Cross C ountry
It’s been another very successful season for cross
country with our runners competing at county and
national level and winning several awards.
The junior girls won the Thomas Trophy at Sevenoaks
Prep, the junior boys won the Kent Independent
Schools Cross Country event at Somerhill and our
senior team won our friendly home fixture, the
Simon Houghton Trophy. The inter teams were very
successful in the English Schools Athletic Association
Cross Country Cup, with the boys finishing eighth
out of 325 teams nationally and the girls also doing
superbly to finish sixth out of 355 teams across the
country. Thirteen of our runners were selected by
KSAA to run for Kent in regionals and four represented
the country at the highest level in the English Schools.
Twenty-six athletes enjoyed a week’s training camp
in Lanzarote.
The season started with the Will Bolton Memorial
Relays at Blackheath and Bromley AC where our
students compete against club runners. The U15
boys did particularly well, placing third behind TAC
U15A and hosts Blackheath and Bromley. Standout
performances came from Fin Croll who was sixth
fastest U15 boy and Tim McLain who was fourth
fastest U13 boy. The junior girls won the Thomas
Trophy at Sevenoaks Prep, led in by Eva Mathew in
fourth place.
The ESAA Cross Country Cup is one of the key events
of the season and we were delighted to have all four
teams qualify in the county round at Somerhill for
the regionals at Judd. There, the competition got
tougher and both our junior teams just missed out on
qualification for nationals. However, it was there, at
the nationals at Woodbridge School, that both inter
teams did so well.
Cross Country
Top: Boys Senior
Centre: Boys Inter
Bottom: Boys Junior
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