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 …
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 …
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 …
Kiri Artz discovered her niche in competitive sport when she turned to running and broke through for her maiden win in the three kilometre Chris Blake Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Artz had struggled to find interest in any kind of sport until she placed second in a Stawell Secondary College cross country and realised …
Stawell Amateur Athletic Club secretary Naomi Hunter was running on adrenalin when she scooted to a surprisingly easy win in the five kilometre Ivan McDonald Handicap at Stawell’s Big Hill last Saturday. Hunter found herself burdened by extra duties due to the absence of club President, Jess Cass, who was holidaying in New South Wales, …
Keith Lofthouse’s barren season of cross country running with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club came to an abrupt halt last Saturday when he staged a dramatic form reversal to win the five kilometre King of the Mountain race at Halls Gap. In fourteen starts with the club in 2019 Lofthouse had not finished closer than …
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 …
