Buxton Athletic Club Juniors held their annual Presentations and Mile Race this week.\u00a0 The last year has been an outstanding one for the club having been voted High Peak Club of the Year and England Athletics Regional and then National Club of the Year!\u00a0 The Juniors in particular have had a great one being voted High Peak and Derbyshire Junior Team Of The Year!<\/p>\n
This annual event honoured some of the juniors shining stars.\u00a0 The event opened with the juniors taking part in the mile run around Buxton Community School Sports field in which 34 of the juniors took part, ages ranging from 4 to 17 years! The race was won by Sam Soles in an amazing time of 5.03mins.\u00a0 First girl was Lucy Bednall in a similarly impressive time of 5.57 mins.\u00a0 The youngest runner was 4 year old Georgia Cudahy who finished the mile in 11.31!<\/p>\n
Awards were then presented to a number of Buxton’s finest athletes.\u00a0 The first prize winner crowned “Most Improved Female” was Ellie Wilson. Ellie has made some excellent improvements over the last year.\u00a0 She consistently works hard, takes on board all the advise she gets and has a great attitude to training.\u00a0 She won a Silver medal at the County XC, a bronze in the County Track and Field Championships, ran for Derbyshire in the Fell Inter-counties and represented Derbyshire in the Schools Track & Field and XC.<\/p>\n
The award for “Most Improved Male” went to Ryan Rawlinson who has made outstanding progress on the track.\u00a0 Over the mini-league he consistently improved his personal best \u2013 attended and won at Open meets and become the North of England 100m Championship.\u00a0 Most recently he represented Derbyshire at the Inter-Counties Track and Field and finished 2nd in both 100m and 200m \u2013 both in PB times!<\/p>\n
The next award for “Outstanding Achievement – female” went to Lucy Bednall whose talents seem to be never ending! She has qualified represented Staffordshire in the schools Track and Field Champs \u2013 Silver medal 1500m and Bronze for long Jump, and the National Schools Cross Country Champs. She has represented Buxton AC and won many local fell races, course record at Lyme Park, Dream Mile record as well as the overall female winner Staff Moorlands Summer Series,\u00a0and top 5 position in English Junior Fell Champs.\u00a0 Where she finds the time for Cyclo-cross, eventing and triathlon as well we have no idea!<\/p>\n
The RH Walker Trophy for “Outstanding Achievement – male” went to Sam Soles.\u00a0 Sam had a great cross country season leading his team to the National Schools XC Championships, qualified to run for Derbyshire in the Track & Field Championships gaining Silver medal in the 1500m, 3rd in North Staffordshire XC League, has taken part and won many local and national fell races, 5th U17 in the English Junior Fell Championships, Derbyshire vest for Inter-Counties cross country and fells,\u00a0 and narrowly missed out on an England vest for Junior Home Internationals this year when he was young in his category but we\u2019ll see next year!<\/p>\n
The Jim Bradley Award was donated by our own legendary lifetime president and is awarded for positively representing the Club\u00a0 and was awarded to Amy Whelan. \u00a0 Amy has consistently turned out to represent the club in both cross country leagues, in countless local fell races as well as some of the most iconic fell races all around the country.\u00a0 She is an absolute joy to coach, hard working, great attitude and a real team player.\u00a0 At only 14 years old she is also on her way to the coveted 100 Parkrun target having completed 77 senior park runs and 26 junior park runs!<\/p>\n
We have had many outstanding new arrivals come to Buxton AC this year and all of them have been amazing! This award could have had at least 5 different winners and I am pretty sure that many of those youngsters will be receiving awards next year.\u00a0 However, the person that won the Best Newcomer Award was Will Longden.\u00a0 Will also travelled up to Marl Pitts this weekend to receive a Silver Medal in the English Junior Fell Championships which is a pretty awesome achievement considering this is his first season on the Fells!<\/p>\n
The Under 11 awards went to Jake O’Donnell, Lucy Whelan and Rachel Cudahy.\u00a0 All three have consistently worked hard this year with Jake getting outstanding results in his chosen sport of Orienteering as well as winning his age category in the Staffordshire Moorlands Summer Series while Lucy and Rachel have joined the Buxton team throughout the cross country season, working hard and putting in great performances.\u00a0 They have also taken part in the English Junior Fell Champs and look to become outstanding runners of the future.<\/p>\n
Buxton Juniors would like to thank all the coaches – Wendy Higginbottom, Terry Fowler, Mark Quince and Rachel Dowle; the fabulous Assistant Coaches Dan Latham, Radim Poledne, Joanne Cudahy and David Fryer-Winder and also all the parents who support the juniors tirelessly.\u00a0 But more than anything they would like to thank the young people who make up the juniors and for whom all these volunteers are more than happy to give up their time to work with.\u00a0 After all that sense of family and community is why Buxton AC are the best Club in the country!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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