A TOTAL of 15 young athletes from Swindon Harriers have been selected to represent Wiltshire at the South West Schools’ Championships in Exeter on Saturday.

With others like Ella Spencer, Fletcher Hart, Oakley Hogan and Lucy Bull in line for a place in the Gloucestershire squad, the club will be well represented at the regional event which will be used to confirm final selections ahead of the English Schools’ Championships in Birmingham next month.

“It is great to see and very encouraging,” said coaching co-ordinator Bryan Clinton.

“We are becoming a more rounded and bigger club competing across all events and age groups, and that is a reflection on all the hard work being done by the volunteers at the club.”

Laila-Jae Belgrave led the gold medal charge for the club at the Wiltshire Schools Track and Field Championships last Saturday, winning both the inter girls’ 100m and 80m hurdles in personal best times of 12.8secs and 12.2secs, respectively.

Older sister Delleah Belgrave didn’t miss out as she soared to a PB of 5.78m to win the senior girls’ long jump.

There was also a championship record throw of 39.95m from Holly Scott to win the junior girls hammer as well as winning silver in the 75m hurdles.

Amelia Rievers smashed her PB to win the junior's javelin with a throw of 27.57m and Ellie Pyper added a huge 15cm to her best as she cleared 2.15m to win the junior pole vault title.

Lottie Harding also hit top form as she improved from 1.15m to 1.30m to win the minor girls’ high jump title and go equal sixth in the South West U13 rankings.

Other female champions included Faith Herring, Kalina Karacheva (just one centimetre off her PB), Elsie Scrase, and Ellie Charlesworth.

Jaydon Dix followed up his superb PB of 6.00m on his long jump debut for the club the previous week by going even further at the weekend as he soared to 6.09m to win the inter boys’ title. The win lifts Dix to fourth in the South West U17 rankings.

Chris James cleared a PB of 2.60m to win the inter’ pole vault and sprinter Jonathan Dumbutshena ran a PB of 11.4secs to win the junior boys’ 100m. Other winners included Anubis Molina, Al Virgilio, and Finley Byrne.

Wiltshire team for the South West Schools’ Championships, Exeter (Swindon Harriers athletes)

Junior boys 100m: Jonathan Dumbutshena

800m: Al Virgilio

Junior girls 800m: Mayah Trybala-Lugembe

75H & Hammer: Holly Scott

Hammer: Phoebe Oliver

Javelin: Amelie Reivers

Inter boys 1500m: Anubis Zekri-Molina

Long jump: Jaiden Dix

Javelin: Ted Hiscock

Hammer: Archie Kinneir

Inter girls 100m & 80H Laila-Jae Belgrave

200m: Abigail Hackley

800m: Faith Herring

High jump: Kalina Karacheva

Senior boys javelin: Sam Innes