Sunday 25th October saw the first fixture in this seasons Sportshall League series.
Somewhat reduced in numbers due to half term, the team is a good mixture once again of new and established athletes.
The results are available below.
There were so many excellent performances - too many to list them all - well done to you all
We must also offer our thanks to Linda for helping officiate; also to Lucy, Lili and Diana for helping Andrew, Cecil and Anna organise the kids on the day. All the events that we participate in are ran by volunteers; so if there are any others who are willing and able to help, please let us know.

Results and Highlights
u11b - Thremayne and Lee are our only entries in this group. Both performed well.

u11g - Finished 3rd. Trezeguet 1st in 1 Lap and 1st in Vertical Jump (VJ); Ja'naya, in her first competition, 1st in Javelin; Halle, another on debut, 1st in 3 Lap, 1st in Standing Long Jump (SLJ) and 3rd in VJ. Trezeguet, Halle and Ja'naya were joined by Isabelle in a fine 4 x 2 Lap Relay victory. With Neve and Imogene due to come in for Match 2, this team is at it's strongest for a few years

u13b - Finished 1st. Jamall missed last season with injury, this time he was back to his best, with wins in 2 Lap and 4 Lap and a 2nd in Speed Bounce (SB). Jarrell, another returning from injury, 1st in Standing Triple Jump (STJ) and 3rd in SLJ. Jamall and Jerrell were joined by Sefa and Ayoola to win the 4 x 2 Lap Relay

u13g - Finished 7th. After dominating this age group for several years, this team is a little smaller than usual. However all performed well. Issi 4th in both SLJ and STJ, Nadia, on debut, 3rd in Shot.

u15b - Finished 1st. Armando 1st in 2 Lap and 3rd in SLJ; George 1st in SB & 1st in 6 Lap, Mo 2nd in 6 Lap. George and Armando 1st in the 8 Lap Parlouf.

u15g - Finished 1st. Francesca 1st in SB and 2nd in shot; Leila 3rd in 2 Lap; Marilena 1st in 4 Lap and 2nd in VJ; Tasmin 2nd in 6 Lap and 2nd in SLJ; Ngozi 3rd in 4 Lap and 3rd in VJ. Marilena and Kelechi were 2nd in Parlouf.

Next round is 15th November

Boys Results
Girls Results

Match 2 of this years Greater Manchester Sportshall League took place at Sportcity on Sunday 9th November.
The team was boosted by the return of some from injury and others who were unable to make match 1.

Results and highlights are listed below, as ever we must thank those who make it possible to compete - those who help officiate. So a big thanks to Jacque and Gavin from our club, as well as all the others who help Elaine & Dave make this such an enjoyable event. Our thanks to Chanelle and Lucy for helping us team manage and getting kids in place for their races - a big help.

All the events that we participate in are ran by volunteers; so if there are any others who are willing and able to help, please let us know.

Results and highlights
u11b - Finished 7th in what is a very tight and competitive league. Again we had a few on debut. Charlie 3rd In Vertical Jump

u11g - Finished 3rd. Boosted by the return of Roselle and Trezeguet, this small but spirited team put on a fine performance. Trezeguet 2nd in 1 Lap. Relay team 3rd. 

u13b - Finished 7th. Boosted by the return of Jamall, but missing Cian. Jamall 1st 2 Lap & 3rd in Standing Long Jump.

u13g - Finished 1st. With Roselyn added and the experience of the first match learnt from, this team put on a fine performance. Abi 2nd in Speed Bounce, Isobel 3rd in 6 Lap, Kelechi 2nd in Standing Long Jump, Layla 3rd in Standing Triple Jump, Layla 3rd in Vertical Jump, Tasmin 1st in 6 Lap and 3rd in shot. Relay team was first - and the relay 'B' team was the second fastest on the day - which is very pleasing.

u15b - Finished 1st. an excellent performance by the lads to win this match even with Jamal missing. Amando 3rd in 2 Lap; Segesse 2nd in 2 Lap, 3rd in 4 Lap; Elliot 2nd in 4 Lap, !st in Standing Long Jump and Standing Triple Jump. George 1st in Speed Bounce and 3rd in Standing Triple Jump; Joe 3rd in Speed Bounce, 2nd in Vertical Jump and 1st in  Lap. Parlauf of Joe and Elliot was second.

u15g - Finished 1st. After finishing a close 2nd in the last match, the team was boosted by the return of Zalika and Lili. Zalika 3rd in Vertical Jump and 2nd in Standing Triple Jump; Imojene 2nd in 4 Lap and 1st in Standing Triple Jump; Lili 1st in Standing Jump Jump (her Standing Triple Jump was also the 3rd longest of the day); Jameelah 3rd in 6 lap; Molly 1st in 4 Lap; Georgia 3rd in Speed Bounce , 2nd in Vertical Jump. Parlauf of Lili and Georgia was third..

Match 2 - Boys
Match 2 - Girls

The Trafford team is a good mixture of lots of kids new to this event along with some very experienced, Georgia and Imojene are taking place in their sixth Sportshall season for Trafford.

The results are available below.
There were so many excellent performances - too many to list them all - well done to you all
We mus also offer our thanks to Jacque, Gavin and Linda for helping officiate. All the events that we participate in are ran by volunteers; so if there are any others who are willing and able to help, please let us know.

Results and highlights
u11b - Finished 5th in a very competitive league. A very inexperienced team will only get better as the series develops.

u11g - Finished 8th. A small team all making their Sporthall debut, missing Trezeguet through injury.

u13b - Finished 8th. another small team, missing Jamall and Josh to injury. Cain 1st in Shot and Vertical Jump, 2nd in 4 lap.

u13g - Finished 2nd. Good numbers in this team, with a good mixture of new athletes supplementing the more experienced, and it was a good all round team performance that gave the second place result. Isobel 1st in 6 Lap; Orli and Abi were joint 2nd in Speed bounce; Kelechi 2nd in Standing Long Jump; Layla 2nd in Vertical Jump and 3rd in Standing Triple Jump; Gemma (filling in for the injured Leila) 3rd in Shot.

u15b - 1st place. We have 6 lads in this team this year - which is excellent and they performed well in what was a good battle with East Cheshire. Elliot 1st in 6 lap and 2nd in Standing Triple Jump; George 1st in Speed bounce, 2nd in Standing Long Jump and Vertical Jump, Joe T 3rd in 6 lap and 2nd in Speed Bounce; Sagesse 3rd in 2 lap and the outstanding performance of the day, on debut, was Jamal with 1st in 2 lap, 4 lap and Standing Triple Jump.

u15g - Finished a close 2nd - only 4 points behind Leigh. Imojene 3rd in 4 Lap and 1st in Standing Triple jump; Georgia 3rd in 2 Lap and 1st in Speed Bounce; Jameelah 3rd in 6 Lap and 2nd in Standing Triple Jump; Molly 1st in 4 Lap and Ngozi 1st in Vertical jump. We have Lili back for the next match and we have identified a few areas for improvement.

Match 1 - Girls 
Match1 - Boys

Next round is Sunday 9th November

Congratulations to Jamall, Sandy, Issi, Laura, Isobel and Orli from our u11's who have all been selected to represent Greater Manchester in the u11 Fun in Athletics Regional Final.
The event will take place at Sportscity on Sunday 19th January.

Selection for the u13 & u15 County teams will take place following the County Championships on Sunday 26th January.

The overall results from this years Greater Manchester Sportshall League have been punished, and they've proved to be very good reading indeed for Trafford AC.
u11g - Finished 4th - identical to last year

u11b - Finished 3rd, missing second by 2 points! A big step up from last years 5th

u13g - Winners! Well done girls - great to retain this title from last season.


u13b - Winners! Perhaps the most pleasing turn round as we had very few lads turning out last season when we could only manage 7th


u15g - Winners! The core of last years victorious u13g team have moved up and dominated this league with the aid of a couple of last years u15's who'd finished 2nd


u15b - Finished 3rd, same as last year.

So congratulations to the u13 girls, u15 boys and u15 girls teams; and well done to all who participated.

We've had a few athletes undefeated in their events over the course of the three match series - Jamall (u11b) in both the 1 Lap and the Standing Long Jump; Joe (u15b) in the 6 lap; Josh (u15b) in the 4 Lap; Imojene (u15g) in the 4 lap; and the stand out performance is from George - unbeaten in all three events - 6 Lap, speed bounce & Standing Long Jump - over all three matches!

The County Championships is Sunday 26th January; those wishing to compete must inform us by Thursday 9th January

Match 1 in this years Greater Manchester Sportshall League took place at Sportscity on Sunday 20th October.
This years Trafford AC team is a good mixture of kids with loads of Sportshall experience backed up by some new faces.
The results are avialable below.
There were so many excellent performances - too many to list them all - well done to you all

Results and highlights

u11g - Finished 3rd, Lots of new faces in this team - Issi 2nd in the 1 Lap and 3rd in Standing Long Jump; Orli 2nd in Speed Bounce; Trezeguet, actually competing this year after many years on the sidelines watching her brothers - and with a broken thumb! - 3rd in 3 Lap. The 4x2 Lap relay team of Orli, Issi, Laura and Roselle finished 3rd.

u11b - Winners! A very close tie with Dash only 4 points behind. Jamall was 1st in 1 Lap and Standing Long Jump, 2nd in Speed bounce. Ayoola was 2nd in Vertical Jump. Relay team of Jacob, Ayoola, Sandy & Jamall fort hard after an early slip to finish 3rd - which was an excellent result in the circumstances.

u13g - Finished 3rd in what was another close match. Roselyn 3rd in 4 Lap; Jameelah 1st in 6 Lap. Relay team of Leila, Roselyn, Molly & Jameelah finished 2nd

u13b - Last year we were often a one man team at u13 boys. This year has started so different with a team of 5 lads who their match by a massive margin. George 1st in 6 Lap, 1st in Speed Bounce and 1st in Standing Long Jump. Josh 3rd in Standing Long Jump and 2nd in Vertical Jump. Relay team of George, Josh, Armando & Joe finished 1st.

u15g - Another close match - and another Win for Trafford! Imogene - 1st 4 Lap & 2nd in Standing Triple Jump. Lili 3rd in Standing Long Jump. Emily 2nd in 4 Lap. Allana 2nd in Speed Bounce, Zalika 1st in Standing Triple Jump and 3rd in Vertical Jump. Emily and Lili came 3rd in the Parlouf.

u15b - Only 3 lads in this team - won 5 of the seven events entered and finished 3rd overall. Rivi 1st in 2 Lap, Standing Long Jump and Vertical Jump. Josh 1st in 4 Lap and Standing Triple Jump. Joe 2nd in 6 lap. Rivi and Josh finished 2nd in their Parlouf.

So 3 team victories - u11b, u13b & u15g, 2nd for u13g and 3rd for u11g & u15b - a great start to the series. Two more matches to go. 
We need to keep up this excellent level of performance; and it has been the overall team performance, backing up the highlights above, that has given us such good results. The way that Sportshall is scored means that in most cases your performance in an event does impact the overall team score - so well done to you all! 

Sunday saw a Greater Manchester Team in the National Sportshall UK Finals for the first time since 2003.
After a 10 year absence the u13 girls produced a credible performance to finish 3rd overall on 1111 points, Birmingham were second on 1112 points and Hampshire won on 1119 - so it was very close!
Trafford was represented by Imojene, Lili and Zalika and all 3 had outstanding performances.
Zalika and Imojene started with the obstacle relay where a storming last leg from Zalika ensured that they won their heat; unfortunately the first heat proved to be faster and they finished out of the medals in that event.
They both moved on to their Standing Triple Jump, and in the first round they both put in their best jumps of the day - 6.80m and new PB for Imojene and Zalika went straight into the lead with a new pb of 7.21m. It was going to take something special from someone to beat Zalika, and so it proved when the eventual winner went out to 7.38m in the second round. So Zalika won Silver and Imogene finished a creditable 11th.
Meanwhile Lili was participating in the Standing Long Jump and jumping very consistently with all four jumps over her previous PB to finish in 7th overall with 2.27m.
In the 4x1 lap relay Imojene and Zalika's team qualified for the final as heat winners in a very close race with Zalika just catching the second place team on the finish line to go through to the final as heat winners where they came third in a a very close race.
Lili had a long wait for her 4x2 Lap relay heat, in which they qualified for the final. A typically gutsy run by Lili helped ensure that the Greater Manchester Team were in the medals as they finished in silver.
So third overall for the team, 3 pb's for the Trafford girls, Silver medals for Zalika in Standing Triple Jump and Lili in 4x2 Lap relay; Bronze medals for Imojene and Zalika in the 4x1 lap relay and a great days competition!
Full results are available here

(Apologies for the standard of photo below(!)
Additional photos from http://www.theeventphotographer.co.uk/galleries/All_Events_in_2013/Sportshall-UK-Finals-2013/

Congratulations to the following, who have been selected to represent Greater Manchester in the Regional Sportshall Finals at Wigan on Saturday 16th February.

u15g - Allana Edwards, Emily Nash & Natalia Nunes
u13g - Zalika Williams, Imojene Blackburn-Stennett & Lili Boyle
u15b - Josh Pemberton, Will Aldred, Rivaldo Brown, Troy Johnson & Jaikob Miller
u13b - Dominic Blake & George Hurst

The Greater Manchester Sportshall Championships held on 27th January at Sportcity proved to be a great success for Trafford AC.
The club finished second in the medal table and also ended up as the club which received the most medals!

There where some notable performances on the day.
The u15b where all dominating with 5 gold and 5 silver medals, This shows how the club is developing, as little as three years ago we had no u15b competing in the Championships. Troy came away with two individual golds (VJ & 4 Lap) a silver (SLJ) and a team gold for the relay. Rivi came off his sick bed to claim is usual haul of Sportshall medals - a gold (SLJ) and silver (VJ).
We had several 1, 2 finishes in u15bs - Josh & Will - 2 lap; Troy & Jaikob - 4 Lap; Troy & Rivi - VJ; Rivi & Troy - SLJ & Troy, Josh, will & Jaikob rounded of the day with a storming relay win.
In the u15g Natalia maintained her unbeaten run to win the 6 Lap race.
As through-out this sportshall season the u13b team has been low on numbers, but it has never lacked quality - between them Dominic and George collected four medals, 2 gold (VJ & STL) and a silver (4 Lap) for Dominic and a Speed bounce Gold for George.
The largest team from Trafford on the day was the u13g - it was great to see some of the newer faces getting their first competitive experience for the club. As a team they ended up with 8 medals - the most pleasing result being a clean sweep of the medals in the Standing Triple Jump with Zalika, Imojene and Lili finishing 1,2,3. Zaliaka also colloected Gold in VJ  (unbeaten in VJ & STJ this season). A close finish in the relay left Zalika, Imojene, Georgia and Lili with a silver.
The u11 teams both chipped in with two medals each - again a close finish in the u11g relay denied them gold.

We will now await to see how many of the u13's & u15's get selected to represent Greater Manchester in the NW regional Final in Wigan on Saturday 16th February. We had a record number selected last year and ended up contributing nearly half of the GM team. Jerell won the individual all rounder competition in the u15b and went on to finish 3rd in the national final. Can one of our u15's replicate or even surpass Jerell's efforts?
We'll inform those selected for the GM team once we are notified by the selectors

Now that the Sportshall League matches are out of the way, it's time to turn our attention to the County Championships and Regional Finals.

Sunday 20th January - u11 Sportshall Fun in Athletics North West Regional Final @ Sportscity
This is a Greater Manchester representative team - Selection is made by the Greater Manchester Team Manager – As soon as we find out who has been selected we will let you know.

Sunday 27th January - Greater Manchester Sporthall County Championship @ Sportscity
Medals on offer for the first 3 in each event. We had a very successful Championship last year - a Trafford AC Athlete won a medal in almost every event that we entered, and in a couple of events we won Gold, Silver, Bronze. (see photo's below from last years comp)
So the challenge is to better last years performance!

You may enter any three events that you wish from the following
u11s - 1 Lap, 3 Lap, Standing Long Jump, Vertical Jump, Speed Bounce (note - there is no Javelin in this competition)

u13\u15s - 2 Lap, 4 Lap or 6 Lap, Standing Long Jump, Standing Triple Jump, Vertical Jump, Shot, Speed Bounce.
There is a fee of £1 per event entered.
In addition to the above there will be 4x2 Lap relays for each age group - the coaches will select these based on entries and previous performances.

If you wish to compete, please let Andrew or Tom know by 7th January

Saturday 16th February - North West Regional Finals @ Wigan
The Greater Manchester team will be selected following the County Championships - last year we had record numbers of Trafford AC Athletes selected. Winning teams will go through to the National final. Last year the GM u13 boys team missed out on the final by a couple of points - it's been a long time since GM had a team in the finals - so lets see what we can do this year. Alongside the team competition, there are individual multi-events competitions for u15's - this has been won the last two years by Jerell, who went on to finish third last year in the National competition.