The Greater Manchester Sportshall County Championships were held at Sportscity on Sunday 24th January.

As ever the event was well supported and Trafford AC athletes fully played their part in an enjoyable and exciting competition.

Well done to all competed and a special thanks to Linda and Gavin for helping officiate and to Diana for helping out the team managers.

Lot's of good performances on the day

u11g - Great to see the youngsters in the medals again. Ja'naya bronze in Javelin with Neve getting the silver. Halle silver in 4 lap and an outstanding jump in Standing Long Jump (SLJ) to take the gold. Trezeguet ended the day as the most decorated  Trafford AC athlete with bronze in Vertical Jump (VJ), silver in SLJ and gold in 1 lap, she then teamed up with Ja'naya, Isabelle and Halle to take a very dominant relay gold.

u11b - Thremayne was our only representative in this division

u13g - Ellina picked up silver in Speed Bounce (SB) and Issi jumped to three medals with bronze in both the SLJ and VJ to accompany a silver in Standing Triple Jump (STJ). Issi, Ellina, Grace and Emily were narrowly beaten into 4th in the relay.

u13b - Sam was second in the 6 lap, Jerrell also picked up a silver in the STJ. Louis was 3rd in the 6 lap to go with gold in the STJ. Louis, Sam, Ayoola and Jarell got Silver in the relay.

u15g - Marilena was 3rd in 4 Lap and second in VJ, Charlie also has a silver-bronze combination with silver in the 2 lap and bronze in SLJ (on countback). Stephanie was second in the shot in what was a Trafford 1,2 with Francesce taking the gold to go with her bronze for the speed bounce in which Abi got Gold. We had two relay team in this division wining gold (Tasmin, Charlie, Marilena and Tiffany) and bronze (Steph, Fran, Abi and Zainab).

u15b - Cian and George went about their business in their normal quiet but effective manner. George won the STJ and was second in the SB. Cain, suffering a little from the affects for having played rugby in the morning was 3rd in the 4 Lap and shot and second in the VJ.

A summary of the results from all the Trafford athlete can be found here, along with the full official girls and boys results.

Greater Manchester teams for the North West Regional final, to be held at Sportscity on 5th March, will be announced shortly and hopefully a few of the Trafford AC athletes will be lucky enough to be selected to represent their county.

Several Trafford AC junior athletes competed in Sheffield over the weekend in the Northern Area Indoor Championships.
Full results are available on Powerof10 where you'll also see several senior athletes competed too.

The highlights from the juniors
Naomi Ogbeta - 1st in u20w Triple Jump with a new Championship best
Colin Daly - 1st in u17m 800m
Rivaldo Brown - 2nd in u20m 60m
William Aldred - 2nd in u20m 60m Hurdles
Richard Powell (u23) - 2nd in Senior Mens 3000m
Dominic Blake - 2nd in u17m Triple Jump
Amelia Jennings-McLaughlin - 3rd in u20w High Jump

Other Junior athletes competing included Tameika Cuff, Harry Begbie, Emma Cullen and Mikey Kingston.
Well done to all who competed.

The Sportshall Regional Fun in Athletics final for u11's was held at Sportscity on 16th January
Trafford AC were represented in the Greater Manchester team by Halle, Ja'naya and Trezeguet who all played their part in ensuring a second place finish.
All three where involved in various relay races and in the field events Halle and Trezeguet managed a 1st and 2nd finish in the Standing Long Jump.
Well done girls!

The fourth fixture of this winter's league took place at a very cold and frozen Heaton Park. Several of our older athletes decided to miss this fixture in order to prepare for some of the upcoming major championships. 
However, our younger athletes performed in style. Louie McCormack continued his winning ways with a 31 second victory in the U11 Boys race. He was followed home by debutant Freddy Austin in 8th place and Max Rarity 14th. This gave them their first ever team win in this event. They were supported by twins Owen and Nathaniel Morgan in 26th and 33rd places. Sadie Mannion ran well to finish 34th in the U11 Girls race.
Once again, the U13 Boys performed well in the tough conditions. Joe Bentall continues to improve and this time finished in 2nd place, only 2 seconds behind the winner. Supporting him in close formation were Oliver Choi (11th), Tom Bentall (12th) and Alex Bailey (13th). This was enough to give them 2nd team placing. In the U13 Girls race, Lauren Howley was 28th and Emily Wolstencroft 32nd. 
We had 2 runners in the U15 Girls event, with Anna Baker (26th) and Marnie Mannion (33rd) both running well on a long, exhausting course. ​