What an amazing start to the year for Young Athletes Club! We have had the most successful Spring term ever! Here is a summary of the competition results this term; Surrey Teams Sportshall— once again we are Sportshall champions with our girls taking GOLD and the boys taking SILVER against 7 other Surrey clubs including Camberley, Woking and Waverley. This led to Surrey selection for 9 athletes from YAC who made it into the Surrey Team to take part in the Inter-Counties Sportshall in February. Our 9 Sportshall superstars are; Back row girls: Lana Darcy, Tabitha Brown, Arabella Wilson, Breanna Ahmah, Elin Roberts Front row boys: Louis Simmons, James Wells, Ollie Billingham, Frankie Dods Our athletes excelled themselves and Surrey girls team won GOLD just 5 points ahead of Berkshire in second and Bucks were third. The boys took BRONZE behind the winners Kent with Berkshire second.

Border League Cross Country—see over for individual results We had 2 races in February to round off the cross country season. YAC joined forces with GGAC to host our home race at Stoke Park on 4th Feb. We had a very full turn-out with nearly 100 athletes taking part. The final race was at Aldershot on 25th Feb in bright but very cold conditions. We had our best ever finish to the cross country season. Here are the team results; U9 girls FIRST (5th year running) U9 boys FIRST (first time we have won this trophy) U11 girls SECOND, U11 boys 4th place Well done to all who contributed to our team success!

Spring Term 2018 at Young Athletes Club

March 2018

Newsletter Issue 21

Term Dates Spring Term 2018 ends Monday 19th March Friday 23rd March

Summer Term 2018 11 weeks starts; Monday 16th April 2018

NOTE NEW TIME!

6.00pm to 7.00pm

Friday 20th April 2018

5.00 to 6.00pm

6.00 to 7.00pm

Bank Holiday Mon 7th May

Half Term week

Mon 28th May to Fri 1st June

Summer Term 2018 Ends Friday 6th July

Monday 9th July

YAC Open Meeting Sat 26th May at Spectrum For U7, U9, U11, U13s Easter Camp dates 2018 Mon 9th and Tues 10th April Check website for details

Summer Camp dates Tues 24th & Weds 25th July (tbc) Our location; Guildford Track GU1 1UP

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Young Athletes Club athletes in Surrey team win Gold and Bronze medals

Cross Country—YAC are U9 Girls and U9 Boys winners in the Border League

U9 Girls League winners U9 Boys League winners

YAC athletes in Surrey Sportshall team

Individual Overall Results by age group (best 3 races) U9 Girls 1st Team Elise Christian 1st equal !! Sophie Hawthorn 5th, Flora Bayley 7th, Eve Webb 9th, Chloe Shipton 10th, Keira Oxley 11th. Followed closely by; Hannah Pye 13th, Amelie Aukland 14th, Alice Rowlands, Eva Della Maestra, Jessica Fletcher, Emma Cowan. Well done to our strong team of U9 girls for another YAC win. U9 Boys 1st Team Daniel Orbell 2nd! Ben Everett 4th, Alfred Sabourn 13th, Pietro Scanavini 17th. Drew Jones, Josh Cass, Desimi Akinyanju, Tobias Flood, all ran so well in 2 races but needed 3 races to score. However, they contributed to the team win!

Our amazing girls

A team won

GOLD medals

and our girls

second team

came 7th at the

U11s Sportshall

competition at

Spectrum on Jan

14th. Our Boys

team won

SILVER medals and overall we were the top team against

Camberley, Epsom, Woking, Waverley, Dorking and Holland

Sports. From this competition, 9 athletes from YAC went on to

compete for Surrey as detailed on front page.

Girls A team: Tabitha Brown, Breanna Ahmah, Jessica Howells,

Elin Roberts, Lana Darcy, Esme Finch, Orlaith Byrne, Isabelle

Groom, Charlotte Vernon, Arabella Wilson, Abi Bushell.

Girls B Team: Alice Moodie, Iris Atkinson, Emily Bokor-

Ingram, Tasha and Gabby Udebhulu, Emily Hawthorn, Lottie

Hardman, Daisy Bennet,t, Robin Simons.

Boys Team: Morgan Wills, Frankie Dods, Ollie Billingham,

James Wells, Kian Hooker, Jayden Northrop, Jack Pssingham,

George Christmas, Dylan Lawler, Oscar Flood.

Border league Cross Country Final Top Athlete Results—see full results on YAC website

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Website www.young-athletes.co.uk Email membership@young-athletes.co.uk Facebook www.facebook.com/young.athletes.club

Athlete Groups How do they work?

Age and ability determine which group an athlete is in. Please come and talk to us if you feel your child is not in the right group. Age School Year Squad Mixed 10/11 yrs Yr 6 Blue Boys 9/10 yrs Yr 5 Red Girls 9/10 yrs Yr 5 Green Boys 8/9 yrs Yr 4 Yellow Girls 8/9 yrs Yr 4 Development Mixed 6/7 yrs Yr 2/3

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March 2018

U11 Girls Abi 2nd Tabitha 1st U11 Boys George Christmas top finisher

U11 Girls 2nd Team Tabitha Brown 1st !! Abi Bushell 2nd ! Natasha Udebhulu 8th, Emmeline Orbell 14th, Esme Finch 17th, followed closely by Fran Long, Lara Dolling, Gabriella Udebhulu, Emily Hawthorn, Holly Maher. Our best ever U11 girls team—great work girls!! U11 Boys 4th Team George Christmas 11th Oscar Flood 19th, Kian Hooker 26th followed by, Jack Passingham, Abel Davies, Joshua Colman. Well done boys in this tough age group! We are delighted to have had such a good series of races this season. Well done all who took part in the cross country.

YAC Surrey Teams Sportshall winners Jan 14th 2018

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