Last week, the boys U13 Athletics team travelled to Manchester for the North West Finals of the English Schools Athletics Championships.
The team had performed fantastically in the previous round and our goal was to improve our overall points score as a team.
The winning schools from each of the eight regional finals would progress onto the National Finals.
The team were an absolute credit on the day with more school records and PBs being broken by our athletes.
Isaac Allen kick started the day posting the fastest time in the North West of 12.6s for his 80m Hurdles from 22 schools and 44 boys competing in the competition. With twin brother Austin Allen the 2nd fastest 200m with a time of 25.8s.
Janesh Rathod took almost 2 seconds off his PB in the 300m running it in 43.6s and Hugh Smith beat his own new school 800m record set in the previous round. Dropping from 2m.22s to 2m.17.7s. This was again the fastest time set in the North West competition.
There were some good performances in the field at Shot, Discus and Javelin as well as within the High Jump. Where improvements were made on previous scores by at least one athlete.
Overall, Broughton finished second to an outstanding St Anselm's team who won the competition with 476pts. However, despite not progressing to the National Final we did meet our objective and scored 386pts compared to the 379pts in the previous round.
Congratulations and thank you to all the athletes who took part. We now go onto the Preston City Athletics Competition on the 22nd June.
Team: Isaac Allen, Austin Allen, Tom Irwin, Rammell Laurent, Janesh Rathod, Oliver Blackwell, Charlie Hewitt,
Harry Lonsdale, William Jones, Sean O'Regan, Reuben Watson, Riley Stansfield, Lewis Nelson, Hugh Smith.
Mr Marquis
