Report by Peter Impett
The change in age groups brought in by England Athletics this year presented no problems for teenage javelin star Mila Desborough. The Wimborne athlete hit 47m95 at the Wessex Young Athletes League in blustery conditions in Oxford on Sunday and she is now second on the all-time list for athletes her age in the UK. All five throws were over 46 metres. Mila is building on foundations laid with her English Schools and UK titles last year and recently surprised the watching Steve Backley and Goldie Sayers who thought that she was at least an eighteen-year-old when she has yet to reach the age of 14.
Quadkids Win
The start of the season also brought an important win for the clubs very junior athletes. The well drilled under 12’s squad won the Girls event, and a second placed Boys team meant an overall win for Wimborne. Jasmine Foster led the charge winning the Girls event outright with Adriana Travers, Savanna Hastings and Iola Poretta scoring heavily in 1st,4th,6th and 18th places out of a total of 45 athletes. Toby Smith 3rd, Henri Elliott-Smith 6th, Ben Faulkner 9th and Angus Craig 17th did the business for the Boys out of a total of 54 athletes.
Total points
1st Wimborne 1706, 2nd Reading 1617, 3rd Southampton 1554, 4th Oxford 1494, 5th Fleet and Crookham 1413, 6th Camberley 1344 and 7th Waverley 1131.
In the main match it seemed to be mainly the ladies who scored the points and the squad were sadly missing some of their strongest male performers and the under 18 age group were very underrepresented. Nevertheless, there were class performances in the under 14 girls with Lani Moore showing the skills which gave her a winning 11.86 in the hurdles and 13.65 in the 100 metres. Lila Richards won the b string 100 in 14.24 and won the long jump outright with 4m67. Eliza Blakeway won the high jump in a new personal best 1m39 and was second in the 800 metres 2.43.67 while Imogen Stanning won the B string in 2.48.41. Maisie Robbins is showing real promise in the throws with a winning 8m60 shot putt and a second placed javelin of 25m95. Maddie Buchan backed up well winning the B string javelin 24m87 and the B string discus 14m34 where Tilly pretty scored heavily with a second placed discus 22m20 and a winning B shot with 7m72.
Ava Elliott Smith has maintained her form of last year winning the 100 metres in 12.77 and the 200 in 26.77. Kayla Robbins is slowly recovering from injury to win the high jump 1m45 and won the B string long jump. Zara Cobb was second in the hurdles in 14,80. Harley Stanley won the Under 16 boys 100 in 11.98 and was second in the 200 in 24.13, Elliott Trickey set a new personal best winning the long jump with 5m88 and winning the B string 100 in 12.37. Thomas Froud won the javelin with an impressive 48m38 and was first in the B string 200 metres 25.20.
Scores
1) Reading 428 2) Camberley 365 3) Oxford 313 4) Wimborne 266 5) Southampton 255 6) Waverley 184 7) Fleet and Crookham 151
