Cross Country Presentation
The Athletics Nunawading cross country presentation evening was held on Thursday October 15 at the track with 4 award winners announced.
The Junior overall champion was, Hailie Lachenicht the Female overall champion was Talia Allen, the Male overall champion was Alan Vernal, and the most improved was Patrick Blyth. The season highlights of the award winners are listed below.
Pictured: Award winners with coaches from left Patrick (self-coached), Talia (Dave Sommers), Alan (self-coached, Gary Vernal race day coach) Hailie (Rob Falkenberg)
Hailie
First season
8th in the champion athlete standings at seasons end
Top 10 on 4 occasions during the season
Best finish 4th at Bendigo
19:43 for 5k road race at albert park
Quickest junior leg at Jells Park XC relays despite being the youngest runner in a time of 11:51
Ran at nationals in ballarat
Still 2 more years in her under 14 age group.
Talia
Ran 9 out of 10 races main reason why team is staying up
Top 100 on 3 occasions
Top 10 in the team’s event twice
Injured twice during the season continued on despite this
Great anchor leg at the tan after trouble arriving to the start
Patrick
2nd season
Last year in division 7 most races
Only 1 minute 50 difference in time at the road relays despite 1.2km extra distance
Over 2-minute improvement at the 10k cross country on a harder course
4-minute improvement at albert park 10k
9-minute improvement at the half marathon
8-minute improvement over 15k
80 second improvement at the tan last year top 200 3 times best 175
This year top 150 4 out of 7 races top 100 (95th) last individual race at Burnley
Alan
Top 100 in 6 out of 8 individual races
Highest finish of 58th at the half marathon
60th at state cross country championships
First Nunawading runner in every race
PB’s in 6 out of the 10 races
PB of 12.16 at the tan to be the 9th ranked time for the club (5th fastest athlete)
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