Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Scottish Schools Road Race

For the first time the school entered at Scottish Schools Athletics event. Both myself, Mr MacCorquodale and Mr Mackay felt it was time for the pupils to experience a higher level of competition as the standard of athletics has got increasingly better over the last 3 years we've been in the school which is a credit to ththe pupils' hard work. 

The school sent 12 pupils along to Helix Park in Falkirk. Conditions were windy but dry. The S1/2 girls went first in a race with 172 runners the start line seemed to go on forever. Shona Carey was first home for the school in 87th position which was a very good run. Annabel MacDonald had a difficult start but finished well in 115th with Abigail Cavanagh in 143rd. The girls team finished in 26th position, Seona and Annabel will be back next year in the same race. 



The S1/2 boys were next after trying to warm up and having cheered on the girls. Lewis Conley had a fantastic run to finish in 45th position. Lewis who in is own words hasn't done much running recently but this performance yet again showed that he has a lot of potential in athletics having performed well in indoors, cross country, outdoors and road athletics over the last 10 months. S1 Robbie Whyte had a good run also finishing in 77th position with James Diamond in 101st the boys finished 19th team. 

Amy Craig was our sole representative in the S3/4 girls race. She had two consistent laps and finished in 55th place. This was an impressive performance since Amy is just getting back into running after some injury issues. 

The S3/4 boys had a strong team for the event. Daniel Moran had the performance of the day, finishing in 36th position. He still has another year at this age group. Daniel is another who has had an impressive display of running over a variety of events including his fantastic bronze medal in the 1500m at the Glasgow Schools Championships. Luc Galanti, Connal Whyte and Lewis Dickson packed very well to finish 60th, 61st and 62nd respectively. The boys team finished in 11th position. Well done boys! 

Sarah Robertson re-injured her shoulder in the S5/6 girls race, we wish her a speedy recovery back to full fitness. 

The behaviour and support for everyone from SGG was expemplarly, well done to you all. Here's to next year's competition. 

Daibhidh

A huge congratulations to Daibhidh Kinnaird who finished 4th at the recent Scottish u17 Short Course Cross-Country Championships. Daibhidh a...