Leon Monaghan is a handy local tennis player, but not once in his fifty-five years had he given any thought to competitive running. But good emerged from the doldrums of lockdown when Monaghan, for “something to do,” joined his seventeen-year-old daughter Elise, a promising junior athlete and gymnast, in casual runs that first became a […]
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Ten-year-old Olivia Hunter became the youngest winner in the fifty-five year history of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, when stride for stride she matched deceptively tiny motors with twelve-year-old Sienna Santuccione in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap at Stawell on Saturday. Olivia had a mere four second margin on Sienna at the top of
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The Stawell Amateur Athletics Club travelled to Rupanyup Saturday 8th May for the eight kilometre Tyler’s Hardware race. Adrian, Kelvin and Vicki Tyler have a long association with the club and all participated in the field of 26 runners. Jess Cass had the fastest time for the females 36:53 while Nathan Baker had the fastest
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Melissa Fletcher won the Stawell Amateur Athletics Club race on Saturday 1st of May, her first club run. The Fletcher family joined at the start of the season with Melissa’s son, Louis and daughter, Sophie running in the sub-juniors. “I wasn’t expecting that I would be able to run that far. I ran the entire
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