Club Wins Off Track Club Award Of North West 2005

Shaun McGrath and Neil Templeman were invited to the UKA Indoor Cup Meeting at the Manchester Arena to be presented with a Club Futures award from UK Athletics.  Vale Royal AC have won the 'North West 2005 Off Track Club Of The Year', for all the efforts in fell races, cross country races and road running races. 

The award was jointly presented by Jared Deacon, a 400 metre British International at World Championships and Olympics games and Alison Wyeth.  Alison is now an athletics development officer for the governing body (AAA), where Alison was another British International athlete at 3,000 and 5,000 metres at World championship and Olympic level. 

Neil attended the presentation in the absence of Andy Carter, who could not make the presentation of awards.  Both Shaun and Neil were guests of honour at the UKA Indoor cup which saw athletes from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham and Manchester compete against each other indoors, to gain experience of indoor meetings during the winter.

Club President Harry Evans was delighted with the award and thanked all the athletes and coaches who have worked very hard in the winter months to represent the club at major competitions up and down the country.