Lasswade Athletics Club

A kind of Introductory session for would be officials is being taken by Shona Malcolm on Friday 28th May. It is being held at the Bowling Club at Tweedbank in Galashiels and starts at 4pm. I am told these are great for learning more about the sport in general. Highly recommended despite the lack of notice from me!!

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES IS 26 MAY 2010

Click  here for entry form for Lothian & Border Team Match Sunday 6 June at Meadowbank.

The results for the U15/U17 Closed Scottish Championships are now available.  Click here to view.

          Erin Feeley, Ellen Kristoffersen, Katie Purves, Rachel Robertson and Fiona Matheson.

There was further success for the club at Wishaw on Sunday in the Scottish Inter Regional Championships.  Guy Learmonth, representing the East Region team, took first place in the Men's 800m A string race in a time of 1.50.95s.

Lasswade Athletics Club’s U15 Girls carried on their fine form from the indoor season to record some great performances, and win more medals at the Scottish Closed Outdoor Championships at Wishaw on Saturday.

PBs were the order of the day, as Katie Purves collected double gold in the 200m and 75m Hurdles, improving her PB times to 26.50s and 11.91s respectively.

Ellen Kristofferesen collected silver in the High Jump with a jump of 1.50m, silver in the pole vault (2.30m), and took the bronze in the 75m Hurdles, running a new PB time of 12.55s in her heat.

In the Long Jump event, Rachel Robertson twice jumped a new PB of 5.00m as she claimed the silver medal, and also ran a new PB time of 28.12s in her 200m heat to qualify for the semi final, where she ran 28.13s, narrowly missing out on qualification for the final.  Rachel also finished 5^th in her 100m heat in a time of 13.90s.

Erin Feeley came fourth in the Shot Put with a throw of 8.42m and Fiona Matheson recorded a time of 5:25.38 in the 1500m final.

Well done girls!

The closing date for entries for the Junior 3 x 800m Relays and U17 Men 4 x 400m is 28 May 2010.

Anyone wishing to compete in the above event can you please let Linda Smith or Margaret Benham know no later than Monday 24 May 2010 in order that teams can be entered.

Click  here for results of Lothian & Border Team Match Sunday 9 May 2010 at Meadowbank.

An amended timetable is now available for the Lothian and Border Team Match 9 May 2010 at Meadowbank.

Click here for amended timetable.