AFD at National Under 17 Champs

Chris Snook became England Athletics under-17 men’s 5000 metres walk champion at Bedford on Sunday.  The Aldershot, Farnham & District athlete won the u15s’ title over 3000 metres in 2013.  Two of his club colleagues picked up silver medals over the weekend, both in the u17 women’s age-group: Niamh Brown (3000 metres) and Maisie Grice … Read more

John Hewitt Club Championships

With the John Hewitt Junior Club Championships fast approaching 29th August, you need to get your entries in fast. The timetable subject to adjustments depending on entries is: THE JOHN HEWITT MEMORIAL AFD JUNIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS TIMETABLE (*) – straight final depending on no.s TRACK EVENTS FIELD EVENTS 10:30 100m U13 girls heats 10:15 Pole … Read more

3 AFD Athletes win British Championships, Lennie Waite, Steph Twell and Isobel Pooley who set UK record

Isobel Pooley improved her British outdoor high jump record when retaining the national title in Birmingham on Saturday.  Her first-time clearance at 1m 97 was one centimetre higher than the mark she recorded last year.  Silver medallist Morgan Lake of Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow, the World junior champion, had gone out of the competition … Read more

Quadkids 17 June

AFD Quadkid team competed last night and successfully qualified for the final, placing 3rd overall.  We were only 100 points off the top spot team, but our squad was missing our 3 best girls, so we should be(and are) very pleased and proud of the result.  We had the highest scoring boy of the competition, … Read more

YDL, Aldershot 30th May 2015

Aldershot, Farnham & District won their UK Youth Development League meeting for the lower age-groups at the Aldershot Military Stadium on Saturday. Ollie Nicholson, newly crowned Hampshire champion over 100m, won both U15B sprints and opened for the club’s victorious sprint relay team in which he was joined by Henry McGoldrick, Alex Knight and Daniel … Read more

T & F County Champs 2015

Isobel Pooley of Aldershot, Farnham & District set a meeting record of 1m 90 for the high jump at the Hampshire championships on Saturday.  The silver medallist from last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow had already claimed the championship best when clearing 1m 85, three centimetres above the mark set by another Commonwealth silver medallist … Read more