Kids Cross Country Events - Medals at the Cross Country - Wow... Go Amesbury

On Sunday the 8th Sept Amesbury students ran in the 4th event of the Kids Cross Country Series.  This series is run by Athletics Wellington in partnership with local clubs.
The event is open to all year 3 to year 10 students although year 2s can run in the year 3 race. Certificates are awarded for the top 3 individual and team placings. Medals are awarded for the Overall Series top 3 individuals and teams (based on 3 best placings over the series). 

The dates and venues were:

Sunday 30 June: Karori Park, Karori (hosted by Karori Athletics Club)
Sunday 14 July: Grenada North Park, Tawa (hosted by Olympic Harriers)
Sunday 11 August: Trentham Memorial Park, Upper Hutt (hosted by Upper Hutt Athletics)
Sunday 8 September: From WHAC Clubrooms, Mt Victoria, Wellington (hosted by WHAC)

The Amesbury students who compete in the events were:

Yr/3 Boys                                      

Cruz Hodson

Freeman Yu

Fynn Jones-Rawstorne

Trey Love

Y3 Girls

Rosa Chambers

Lucy Chambers

Arnah Laracy

Yr4/ Boys

Ryan Topp

Ayrton Hodson

Khan Love

Yr 4 Girls

Ella Jones Rawstorne

Kate Yu

Kate Apperley also competed 
in the Grenada race

Special mention must go to Cruz Hodson and Ryan Topp who were top finishers for Amesbury by age group for EVERY race! They did extremely well representing our school.

The year 3 team did so well competing against older opposition. A great effort by that team as they were a year younger than everyone else and were on the podium a few times.

The overall results saw the year 3 girls
team (Rosa Chambers, Kate Yu and
Lucy Chambers) placing 1st. An excellent result.
 

 

A big thanks must go to Liza for organising the teams' involvement in the cross country series.