On a chilly winter morning, SAAC joined sister club SACCC for the L.W. Kent Memorial Championship race. We would like to thank Mary Kent for her sponsorship and support. The club honored the passing of club stalwart Keith Lofthouse with a service and a minute of silence. Keith was president from 2013-to 2017 when David […]
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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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Rookie Kate Field broke through at only her third official run with the Stawell Club, edging out fellow novice Michelle Dunn who was unlucky not to win the week before after mistaking the course. Seventy-seven-year-old greybeard Gary Saunders was a gallant third. “This is a real surprise to me,” an excited Field said. “I never
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David Hunter’s tale of woe about his battle to be a cross country runner again almost rivalled that of his wife Naomi’s but all ended well last Saturday when he emulated Naomi’s maiden win from seven days before. Naomi had taken 12 months to recover from a ruptured Achilles tendon while David had his own
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Thanks in large to a blistering run by young gun Tom Walker, our club was finally able to wrest the Telstra Shop Shield from the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club, which had dominated the Lindsay Kent Memorial Handicap for the past five years. Tom’s scintillating 28.22 minutes for the eight kilometres was just on
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Simon Gallagher is a runner with natural ability; a self-confessed “mountain goat” who doesn’t need to train to win. Justine Tracey is no natural; no stylist when she runs. Effort tells on her face with every stride she takes, but she does train, challenging her body each week to climb 4.5 kilometres up Mount Arapiles,
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The mercurial Rhonda Rice enhanced her reputation as our most unpredictable runner by turning on the after burners to blitz her club-mates in the eight kilometre Lindsay Kent Memorial Handicap. At her previous start in the five kilometre David O. Jones Mitre 10 Handicap Rhonda finished 13th, two minutes and 18 seconds behind the third
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Club rookie Kate Collins who in 28 years had never been involved in organised sport was the first female winner in four races this year at only her fourth start. Kate became a member almost on a whim after meeting club stalwart and other club runners for a regular Monday night training session at Stawell’s
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On cumulative times, the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club retained the Lindsay Kent Memorial Shield over Stawell, but Peter Barham led the way for Stawell and was first on handicap. The 56-year-old insurance broker is back training five days a week and that was good enough for him to break through for his first
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Thinking herself more as a jogger than a runner, Rhonda Clark questioned whether the timekeepers had made a mistake when she turned failure into a confounding form reversal to win the combined clubs’ prestigious eight kilometre L. W. Kent Memorial Handicap. Rhonda, who ran a lackluster 19th on her home track at the Concongella Vineyards
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