Havering Mayesbrook's young athletes performed well against the county's best athletes and were again well to the fore in the Essex county schools' championships at Basildon on Saturday 10th June claiming nine gold, seven silver medals and a bronze.

The Junior Girls (U-15s) grabbed most golds on the day. Laura Jones (100m), Sara Luck (800m), Claire Sargent (75m Hurdles) and Melanie Harrison (discus) recorded gold medal performances. All four await the team selectors' decisions on whether they will be in the Essex team for the English Schools champs at Sheffield in July.

The two Junior boys' gold medal winners - Matthew Kelsey (100m) and Bob Thanda (400m) - can look forward to automatic selection, having reached the national standards. Thanda's time was a further massive improvement on his personal best, set the week before, while Kelsey hopes to emulate the feat of his older brother Ross, who was an English School's finalist three years ago.

Faye Fullerton claimed a new Championship best performance (CBP) in winning the Intermediate girls 1500m and is also guaranteed selection for the national event.

Silver medals went to Nina Brennan (Inter 300m hurdles), Gemma Tyler (Inter 300m), Caroline Smith (junior 800m) and Charlotte Watkins (Year 7 - 600m) while for the boys Kevin Deacon (Inter -Hammer), Mark Gardner (Inter Long Jump) and Andrew Bartlett (Junior 200m) also gained runners up medals. Greg Smith gained bronze for his Inter Javelin efforts.

The Year 7 championships do not lead to the National finals but provide a valuable stepping stone to higher things. Megan Foley recorded a new club best and also a CBP when winning the 600m by five seconds, while newcomer Chloe van Wulven, who is in training with the club, was a clear winner in the 75m hurdles, recording a CBP on her way to gold.

Intermediate Boys:	U-17
200m	4th	Andy Green	23.8 secs
100m hurdles	6th	Andrew Cattell	16.1 secs
Hammer	2nd	Kevin Deacon	37.51m
Discus	4th	Andrew Tierney	34.17m
Javelin	3rd	Greg Smith	48.12m
Javelin	4th	Stuart Eve	(PB)
High Jump	7th	Stephen Prady	1.65m
Long Jump	2nd	Mark Gardner	6.07m (PB)

Junior Boys	U-15
100m	1st	Matthew Kelsey	11.9 secs
200m	2nd	Andrew Bartlett	24.7 secs
400m	1st	Bob Thanda	52.8 secs
	8th	Terry O'Leary	59.0 secs (PB)
800m	6th	Danny Skelt	2m 17 secs (PB)
High Jump	5th	Mark Connelly	1.60m (PB)

Year 7 Boys	U-13
800m	6th	Andrew Luck
Long Jump	6th	Tom Vargas

Inter Girls	U-17
300m	2nd	Gemma Tyler	44.2 secs
1500m	1st	Faye Fullerton	4m 34.4 secs (CBP)
300m hurdles	2nd	Nina Brennan	51.8 secs

Junior Girls	U-15
100m	1st	Laura Jones	12.9 secs
800m	1st	Sara Luck	2m 22.8 secs
800m	2nd	Caroline Smith	2m 23.3 secs (PB)
75m hurdles	1st	Claire Sargent	12.1 secs (12.0 heat)
Discus	1st	Melanie Harrison	29.79m
Discus	4th	Lynsey Clark	26.29m

Year 7 Girls	U-13
600m	1st	Megan Foley	1m 44.2 secs (CBP)
	2nd	Charlotte Watkins	1m 49.2 secs
75m Hurdles	1st	Chloe Van Wulven	13.3 secs (13.0 heat CBP))

Link to leading results