By Jamie Strudley
YARRA RANGES ATHLETICS
A FANTASTIC day of athletics in the Yarra Valley on Saturday to culminate a very busy week of athletics.
After the success of the athletes at Australian All Schools, the club had two athletes competing at the Zatopek: 10 meeting held at Lakeside Stadium on Thursday evening.
Georgia Laven showed her improving tactical nous to comfortably win the Jamieson Under 15s Girls 1500m.
Sam Norton competed in the Hilliard Under 15 Boys 1500m, running a brave race finishing in 10th place.
Great to see the club’s talented younger athletes competing on a national stage.
Saturday morning was a belter at Morrison reserve where the club again recognised those athletes who recorded four or more PBs in the previous week.
Well done to everyone who has recorded PBs this season.
It was the penultimate round of the year, with many outstanding perfomances and lots of smiles.
Next week, Friday night, will produce many more smiles.
The senior athletes competed in Round 8 of the AV Shield at Nunawading.
A busy day with teams from Blue zone competing, too, which saw lots of heats and full fields in jumps and throws events.
Yarra Ranges athletes all performed well, none more so than the over-achieiving women’s 40-plus 4 x 100 relay team.
Maybe we will see them on Friday night, too.
The final round of AV Shield for the year is on Thursday night from 5pm.
After that, no athletics until Saturday, 7 January.
The little athletics year finishes on Friday night with a modified program and an expected visitor.
Get there early to help set up so we can start on time.
Good luck too all teams competing at the Victoian Little Athletics Relay Championships next weekend.
Have fun, run hard.
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Run, jump, throw … too easy!
