Ringwood Athletic Club

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

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.

The Tan Relays finished off the Winter Season in mostly good and cool conditions.  Shannon McDade was fastest of the women running her second fastest time.  Scott Benedict was our fastest in the Men, leading the U20 team to a fifth place finish overall on the day and for the season.

Thanks also to our timekeepers for the day.

The start	Lana Mooney

Competeting with the Worlds Best at the World Junior Championships the Ringwood Athletic Club added to its long roster of Australian Representatives with Gary Haasbroek in the Decathlon and Lateisha Willis in the 100m Hurdles.

In what can be only described as outstanding performances Gary took out the Silver Medal alongside fellow Australian Ashley Moloney who won the Gold.  Gary created a new PB for himself and broke his own Under 20 Club Record with 7798 points.  The Decathlon is not only the mastery of ten events it is the Track and Field Marathon where you have to get everything right over those two days.  You really can't afford to get anything wrong.  Throw in the fact that you probably only get one shot at these age group events and it multiplies the difficulty.

Lateisha Willis had to wait until Day 4 of competition to do her stuff over the 100m Hurdles and then for good measure she was the last of 6 heats in the outside lane.  Lateisha raced very well to finish 3rd in 13.92 as an automatic qualifier for the Semis.  Running in the Semi, which was her goal for the meet she ran a similar time of 13.93 and missed the final.

Fantastic efforts all round and a special shout out to Peter Benifer, hurldes coach par excellence.

Gary

Lateisha

On what was a typical Sandown day we had a very cold southerly wind with the rain hovering in the background.  Thankfully the rain held off.  Athletics Vctoria made an early weather call and shortened this years event to be one lap of 3.1 km for all the grades and ages. Normally the Seniors would run two laps.  In hindsight the weather held and they could have gone ahead as normal, but I didn't hear too many complaints about the shorter race.

We can now add a one lap time for the Seniors to the Sandown All Time Lists.

The senior women where led off by Shannon McDade in 11:19 for our fastest womens time of the day.  Scott Benedict was our fastest in the U20 men with 10:26 and just outside his PB.  Ruby Crisp who ran second for the U20 women had the fastest time for the junior girls and was also second fastest overall for our ladies.

Thanks to our timekeeprs for braving the elements, it is greatly appreciated.

Shannon McDade	Lana Mooney	Ben Reid	Lavinia Petrie
Mitch Graham	Scott Benedict	Lana, Darren, Ruby, Tracy and Haley	Lana, Ruby and Haley
Tracey and Ruby

On a clear cool day we ventured down to Cruden Farm, which is quite a good course with a few middy sections, hills and fast hard sections.  You also need to watch out for cow pats.

The U20 mens finished fourth within the teams race.

If you have seen our recruiting poster, then your here to find out how you can Run for Ringwood.  You can also Walk, Jump, Hurdle and Throw.

The Ringwood Athletic Club  has members from 11 years old to a lot older than that, but we won't give away how old some of our 60+ members are.  As a Club we are involved in both Summer and Winter competitions.

The Winter season is made up of Cross Country and Road runs for indivduals and Team Relays.  Those runs vary in distance and are usually about three weeks apart and are mostly Saturday afternoon with a couple of Sunday mornings as well.  Winter season is from April to September

The Summer season is made up of all the events you see when you watch the Olympics and Commonwelth Games.  Running from 100m to 5000m, Walking, Jumping and Throwing events.  Summer season is from October to March.

The Club has a range of coaches who can help you with your interest.

Contact the Club via email for more information.