There were some tremendous results from the Sussex Schools teams at the English Schools championships at Norwich with Bethany Cook striking silver in the Junior Girls race and they gained silver and bronze team medals. Cook from Moira House was one of the youngest runners in the Junior (U15) race and is still young enough […]
Will Junior Girls be best at Norwich?
Can the Sussex Schools teams match the performances of last weekend’s Sussex County teams when they line up for the English Schools’ cross-country championships at Norwich on Saturday? Last week at Loughborough the County teams did rather better, overall, than expected but they are not the same teams as the age groups are one year […]
Gold for Bethany on a good day for Sussex
Bethany Cook from Eastbourne became, what is believed to be a history maker at the CAU Inter-county Cross-country championships at Loughborough on Saturday when she steamed away from the Under 13 Girls field to take the title by a remarkable nine seconds. Although Sussex athletes have won individual titles at these championships before, Eric Weir […]
Sussex battle at Loughborough
Sussex look like fielding their strongest senior women’s team for many years at the UK/CAU Cross country championships at Prestwold Hall, Loughborugh on Saturday. Despite missing the services of Emma Macready, who has been largely missing from the Sussex scene this season, team manager Tom Ulliott has assembled a strong contingent including the first four […]
Two bronze medals for Sussex at Essex 20-mile
Sussex runners gained a team and an individual bronze medals in the Inter-county 20-mile event which was incorporated into the Essex Championships at Langham on Sunday. Excellent results for both the ladies and men in our first venture to this inter-counties invitation event. In foul conditions at the start, with torrential rain and gusty winds over […]
Three team bronze medals and a county record for Seb at Sportshall final
“The races were so exciting, we were on a high,” said team manager Kim Milnthorpe, after the under 13/15 Regional Sportshall Final at Burgess Hill. The annual competition brought together the best young athletes from the south east to compete for county honours, in the strongest sportshall region in the UK. There were many individual successes for […]