We had our best turn out for a long time among U11s at the Cheshire League, including managing to field relay teams in both age categories.  There were 4 boys (Dylan Hanrahan, Fred Vaughan-Hawkins, Henry Bellingham and Josh Mulholland-Wells) and 2 girls (Alexa Watkins...

A big congratulations to Jade Buckley-Ratcliff who has had multiple successes in multi-event competitions held at Woodbank Park, Stockport. First up was the Tri-Athletics held across several week nights.  The idea of these events is that your best jump, throw, sprint...

Altrincham had 8 junior athletes in action at Salford Met's Eccles track for the second match in this season's Cheshire League.  While this is a far lower number than we would have liked, their were still some great athletic displays from our athletes. Jade...

On Monday 19 June Aisling McHale went to Birmingham for the Independent Schools Association 600m final.  Aisling had put in fantastic performances to win this event the previous two years and had hopes of completing a hat-trick of titles. She has been in fantastic...

The sun was shining in Ashton-under-Lyne as plenty of our primary school youngsters displayed their cross country potential with impressive performances. This was the second staging of this event, and has caught the attention of plenty of clubs in the Manchester area....

National XC - JuniorsWhat makes a good cross country course? Hills? Tree roots? A pancake flat route? How about mole hills and streams? Yes, streams! Streams are awesome. They increase the mud factor exponentially. Every athlete should come back caked with mud on...

The juniors were again out in force at Woodbank Park in the final race of this year's Manchester XC League. The U11 girls had six representatives, even though four of the girls that did the last two races were away for half term. The A team finished a creditable 5th...

On a lovely day at Heaton Park lots of our girls were running in the Greater Manchester Schools XC Championship.  Qualification for this event was based on the local schools XC leagues, with most of our girls representing the borough of Trafford.In the U11 girls race,...

It was a real baptism of fire for the U11s. Many times were the words "proper cross country" heard. A bit of a change from the nice grass at John Leigh Park and Crossford Bridge. So typical Manchester Cross Country League then. Except one thing wasn't typical. That...

  Yet another brilliant performance from our young athletes, at Colwyn Bay on Saturday 16th July, resulted in a third successive match win in the Youth Development League Division North West 4. As a result the team were not only promoted to Division 3 but...

NOSEBLEED TIME AS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE TEAM WIN MATCH AND TOP TABLE FOR FIRST TIMEPrior to 22nd May we had never won a Youth Development League match nor been top of a Youth Development League table. I am delighted to say that thanks to the talent and hard work of...

At the Trafford AC Open meeting on Tuesday 28th July at Longford Park, 15 year old Chayce Smithwon her 400m heat in a time of 57.90s, beating two U20 and an U23 athletes in the process.Her time breaks the existing U16 Girls Club Record previously held by Carolyn...