By Lachlan Ellis<\/p>\n
A Girls 100m record has recently been broken at the Bacchus Marsh Little Athletics Centre (BMLAC), and it\u2019s been 52 years in the making.<\/p>\n
Nine-year-old Skyla Berryman broke the Under 10 record on Saturday 25 February, running the 100m track in a blazing 14.62 second performance.<\/p>\n
The previous record of 14.80 seconds, held by Melissa Gage, goes all the way back to the 1970\/71 BMLAC season.<\/p>\n
Proud dad Jarred said it was a thrill to see Skyla break such a long-standing record.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were ecstatic, I\u2019m usually recording every single race of theirs [Skyla and sister Mya] but at that time I was getting my son a hot dog, so it was the one race I missed,\u201d Mr Berryman laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we were over the moon. My wife was at work so she missed the race, but I rang her as soon as we finished to tell her. We can\u2019t believe it, it\u2019s a pretty big achievement for a nine-year-old kid. When Skyla finished the race and Linda actually told her what she\u2019d achieved, she was pretty shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n
And while Mr Berryman says he and wife Lara aren\u2019t pressuring Skyla into running, wanting to \u201clet her be a kid\u201d, it seems pretty clear what she wants to do at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAthletics is her favourite activity\u2026it\u2019s probably her ultimate goal, to run for Australia eventually. But her being a kid you know, we try and let her be a kid as well and not push her to the point where she gets sick of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut she\u2019s at home at the moment watching old Cathy Freeman videos\u2026it\u2019s pretty clear what she wants to do if she\u2019s watching Cathy Freeman videos on YouTube in her free time.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that\u2019s she\u2019s nailed one record, she says she wants to try and get a few more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Lachlan Ellis A Girls 100m record has recently been broken at the Bacchus Marsh Little Athletics Centre (BMLAC), and it\u2019s been 52 years in the making. Nine-year-old Skyla Berryman broke the Under 10 record on Saturday 25 February, running the 100m track in a blazing 14.62 second performance. The previous record of 14.80 seconds, […]<\/p>\n