SPRINTER Delleah Belgrave will head to the England Athletics Indoor Championships in Sheffield this week (February 23-24) not only in great form but with her confidence sky-high.

The teenage Swindon Harrier athlete has high hopes of reaching the finals of both the under 15 girls’ 60m and 200m events as she tackles the nationals for the first time in her young career.

Coach Tony Jackson said: “Delleah will run the 60m on Saturday and the 200m on Sunday and the target is to reach the finals of both events.

“Along with everyone in the group she has been training really well this winter and at the moment Delleah is on fire.

“Delleah will run heats, semis and hopefully the final on both days so it will be a tough weekend but we are very excited.”

Belgrave goes to Sheffield top of the South West Rankings in the 60m – and ninth quickest in the UK – after scorching to a personal best of 7.94secs in Eton earlier this month.

Last weekend the Lydiard Park School student followed that up with a solid 8.03secs to win the Birmingham Games event while at 200m she boasts a season’s best of 27.17secs, which she looks set to better this weekend.

Tye Leo-Stroud, who is also in Jackson’s training group, is also making the trip to Yorkshire to race the under 15 boys’ 60m.

Leo-Stroud ran a personal best of 7.45secs, which was his first time under 7.5secs, at London’s Lee Valley Stadium last month when finishing fourth in the South of England Indoor Championships.

That put him second quickest in the South West Rankings and in the top 20 nationally so Leo-Stroud will also have high hopes for the nationals.

Amy Warre is another successful member of that group having soared to third place in the UK Rankings for under 15 girls’ in the triple jump with a recent effort of 10.63m but she and Jackson have decided to give the nationals a miss on this occasion.