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32^nd Club Newsletter December 2006

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Many thanks are due to Sarah Jones, Monica Yakiah and Lynn Powell who have volunteered to take the register for the 6-30pm session. We are very greatful for this much needed assistance. Will all athletes please remember to leave your name before going onto the track.
We still need more coaches at 6-30 even more so once you read the announcement below. If there is anyone interested in becoming a coach or even helping out the existing coaches please see one of the Club Officials.

It is with great sadness that we must announce that in the next few months Tom will be leaving the Coaching Team. Tom has had arguably the hardest job of all the coaches as for the last few years he has coached our youngest athletes. Twelve months ago Tom took up a new job in Huddersfield and has been commuting ever since and whilst this is an acceptable journey in Summer the dark Winter nights are very tiring and hence he has taken the decision to relocate in Yorkshire. I think it has been fantastic that Tom has managed to make most 6-30 training sessions after his long drive home. You will be sadly missed Tom.

Please note the last training night before Christmas is Thursday 21 December after which there will be no training sessions until Thursday 4th January. On behalf of the Club I trust everyone will have an enjoyable Christmas.

The cross country season continues apace. At the 2nd of the races we put on for local schools there was a change in the order of the Year 6 girls race as many had been involved in a netball tournament and missed our first race.

If we have missed any members names off these results please send an E Mail to Salfordmets@ntlworld.com and we will ensure you are included for future races.

On Saturday 11 November our cross country team tackled the second of the SE Lancs races. Whilst we had no individual race wins our athletes performed exceptionally well with the following being the results:-
Under 11 Girls - 6th Lucy Matthews, 15th Louise Wilson, 16th Abigail Parry, 21st Robyn Saunders 3rd TEAM
Under 11 Boys - 11th Harry Stevenson, 12th Alex Ratcliffe -
Under 13 Girls - 10th Rebecca Parry, 15th Chloe Glewis, 20th Abbie Vanden, 24th Laura Powell, 28th Abigail Field - 3rd TEAM
Under 13 Boys - 10th Luke Stevenson
Under 15 Girls - 9th Bethany Saunders, 10th Rebecca Vanden, 13th P Lewis - 3rd TEAM
Under 17 Girls - 5th Zoe Leighton
Under 17 Boys - 5th Daniel Atherton, 7th Danny Hill
Junior Men - 7th Paul Marchment
Under 20 Women 3rd Emma Hall
Senior Women - 18th Carolyn Lewtas
Senior Men - 87th Stuart Mairs
Over 40 Men - 33rd Chris Lawler, 36th Mark Hulme, 36th Mike Lucas Over 50 Men - 12th Jack Carney, 15th Paddy Farrelly, 18th B Eyre, 4th Team

The race was run in terrible conditions with the wind blowing a gale and special mention should go to Harry Stevenson, Alex Ratcliffe, Lucy Matthews, Louise Wilson, Abigail Parry, and Robyn Saunders who had already run in the Salford Schools Cross Country in the morning.

The Salford Schools Cross country sees local schools compete in 5 races throughout the Winter with the best four results counting towards the end of season awards. Our own Jack Carney acts as the hare in many of these races even though he often has a race himself later in the day. Historically our members do very well in these races and from the following results it looks as though that trend is to continue this season.

Year 3/4 Boys 1st Greg Whitehead, 2nd Alex Ratcliffe, 4th Matthew Jamieson, 17th Max Foy, 33rd Sam Hawkins, 36th Matthew Howcroft, 37th Jacob Yakiah, 40th Jonathan Parry
Year 3/4 Girls 1st Megan Lowe, 2nd Charlotte Simms, 3rd Robyn Saunders, 4th Hollie Barnes, 6th Amber Lowe, 9th Jessica Powell, 23rd Rachael Greene, 60th Katrina Reader, 64th Georgia Dunning
Year 5/6 Boys 2nd Joseph Greene, 3rd Sam Tattum, 7th Harry Stevenson, 12th Samuel Jones, 21st Lewis Uzokwe, 30th Cameron Cooper, 38th Reis Tobolski
Year 5/6 Girls 1st Lucy Matthews, 2nd Leah Niven, 3rd Lucy whittaker, 4th Olivia Madden, 5th Louise Wilson, 6th Kelly Lowe, 7th Jemnny Matthews, 8th Zoe Lowe, 9th Geogia Smith, 11th Abigail Parry, 12th Holly Emerson, 13th Abigail Casson, 16th Savanna Saunders, 23rd Charlotte Field, 24th Elizabeth Davies, 25th Holly Nuttall, 28th Kirsten Reader, 29th Hannah Powell, 39th Emily Johnson, 46th Hannah Royle, 47th Hannah Meskell.

The 3rd and Final Salford Mets School Cross Country race saw the medals decided and our members took their fair share:-
Year 6 Girls - Gold, Megan Lowe - Silver, Lucy Whittaker - Bronze, Louise Wilson Year 7 Girls - Gold, Ashleigh Bamber Year 7 Boys - Gold, Jack Evans - Silver, Jack Tattum - Bronze, Myles Barton Year 8/9 Girls - Silver, Bethany Saunders - Bronze, Rebecca Parry Year 10/11 Girls - Gold, Rebecca Vanden - Silver, Zoe Leighton Year 10/11 Boys - Gold, Danny Hill.

Full race results, medalists and photographs appear on the web site http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.hallam3/Metxc06.htm and hence are not reproduced here however, special mention goes to Leah Niven who won her first ever cross country race. well done Leah.

And finally the second of the Salford Schools races which was run in very wet conditions produced some excellent races with more of our athletes appearing well up the rankings than ever before. This was particularly evident in the Year 5/6 Girls race where our members filled the top 9 places and only 2 athletes in the top 19 were not a Mets member. Well done everyone

Year 3/4 Boys 1st Greg Whitehead, 3rd Alex Ratcliffe, 5th Matthew Newman, 6th Matthew Jamieson, 11th Max Foy, 23rd Jonathan Parry, 36th James Wilson, 38th Sam Hawkins, 40th Jacob Yakiah, 41st Matthew Howcroft,
Year 3/4 Girls 1st Megan Lowe, 2nd Charlotte Simms, 3rd Robyn Saunders, 6th Amber Lowe, 7th Jessica Powell, 12th Rachael Greene, 17th Annabel Horrocks, 34th Amber Jones, 44th Georgia Dunning 74th Katrina Reader,
Year 5/6 Boys 1st Sam Tattum, 5th Harry Stevenson, 13th Samuel Jones, 21st Lewis Uzokwe, 29th Reis Tobolski 30th Cameron Cooper, 59th Thomas Higgins
Year 5/6 Girls 1st Lucy Matthews, 2nd Leah Niven, 3rd Lucy whittaker, 4th Zoe Lowe, 5th Kelly Lowe, 6th Rebecca Bate, 7th Olivia Madden, 8th Abigail Casson, 9th Geogia Smith, 11th Jenny Matthews, 12th Savanna Saunders, 13th Holly Emerson, 14th Helen Wheeldon, 15th Abigail Parry, 17th Lauren Barnes, 18th Louise Wilson, 19th Elizabeth Davies, 22nd Charlotte Field, 27th Charlotte Cooper, 29th Holly Nuttall, 30th Kirsten Reader, 36th Freya Buckley, 37th Hannah Powell, 41st Olivia Jones

Once again apologies if I have missed anyone. There are now so many of you!!!!

Under 11's continue to put in performances for the Acheivement Awards during our special training sessions. All those gaining awards have their names appearing on the role of honour on the Clubs Web Site. The address ishttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.hallam3/perf4.htm The ongoing achievements http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.hallam3/awardg.htm for Under 11 Girls & http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.hallam3/awardb.htm for Under 11 Boys are constantly being updated with members performances. If any new members want any more information on these awards please ask Peter or Tom. They are worth having as recipients receive an engraved Silver Trophy and a specially designed baseball cap which will keep you dry during our Winter training sessions.

And finally if you want to receive an E Mail notification whenever a new newsletter is published on the web sites please send your E Mail address to Salfordmets@ntlworld.com and we will send notifications to you.

Peter