It was a bleak and blustery Saturday for the last in the North Staffordshire Cross Country League held at Rodbaston College. Freezing rain and subzero temperature made the already slippy, slidy, muddy course all the more challenging!  Never to be deterred by the conditions 10 hardy juniors turned out to represent their club and yet again did us proud!

Leading the way in the Under 17 boys was Sam Soles who came in 6th in his race – enough to put him on the podium in bronze position at the overall presentation for the end of the league.

Sisters Rachel and Rebecca Cudahy ran in the U11 girls race and finished 21st and 30th – Rachel improved her overall position by 2 places and Rebecca by an amazing 11 places – the girls finished 20th and 32nd overall in the final standings! The U11 boys Jonty Brown and Matt Rolfe also had great runs to finish 9th (equal best position) and 11th – his best performance by 19 places – at the end of the series Jonty came an impressive 8th and Matt a fantastic 27th!

In the U13 race Grace Bond came in 31st, improving her overall series position to 29th overall.  Team mate Sienna Philips also running in the U13 category completed the series in a fantastic 8th position.

In the under 15 girls race Amy Whelan came in 12th with team mate Abbie Fryer-Winder came in 20th in this race.  Amy completed the series just outside the odium places in 5th position and Abbie improved her standing to finish 17th overall.  Harry Bond ran in the Under 15 boys race finishing an outstanding 5th in this race moving his overall placing to 6th and Heather Wilshaw also running her best race of the series to also finish 5th also moved up the league to complete in 7th overall U17 girl!