Ringwood Athletic Club

The Masters Championships were held at the Doncaster Track over the weekend (23-24) March.  Conditions were reasonably warm but not too hot.  Certainly not as hot as the number of medals the athletes won and PBs recorded.

We will also be recording Age Best performances on our All Time lists.  Give us time as this is a big project.

The Victorian Championships are being held as a combined Senior and Junior event over two weekends.  March 1 - 3 and March 8 - 10.  Looks to be a good programming idea from Athletics Victoria as our younger athletes get to see the top seniors in action.

Ringwood have had a very successful start to the Championships with 11 Gold medals, 4 Silver and 7 Bronze.  Tayleb Willis continued his outstanding Triple Jump form taking the U16 and U18 Club Record.

Danielle Shaw and Nicholas Dyson took Senior Gold in the 100m Hurldes and Discus respectively.  Ethan Lamb couldn't get closer to medals in the 100m if he tried, last year coming fourth by 0.05 and this year by 0.07 and fourth in the 110m hurdles by 0.27.

Peter Costanzo probably had the biggest winning margin in his U14 400m, winning by a good 20m.

Weekend two saw more fantastic results from the Club.  Conditions were a bit windy but fine overall.

By the numbers we contested 60 finals, won 19 Gold, 8 Silver, 11 Bronze and broke 7 Club Records.  We also had 9 fourth placed athletes and some were soooo close, keep working and the wheel will turn.

Our new Club Record holders are:
Tayleb Willis - U16 & U18 Triple Jump
Ethan Harris - U16 400m and 400m Hurdles
Nathan Philactides - U16 200m Hurdles
Dahami Liyanage - U14 Triple Jump & Long Jump

Danielle Shaw		Evangaline Cheung
Lateisha Willis		PB Squad
Peter Costanzo	Peter Costanzo	Tayleb Willis
Tayleb Willis		Jackson Mooney (L) and Noah Thorpe (R)

The Athletics Victoria Shield Final was held in warm to hot conditions at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park.  The Club had 5 out of 10 teams competing with some great performances by our athletes.  It would be nice to see this event actually have the graded and age group teams compete head to head, but that is just my view.

Our team results were:
Women 40+ 5th of 8
Women U16 10th of 11
Women U14 8th of 9
Men U18 8th of 11
Men U14 7th of 11

A couple of notable performances were by Luke Carroll in the U18 Pole Vault jumping 3.40 and Thomas Dellow in the U14 1500m running 4:45.1

M18
100m: Ethan Lamb 11.39 (-1.4); Aaron Peter-Budge 11.50 (-1.8); Benjamin Voogd 12.10 (-0.9); Tyran Heward 12.99 (0.2);
400m: Tyran Heward DNS; Aaron Peter-Budge DNS;
110m Hurdles: Ethan Lamb 16.74 (0.6);
Discus: Benjamin Voogd 45.48m; Ben Sandilands 33.75m;
Javelin: Tyran Heward 21.88m;
Long Jump: Tyran Heward 4.39m (0.8); Luke Carroll DNS;
Pole Vault: Luke Carroll 3.40m;

M14
100m: Peter Costanzo 13.32 (-0.1); Noah Thorpe 14.11 (-0.7); Jackson Mooney 14.52 (-0.7);
400m: Noah Thorpe 62.83; Peter Costanzo DNS; Joshua Jenkins DNS;
1500m: Thomas Dellow 4:45.1h; Joshua Jenkins 5:35.6h;
90m Hurdles: Nathan Philactides 12.97 (-0.7); Jackson Mooney 15.27 (-0.7);
Discus: Noah Thorpe 24.64m;
Javelin: Wian Swanevelder DNS;
Long Jump: Peter Costanzo 4.86m; Noah Thorpe 4.46m (2.2);

F16
100m: Olivia Skerry DNS (0.6); Sylvia Dang DNS (1.5);
400m: Sylvia Dang 64.68; Olivia Skerry DNS;
Discus: Gemma Johansen 34.38m;
Javelin: Gemma Johansen 25.55m;
Long Jump: Gemma Johansen 2.87m;

F14
100m: Isabella Sallee 13.99 (1.0); Elena Harris 14.18 (1.0);
80m Hurdles: Evangeline Cheung 13.87 (-0.2);
90m Hurdles: Isabella Sallee 14.77 (0.1);
Long Jump: Evangeline Cheung 4.59m; Elena Harris 3.97m;

F40
100m: Kathy Green 17.04 (1.7); Trish Harris 15.59 (2.1); Angela Edwards 17.95 (1.7); Debbie Voogd 21.84 (2.3);
400m: Kathy Green 83.59; Angela Edwards 1:33.21;
1500m: Lisa Dellow 5:55.2h; Coral Farr 6:50.1h; Sandra Geisler 6:19.8h;
2000m Walk: Sandra Geisler 10:13.5h;
Discus: Nicole Johansen 29.38m; Narelle Messerle 18.90m;
Javelin: Nicole Johansen 29.10m; Narelle Messerle 16.48m;
Long Jump: Narelle Messerle 2.67m; Nicole Johansen 2.70m;

On a perfect day for sprints and jumps with a slight perfect tail wind the High Velocity Club came to Ringwood.  The best results of the day went to Tayleb Willis who broke David Culberts long standing U16 Triple Jump Record with a 13.63 jump, breaking the old record by 28cm.  Tayleb was also with 0.07 of the U16 200m record.

Also moving up the lists were Danielle Shaw going to third over 400m Hurdles.

I've grabbed the photos from the AV video so the qulaity may not be there.

Going from the windy conditions of the Victorian All Schools our athletes had to cope with the very wet conditions of Barlow Park, Cairns.  Our seven members made 12 Finals for 2 Gold, 1 silver and 1 Bronze medal, plus two new records.

Tayleb Willis created a new Club Record in the U16 200m Hurldes and Nathan Philactides produced a new record for the U14 90m Hurdles.

In warm conditions the Club competed in a number of events at Lakeside.  Congratulations to our 40+ ladies who picked up 2 Bronze medals. 

Women 1600 Sprint Medley Open Final (200-200-400-800)
12th. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 4:52.18
1) Danielle Shaw 2) Zoe Neale 3) Amy Benifer 4) Lisa Dellow

Women 4x100 Meter Relay Open
4th. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 50.08q
1) Olivia Skerry 2) Danielle Shaw 3) Amy Benifer 4) Zoe Neale

Women 4x100 Meter Relay Open (Final)
5th. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 49.66
1) Olivia Skerry 2) Danielle Shaw 3) Amy Benifer 4) Zoe Neale

Women 4x1500 Meter Relay 40+ Final
3rd. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 26:20.51
1) Coral Farr 2) Kathy Green 3) Sandra Geisler 4) Lisa Dellow

Women 4x100 Meter Relay 40+ Final
3rd. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 72.40
1) Trish Harris 2) Kathy Green 3) Debbie Voogd 4) Nicole Johansen

Girls 1600 Sprint Medley U18 (200-200-400-800)
7th. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 4:42.65
1) Zoe Neale 2) Zoe Glassborow 3) Claire Hurley 4) Ruby Crisp

Girls 1600 Sprint Medley U16 Final (200-200-400-800)
8th, Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 4:42.40 2
1) Isabella Sallee 2) Elena Harris 3) Olivia Skerry, 4) Sophie Stokes

Boys 4x100 Meter Relay U18
8th. Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 46.05q
1) Tayleb Willis 2) Christian Sapardanis 3) Tyran Heward 4) Ethan Harris

Boys 4x100 Meter Relay U18 (Final)

8th Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 46.27
1) Tayleb Willis 2) Chritian SapardaniS 3) Tyren Heward 4) Ethan Harris

Girls 4x100 Meter Relay U16
8th Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 53.36q
1) Isabella Sallee 2) Elena Harris 3) Olivia Skerry 4) Zoe Glassborow

Girls 4x100 Meter Relay U16 (Final)
6th Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 52.96
1) Isabella Sallee 2) Elena Harris 3) Olivia Skerry 4) Zoe Glassborow

Boys 4x400 Meter Relay U14
6th Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 4:11.13q
1) Thomas Dellow 2) Remy Maclean 3) Brodie Smith 4) Peter Costanzo

Boys 4x400 Meter Relay U14 (Final)
6th Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 4:12.52
1) Thomas Dellow 2) Remy Maclean 3) Brodie Smith 4) Peter Costanzo

Boys 4x100 Meter Relay U14
4th Ringwood Athletic Club 'A' 52.62
1) Remy Maclean 2) Peter Costanzo 3) Brodie Smith 4) Jackson Mooney

Very windy conditions prevailed at Lakeside over the weekend for the All Schools Championaships.  Plenty of outstanding preformances from our athletes.  Club members made 42 Finals winning 9 Gold, 7 Silver, 5 Broze medals and breaking 1 Club Record.