Cookham Running Club's juniors stay on course for title win after impressing at meet last weekeend.

Cookham Running Club remain on course for title

success in the North West London Young Athletes League after impressing in the penultimate meet last Saturday (February 16).

The club took 60 juniors to the meet on Hampstead Heath and the boys u17s team shored up their lead with

another first-place finish.

Sammy March (2nd) led the team home with Adam Gambrill (5th), Ben Reynolds (sixth) and Elliot Lowe (8th) all finishing inside the top 10.

The final event will take place at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, March 2.

Frank McGrath ran well to finish eighth in the u15s race, leading Edwin Isted (13th), Nick Holdsworth (18th) and Jack Calliss (22nd) to second place. Tom Lebeau and Stan Smith finished fourth and fifth in the u11s boys race, with Charlie Shervell 12th, to keep the team in contention heading to the final race.

Cookham’s girls are currently second overall but had the star of the day in Jacqueline Heller who stormed to a decisive victory in the u13s race and led Asmi Saha (13th), Amelie Taylor (14th) and Caryss Allan (20th) to fourth place.

The B team came sixth.

Jemima Ridley’s impressive season continued with a second-placed finish in the u15s event and Beth Murray was seventh in the u17s event, leading the team to third overall. Honey Fitzgerald led the charge for Cookham’s u11s girls team, finishing eighth for her best result of the season.

Elsewhere, Jack Everson Plant competed for the Bucks and Herts team at the Central and East of England Cross Country Inter Wing Air Cadet cross country Championships, finishing ninth individually and helping his team to a bronze medal.