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UK Athletics National Young Athletes (Boys and Girls) League
Southern Division 2 North
Sunday 22 July at Woodside Stadium, Watford

For the last of this "summer's" 4 league meetings Chiltern Harriers took a team of 28 athletes to Watford. Once again the Harriers youngsters placed 4th and ended the season 4th overall out of 7 teams in the Division, ahead of local rivals Watford Harriers. On the day Harriers accumulated 19 individual wins and two relay wins plus lots of personal best performances to round the league season off nicely in good weather conditions.

Star of the show was U13 Dan Barraclough who was taking part in his first league meeting. He won the 800m in a new personal best 2mins 22.8secs (AAA's Grade 1 standard) and was rewarded with the Male Track Athlete of the match for that performance.

For the boys the winners included:

Dan Barraclough (U13) A string 800m
Jack Dutton (U13) B string 800m
Michael Goddard (U13) A string 1500m
John Underwood (U13) B string 100m
Cameron Holloway (U13) B string 200m
Robert Smith (U15) A string 400m
Alex Watson (U15) A string 1500m, B string 400m
Oliver Church (U15) B string 800m
Sonny Harvey (U15) B string 1500m, B string Discus
Tom Evans (U17) B string 200m
Alex Shelley (U17) A string 800m, A string 1500m
Allan Stewart (U17) B string 800m, B string 1500m

The U13 boy's 4x100m-relay team (Cameron Holloway, John Underwood, Michael Goddard and Dan Barraclough on this occasion) completed a clean sweep winning for the fourth meeting in a row with John Underwood snatching victory by just / of a second.

The U15 boy's 4x400m-relay team (Robert Smith, Sonny Harvey, Oliver Church and Alex Watson) won their race comfortably by 80 metres.

Gary Howells
Coach
Chiltern Harriers AC