FOURTEEN young athletes aged 9 to 11 years of age from the Julie Rose Academy were selected to represent Kent in the Southern Inter Countes indoor sportshall competition at Burgess Hill.
All 14 youngsters performed exceptionally well with the boys team finishing second overall and the girls third.
In the boys team were James Syrett, Giles Manning, George Mayer, Jake Timinns, Joseph Whitby and Kian Crawford and the girls team included Jemma Coales, Alex Prickett, Jaimee Ann Heyes, Milie Issac, Kiera Istead, Hannah Graham, Jessicca Carley and Jessica Box.
The majority of the selected team for Kent came from the Ashford Academy held at the Julie Rose Stadium.
The Academy have 32 representatives in the Kent indoor championships on Sunday and are currently Kent champions for two consecutive years running and will be hoping to defend their title for the third time.
The Academy train on Wednesday and Friday evenings from 5.30 – 6.45 coached by Jacqi Snare.
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Youngsters sparkle
Duo shine in nationals
Emem and Charlotte at the National Sportshall finals
ASHFORD AC Under 13 girls Emem Umoh and Charlotte Dryland were in action for Kent in the Under 13 girls National Sportshall finals, at the NEC arena Birmingham on Sunday.
The Kent girls came third out of 12 teams, with Emem taking the silver medal in the vertical jump and Charlotte was fifth in the speed bounce with 84 bounces.
The speed bounce was won in 86 bounces with three girls sharing the gold.
The Ashford duo were competing against girls a year older than themselves, as they both are in this age group again next year.
Clean sweep for Academy
The Ashford AC Julie Rose Academy team took 44 young athletes to the indoor Sports Hall athletic meeting at the Stour Centre, Ashford on Sunday March 14.
With our biggest team ever competing and with some youngsters competing for the first time, all the young athletes showed outstanding skill and determination in all their given events with many personal records being broken.
Once again the Academy first team of Edward Miller, Cameron Amadee, Amy Omakobi and Ruby Cox took first place excelling their unbeaten record for two years.
In addition to winning first place the Julie Rose Academy were second and third team came second and third respectively overall. Hannah Owen, Joseph Whitby, James Fosbery, Oliver Marsh, Alexander Prickett ,Millie Issaac, Jaimee- Ann Heyes and Kian Crawford.
With many trophies being awarded, many of our young athletes also took home numerous individual medals and personal bests were broken by many off the young athletes. The Academy was also awarded a special trophy for outstanding team 2009/10. Congratulations to the whole team.
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