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What a week of Athletic Achievements!

Freemen's athletics continues to build on fantastic performances throughout the season

At the start of a very busy week of athletics, several of our pupils were selected to represent Central Surrey at the Surrey Schools Championships and the following athletes are to be congratulated on their achievements:

L. Pearson

2nd 800m

L. Pearson has also just performed at the inter-counties competition this weekend coming 3rd with a new pb of 2.16.54

A. Botvinyeva

2nd 80m hurdles

B. Boardman

1st Long Jump

A. Graham-Maw

4th 1500m

J. Lawrence

9th Discus

T. Cheshire

7th 1500m

K. Lyons

2nd Discus

J. Pinnock

3rd= High Jump

A. Coates

2nd Long Jump

J. Freeman

800m

On Monday the Junior's travelled to Thames Valley Athletics Track. Following this the school is now  celebrating one of its best years ever at the Regional qualifying round of the IAPS Athletics championships, with 13 athletes qualifying for the National Championships which will be held at the Alexander stadium in Birmingham on 3rd July. Our athletes will represent London Region Prep Schools in a wide range of track and field events and we wish them all the best and look forward to hearing how they get on.

H. Ford - 300m & Relay & winner of the "Heather Garfield Trophy" for best female athlete

B. Taylor - 800m & Javelin

O. Hart - Triple Jump & Relay

C. Fakkel – Relay

J. Banks - Relay

S. Herholdt – Long Jump

L. Smith – Discus

C. Royale – 1500m

P. Butcher – Relay

J. Barnor – Relay

J. Valkenburg – 800m

 

 

 

A. Turner – 800m

 

A. Steere - Discus

Then on Tuesday the Junior Girls and Inter Girls travelled to Lee Valley Athletics Centre having qualified for the Regional round of the English Schools Track & Field Cup. This is a points based event where all athletes have to compete in 2 events and earn points for their team based on times/distances. Once again there were some excellent performances and several girls posted personal bests in their quest to add to the team points. Overall the Inter Girls finished 8th out of 12 and the Junior Girls a fantastic 3rd out of 11 teams.

To cap off a very busy week of athletics, several of our pupils were selected to represent Central Surrey at the Surrey Schools Championships and the following athletes are to be congratulated on their achievements:

Lily Pearson

2nd 800m

Ana Botvinyeva

2nd 80m hurdles

Ben Boardman

1st Long Jump

Abby Graham-Maw

4th 1500m

Juliette Lawrence

9th Discus

Theo Cheshire

7th 1500m

Katie Lyons

2nd Discus

Abby Graham-Maw

6th 1500m

Josie Pinnock

3rd= High Jump

Adam Coates

2nd Long Jump

James Freeman

800m

 

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