News round-up - June NESDL, NEGP, Schools County Champs, Northerns, Blaydon & Birmingham

Its been an incredibly start to June, as the track and field season has truly hit the busiest part of the summer. Here are some of the incredible highlights from the last two weeks!

Northern U13/U15/U17 Champs @ Liverpool
Challenging conditions and top quality opposition did not stop our juniors producing the goods. Every athlete stepped up and delivered 💪

🥇Ben C - u15 Hammer 41.96m
🥈Fearne B - u15 Hammer 36.63m club record
🥉Bella R - u15 Hammer 31.34m PB

Katy P took 5th in the 80m hurdles with 11.87, Kimi made the u15 100m semi final, with India setting a 75m hurdles PB, and Fearne making the semi-final.

Blaydon Junior Race
Well done to our young athletes who competed in the junior version of this iconic race! Alastair, Alex, Harris and Archie all did fantastic!

NESDL
A number of our U20/U23's helped the senior team to an incredible match win, as he into the final fixture joint top of the league against the North East giants Gateshead. Here are the results!

Alfie Ward 100m 11.62, Long Jump 6.42m 1st Place
Elliot McLoughlin 100m 11.64 PB, 200m 23.92 PB
Hollie-Anne Sudder 100m 12.39 PB Club Record , 200m  26.27
Xara Purvis 400m Hurdles 85.59 PB , Javelin 22.02m
Sadie Parker Long Jump 5.76m 1st Place
Senna Gorvett Long Jump 5.34m PB, High Jump 1.55m, Shot 8.76m, Javelin 24.70m PB, 100m Hurdles 15.32 Club Record
Millie Train Long Jump 5.09m, Triple Jump 11.08m 1st Place League Record
Kaitlin Waddell Triple Jump 9.66m PB, High Jump 1.35m, Hammer 48.29m 1st Place League Record, 100m 13.45s PB
Lilia Purvis Shot Put 9.67m, Discus 29.96m PB, Javelin 14.56m PB
Georgia Turner Shot Put 8.40m, Discus 26.90m, Hammer 35.94m

Schools County Champs
We had athletes competing at both Durham and Northumberland Schools Champs on Saturday 14th, and they had aspirations of going on to compete at intercounties, and perhaps even the legendary English Schools Champs. Our athletes returned with a sensational 14 event wins, and a further 10 podium places. Results shown below!

University of Birmingham Festival of Athletics
Luke Pichler took part in his first U20 decathlon - and delivered a fine performance across the two days.

100m 11.34 PB
Long Jump 6.55m
Shot Put 12.30m outdoor PB
High Jump 1.85m
400m 51.70 PB
110m Hurdles 14.88 PB
Discus 27.83m PB
Pole Vault 4.00m PB
Javelin 42.76m PB
1500m 4:52.86

Total 6515pts PB - 1st Place 🥇

North East Grand Prix 18th June
It was an incredible night at Monkton, as a huge squad of Team Blyth athletes did themselves proud. Check out the results below!