English National Cross Country Relays, Bury Hill Park, Mansfield

Many of our athletes continue to wow on the national Cross Country circuit, particularly with the result in Felsted recently, with three of our teams qualifying for the Nationals in the English Schools Cup – the final of which we hosted as a school just a year ago. Just before that event, eleven of our distance runners competed for their clubs at the National Cross Country Relays in Mansfield.

Moments after arriving, the students passed Phoebe Gill warming up with a teammate, whilst we were walking the course (Phoebe was an 8OOm semi-finalist at this year’s Paris Olympic Games at just 17 years old). Our athletes could already see the level of the event they were attending and it certainly added further spring to their step as they set off for their respective teams.

They took on the best clubs and runners in the country yet again and turned heads whilst doing it! Here are the results:

U13 Girls

Year 8’s India J (7th fastest in her leg) Alexandra (12th in hers) – finished 4th as a team overall, which is an outstanding result – a near miss on a medal but again this is very unexpected brilliance for a first time National Cross Relays!

Year 8’s Ella, India B and Imogen also finished a brilliant 16th team overall and Year 8’s Evie B had a great first run out for her club and her team finished 50th out of 70 teams.

U15 Girls

Year 10’s Romilly was 29th in her leg in a great time, unfortunately her team was incomplete due to a last minute injury.

U15 Boys

Year 9’s Digby had a fast run finishing 27th in his leg and his team were 55th out of 89 teams.

U17 Boys

Year 12’s Angus also had a strong run, 32nd in his leg helping his team to finish 17th overall out of 92 teams which is very good.

Junior Men’s

Year 13’s Iwan flew round with his team, coming 32nd in his leg and then to achieve a superb 15th out of 83 teams.

They all had super runs and worked really hard over a fast and furious course. Well done to everyone who competed.