Nine Vale Royal Athletes Selected For English Schools

Athletes from Vale Royal Athletic Club have been selected by the Cheshire Schools Athletics Association to appear at the English Schools Finals (Mini Olympics) in Gateshead on 9/10th July.

The athletes from VRAC will represent the Cheshire Schools in Red and Black kit at the famous stadium where many internationals have graced the track.

The nine athletes who have been selected are Lee Davenport (800 metres) along with Laura Lambert (800 metres) and James Griffiths (800 metres) and Hannah Hewitson (long Jump) who are all extremely excited at being selected.  Tom Stringer (400m Hurdles) has been selected along side training partner Virginia Moorhouse (80 m Hurdles) who will make the long journey up to the North East Coast.

The sprinters are also making the trip to the international with Morgan Brown who will be contesting the longer of the sprints events (200m), again with her training partner, Hayley Jones (100m).

Finally, the nineth athlete from Vale Royal Athletic Club will be Becky Ellis who will contest the middle distance event this year. (1500m)

Club president Harry Evans was delighted with the news and paid tribute to the athletes, as there has been athletes from different disciplines selected for the English Schools finals, in the fact that hurdlers, sprinters, middle distance and a jumper has qualified.  Last year 7 athletes qualified for the schools and there were some athletes who had just missed out this year, so the future is looking good.

Many world class athletes such as Jonathan Edwards, Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson, Katherine Merry, Sally Gunnell and many other names all participated in the English schools finals where they were younger.