A great day greeted all SKAAC athletes for AVSL Round 2 at Doncaster, Casey & Geelong with near perfect conditions assisting some great performances on the day. Georgia Bertrand got her season off in fine style with 3 events 100m Hurdles (16.77), 100m 13.97 (quickest female for SKAAC for the day) and a Javelin 32.71m. Brooke Gordon also opened her season with a Long Jump (4.71m) One of the more remarkable performances of the day went to 15 y.o. Maddie Hume, having her first ever race over the 100m Hurdles after graduating from the 90m Hurdles, won Heat 2 in a club record and National Qualifier of 15.68sec. The SKAAC Under 14 & 16 girls were simply everywhere!! Bridie Hill, Ella Tierney, Cleo Richardson and Bea Kellock all ran 1500’s and all enter the Top 8 Female performances of all-time for SKAAC with their runs. Bridie ran 4:52 and broke every club record from Under 15 to Under 20 and Cleo Richardson ran a PB of 4:55 to take the Under 13 & 14 Club records. Ella Tierney ran a PB of 5:03 and Bea Kellock was 8th fastest All-time with 5:21. Mia Destefanis (14.08), Sasha Feldman (14.22) , Talei Spowart (14.53) and Lauren McGarry (15.17 all ran 100m and the girls finished the day with 400’s Bridie Hill (63.23) Ella Tierney (PB 66.35, U14 Club Record) & Cleo Richardson (69.36) Jackson Bennett, in HEAVY training at the moment ran 11.20 and Matt Lynch having his first AV race in a long time ran 4:15 in the 1500, closely followed by Aaron Little with 4:21. Luke Baker-Hunter ran 12.12 into a -1.7 headwind. At Casey Fields Tom Coghlan had his first Pole Vault for the season clearing 3.10m, along with Jack Howard’s hammer of 31.46m and 12.08m Shot Put. It was the Imbriano family at Geelong, with Glen 200m 39.30sec, 800m 3:39.27, Triple 5.68 and Joel 200m 34.38, 800m 2:44.26 and Discus 17.88m. Dino had 19.12m in the Discus & 21.15m in the Hammer. All records and rankings have been updated to reflect a VERY busy AVSL Round 2.
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