SPORT
The English Schools Cross Country Cup
Cross Country
Junior B Team Christo Chilton (individual gold), Zac Crowther (individual bronze), Charlie Woods, Alex Jack, Benedict Turner (6th place), Theo Ladure (8th place) Junior A 1st Team Joe Prince, Finbar Percy, Billy Morris (7th place), Elliott Cox, Dan Davies, Oliver Hector (10th place) Junior A 2nd Team Joe English, Zach Carr, Harry Seward, Matteo Russo, Leo Coiro, Harry Corkum Intermediate Team Bruno Ceccolini, Toby Evans (8th place), Luke Stevens-Cox (9th place), Aiken Furlong, Ned Craddock, William Sachs Senior Team Chris Ho (4th place), David Lubbock, Luke Pye, Conor McIvor (7th place) Under 13 Boys (Winning Team) Christo Chilton (2nd), Joe Prince (3rd), Finbar Percy (4th), Zac Crowther (5th), Joe English (6th), Matteo Russo (7th), Theo Ladure (8th), Benedict Turner (12th), Masud Alao (13th), Fynn Kiewell (14th), Alex Jack (20th) Under 15 Boys (Winning Team) Luke Stevens-Cox (2nd), Aiken Furlong (3rd), Toby Evans (5th), William Sachs (6th), Billy Morris (8th), Bruno Ceccolini (10th), Elliott Cox (11th), Dan Davies (12th), Ben Blacknell (13th), Oliver Hector (15th), Nicholas Richard Castro (17th), Zach Carr (21st), Harry Corkum (22nd), Harry Seward (23rd) Borough Road Race Championships
W e have made strides in our development of the Cross Country programme this year. Boys have trained twice weekly with before- school, lunchtime, track and all-terrain sessions. The major events of the season are the English Schools Cross Country Cup, which takes us up to the Christmas break, with the London Schools Cross Country Championships leading into the English Schools Championships in the Lent term. The 2017-18 season has been the most successful for many years. In the English Schools Cross Country Cup, both Junior and Intermediate teams enjoyed hugely successful area and regional rounds to ensure both age-groups made the national final together for the first time ever. At the final in Sevenoaks, both ran superbly with the Intermediates running to 19th nationally. However, it was our Junior team which excelled this year, running superbly in the final to finish fifth nationally. Based on the success of our Juniors on the national stage, we were invited to enter two teams into this year’s Junior A competition. These were ably backed up by a strong Junior B, Intermediate and Senior Dulwich College teams. Our Junior A 1st team, Junior B, Intermediate and Senior teams all won their age categories, affording us our first ever London Schools Championships clean sweep! In addition, our Junior A 2nd team ran exceptionally well to finish third team in London. I am also delighted that no fewer than 11 Dulwich runners received London representative invitation letters and went on to run at this year’s English Schools Cross Country Championships in Leeds on Saturday 17 March. The closing section of our season saw our athletes switch to road racing. In the Borough Road Race Championships, we entered full teams at all age groups. All three teams ran superbly: Luke Pye, David Lubbock and James Lattanzio ran to team gold with superb performances. We were equally successful in both the U13 and U15 Boys sections with incredible depth in consistency of placings; individual results brought us home winners in both of these age-groups as well. As a result of this, no fewer than nine of our athletes were selected to run for either Greenwich or Southwark in the Virgin London Mini Marathon, which is the official British Athletics three-mile road championships for young athletes aged between 11 and 17. The three-mile course stretches from London’s Old Billingsgate to The Mall and the race is open to entrants from the nine regions of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and teams from all 33 London Boroughs. The event provides runners a fantastic chance to compete against the best new talent in British road running. All of our athletes cemented our growing reputation in Cross Country superbly.
Under 17 Boys (Winning Team) Luke Pye, David Lubbock, James Lattanzio
Virgin London Mini Marathon
Under 13 Boys Christo Chilton (92nd), Joseph Prince (52nd), Finbar Percy (90th), Zac Crowther (94th), Joe English (108th) Under 15 Boys Toby Evans (18th), Luke Stevens-Cox (54th), Aiken Furlong (71st), William Sachs (82nd)
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