more than enough and Gloucester ladies emulated their male club counterparts with a comfortable victory of 23 league points over their nearest rivals, Shrewsbury, with 19 points. The senior throws were dominated by Bev Jones, Kate Ynell and Nikita Morgan and the senior sprints by sisters Sophie and Cleo Lambert who were joined by Amy Whitcher and Alex Purcell to win the 4x100 relay by over thirty metres. Emily Pidgeon won both the 800m and 1500m and her running partner Trudy Wells came 1st and 2nd in the respective B events. In the junior age groups Harriet Hunter, the youngest member of the team at just 11, won the U15 B 100m with training partner Melissa Baverstock taking third place in the A event. Melissa went on to take first place in the B 200m while Amy Waite was 2nd in the A. Melissa, Amy and Harriet were joined by Rachel Davies for another comfortable 4x100m win. Beth Wells and Georgi Lowe stole 15 of the 16 points available in the 1500m. Becky Summers won the 800m, a distance she always claims is not long enough for her. U15 Amy Waite reinforced the U17 athletes for the 100m and 300m events, and Sarah Williams and Julia Loveridge took valuable points in such diverse events as the Discus, 100m., 80mH and 300m.
But possibly the greatest heroines of the day were Marion Loveridge and Paula Whitcher who stayed behind to represent Gloucester in the Avon League at Yate. This fixture conflict has the chance of denying the senior ladies team their fifth consecutive victory but with one match still to go in the Avon League there is the consolation of knowing that at the very least there is one league title already in the bag. |
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Gloucester AC win Men’s Midland League Division 3 Gloucester AC have been crowned champions of Midland Men's League Division Three. Fourth place in the final fixture on Saturday 4th August 2007 was good enough to secure the title from rivals Banbury. Both teams had 28 league points, but Gloucester had 956 match points to Banbury's 936. Gloucester got off to a bad start, with 800m runner Andrew De Camps pulling up with hamstring problems at the end of his race. Richard De Camps took the place of his older brother in the 400m A race, picking up sixth place following his own injury problems. The only event that went to plan in the first third of the match was the hammer, where Wayne Powell won to make it four out of four and Alec Bilous set a new Vet 45 club record in finishing second in the B string. Simon Kellie won the 3000m steeplechase by more than 20 seconds in 10:11.04 and his brother Peter was third in the 1500m A race. Ben Coldray was second in the B 1500m and Ashleigh Naylor was fourth in the 100m. Powell moved on to the other throws, claiming third in the javelin, third in the shot putt and second in the discus. Oliver Cooper stepped out of the limelight of the absent Brendan Goss to win the triple jump with a new PB of 12.96m, and managed to run a 110m hurdles in the middle of his set of jumps. Cooper also had a second place in the B discus and, in all, competed in eight events to amass 42 points. Even team manager Jeremy Mower strapped up a damaged ankle to compete both hurdles for valuable points. Andy Knight, 16, had a good debut with second place in the B triple jump and ran a good leg in the 100m relay. Gloucester's patched up 4x400m relay team made impressive reading, as Great Britain Vet 55 international Keith Short was nine years older than the combined ages of Ben Coldray, Richard De Camps and Jack Knight. Mower said: "The end of the match was really nerve-wracking as we thought we had won the league but were not completely sure, so we had to wait for what seemed like ages for the final results. "The team has used 22 athletes this year, of which nine are aged 21 years or younger, so things look bright for the future as they can only improve”. After three promotions in four years we have shown that the city club are once again a force to be reckoned with.
MIDLAND MEN'S LEAGUE DIV THREE A STRING: 100m 4 Ashleigh Naylor 12.0, 200m 8 Oliver Cooper 25.8, 400m 5 Andrew De Camps 55.7, 800m 3 Andrew De Camps 1:57.09, 1500m 3 Peter Kellie 4:13.01, 3000m s/c 1 Simon Kellie 10:11.04, 3000m 7 Luke Herbert 9:59.03, 110mH 4 Oliver Cooper 21.3, 400mH 8 Oliver Cooper 72.7, long jump 4 Ashleigh Naylor 5.93, triple jump 1 Oliver Cooper 12.96, high jump 6 Oliver Cooper 1.60, shot putt Wayne Powell 3 11.57m, discus 2 Wayne Powell 36.42m, hammer 1 Wayne Powell 57.37m, javelin 3 Wayne Powell 48.55m, 4x100m 5 Gloucester 48.1, 4x400m 8 Gloucester 3:54.
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