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 …
Veteran cross country runner, Terry Jenkins, spent late Saturday afternoon in recovery mode sitting on a book rueing the thought of yet another race that had gotten away. Winless so far this year after nine weeks of seconds, thirds and fourths, Jenkins led the ten kilometre Stawell Sportspower Handicap for most of the last quarter, …
The unprecedented run of success being enjoyed by first season runners with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club continued last Saturday when Brad Robinson won the five kilometre Rupanyup Garden Centre Handicap to become the sixth rookie in the past eight races to break through. Robinson had intended only to support his son, Dale, in the …
Caught on the run with telephone in hand taking care of business in the Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, Meghann O’Brien dashed from the course not realising she had won on debut. A locum radiographer, O’Brien was on call in case of emergency and was anxious to finish the Stawell Amateur …
The Stawell Athletic Club’s oldest runner, Gary Saunders, defeated one of the newest in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap on Saturday, and then offered some helpful hints to runner-up, Michelle Dunn, who is still to break through for her maiden win. The Bonnie Dundee course on the edge of the Ironbarks is notorious for …
After years of flirting with running clubs, but lacking the confidence to join, Rebecca Hurley finally connected with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club and broke through for her first win in any sort of foot race last Saturday. “I’m really not a runner,” she insisted after the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap, but …
