Sunday 1stMarch Paddock Wood Juniors competed in the final sportshall match of the season at White Oak Leisure Center in Swanley.
PWAC Team 1 (Harvey Fordham, Freya Kirk Martin, Mollie Dew and Dillon Dew finished in 5th, they have not been out of the top 6 all season. Harvey continued to excel in the jumps, leading the county once again in the U11’s in the Standing Triple Jump in 6.20, Mollie jumped 5.18. Mollie finished 4th in the Speed Bounce with a PB of 52 bounces. In the Vertical Jump both Freya and Dillon had fine jumps of 35 and 42 respectively. Well done to PWAC 1.
PWAC Team 2 of Liam O’Neil, Isabell Guralamocca Alex Stone and Joe Stone finished in 11th position. Massive effort by Joe who played Rugby in the morning and travelled over from West Wickham to replace a team member at the last minute. Joe jumped 4.81 in the Standing Triple, In Speed Bounce brother Alex recovered from a bad ankle to complete 50 speed bounces to finish7th also a PB. Liam jumped 0.30 in the Vertical Jump and threw 10.35 in the foam javelin. Isabella Guralamocca also showed great potential in only her second sportshall moving up through the teams.
PWAC Team 3 of Aidan O’Neil, Eva Wilson, Martha Peachy, and Alistar Dow finished one place behind PWAC Team 2 in 12th. All performed really well in their respective events Demi Barker and Matthew Brown finished 14th in a combined team with Dartford Dashers. Great performances by both who worked well together.
In the older age groups, U13 Girls, Sam Hockey and Amy Batman finished strong, Sam having a great sportshall season in 5th place and Amy who started sportshall this year finishing in 14th place.
In the U15 girls Eloise Winton fought hard with a back injury to finish 4th in the overall standings.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the PWAC athletes who have taken part this winter in the Sports Hall Competitions, it has been fun to watch teams working together many of which were new to sportshall at the beginning of the season it is great preparation for the Summer season.
Also finally massive thanks to all parents who ferried all the athletes across the county these past few months to the events.
It’s been great to have you along as the support crew.
See you all next season – Janine, Lorraine and Janet
The first Sportshall of next season will hopefully be at Tunbridge Wells on Sunday 11th October .
