Sussex Schools Championships on Saturday June 19 Having thrown a pb at June 12’s Sussex Schools Championships Ella Kessell had another opportunity to compete on the second day of the schools champs. And another pb, but this time an improvement of some 5 metres with the 3k hammer going out to 30.75 metres. Match for...

Thursday evening meeting at K2 for under 13s and under 11s Just a few days after the league match at K2 on Saturday June 5 many of our under 13 athletes were back at K2 for another meeting on Thursday evening. Again the sun shone though as the evening progressed  it began to feel a...

Saturday’s Match for under 13s and under 15s at K2 Warm sunny weather is always good for athletes and that’s what we had for our match at K2 on Saturday. For most of our athletes this was their first experience of club athletics and with the support of parents we had a great day. We...

Match on Wednesday May 26 at Lewes We had 11 athletes competing on Wednesday evening down in Lewes. A number of good performances as I will talk about in a moment – but why weren’t more of our athletes taking part and getting some competition under their belts ? In his first competition since joining...

Match on Wednesday May 26 at Lewes Some of our under 15s and under17s (and also some of our under 13s as entry was widened to this age group in the middle of last week) will be in action on Wednesday evening down in Lewes. We wish them well. Match coming up on Saturday June...

Match on Wednesday May 26 at Lewes A reminder of an athletics meeting at Lewes on the evening of WEDNESDAY MAY 26 for under 15s (school years 8 and 9) and under 17s (school years 10 and 11). Athletes enter themselves for this meeting and details are available on the Sussex Athletics website. We’d like...

Sussex Festival of Athletics We had a number of athletes taking part in last Saturday’s Festival of Athletics for Sussex athletes at K2. The weather was wet and windy for the first hour or so before the rain went away though the blustery wind stayed with us all day. I haven’t been able to collect...

First session of the year for Academy athletes I went to the first Academy session – for those in school years 4 and 5 – last Saturday May 1 at Imberhorne Upper School. It was my first time at an Academy session and it was great to see these 25 athletes of the future taking...

Back to the schools for training sessions We went back to the schools for last week’s sessions, and the ability to use tracks, sand pits and throwing implements went down well – as of course we were expecting. So we look forward to seeing a few more of you perhaps to this week’s training sessions...

Back to the schools for this week’s training sessions We go back to the schools for this week’s sessions, which will be good news for our jumpers and throwers who haven’t been able to jump or throw as yet, though they’ll have to wait until Thursday’s session before they are able to have a go...