English
Schools
Cross
Country Championships
– Hylands
Park,
Chelmsford
-
Saturday
9
March
2002
Lauren
Deadman and Sara Luck won team gold and silver respectively for Essex in
the English Schools Cross Country Championships at a windswept Hylands
Park, Chelmsford yesterday.
| Lauren Deadman had
looked likely to miss her final crack at the last English Schools due to a slight knee injury,
but after a fitness test two days before, had declared herself fit to
run.
She was placed 10th in the Senior Girls event and
was first Essex scorer home as the squad scooped the team event by 25
points. Lauren afterwards declared herself pleased with her performance
which saw her in front of Basildon's Alexa Joel and Stacey Ward who have
both challenged her this winter, and did not feel that her injury had
affected her performance.
Faye Fullerton had to give her own final
Schools race a miss, as she was enjoying the much warmer climate in
Portugal, where she was warm-weather training with the GB team in
preparation for the World Championships in Dublin on 23/24 March.
Sara
Luck was a respectable 25th in a field of over 300 in the Intermediate
Girls event as Essex claimed runners up spot.
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Photo of Lauren Deadman copyright
Kieran
Galvin
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Photo of Charlotte
Watkins copyright Kieran
Galvin |
Photo of Katie Richardson
copyright Kieran
Galvin |
In the Junior Girls event county champion Megan
Foley was unable to compete due to a perforated eardrum and missed out on
a possible top ten
placing. In her absence Katie Richardson, who also has not been in the
best of health, in 50th was first club member home in her first National Schools
attempt. Robyn Matson, originally a reserve for the 8-strong team, after
finishing 10th in the County School stepped into the squad to place a good 96th, while Essex silver
medallist Charlotte Watkins found the going tough in 145th. The Essex
squad finished out of the medals in 5th. Martin Heys flew the flag for the
boys, finishing 177th in the senior boys event
Results
Senior Girls 10th Lauren Deadman 16m 46 secs
Inter Girls 25th Sara Luck 15:57
Junior Girls 50th Katie Richardson 15: 03 (approx.); 96th Robyn
Matson 15:26 (approx); 145th - Charlotte Watkins 15:46 (approx.)
Senior Boys 177th - Martin Heys - 30:43