February 7, 2015
RESULTS FROM SHIELD SEASON FINAL
Men Open Division 1
Glenhuntly 1,335
Box Hill 1,227
Nunawading 1,176
Melbourne Uni 988
Essendon 968
Doncaster 871
Knox 679
Richmond 418
Unfortunately we were not able to defend the premiership that we won last year.
Although our team was leading for much of the day a failure to field the full 3 competitors in the steeplechase and the walk on top of the injury to Daniel White-Alikakos that left him hobbling across the line in the 100m and unable to compete in the 400m, meant that we fell short at the end of the day. Special mention to Blake Lucas and James Baumgartner who each did five events on the day and to David Thomson who competed in the javelin, discus and pole vault despite a back injury.
Men 40+
Diamond Valley 961
Box Hill 872
Waverley 860
Collingwood 722
Geelong 623
Bendigo 576
Essendon 516
Vic Masters 448
Keilor St Bernards 437
Oakleigh 384
Ballarat 182
Box Hill finally managed to defeat Waverley this year, only to be outdone by Diamond Valley. Nevertheless it was a great team effort and if not for Kynan Dawes pulling a calf muscle and collapsing to the ground when looking a good chance to win the 1500m (which also put him out of action for the 400m) the scores would have been a lot closer. Thanks to Andrew Wilcox for his work organising this team throughout the season.
Men U18
Diamond Valley 791
Keilor St Bernards 661
Collingwood 645
Essendon 630
Casey Cardinia 617
Sandringham 482
Geelong 465
Box Hill 452
Bendigo 444
Old Xaverians 406
Ballarat 133
With our top multi event athlete overseas and injuries to a couple of others we were always going to struggle to field a competitive team in this division. Still there were some great performances, especially by Matt Harcourt who competed in the 100m, 400m, 4x100m relay, 110m hurdles, discus, javelin and long jump!
Women Open Division 1
Glenhuntly 590
Box Hill 504
Sandringham 455
Nunawading 452
Doncaster 434
Melbourne Uni 431
Diamond Valley 363
Keilor St Bernards 213
Unfortunately we were only able to field one walker, one steeplechaser and no one in the hurdles. Despite this our team challenged for the lead several times throughout the day. Next year we must make sure that we qualify athletes in all events and premiership could be ours!
Women 40+
Box Hill 490
Waverley 393
Vic Masters 362
Diamond Valley 354
Collingwood 314
Keilor St Bernards 263
Western Athletics 254
Geelong 226
Bendigo 92
Congratulations to Talitha Crawford, Karen Carah, Amanda Harper, Pia Hunter, Simone Lovass, Deb Dyer, Kerry Putt and Sharron Meager who all put in great performances to win the Athletics Victoria shield premiership. It was a great team effort throughout the whole season, with everyone covering multiple events and then putting in some wonderful performances in the final to take out the team title.
Special mention to Karen Carah, who competed in six events and Taltitha Crawford who did five. Also Amanda Harper, who not only ran a PB in the steeplechase, but spent several weeks learning to pole vault so that she could score points for the club in the final in this event.
Women U18
Essendon 843
Box Hill 680
Keilor St Bernards 542
Richmond 479
Frankston 431
Geelong 409
Ballarat 396
Glenhuntly 383
Ringwood 352
Doncaster 331
Bendigo 145
This team had four injury withdrawals (three in the last few days before the final) which left the team somewhat depleted, but they still performed very well to finish second, with Zoe Schwerkolt again putting in a great team performance competing in the 2000m Walk, 3000m steeplechase, 1500m and 400m.
Women U16
Essendon 918
Diamond Valley 910
Keilor St Bernards 830
Box Hill 758
Collingwood 548
Geelong 484
Casey Cardinia 277
Frankston 267
Ringwood 225
Ballarat 211
Bendigo 46
Box Hill had won the previous two U16 titles, but this year the team was split, with many of the girls moving up to U18. Our team still had a real chance to win again this year, until we realised that the Shield finals clashed with the state Little Athletics multi-event championship and three of our girls would be unavailable. The team still performed well, with a number of outstanding performances.