It didn’t take long for Stawell policeman Tom Rodgers to stamp his authority on the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club by winning the ten kilometre Shane and Robyn Young Sportspower Handicap by the widest margin of thirteen races this year. Rodgers has having only his second run with the club. His first, in mid-May when he […]
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Jess Cass could hardly have picked a better time to celebrate her first win from twelve starts this season with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, just two days after her thirty-fifth birthday and with wedding preparations well underway. In the wake of a brace of race cancellations, due to COVID, her win rounded off a
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Jakob Davis scored one of the more remarkable wins in the fifty-five year history of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club when he ran solo in the Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap and then dashed off to play football at Natimuk. The thirty-one year old Davis was given a handicap before the main body of the
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History continued on its merry march when twelve-year-old Sienna Santuccione became not only the first of her age to win a seniors race with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club and then back it up to win again at her very next start. She has having only her third run at eight kilometres in the Lindsay
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Just over seven years ago, the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club had to abandon its junior competition because teenagers didn’t want to run anymore; football, netball, Playstations and mobile phones reigned supreme. But families are beginning to warm again to the fleet of foot without fear of their kids bumping heads or breaking bones. Already this season,
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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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If the Wimmera Myotherapy Handicap last Saturday was a horse race, promising teenage rookie Elise Monaghan would have been a hot favourite to beat the veteran 100-1 outsider, Peter Hillbig, who hadn’t won a race with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club since 2009. Placed second and third in the first two races of the cross
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A warm up in the Lindsay Kent Memorial Fun Run at Stawell on April 4 was the perfect tune-up for cross-country rookie Drew Christian who six days later won the first race of his adult life at Concongella last Saturday, just weeks before he turned fifty. Christian’s competitive juices were ignited by a second on
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Amy Yole needed to fight off the “mental demons” that challenged her before forging to an unexpected win in the five kilometre Grampians Insurance Brokers Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. The thirty-four-year-old registered nurse and mother had not had a run with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club since 2018, having started a family which stalled
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