Young Athletics League (MYAL) @ Harrow on Sunday 4 June
The second fixture of MYAL (Middlesex Youth Athletics League) was flagged off at The Roger Bannister Sports Ground in Harrow on Sunday 4th June. The sports ground is a tribute to the famous British Athlete Sir Roger Bannister, who was the first man to run an iconic sub-four-minute mile. The sky was cloudless and the sun beaming down with the 9 competing clubs roaring to go. Thanks to all our young athletes, Highgate Harriers secured an overall match position of 5th across all the competing clubs. It was a sunny outing with gutsy track and field performances from all our young athletes. The stand out performance was from our U11 who ranked 3rd across all clubs with twelve U11 athletes joining forces for a commanding performance
The second fixture of MYAL (Middlesex Youth Athletics League) was flagged off at The Roger Bannister Sports Ground in Harrow on Sunday 4th June. The sports ground is a tribute to the famous British Athlete Sir Roger Bannister, who was the first man to run an iconic sub-four-minute mile. The sky was cloudless and the sun beaming down with the 9 competing clubs roaring to go. Thanks to all our young athletes, Highgate Harriers secured an overall match position of 5th across all the competing clubs. It was a sunny outing with gutsy track and field performances from all our young athletes. The stand out performance was from our U11 who ranked 3rd across all clubs with twelve U11 athletes joining forces for a commanding performance.
U11 Girls & Boys
The U11 girls made their mark ranking 3rd at Harrow improving their 6th rank at Perivale. The Track scorers (150m and 800m) were led by Kerianne Spillane and Hanna Scott . Kerianne also came in a strong 3rd in the long jump clocking 3.39m while Clover De La Mare and Isabella Tidball smashed the Vortex in the field coming in a strong 2nd and 3rd (both going beyond 21mts). Clover, Isabella and Kit Hanna-Woolf all remained on point. Boys retained their 3rd position while improving their points thanks to inspiring runs on track (150 & 800m) from Jack Cobbold, Max Kolesnikov, Mohamed Omar Abdi, Art Hanna-Woolf & Max Sassa. Arlo De La Mare came in a whopping 2nd on the Vortex with 29mts and Thor Frost also followed suit with a 25.74mts performance. In the Long jump both Thor Frost and Mohamed went neck to neck with 3.28m jump bagging in precious points.
U13 Girls & Boys
U13 Girls had strong competition on the Track with Chloe Trunkfield, Ira Agrawal, Hettie Fletcher roughing it out on the 200m, 1500m, Long jump and getting precious points. Miriam Randall gave a go at Shot putt and bagged precious 10points while giving her all, in the 200m run. Ira Agrawal ran her 1st 1500m in the U13 and came 3rd in the B string clocking 6m11s. The Boys had a good outing with Alex Pettican running a strong 1500m at 5:20 supported by Filip Kounoupas Prastalo at 5:38 . Idriss Mariche ran a strong 75H and scored some power points in Long jump & Javelin.
U15 Girls & Boys
The Girls had a stellar outing. Elsa Shabani made us proud coming 1st on the shot putt (10.68m), 2nd on the Hammer (32.92m) and 3rd on the Javelin (22.37m). Monisade Ayodeji came in 1st on the High Jump with a PB of 1.60m (improving her 1.45m at Perivale) while scoring powerhouse points on the Long Jump and another PB on the 200m clocking 28.09Jo. Eloise Fenton ran a strong 200m as well with points under her belt on the Javelin. Sonny Allen kept the heat on in the 1500m coming in 4th with an amazing 5:29:64. While we were under represented with Boys, Bradley Baka came 1st on the 200m clocking 23.94 supported by Oscar Fletcher who also ran the 200m . Bradley Baka got a PB on the shot putt with strong 7.02m throw.
U17 Women & Men
Amongst the women, Gabrielle Johnson came in a strong 4th on the 200m clocking 26.37 and a whopping 1st on the Long Jump leaping at 4.92m. Iris Brodie was a standout clocking 27.80m in the Javelin coming in 1st. Faduma Omar ran a gutsy 1500m at 5:20. There were inspiring performances by Elijah Marshall coming in 1st on the Javelin (36.58m) and 3rd on the High jump (1.55m) while running a composed 200m at 25:41. Kudos! Liam Bailey, despite being snowed under mountains of exams, ran a strong 1500m at 4:32. As always, Said Mariche kept the scoreboard ticking getting a strong 1.55m on the High Jump, a consistent 4.50m on the Long jump & 23.28m on the Javelin.
Conclusion
Special thanks to all our coaches who could join (Chris, Claire, Sonia, Julie, Rhonda), club support staff & parents cheering the athletes on.
As the 2nd meet has concluded we remain 5th Overall and we need strong representation from all athletes in the next two fixtures on 24th June (Finsbury Park) and 22 July (StoneX). We can break into the Top 3 if we can get more participation
Kudos and congratulations to all our athletes at this meet. Please speak to your coaches for putting your name forward on the upcoming 24th June fixture at Finsbury Park.