It’s been over 4 years since Matilda has experienced a win with the club. Her last was the 5km Rupanyup Garden Centre in April 2018. With two years of COVID and changes to her work schedule, Matilda hasn’t been able to attend as many SAAC events as she would have liked. The 42-year-old mum hasn’t […]
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Rebecca Hurley might have to rethink her mantra that she is “not really a runner” after winning her second Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race just three starts after her maiden success in her rookie season. Twelfth and thirteenth in the Concongella Vineyards run the week before, Hurley and Naomi Hunter staged spectacular form reversals to
Grey-bearded veteran Terry Jenkins, who broke a sixteen-year drought by winning a Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race on June 3, received a time penalty, but still beat the handicapper by scoring back-to-back wins at Horsham last Saturday. In the five kilometre race on June 3, Jenkins gave his old training mate, Stephen Baird, 4.30 minutes
Her speed is down, her stamina tested, her training trimmed and her back aching, but none of this stopped the relentless Meggy Boan from hobbling to a gutsy win in the Telstra Shop Handicap at Horsham last Saturday. Since joining the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012, no runner has won more races and been
Hunter Swoops for Easy Kill Too late getting home from work to enjoy a round of golf last Saturday enabled Stawell landscaper Dave Hunter to venture west for the eight kilometre Horsham Little Athletics Handicap and return with the spoils of victory. The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s most improved runner has moved from a front mark
A single mum, inspired by a sponsor’s pre-race speech about a tragic loss and invigorated by a radical change to her diet, raced to a third win this season and her fifth in only her second year with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday. Defying all that the club handicapper could do to stop
Working mum Sandra Casey joined the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club this year never expecting to actually win a race. She’s played quality tennis and rides a bike but only joined the running club at the urgings of fellow member Bridie Scollary and because her two boys Jacob and Logan, once they had a taste of