Saturday April 18th CROSS-COUNTRY RELAYS Jells Park
Collingwood entered twenty one teams in this, the first AV event of the season. Always a hectic day, the Club had 23 new people to break in to the caper of organising teams, issuing uniforms, attaching numbers, getting the first runner to the start line, trying to collect results and completing the official sheets for submission to the scorers. There were also two others having their first winter run for us after joining last winter. In addition to this, Collingwood had to supply four helpers to assist with the operation of the day.
Fortunately the weather bureau got it right when they said the early rain would clear into a nice afternoon. They could have almost used the word ‘perfect’ such were the conditions.
It was great to have Susan Michelsson back in the black and white colours after a couple of seasons off. Her presence will certainly help our women’s team and this was immediately evident with our best resultever in a Divvy 1 relay when the girls grabbed fourth spot. This team had three girls not with the Club last year. Apart from Susan, Kara Landells and Aisling Moran joined last year’s finds(!) Virginia Moloney and Erchana Murray Bartlett, to “raise quite a few eyebrows” in the crowd. AV had produced a prediction of the women’s competition earlier in the week on their website and Collingwood didn’t even get a mention!
Other girls to make their debut for Collingwood were Aisling’s twin sister, Aine, Helen Walpole, another set of sisters, Francesca and Carly Black and juniors, Amber Louw and Isabella (Issy) Ermacora.
In the men’s teams we welcome Michael Preece who has joined us from Bendigo and will obviously be a big part of our efforts this year. Danny Redden, who has often run as a guest in Club events, has finally joined the battle and we welcome him along with Trent McCormick, Mark Knowles, Ray Joy, Scott Bent, David Diviny, Jason Kennedy, Paul Rothin and Nick Kenyon. Doug Leutchford and Mark Cornell have both joined their daughters by pulling on the colours ( if you’re going to be there you may as well run!!!!)
The only junior male to have his first run for the Club, as opposed to with the Club was Spiros Orfanis.
Welcome to you all. We hope your time with Collingwood is everything you want it to be.
Matthew Newton, running in our under 20 team, recorded the fourth fastest of all Collingwood runners on the day – may not be in the ‘unders’ much longer!!
Adam Garganis took a break from his heavy walking schedule to put in beauty in our divvy two team. He certainly has got himself pretty fit!
Collingwood picked up two minor places on the day, when the under 14 girls grabbed a silver medal and the under 18 boys ran very well to gain the bronze in their division. These two results, along with the previously mentioned top women’s performance were the highlights of the day. We weren’t in the hunt in the men’s top division but will improve as the distances go up. Ballarat flew in three runners from interstate and blitzed the field with their runners producing the four fastest individual times of the day. It would seem that we certainly will have a battle on our hands to keep our spot in Divvy 1. There’s a challenge for everyone!
RESULTS
JUNIORS
WOMEN
Under 14 3 x 3k Under 18
Lucy Leutchford 11:59 Emma Newton 12:53
Zoe Cornell 13:01 Issy Ermacora 16:55
Mia Rouw 11:59 Meaghan Gaunt 12:19
Finished 2nd out of 5 36:59 Finished 16th out of 10 42:07
Winner: Yarra Ranges 36:43 Winner: Essendon 31:53
MEN
Under 14 3 x 3k Under 16
Hayden Morris 11:37 Jack Sayer 11:44
Lachlan Sayer 13:30 Anthony Crews 11:11
Amber Louw 13:29 Claire Noonan 15:26
Finished 7th out of 13 38:36 Finished 13 out of 18 38:21
Winner: Box Hill 33:28 Winner: Wester Aths 32:14
Under 18 Team 1 3 x 3k Under 18 Team 2
Ben White 9:46 Dale Carroll n/a
Lachie White 10:01 Spiro Orfanis n/a
Tom Hall 9:51 Dale Carroll n/a
Finished 3rd. out of 17 29:43 Finished 14 out of 17 38:28
Winner: Geelong 28:53
SENIORS
WOMEN
Division 1 5 x 6k
Virginia Moloney 10:50 21:52
Susan Michelsson 11:33 23:30
Aisling Moran 24:25
Kara Landells 24:20
Erchana Murray Bartlett 23:10
Finished in 4th out of 10 1h 57m 22s
Winner: Glenhuntly 1h 50m 22s
Division 3 4 x 6k
Michelle Laufer 27:35
Aine Moran 30:15
Ali Burns 30:15
Heather Gaunt 27:16
Finished 7th out of 13 1h 49m 54s
Winner: Frankston 1h 34m 40s
Division 4 3 x 3k Division 5
Francesca Black 13:56 28:54 Pennie Hayes 16:58 34:26
Carly Black 14:48 30:15 Sofie Fabre 16:32 34:15
Hannah Garganis 18:03 37:04 Helen Walpole 16:15 32:27
Finished 13th out of 16 1h 36m 13s Finished 14th. out of 24 1h 41m 10s
Winner: Ringwood 1h 15m 50s Winner: Melb University 1h 41m10s
40+ 3 x 3k
Kim White 31:07
Melinda Story 44:08
Clare Garganis 35:52
Finished 12th out 12 1h 51m 08s
Winner: Waverley 1h 14m 44s
MEN
Under 20 3 x 3k
Matthew Newton 10:01 20:43
Jordan Minter 11:07 23:16
Jesse Frost 21:59
Finished 6th out of 10 65:48
Winner: Ballarat 60:44
Division 1 6 x 6k Division 2
Michael Whitehead 20:22 Malcolm Campbell 11:00 22:33
Simon Bevege 20:39 Ray Joy 11:55 21:58
Michael Preece 20:45 Danny Reddan 11:15 22:54
Cadeyrn Douglas 22:19 Adam Garganis 22:31
Jai Edmonds 20:03 Nick Kenyon 23:54
Magnus Michelsson 21:13 Liam Delany 21:28
Finished 10 out of 10 2h 05m 21s Finished 11 out of 14 2h 15m 20s
Winner: Ballarat 1h 49m 55s Winner: Essendon 1h 59m 05s
Division 3 5 x 6k Division 4
Leo Arantes 11:30 23:14 Paul Wallace 11:45 24:54
Trent McCormick 11:09 23:03 Stuart Kollmorgen 12:02 24:17
Mark Knowles 10:38 21:38 Tim Menting 11:41 24:10
Julian Harris 11:20 23:07 Paul Rothin 11:33 23:33
Jacob Barnes 11:31 23:17 Nick Boustead 12:49 26:30
Finished 10th out of 14 1h 54m 19s Finished 10th out of 16 2h 23m 24s
Winner: Old Xavs 1h 44m 56s Finished: Traralgon 1h 50m 20s
Division 5 4 x 6k Division 6
Brad Bullock 11:10 23:08 Daryl Standfield 13:27 27:45
Drew Roberts 11:44 24:13 David Diviny 12:23 25:32
Shane Marshall 12:00 22:55 Scott Bent 12:23 24:38
Eric Louw 24:36 Troy Kameme 13:58 29:44
Finished 4th out of 15 1h 34m 56s Finished 13 out 16 1h 47m 39s
Winner: Old Xavs 1h 30m 18s Winner: SSH 1h 25m 18s
Division 7 4 x 6k
Doug Leutchford 13:51 28:55
Jim Sayer 13:36 28:48
Jason Kennedy 14:46 31:14
Mark Cornell 14:15 30:05
Finished 24th out of 39 1h 59m02s
Winner: Mornington 1h 33m 18s
40+ 3 x 3k 50+
Chris Waldron 12:37 24:28 Paul Viney 12:06 24:48
Scott Lovell 14:11 29:47 Adrian Murphy 25:50
Peter Gaunt 12:26 24:43 Shane Derby 12:57 27:02
Finished 9th out of 13 78:58 Finished 12 out of 15 77:40
Winner: APS 65:00 Winner: Vic Masters 68:40
Officials: Tony Williams and Gary McBroom were working for AV and Kevin Wigmore, Robert Barnes and Jessica Newton filled the helpers spots required from our Club today. There were many parents who helped out with recording of results – thanks one and all.
Theresa Barnes again did the honours with the food – thanks too, to any other contributors! Thanks to Gary McBroom and Tony Williams with the set up and to all who jumped in to help with the packing up at the end of the day.