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Entry Page - Notices -
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- 1 Spikes
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- 5 Notices
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- 7 Grants
& Funding
- 8 Juniors
Annual Report
Reports
from other years
- 2011 - 2010
- 2009 - 2008
- 2007 - 2006
- 2005
OSWESTRY
OLYMPIANS JUNIOR ATHLETES ANNUAL REPORT 2011
GOTO
>>>> Sportshall
- Track & Field
- Combined Events
- Records - Rankings - Conclusion
- Junior
League
- SYAL
& NYAL
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CROSS
COUNTRY |
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In the Shropshire Young Athletes Cross Country League, Olympians
finished in second place overall. There were individual silver medals
for Jimmy Kershaw (U15 Boys) and Cameron van Onselen (U11 Boys)
At the Shropshire AA X-C Championships there were medals for Kitty
Peel, 2nd U13 Girls, Daisy Tickner 2nd U17 Girls and Ryan Stokes, 3rd
U17 Boys, with James Morris 8th U15 Boys and Charlie Mooney 9th U13
Boys. Daisy, Charlie and Jimmy Kershaw represented Shropshire in the
Inter Counties X-C Championships at Cofton Park, Birmingham, whilst
Abi Bowers and Hannah Pryce were selected to represent North Wales.
Jimmy Kershaw and Chloe Barton also travelled to Nottingham as part
of the county team in the English Schools X-C Championships
SPORTSHALL:
In the Shropshire Sportshall League Olympians finished second
overall with Jake Hunt and Joe Baker winning awards for outstanding performances.
Five Under 11 athletes represented Shropshire at the Fun in
Athletics West Midlands event at Cannock. Well done to Zara Baker,
Savannah Nicoll-Davies, Jacob Tidridge, James Dean Clark and Cameron
van Onselen.
Six Olympians travelled to Worcester to represent Shropshire at the
Under 13 and Under 15 Regional Sportshall Finals at Worcester. Top
performance came from Courtney Brown who won two individual medals
with gold in the U15 Girls Standing Long Jump and bronze in the Shot.
There were also medals for Anna Oloyede, 2nd U15 Girls Standing Long
Jump and Sam Bowers, 3rd U13 Boys Speed Bounce. Well done also to
Abi Bowers, James Morris , Edward
Ellis-Cooper and Jake Hunt who also competed.
Joe Baker won a gold medal whilst representing Powys Schools at the
Welsh
Sportshall Championships with a fantastic Standing Triple Jump of
6.62m despite carrying an injury.
There
was a good crop of results by Olympians at the Shropshire Sportshall
Championships held at Much Wenlock with Jacob Tidridge, Courtney
Brown and James Morris all winning medals.
SYAL
AND NYAL:
In the Shropshire Young Athletes Track and Field League, Olympians
finished fourth overall after a disappointing turn out of athletes in
some age groups due to other commitments.
During the season the club also competed as a composite club with
Shrewsbury in the National Young Athletes League, Midlands North West
1 Division. The club finished fourth overall in the league, against
some strong competition. We will continue this composite next season,
sharing team management and officiating duties with Shrewsbury AC.
NATIONAL
JUNIOR LEAGUE:
Border Olympians is a composite club with Under 17/Under 20 athletes
from Oswestry Olympians, Bridgnorth AC, Hereford AC and
Kidderminster. This year two Oswestry athletes competed
for the composite team with Kez Ogden and Joe Morris taking part. All
older athletes are encouraged to access these additional competitive opportunities.
COMBINED
EVENTS:
Two Oswestry Olympians, Kez Ogden and Anna Oloyede, represented
Shropshire Schools at the NW Schools Regional Combined Events
Finals in Manchester Kez won the Senior Girls title in the Heptathlon
and Anna was fifth in the Junior Girls Pentathlon, both subsequently
selected to represent the North West Region at the English School
Combined Events Finals in Exeter.
UK
SCHOOL GAMES
After a fantastic 2011, Cameron Dixon finished the season with a
bronze medal at the UK School Games at the Don Valley Stadium in
Sheffield. He was selected to represent the Manchester team in the
400m Hurdles and ran a perfectly timed race to finish
3rd. He also ran in the 4x400m Relay which finished fifth.
TRACK
AND FIELD REPORT 2011
The track and field season got off to a good start with the
Shropshire AA Track and Field Championships held at Telford in May.
Olympian athletes put in good early season performances
to win a number of Shropshire titles, Kez Ogden (U20W 100m
Hurdles, Long Jump and 200m), Toby Parkes (U20M 110m Hurdles), Joe
Morris (U17M 1500m), Cameron Dixon (U17M 400m Hurdles and 200m) ,
with Jacob Tidridge, Cameron van Onselen, Anna Oloydede, Georgia
Dixon, James Morris, Daisy Tickner, Jimmy |Kershaw and Natalie
Bathers also winning medals. There was also success for our
club throws coach, Emily Vaughan, who won the Veteran Women's Javelin
title with a Championship Best Performance,
In
the North Wales Championships, Kate Pugh won gold in the U11 Girls
600m with Lily Roberts 2nd in U11 Girls Long Jump, Zara Baker 3rd in
U13 Girls Long Jump and Joe Baker 3rd in U15 Boys Long Jump.
Three Olympian athletes competed in the Midlands Championships at
the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham. Kez Ogden became Midland's
Champion the U20 Women's Long Jump and 100m Hurdles and Jake
Hunt finished first in the U17M Shot. Toby Parkes won the U20 Men's
Long Jump and was 4th in the 110m Hurdles.
There was further success for Olympians athletes at the Shropshire
Schools Track and Field Championships held at Telford in June, with a
number of athletes finishing in the top three in their events and
winning several medals. These athletes were subsequently selected to
represent Shropshire Schools in the Mason Trophy Inter Counties
meeting at Birmingham.
This
year Olympians had five athletes selected to represent Shropshire
Schools in the English Schools Track and Field Championships held at
the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham in July. Congratulations to Kez
Ogden (ISenior Girls 100m Hurdles);Cameron Dixon (Intermediate
Boys 400m Hurdles); Joe Morris (Intermediate Boys 1500m);
Darren Booth (Intermediate Boys Javelin) and Georgia Dixon
(Junior Girls 75m Hurdles) for achieving the high standards required
to be selected for this prestigious event.
CLUB
RECORDS:
2011 has seen 5 club records broken, including some longstanding ones.
Remarkably, standards continue to rise each year and all those young
athletes who have broken a club record are to be congratulated. They
will be receiving trophies at the Presentation Evening.
NATIONAL
RANKINGS:
The following Olympian athletes are ranked in the Top Twenty-five in
the UK in their events - a great achievement for a small club.
Kez Ogden (19th U20 Women's Heptathlon, 22nd 100m Hurdles, 22nd Long
Jump) Cameron Dixon (6th U17 Men's 400m Hurdles), Georgia Dixon (25th
U15 Girls 75m Hurdles)
There are also many Olympians highly-ranked on the West Midlands and
Welsh age group rankings, including Toby Parkes (U20Men 110 Hurdles,
Long Jump), Joe Morris (U17 Men 800m, 1500m), Jimmy
Kershaw (U17 Men 3,000m), Matthew Jones (U17 Men 400m, 800m), Anna
Oloyede U15 Girls Long Jump, 75m Hurdles, Pentathlon), Courtney Brown
(U17 Women Triple Jump, Abi Bowers (U15 Girls 75m Hurdles,
Pentathlon) and Cameron van Onselen (U13 Boys 1500m). For
further details look at- www.powerof10.info
CONCLUSION:
The next 12 months will see some changes in the running of the
Junior section of the club. We need more parents to volunteer their
help to organise teams, officiate at competitions, serve refreshments
and help fundraise. There is currently a small group of people doing
a lot of work behind the scenes and, inevitably, some of these
volunteers will be stepping down next season.
I would like to say many thanks to Keith Weetman for being our very
efficient and knowledgable field official and to Ellie
Johnson for liaising with the NJAL league. I would also like to thank
the parents who made up our fantastic Officials team, Gary
Cooper, Ann Baker, Fiona Pryce, Mark Bowers and Brian Morris;
and to Ali Tickner who braved the elements in her 'role' as track
judge at meetings. We now need more people
to volunteer to take on some of these roles
and the behind-the-scenes administration and organisation of the club.
A big thank you to all who have helped with Team Managing, providing
refreshments at events, and helping in training sessions. Thanks to
all the coaches Arnie, John, Andy D, Ellie, Natalie, Toby and Emily
Thanks also to those who are in
the background doing all the
administration, the letters and the newspaper reports which
keep the Olympians in the public eye. All this work is done voluntarily.
Thanks, once more, to Sandy Ogden for organizing the Five Star
awards that the young athletes will be receiving tonight, and to
Bobby Dixon, our Junior Membership Secretary, your efforts are much appreciated.
Thanks to Keith Weetman for all his work on compiling and updating
all the young athletes PBs during the season and also for setting up
and maintaining the superb Junior Olympians website. Current
information, past history and tips about training can all be found
there, so if you want to know anything about the club just log on to www.oswestryolympians.co.uk
As always, the club would like to thank all the young athletes for
their enthusiasm and commitment over the past year and also those
parents who have responded to the appeals for support. Now, more than
ever, we are looking for parents who would like to get involved with
the club. Your help is invaluable and without it we would not be able
to carry on.
Tracy
