On Wednesday 29th April All Souls Children, along with 10 other schools, took part in the first of two Catholic Cross Country events.
When we arrived everyone was initially daunted by what seemed a never ending course around Kersley Grange fields. They soon realised however that it wasn’t that far and they were used to running the distance so readied themselves for the race ahead.
The girls ran first and finished as a team in an excellent 4th place overall with our top 4 girls all finishing in 29th place or better. Orla was our best runner finishing in 8th place, followed by Roisin in 12th and an incredible run from Martha (Y4) saw her finish in 25th . Libby, who was only picked to run the day before due to an excellent run during a P.E lesson, finished in our final scoring position of 29th. Great race girls well done!
Having won this race last year the boys were looking to win the trophy for the second year running (mainly because Mr Youson forgot to get it engraved). The race was extremely close from the start however the boy’s all managed to get themselves into great positions. On the final bend there were around 10 boys all together, luckily we had 4 of them in the bunch an two more not far behind. Unfortunately, in what was a photo finish, none of the boy’s managed to get in the top three but as a team we had 4 top ten finishes with no one finishing below 18th place. This meant that as a team we scored just 27 points and won the trophy again, superb team performance boys you should be very proud.
You can have a look at full results sheet here
well done every one