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The English Schools Championships is the largest schools age championships in the world. Each county has a quota of athletes it can enter, and there is an entry standard for each event, which is roughly equivalent to AAA Grade 1. It is the pinicle of most young peoples athletics. This year Olympians were represented by Sian Davis (High Jump), Toby Griffiths (800m), Gemma Weetman (Long Jump) & Charlotte Roberts (300mH). All except for Toby had been before.

Toby went to his first English Schools full of hope & came away with a Bronze medal, lowering his PB from 2:11.5 last year to 2:01.62 in the final. Almost a 10 seconds reduction, and a new U15's club record.
Gemma Weetman also came away with a Bronze medal. Despite being in the junior year of her age group, she beat all except the two girls on National Athletics funding. She also increased her PB & the club record to 5m87

In the girls, U13s Kez Ogden led the field with 2 wins in the 70m hurdles & High Jump. Boys U13s Jack Roberts 1st Shot Putt.

U15s Relay team 1st, Ben Richards 2nd 80mH, Elliot Eaton 2nd 100m 3rd 200m, Toby Griffiths 1st 800m & 1500m 2nd 200m & 3rd 100m Toby Blake 3rd Javellin.

U17s Jason Green 1st High Jump 2nd Discus & Javelin, Ben Griffiths 2nd 3000m, Cherry Lauriello 1st in Long Jump 3rd in 80mH & 100m, Charlotte Roberts 1st 300mH 3rd in Long Jump & High Jump, Sian Davies 2nd High Jump, Ali Lavender 1st 800m & 1500m & 2nd 3000m.

U20s Gemma Weetman 1st Long Jump & 100mH, Emma Thomas 3rd 800m. Olli Blake 1st 800m 2nd 1500m.

Shropshire Cross Country Championships 15th Jan 2005 Lilleshall
Two junior Oswestry Olympian athletes became county champions at the Shropshire AA x-c Championships held at the National Sports Centre, Lilleshall.
   Rowan Dell (Under 13 Boys) and Alison Lavender (Under 17 Women) both led from the front to win overall and book their places in the Shropshire team for the UK Inter Counties x-c Championships in March.
    Other Olympian medallists were Toby Griffiths - second in the Under 15 Boys and Zack Swannick - 3rd in the Under 13 Boys race.
    Olympians also won several team awards with the Under 13 and Under 15 Boys second overall and the Under 13 Girls in third place.
    Dan Evans had a great run to finish in 4th place in the Under 17 Mens race and Sam Robson (6th in the Under 15 Boys), Sophie Dale (seventh in Under 15 Girls) and Jess Butler (eighth in Under 15 Girls) also achieved top ten finishes.
    Eleven year old Kez Ogden, still in the Under 11 age group, stepped up a distance to lead the Under 13 Girls team home in an impressive twelfth place.
   The first six finishers in each age group have been selected to represent Shropshire at the Inter Counties Championships with several other Olympians in contention for the remaining team places after their performances at Lilleshall.
   Olympians results were as follows:
Under 13 Girls: 12th Kez Ogden, 15th Steph Butler, 19th Jodie Phillips, 23rd Megan Curzon. Team 3rd overall.
Under 13 Boys: 1st Rowan Dell, 3rd Zack Swannick, 21st Ashley Stringer, 22nd Rory Jones. Team 2nd overall.
Under 15 Boys: 2nd Toby Griffiths, 6th Sam Robson, 26th Josh Ogden. Team 2nd overall.
Under 15 Girls: 7th Sophie Dale, 8th Jess Butler.
Under 17 Women: 1st Alison Lavender.
Under 17 Men: 4th Dan Evans - Jan 2005

Gemma Weetman has had a tremendous 2004 season. She has recorded a AAA Grade 1 performance in 5 different disciplines. Pentathlon - 3170, Heptathlon 4208, LJ - 5m84, TJ 11m01, 100m - 12.5. She has broken the record in Long Jump at both the Shropshire young athletes league 5m51 & the Shropshire Schools Championships 5m74 in which she also won the trophy for best performance beating English Internationals Sinead Johnson & Anna Kelly. At the Mason Trophy in Birmingham she won with a jump of 5m80. At the end of June Gemma, representing Shropshire, won the Regional Schools Multi-Events Champs in Bolton by more than 450 points. She won a silver medal at English Schools in Gateshead in Long Jump & was selected for a home international, earning her first England vest, where she also won a silver medal. She gained her second England international vest as a Multi-eventer competing in an indoor pentathlon at Glasgow. Gemma finished the season in the UK rankings as 4th in Long Jump, 9th in Heptathlon & 19th in Triple Jump. - Sept 2004

OSWESTRY AND DISTRICT PRIMARY SCHOOLS X-C LEAGUE.
    Final meeting - Venue - Oswestry School - Date - 9.3.04
The final meeting of the Oswestry and District Primary Schools X-C League was held recently at Oswestry School playing fields.
    This was the last meeting in a series of four held at different venues across the area during the winter season.
     Almost 200 children, representing fourteen local primary schools, turned out to run at Oswestry School. As usual, all the races were keenly contested with some close finishes.
    The winner's medals had all been decided before the final race, as the leading athletes in each age group had already got three victories under their belts.
Lauren Bathers (Year 3&4 Girls), Robbie Clarke (year 3&$ Boys), Kezia Ogden (Year 5&6 Girls) and Zack Swannick(Year 5&6 Boys) all ran superbly to maintain their unbeaten records and prove worthy champions.
    Several schools achieved impressive "doubles" at Oswestry School. Beech Grove had a 1-2 in the Year 3&4 Girls race with Lauren Bathers and Georgina Butler and Ifton Heath had a 1-2 in the Year 5&6 Girls race with Kezia Ogden and Sophie Boyce.
     Trefonen School's Boys teams had an excellent day. Brothers Robbie and Joe Clarke were 1st and 3rd in the Year 3&4 Boys race, while Ryan Stokes and Rory Jones finished 2nd and 3rd in the Year 5&6 Boys race.
Leading results from this the final meeting at Oswestry School:
Year 3&4 Girls: 1st Lauren Bathers, 2nd Georgina Butler (both Beech Grove), 3rd Stephanie Gardner (Trefonen).
Year 3&4 Boys: 1st Robbie Clarke (Trefonen), 2nd Matthew Jones (Selattyn), 3rd Joe Clarke (Trefonen).
Year 5&6 Girls: 1st Kezia Ogden , 2nd Sophie Boyce (both Ifton Heath), 3rd Jodie Phillips (Trefonen)
Year 5&6 Boys: 1st Zack Swannick (Woodside), 2nd Ryan Stokes, 3rd Rory Jones (both Trefonen).

At the end of the meeting, medals were presented to the first three athletes in each age group by League Organiser Arnie Wray.
Medallists were as follows:
Year 3&4 Girls: 1st Lauren Bathers (Beech Grove) 3 points.
                           2nd Georgina Butler (Beech Grove) 7 points.
                           3rd Charlotte Hughes (Selattyn) 9 points.
Year 3&4 Boys: 1st Robbie Clarke (Trefonen) 3 points
                           2nd Matthew Jones (Selattyn) 6 points
                          3rd Joe Clarke (Trefonen) 9 points
Year 5&6 Girls: 1st Kezia Ogden (Ifton Heath) 3 points
                           2nd Sophie Boyce (Ifton Heath)   8 points
                           3rd= Jodie Phillips (Trefonen) 11 points
                                  Sophie Edwards (Ellesmere) 11 points
Year 5&6 Boys: 1st Zack Swannick (Woodside) 3points
                            2nd Ryan Stokes (Trefonen) 8 points
                            3rd Rory Jones (Trefonen) 11 points.
FULL RESULTS - CLICK HERE

Olympians win the 2004 Shropshire Sportshall League Trophy now for the 12th successive year

Olympians have retained the overall Shropshire Sportshall trophy for the 12th consecutive year. The final league meeting of four held at various venues around the county, was at the Marches Sports Hall in Oswestry on Sunday 22nd Feb 2004.
All of the age groups were keenly contested and in the end honours went to Olympians, Wenlock and Shrewsbury. However except for the Under 11 girls won by Wenlock, & the under 13 girls and under 15 boys won by Shrewsbury, Olympians collected all the remaining 6 categories. These were the Under 11 & Under-l3 boys, the Under l5 girls trophies, as well as the overall girls, the overall boys & the overall League Trophy which Olympians have continued to win every year since 1993. This means that many athletes taking part hadn't even been born when the Olympians winning streak began. Congratulations to both athletes & coaches on this fine result.
The next Sportshall event is the Shropshire Sportshall Championships on March 14 at Much Wenlock.

Juniors 2003 Presentation Evening.

What a great year! 3 Members represented their Country in Internationals, 5 Members went to English Schools T & F finals, 2 went to ESAA Combined Events finals, 17 New Club Records & we won the Shropshire Sportshall league for a record 11th consecutive time. All this with less that 100 junior members. Amazing! Well done

Shropshire Cross Country Championships 4th January 2004
We had 8 runners in the Under 13 Boys which was very impressive, especially as Elliot Eaton won - another great personal result for him. Rowan Dell 2nd also a great personal result, & Toby Griffiths 4th - 1st team.
   So Elliot, Rowan, Toby G. were selected to represent Shropshire at the Inter Counties at Nottingham
Other Under 13s - Jacob Ellis 7th, Toby Blake 12th, Josh Ogden 13th, Matt Donnelly 16th and Ben Richards 23rd.
   Allison Lavender won Under 15G - (also selected for Nottingham) - she was the only Olympian.
   Georgie Roberts was 12th in Under 13 Girls.
   Under 15 Boys: Ben Griffiths 3rd (selected for Nottingham) - and Sam Robson 8th.
   Under 17 Men: Ollie Blake 2nd (selected for Nottingham)
A number of seniors also took part - The full results have been posted on our Shropshire Results Section

KW 5/1/2004

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