Bacchus Marsh Little Athletics

On Saturday morning all athletes, family and friends came together to complete a lap of the running track at Masons Lane Reserve. Participants donated to the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. A total of $300 will now be donated from the Centre.

This week’s competition focussed on Personal Best results, where all athletes who gained a PB in their event were presented with a Little Athletics Victoria PB Ribbon. 338 PB’s were recorded for the meet with Stars of the Week awarded to Angus Norman, Logan Simons, Nicholas Ibrahim, Sam White, James White, Cohen Mills, Isla Doyle, Sam Ainsworth, Cooper Hunter and Lucy Phyland-McClure – all recording 5 PBs.

For the second week running the Centre celebrated a major achievement of another 50-year-old Centre record being broken. Under 10 athlete, Alexis Farrell smashed the previous Shot Put record of 7.43m, set in 1972/73 season by Beth Lilburne. Alexis threw a new Centre record of 8.45 metres. Alexis will be looking to replicate this form next week at the State Championships.

The Centre will have 18 athletes competing at the Little Athletics Victoria Track & Field Championships this weekend, to be held at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park.

Competing athletes and events:
Halo Arahanga (U11) High Jump, Long Jump
Mya Berryman (U9) 70m, 100m, 200m
Skyla Berryman (U10) 70m, 100m, 200m
Anni Clarke (U10) Discus
Mackenzie Estlick (U15) Discus, 100m, 200m, High Jump, Long Jump
Alexis Farrell (U10) Shot Put, 200m, 800m
Nyah Halfhide (U9) 200m
Emilia Ibrahim (U9) 800m
Nicholas Ibrahim (U14) Javelin
Danielle Ide (U17) 300mH
Nicholas Ide (U14) 200mH, 90mH, Triple Jump
Alex Lloyd (U15) High Jump
Nicholas Mai (U13) 200mH, 80mH, Triple Jump
Eni Olaitan (U9) 70m, 100m, 200m
Bridie Shanahan (U17) Discus, Shot Put, Javelin, Triple Jump
Keira Stapleton (U13) Discus
Emma Stewart (U16) Discus, Shot Put, Javelin, Long Jump, 90mH
Sam White (U16) 400m, 800m, 1500m, Javelin

The Centre will conduct a twilight meet this Friday evening commencing at 5pm at Masons Lane Reserve.