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ENGLISH SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY 2023 Nottingham 18 March

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46 weary athletes wended their way home from Nottingham after a stupendous effort at this years ESAA Cross Country. 

Full teams had arrived early after a 6:30 am start from Oxford. Only the Senior Girls were two short due to late illnesses.  So, 8 athletes in each of the 3 age groups (u15, u17 and u19 both boys and girls). There are around 360 athletes in each of the 6 age group races.

Hopes were high that Oxfordshire would do well and the weather was kind with little occasional drizzle on what was actually quite a warm and windless day. 

Inter Girls (u17)

The Inter girls started the programme and with last year’s Junior Girls Silver medallist leading the team out :  Isla McGowan – we wondered if she could repeat her performance.  Isla was in the group of 6 leaders at the half way point with newcomer Florence Williams in the second group in around 30th place. With Florence Salmon in close attendance in 52nd the team were looking good for a high place finish.  At the close Isla had managed to hold off the challenge from the rest of the group and she held 3rd spot for the last 1k to finish with a deserved bronze medal and a place in the ESAA England team at the Home Counties international next weekend.  This was to be our one medal from the day but all the team celebrated for Isla. Meanwhile Florence Williams was taken ill and limped over the line and Florence Salmon came in in 123rd spot. Overall, the girls team came 28th Individual results for all the age groups are in the table at the end. 

Junior Boys (u15)

Kit Kingsbury led the junior boys home finishing in 101st place.  Jonas Tipping and Josh Hatt grouped well behind him in 118 and 124 places respectively but with such a high finishing number the team could only manage 30th spot overall, 

Junior Girls (u15)

Mollie Davies and Charlotte Campbell gave everyone a lift as they pushed hard to be in the top 40 in their race Cecilia Huepfl would have been right with them had it not been for a fall and that would have given the team a really high finish. As it was Mollie came in 24th – remarkable finish for a first year in the age group and Charlotte similarly in 36th. This all bodes well for next year when all three girls will return at top of the age group.

Senior Girls (u19) 

As with the Inter Girls the seniors boasted an ESAA medallist amongst the reduced team numbers. Olivia Martin was 13th at this event last year but did get the bronze medal at the ESSA champs in the summer in the 3000mts. Olivia challenged early on as you might expect of a 3000m runner however mid race she was down in the high teens. With an astounding finish however reminiscent of her track 3000m finish she soared past runner after runner right to the finish line to achieve 7th spot. Anna Joliffe and Tilly Lainchbury had excellent runs to finish 132 and 156 respectively with the team of 6 grabbing 24th place overall.

Senior Boys (u19) 

With a couple of internationals in our senior boys team it was hoped that this would be our best result. The boys did not disappoint with Johnny James finishing 20th and Quinn Meill-Ingram finishing 27th. Both boys set out with intent but having gotten into the second group they didn’t manage to breakout but neither did they lose ground maintain roughly the same position throughout. Backed up by other good performances the boys did achieve the highest team result EVER! By an Oxfordshire team finishing 6th overall. 

With only a few exceptions, due accident and illness, the team had acquitted itself really well and moving forward the future looks bright.

The full results are tabled below.

Pete O’Keefe
Team Manager 
Oxon Schools

AGE GRP

NAME

Number

POSITION

U15 G

MOLLIE DAVIES

388

24

 

CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL

389

36

 

CECILIA HUEPFL

385

108

 

SCARLETT SMITH

390

144

 

AMELIE LORIMER

391

184

 

MEGAN POWELL

387

263

 

BEATRICE BURROWS

386

318

 

SYLVIE KENTISH

392

336

U 17 G

ISLA McGOWAN

385

3

 

FLORENCE SALMON

388

123

 

CAITLIN SMITH

391

133

 

IZZIE HAINES GRAY

390

145

 

ISOBEL BRADLEY

392

194

 

MARTHA SHERWOOD

389

224

 

EMILY CHANNON

394

276

 

FLORENCE WILLIAMS

387

323

U 19 G

OLIVIA MARTIN

385

7

 

ANNA JOLLIFFE

387

132

 

TILLY LAINCHBURY

386

156

 

MATILDA CROWN

388

182

 

NINA BROWN

390

215

 

SIMRAN DHILION

391

261

       

U 15 B

KIT KINGSBURY

387

101

 

JONAS TIPPING

385

118

 

JOSHUA HATT

386

124

 

WILLIAM MORRIS

390

192

 

RORY WILSON

388

237

 

MATEUSZ JEZIONSKI

389

256

 

PETER IRVINE

391

281

 

THOMAS HENDERSON

392

282

U 17 B

CONOR MORGAN

385

49

 

SAMUEL DAVIS

388

88

 

OLIVER SHERRATT

390

133

 

ALFRED MALCOLM

389

207

 

ALEX HOLMES

393

227

 

OWEN STOCKER

395

233

 

LEWIS REYNOLDS

391

250

 

ELIAS EASTERBROOK

387

268

       

U 19 B

JOHNNY JAMES

388

20

 

QUINN MEILL-INGRAM

385

27

 

OLIVER CONWAY

390

67

 

JOSH CUMBERLAND

392

87

 

HARRY RICHARDS

 

109

 

MAX HOLMES

 

125

 

MATTHEW JACOBS

 

206

 

AIDAN WALKER

 

240