Female runners with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club are on the threshold of a record-breaking 13th win in a single season after Rachel Coverdale seized on her home track advantage to win the 10 kilometre Shane and Robyn Young Sportspower Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Third in the Charlie Jones 16 kilometre Handicap earlier this […]
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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
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Meggy Boan cast aside an old enemy and ended a frustrating sequence of second placings when she led yet another all-girl charge to win the eight kilometre Stawell Toyota Handicap in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Warned in advance that the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club event would not be easy, the irrepressible Meggy, already a
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Motley Crue had a hit with Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987 and the girls of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club were singing that song after embarrassing the boys with another all-girl trifecta in the five kilometre Stan and Karen Watson Handicap last Saturday. Not content with smashing the males in nine of the 17 races
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A random venture to Bacchus Marsh in 2011 for a cross country carnival with a boy who loves to run culminated in a family double at Halls Gap last Saturday when a father and son snatched a unique double in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s King of the Mountain. Much like the excursion at Bacchus
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Reigning club champion Nathaniel Warren made giant strides towards winning a fourth title when he blitzed a field of determined chasers in the three kilometre Chris Blake Championship in the Stawell Ironbarks last Saturday. The race was made to order for Nathaniel, 25, who was having only his third start for the season and was
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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
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Peter Barham had heard tall tales but true about the “hill of horrors” at Troopers Camp but tackled it for the first time in atrocious conditions last Saturday and scored an emotional second win this season with the Club. The torturous ten kilometre Run for Ray over treacherous rocks, boulders and exposed tree roots seemed
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The redoubtable Rhonda Clark performed a miracle far greater than a minor when she blitzed the biggest cross country field of the season to win the inaugural Seppelts Classic over eight kilometres in thick fog at Great Western racecourse on Sunday. Penalised 3.20 minutes for her three second win over the same distance at Ararat
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It’s taken two years, 30 races and an astonishing back-to-back win but male athletes with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club finally cracked it for a one, two, three finish in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap at Stawell last Saturday. Females have been dominant, winning 17 of the 30 and landing a host of “quinellas”
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