Women's League

The ladies team was very good and took part in the League for three years before members departing and not being replaced made it unfair on those still competing to put them in with too few athletes to compete. The key to their success I think was the turn out and attitude of the Seniors. The team was organised and managed by Emily Hardware whose daughter Lynn was one of the top runners in the club and Agnes Gibson whose husband David was a pole vault coach and her son Steven and daughter Heather competed for the club. They did an excellent job of getting all members, from Under 13 to Senior together. To take one year as an example, there were no fewer than 16 Senior athletes turned out for the club. Almost all were road runners who did not train for or on the track. The most versatile was Shelagh King whose enthusiasm was really infectious. In 1990 she ran at one meeting or another 200 metres, 400 metres, 1500 metres, 100 metres hurdles, 400 metres hurdles, and also covered the shot and sicus plus the 4 x 400 relay! The main athletes who were track and field oriented were Ann Murray (100, 200, 400, LJ, 4 x 100 and 4 x 400), Lynn Hardware (100, 200, 100 metre hurdles, HJ and discus.) Other road runners were Marjorie Small, Lesley Small and Hylda Stewart. It was a great time and we could be as good again with the right spirit.
If Phil manages to enter a team in the CSS League next year, he will need senior athletes to compete alongside the younger ones and with the new track coming available as well, it could be a great 'coming together' of the club. Come on ladies, you have a winter to get organised - with luck he could have Jolene, Donna and Natalie competing as the mainstays of the senior squad but they will need back up, especially over the 1500 and 3000 metres events.