CHESHIRE COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 
NEWSLETTER  -  March 2007
December  2006

The world of athletics will be saddened to hear of the death of Ron Simmons of Middlesborough AC.  He was the YAL Treasurer for many years.  Our sympathies go to his wife and family.   

ROAD RACE FIXTURES	
4.3.07	Farndon 10K	
25.3.07	Wilmslow Half Marathon **(RACE FULL)	
31.3.07	Northern 12 / 6 Stage Road Relays (Sunderland)	
4.4.07
8.4.07
8.4.07
28.4.07
7.5.07
11.5.07	Chester Chester Spring 5 **
Runcorn-Hale Bridge 5 mile
South Cheshire H 10K, Crewe
Whitley Village 10K
Eagle JFK 5K, Victoria Pk, Warrington
Christleton 5K (no entries on night)	
20.5.07
end May
2.6.07
16.6.07
22.06.07	Chester Half Marathon (RACE almost full)
South Cheshire 20 mile
Hollins Green 5K
Capenhurst RC 10K
Tattenhall Tough Team Race	
23.6.07
end Jun
5/7/07
11.7.07
14.7.07
1.8.07
3.8.07	Lymm 5K **
Warrington RR 10K
Birchwood forest Park Ladies 5K
Capenhurst RC 5K
Burtonwood 5 mile
Pies & Peas 5 mile MT, near Winsford
Capenhurst RC 5K	
19.8.07
22.8.07
223.9.07	Birchwood 10K ** (and County Champs)
Capenhurst 5K (Ellesmere Port RC)
Antrobus 10K	
23.9.07
30.9.07
14.10.07
14.10.07
3.11.07
26.12.07	Sutton 6 10K, nr Chester **
Macclesfield ½ marathon
Congleton ½ marathon
David Lloyd 10K, Ellesmere Port
Langley 7 miles, nr Macclesfield
Chester “Round the Walls”	
** Cheshire Grand Prix fixtures – for full details of rules please see Cheshire AA web site.
Contact details for other races are on the NoEAA web site : www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk

CROSS COUNTRY DATES
The Schools Inter-County Cross Country Championships is to be held at Frodsham on 3 March 2006.
English National Cross-Country Championships at Sunderland on 10.03.07.
English Schools’ Cross-Country Championships at Leeds, on 24.03.07.

Race 4  in a series of 5 being held at Knight’s Grange will take place on 3 March.  Contact Amanda Rowlands on arowlands@valeroyal.gov.uk for details.  Everyone welcome, but must be 9 on the day to take part.

A cross country race in aid of Charity is to be held at Cholmondeley Castle on 25 March and will include two races over 10K and 2.5 miles.  Details and entry forms are on the Cheshire AA website.

Congratulations to the following Cheshire athletes:
NofEAA Cross Country Championships – R Craigie (Vale Royal) 3rd U15 girls; H Timmins (Warrington) 1st U17 ladies; H Timmins, R Rainford, A Talbot, L Gemmell  2nd  team U17 ladies; S Stockton (Vale Royal) 1st Junior lady; C Murray (Macclesfield) 3rd U13 boys; L Walker, D Cliffe, S Broadhurst, M Jackson (Warrington) 2nd team U17 men.

Cheshire athletes featuring in the individual awards after the series of five races held in the Manchester and District League are as follows:
Rachel Pleeth – Macc. 2nd Women V35; Alison Hartop – Macc. 2nd Women V40m, Barbara Murray – Macc. 3rd Women V45; Danielle Wallis – Macc. 2nd U13G; Tom Ramsey – Macc. 3rd U11B; Liam Burthem – Macc. 1st U11B; Hanna Petho – Macc. 1st U15G; James Ellis – Wchesh.  3rd U15B;  Matthew Jackson – Warr. 1st U17M; Bradley Edwards – Wchesh. 1st U13B; Calum Murray – Macc. 2nd U13B.

TRACK AND FIELD	
7.3.07	Indoor U15/U17 Multi-Events, SportCity
(also AA Championships)	
12-13.5.07	County T&F Champs, Macclesfield	
7.7.07	County Relay Champs., Macclesfield
Please note change to SATURDAY	

Dates and venues for the Cheshire T&F League will be available for the next newsletter.
NofE Indoor results:
Michelle Robbins (C&N) 3rd, Senior Ladies Triple Jump; Megan Tyler (Warrington) 2nd U20 HJ; Sian Kelman (West Cheshire) 2nd U17 Long Jump, 3rd U17 60m; James Carey (Macclesfield) 2nd U17 Shot; Gareth Preston (West Cheshire) 3rd U17 Long Jump; Andrew Whiton (West Cheshire) 2nd U17 Triple Jump; Jack Andrew (Macclesfield) 2nd U17 60mH; Calum Murray (Macclesfield) 1st U15 800m; Matthew Jackson (Warrington)  3rd ~U17 1500m.

SPORTSHALL NEWS
League Final for U11s, U13 and U15s – 18.3.07 
The Regional Final  -  U13/U15 age groups took place at Robin Park on 25 February with teams from Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.  The Cheshire U13 girls’ team will be joined by the U15 boys’ team at the UK National finals in Birmingham on 22 April. The U13 boys and U15 girls teams finished second.
League Final for U11s, U13 and U15s – 18.3.07 

LATE NEWS : success at the Inter-county CC Championships at Nottingham, 24 February 2007.
Congratulations to all who ran for Cheshire.  
Congratulations to Heather Timmins (Warrington AC) in winning the Under 17 ladies event.  Congratulations to Stevie Stockton (Vale Royal) for bronze individual medal in her first year as a Junior (Under 20) which ensured selection to represent Great Britain in the forthcoming World CC Championships.  Congratualtions to the Under 17 Mens team for 3rd place team medals.

UKA Coaching Courses (local to Cheshire)

Date	Code	Venue	Subsidy
Available	
Level 1	
10.3.07	NW098	SportCity	£50 pp	
7.7.07	NW099	SportCity	£50 pp	
Level 2 (Core)	
24-25.2.07	NW234	Sport City	£120 pp	
Level 2 (Event)	
21.4.07		Sport City
Speed/Throws	£30 pp	
22.4.07		Sport City
Endurance/Jumps	£30 pp	
Level 3 (Phase 2)	
24-25.3.07	NW3C2005			
Level 4 (Phase 2)	
3-4.2.07	NW42002	Sport City		
Children in Athletics	
17.3.07	NWCIA048	Sport City		

Regional County Athletics Development Plans offer subsidised coach education places to those coaches currently involved.
Please book your place with Tony Airnes (Tel : 01253 358168 or e-mail : tairnes@ukathletics.org.uk) well before the date of the course.
Details of courses at other venues can be found on www.ukathletics.net

Eddie Gore (Tel : 0151 513 5606), is the Cheshire County AA Coaching Co-ordinator 

COACHING CLINICS AT MACCLESFIELD
Saturday 3.3.07 10.00-12.00
Pole Vault, High Jump, Hammer, Hurdles
Saturday 17.3.07 1.00-12.00
Pole Vault, Discus, Hurdles, Javelin
Saturday 17.3.07 10.00-12.00
Sprints, Hurdles, High Jump, Shot
Saturday 21.4.07 10.00-12.00
Javelin, Hurdles, Sprints, Long Jump
Saturday 21.4.07 13.00-16.00  
Mini Competition

CONTACTS
Michael Hunt, NW England Region.   He is based at SportCity,  Tel : 0161 230 8184; Mobile : 07968 498710; e-mail : mhunt@englandathletics.org  

Sport Cheshire : Community Sports Athletics Coach : Nicola Gore : 01606 871812 (Tues – Fri); nicolag@sportcheshire.org

PLEASE send any items for the next Newsletter direct to the Editor (Ellen Molloy):
jamesandellenmolloy@btopenworld.com

COMMUNICATIONS 
Please ensure your club members see this Newsletter. 
The next County committee meetings are :
14 March 7:30pm Fluin Lane, Frodsham
then 11 April, which will be preceded at 6:30pm by the AGM of the Cheshire Cross Country League.

ALL clubs are entitled to a representative at these meetings. 

Remember to look at:	www.cheshireaa.com  

CHESHIRE COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
REPORT FROM THE VICE CHAIRMAN

In the absence of a chairperson of the association, I have happily acted in that capacity during the past twelve months, mainly chairing the monthly committee meetings.
I will be pleased to continue as the vice chairman if there is no other person nominated for that position. During the year the county has sustained its stable establishment, and I wish to express my thanks and admiration to the officers and members of the committee for their dedicated hard work for the county, and as a consequence, the well being of the clubs and members affiliated to the association. As is the norm, we are still looking for those extra faces to attend the committee meetings.
February 2007 The county once again staged very successful championships during the year, and was approached by other bodies to combine our track and field championships with other counties in the North West, which we declined, but offered to stage the not very well supported events within our championships. This idea is as yet in the melting pot, but there is a move to stage a North West championships during the coming season, this also is still in the planning stage.  
               County athletes were again well represented in regional and national events, and on behalf of the committee I would like to congratulate them and their coaches.
I wish to thank the team managers who looked after the interests and welfare of our selected athletes at the regional championships.

The new editor of the newsletter is Ellen Molloy, who has maintained the standard of the information and reports, but  Ellen is still asking for items from anyone who has something to say, to send them to her.
At the behest of UK Athletics, the county had a “recruitment drive” to get established competition officials and volunteers and race organisers licenced as “endurance” officials. The response was quite good, and we now have many more people on the UKA list. 
 The new order of things, England Athletics and Northern Athletics are more or less functioning, and we now await for the dust to settle, to see what the future holds for the county.
To all affiliated clubs, their athletes, coaches, and volunteers I send my best wishes for a successful year.
The county is again grateful for the use of facilities of the Frodsham IFTA office.

Peter Allen
February 2007 

CHESHIRE COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Officers and Officials for 2007
President - AG Bunner MBE (01928 732228) george@teamathletics.net
Chairman	-Vacant
Secretary	 -BJ Warren (01928 732529) brianjwarren@tiscali.co.uk
Treasurer	 - W Smith - (01928 712387)         bill.smith7@ntlworld.com	
Vice Chairman - P Allen (01928 723529)
panama@tesco.net	
Coaching Secretary	- E Gore (0151 513 5606)
eddiegore@ntlworld.com
Officials Secretary - J Shellhorn (01244 79196) joseph.shellhorn@tesco.net
Officials sub Committee - ad hoc arrangements
Road Running Secretary   AFJ Thiemicke  (01270 569012) adrian.thiemicke@atosorigin 	   (work 01270 532446) 
Cross Country Championship Sec. R Lynch (01625 829229) Pauline_Lynch@hotmail.com 
Combined Events Organiser	J Lethbridge
T&F Championship Secretary J Ashton  (0151 200 5184) johnaashton@hotmail.com
Fell Running Secretary  -  A Hulme  running@bearsports.freeserve.co.uk
Publicity Officers: D Wall and S McGrath (01606 592746) shaun18@btinternet.com
Web Master  -  A Pritchard  
webmaster@cheshireaa.com
Newsletter editor  -  Ellen Molloy
jamesandellenmolloy@btopenworld.com
NW Regional Office  -  Michael Hunt  - 0161 230 8184 mhunt@englandathletics.org

The Future :

At an EGM on 17 February, clubs in the North of England voted to replace the North of England AA by Northern Athletics with effect from 1st April 2007.  The remit of Northern athletics is to organise and promote competition at Northern level such as Championships.  This almost completes the transition to the new structure for athletics in England.

As a result of this change any enquiries about athletics (except for Northern championships) should be addressed to the North West Regional Office at Sport City in Manchester (the base for the regional Manager, Michael Hunt) and not to the previous NoEAA office in Dewsbury.