CASTERTON Little Athletics is celebrating a huge weekend, with two club records on Friday night and a swag of big results – including 10 medals – from the weekend’s regional championships at Warrnambool.
Our two senior athletes, Marianna Novikov and Myles Black, are the only participants in their respective age groups and like others in that position, we appreciate how difficult it can be to continue to push yourself every week to reproduce and exceed results when there’s nobody to compete with or measure yourself against.
Despite the challenges, each works hard every week and in addition to cutting up to five seconds off their personal bests in track events in recent weeks, set a new club record in the field on Friday night.
Competing in the Under 16 Girls division, Marianna slashed an incredible 10 centimetres off her age group’s club high jump record set in 2020 by Zoe Hill, jumping 1.5 metres.
She then went on to take the gold medal in the same event at the Warrnambool regionals on Sunday, as well as the silver medal in the 16-year-old Girls 800-metre track event.
Myles, who lines-up in the Under 17 Boys division, had previously set the club’s javelin record for the age group at 20.35 metres and replicated the effort on Friday night.
Just two days later, he exceeded that effort to claim the silver medal in the same event at regionals with a whopping 20.5m throw, as well as silver in the discus, gold in the high jump and bronze in the 100m sprint.
In the younger ranks, Lori Campbell continues to push the limits each week and is a great ambassador for our club.
She headed to Warrnambool for regionals at the weekend where, in a big, highly competitive 9-year-old Girls field, she posted a PB in the 70-metre sprint and placed 6th in the discus and 8th in the high jump.
Curtis Campbell is another athlete who has been competing solo in his Under 11 age group and over recent weeks his focus on PBs – particularly in long-distance track events – has paid dividends.
But it was the field where he excelled at the weekend, taking the bronze medal place on the podium in the discus at the Warrnambool regionals.
After a gruelling Friday night program, Annabell Allkin and Jack Novikov, competing in the Under 13 Girls and Boys age groups, respectively, lined up for big programs at the regionals.
Annabel put in a massive effort to compete in three events, finishing just outside the medals in the 100m and 200m track events, before taking the bronze medal in the 80m hurdles.
The hurdles is something our athletes have not had a huge amount of experience in, so to medal in this event is an outstanding effort.
Pocket-rocket Jack always seems to have a little extra fuel in the tank and this was evident on Sunday, when he lined up in four big events at Warrnambool.
Taking 5th place in the 200m and 6th in the 100m, Jack then took his place on the podium, claiming silver in the high jump and bronze in the long jump.
Congratulations and thank you to all of our athletes who do our club proud at these events, as well as the mums, dads, carers and friends who do the driving and turn up to support them – greatly appreciated!
Friday results
Under 6 Girls
100m – 1 Joanna Jarrad, 2 Eileen Matthews, 3 Stephanie Gould; 70m – 1 Joanna Jarrad PB, 2 Stephanie Gould, 3 Eileen Matthews; Shot Put – 1 Eileen Matthews, 2 Stephanie Gould PB, 3 Joanna Jarrad.
Under 6 Boys
100m – 1 Harry Smith, 2 George Steenholdt, 3 Bobby Killey, 4 James Killey, 5 Flynn Guiver; 70m – 1 Harry Smith, 2 George Steenholdt PB, 3 Bobby Killey PB, 4 James Killey PB, 5 Flynn Guiver; Shot Put – 1 Harry Smith PB, 2 George Steenholdt PB, 3 James Killey PB, 4 Bobby Killey PB, 5 Flynn Guiver PB.
Under 7 Girls
100m – 1 Molly Mara, 2 Zara Norris, 3 Neve Barlow, 4 Ava Constantine, 5 Zylah Forbes, 6 Skylar Devereux; 70m – 1 Molly Mara, 2 Zara Norris, 3 Neve Barlow, 4 Ava Constantine PB, 5 Skylar Devereux, 6 Zylah Forbes; Shot Put – 1 Skylar Devereux, 2 Zylah Forbes PB, 3 Zara Norris, 4 Molly Mara, 5 Ava Constantine, 6 Neve Barlow.
Under 7 Boys
100m – 1 Oliver Grigg, 2 Lincoln Henty Anderson, 3 Parker Smith; 70m – 1 Oliver Grigg, 2 Lincoln Henty Anderson, 3 Parker Smith; Shot Put – 1 Oliver Grigg PB, 2 Parker Smith, 3 Lincoln Henty Anderson.
Under 8 Girls
100m – 1 Jorgie Jarrad, 2 Ailish Tait, 3 Livy Smith, 4 Ava Stretton, 5 Bella Gould, 6 Katie Campbell, 7 Sapphira’ Constantine, 8 Lilah Knight; 70m – 1 Jorgie Jarrad, 2 Livy Smith, 3 Bella Gould, 4 Katie Campbell, 5 Sapphira’ Constantine PB, 6 Ailish Tait, 7 Ava Stretton, 8 Lilah Knight; Long Jump – 1 Sapphira’ Constantine PB, 2 Ailish Tait, 3 Bella Gould, 4 Livy Smith, 5 Ava Stretton, 6 Katie Campbell, 7 Jorgie Jarrad, 8 Lilah Knight; Shot Put – 1 Ailish Tait PB, 2 Sapphira’ Constantine PB, 3 Lilah Knight PB, 4 Livy Smith, 5 Katie Campbell, 6 Ava Stretton, 7 Jorgie Jarrad, 8 Bella Gould.
Under 8 Boys
100m – 1 Levi Constantine, 2 Kit Ferguson; 70m – 1 Levi Constantine PB, 2 Kit Ferguson; Long Jump – 1 Levi Constantine PB, 2 Kit Ferguson; Shot Put – 1 Levi Constantine, 2 Kit Ferguson.
Under 9 Girls
100m – 1 Lori Campbell, 2 Isabella Killey, 3 Stephanie Smith, 4 Dakota-Jane Wilson; 400m – 1 Lori Campbell PB, 2 Dakota-Jane Wilson PB; 70m – 1 Isabella Killey, 2 Lori Campbell, 3 Stephanie Smith, 4 Dakota-Jane Wilson; Long Jump – 1 Isabella Killey, 2 Lori Campbell, 3 Stephanie Smith, 4 Dakota-Jane Wilson; Shot Put – 1 Isabella Killey, 2 Lori Campbell, 3 Stephanie Smith, 4 Dakota-Jane Wilson.
Under 9 Boys
100m – 1 Douglas Harvey PB, 2 Jimmy Barlow PB, 3 Isaiah Devereux, 4 Rylan Henty-Anderson, 5 Archie Ferguson; 400m – 1 Douglas Harvey PB, 2 Jimmy Barlow PB, 3 Isaiah Devereux, 4 Rylan Henty-Anderson, 5 Archie Ferguson; 70m – 1 Douglas Harvey PB, 2 Jimmy Barlow PB, 3 Isaiah Devereux PB, 4 Rylan Henty-Anderson, 5 Archie Ferguson; Long Jump – 1 Jimmy Barlow, 2 Douglas Harvey, 3 Rylan Henty-Anderson, 4 Isaiah Devereux, 4 Archie Ferguson; Shot Put – 1 Douglas Harvey PB, 2 Jimmy Barlow PB, 3 Rylan Henty-Anderson, 4 Archie Ferguson, 5 Isaiah Devereux PB.
Under 11 Boys
100m – 1 Curtis Campbell; 400m – 1 Curtis Campbell; 70m – 1 Curtis Campbell; Discus – 1 Curtis Campbell; High Jump – 1 Curtis Campbell.
Under 13 Girls
100m – 1 Annabell Allkin; 400m – 1 Annabell Allkin; 70m – 1 Annabell Allkin; Discus – 1 Annabell Allkin.
Under 13 Boys
100m – 1 Jack Novikov; 400m – 1 Jack Novikov PB; 70m – 1 Jack Novikov PB; High Jump – 1 Jack Novikov PB.
Under 16 Girls
100m – 1 Marianna Novikov; 400m – 1 Marianna Novikov; 70m – 1 Marianna Novikov; Discus – 1 Marianna Novikov; High Jump – 1 Marianna Novikov.
Under 17 Boys
100m – 1 Myles Black; 400m – 1 Myles Black PB; 70m – 1 Myles Black; Discus – 1 Myles Black; High Jump – 1 Myles Black; Javelin – 1 Myles Black PB.
