THE ALLEYNIAN 708 | OUT OF THE ORDINARY
THE ALLEYNIAN 708 | OUT OF THE ORDINARY
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ATHLETICS ROB WOOD
T he Indoor Simmons Cup at Lee Valley is the highlight of the winter athletics season. Our Year 7 boys loved representing the College in their first competitive event. Standout performances came from Isaac Chapman (2nd in shotput), Warren Wilson (2nd in long jump) and Josh Maguire (3rd in triple jump). Many of the Year 8 boys have trained very hard at clubs over the winter and they put this preparation to very good use. Dylan Kalsi burst to victory in the hurdles, Oscar Kinirons won the 800m by half a lap and Antoine Andrews was a class apart in the shotput. The strongest performers in Year 9 were on the track, where Zac Crowther and Tyler Biggs both secured 2nd places in the 400m and 800m, respectively. The Year 10 boys set a fantastic example for the younger pupils, winning their age group competition. Their performances in the field were outstanding: Jamaal Darlington won the high jump, Max George the long jump and Max Williams the shotput. All of those performances meant that Dulwich finished 3rd overall in a very strong competition. The Southwark Schools Learning Partnership (SSLP) is another indoor event which grows in scale and improves in standard each year. It is an honour to take part in a competition that engages the College with its local partner schools in the borough. The combined Year 8 and 9 team narrowly came second to a strong Kingsdale team. There were outstanding individual performances from Zac Crowther (800m winner),
Noah Ridgeon (high jump winner), James Lumeh-Kamara (long jump winner) and Antoine Andrews, who won the shotput. The Year 10 boys went one step further to win their competition overall. A strong overall team performance was highlighted by Jamaal Darlington’s winning 1.85m high jump, Kieran Maskey’s 60m victory and Jacob Taylor’s 1st place in the 800m. We are blessed with many outstanding athletics clubs in South London, and Hakan Digby, Year 13 and Captain of Athletics for the upcoming season, has enjoyed a fantastic indoor season over the winter. Based at Croydon Harriers and focusing on the 60m sprint hurdles, Hakan started the winter with 3rd place and a personal best of 8.42s in the Surrey Championships. He went one better in his last race of the season at the English National Championships in Sheffield, where he ran 8.39s in the U20 category. It is fantastic to see Hakan leading by example in his own training, and I hope that this will galvanise our other aspiring athletes to follow suit and train at an athletics club to maximise their potential. The global Covid-19 pandemic has left the summer season in jeopardy, but the boys are still training hard in their own modified ways, and we will be ready to salvage what we can of the season whenever we are allowed back on the track.
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