A great team effort was rewarded by a superb third place at Stevenage today for our UK Women's League team.  The UK Women's League is the highest level of league competition for our ladies and a delighted team manager, Sally Stevens, said that everyone competing today really battled hard for every point which was so important in a tightly fought contest.  This result leaves the team placed 4th in the league with the last match of the year to be held at Bedford on Saturday July 28th. Click here for photo's of today's competition courtesy of Peter Milsom's Facebook gallery and click here for a full set of results. Please click on this heading under "Latest News", or on the pdf logo above right, to read the full report.

Stephanie Williams started the track events with 2nd in the 400mH in a new personal best of 64.7, and Eloise Meakins coming 4th in the B string in a time of 83.5. This was a good run out for Steph who is off to Gateshaead next week for English Schools. In the field two Stevenage girls, who compete for Herts Phoenix as higher claim ,Beccy Knapp and Frances Gross threw the Hammer 44.65 and 37.91 to come 3rd and 4th in the event. Also in the field Fin Frederick and Natalie Farman were jumping in the Long Jump to come 7th and 4th with jumps of 5.11 and 4.81. Next on the track was the 800m with Sian Harry, just back from University, running 2.21.0 to come 5th in the A string and Aisling Hayward running 2.43.5 to come 5th in the B string. Olivia Harry jumped 2.90 in the Pole Vault to come 4th, before also travelling up to Gateshaed for English Schools. In the 100m next on the track Emily Stevens, normally a 400m hurdler came 6th in a very tight race in a time of 13.0, while Ciaran Palfreyman came 4th in the B string in a time of 13.7.  All day the sprints were hindered by a stiff breeze against in the home straight. Chloe Vernon-Hamilton, another higher claim Stevenage athlete, jumped 1.45 in the High Jump to come 6th in the A string while Natalie in her second event also jumped 1.45 to come 3rd in the B string. Chloe then went on to throw a personal best in the Shot Putt of 11.82 to come 3rd and Sarah Miller threw 8.44 to come 6th in the B string. On the track in the 3000m Natasha Taylor, just coming back from injury ran 11.29.7 to come 6th and Chrissie Richards ran 12.40.4 to come 3rd in the B string. In the 100m Hurdles Emily came 2nd in a time of 15.1 and Natalie running in her third event came 4th in a time 18.5. Fin and Ellie Montgomery both jumped in the triple jump and Fin came 5th with a jump of 10.35 and Ellie came 7th with a jump of 8.41. Sarah throwing the Discus, which is her preferred event, came 8th, in a very strong competition with a distance of 26.21 and Frances came 6th throwing 23.27. On the track in the 400m Deborah Willis, just back from university, ran 57.8 to come 3rd in the A string while Sian running in her second race came 2nd in a time of 59.6. Aisling and Chrissie took on the 155m next coming 7th and 5th in 5.59.3 and 6.06.3, with Aisling also taking on the steeplechase.  In the 200m Fin acme 6th in a time of 27.0 and Aby Griffiths ran a time of 27.5 to come 4th in the B string.  The last field event was the Javelin were Eloise Meakins threw 44.40 to come 2nd and Chloe threw 28.57 to come 4th. In between the relays, Helena Page took on the steeplechase (without any water because of the hosepipe ban) to come 6th in a time of 8.44.1. The last track events were the relays and in the 4X100m we had Aby, Fin, Olivia and Ciaran, who all got the baton home safely to come 3rd in a time of 50.4. The very last relay the 4x400 was the most exciting. First to run was Steph who got the baton home in 2nd place just behind Crawley. Emily took it second, sat behind the leader and with 150 to go then overtook to come home 20m in front of Crawley. Sian then took the baton and maintained the lead for Deborah to take on the last leg. Crawley had put their very quick 400m individual winner on the last leg and both she and Deborah faught all the way down the home straight for Crawley to just pip us by half a second having run a flat 56s last leg, the time for us was 3.56.5.

Crawley 243.5

Herne Hill 208

Herts Phoenix 175

Bedford County 166

City of Portsmouth 161

Harrow 158.5

Havering 154

Milton Keynes 144