On a true Autumn day, the SAAC cross country runners met at the Bonnie Dundee track for the Stephen Baird Handicap, with the infamous uphill finish. Drew Christain claimed victory in a fast time of 23:31 ahead of Claire Davies and Peter Hilbig. It was Drew’s second SAAC win from 2 seasons of running. He …
Winning the Stawell Toyota 8km handicap, was the icing on the cake for 18-year-old Monaghan. A clear victory with a 90-second lead over second place getter Simon Edge and two minutes clear of third placer, Drew Christian. Elise has put a lot of time into her running recently and ran a sub 6 minutes in …
Inspired by the words of our living legend and founder of the club, Keith Haymes. Terry Jenkins won the 5km race in a time of 27:05. It’s an honour to win the Keith Haymes Championship Terry Jenkins Due to a leg injury, Terry almost missed the race because he didn’t train all week. “I don’t …
The Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, SAAC, ran the 7.3 km A. Peterson handicap in the Ironbarks on Saturday 26th March. Claire Davies won her first race by 6 seconds with an actual time of 46:39. She got into running during the state’s first lockdown and challenged herself to complete the ‘50k in May’ MS fundraiser …
Saturday 19th March was a perfect day for the opening race for the 2022 season. The Grampians Insurance Brokers handicap winner was Terry Jenkins with a great time of 27:30. Terry has been running over 50 km each week leading up to the race aiming to run 5 minutes per kilometre. Terry has been running …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Third in the first race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season and second in the next it didn’t seem likely that Jess Cass would have to wait seventeen races before breaking through in the sixteen kilometre Life Members Handicap, her first win in over two years. In the forty starts since winning Best’s Cross …
