In the 48 year history of our club, no race has been so dominated by female athletes than last Saturday’s Stawell Toyota Handicap in which seven of the first eight to finish were women. Employing “catch me if you can” tactics, the mercurial Rhonda Clark led the assault on masculine pride, turning into the 400 […]
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Stawell policeman Nathaniel Warren doesn’t lay claim to being the fastest in the force but would back himself if ever he gave chase to an offender attempting to escape the law. A gifted runner, with a pugnacious style, Nathaniel won his first race with the club since saluting in the same event two years ago
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The unstoppable Meggy Boan continued to beat the odds when she stormed to her third win in her debut season with the club last Saturday. Every time the Chinese expatriate steps out in a five kilometre race she improves so much that club handicapper cannot keep up with her progress. Just as the grey-bearded Gary
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A barnstorming finish by club veteran Keith Lofthouse prevented the flying femmes from charging to an eighth win in the tenth race of the season through the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. Only 16 seconds – one for each kilometre – thwarted Sharon Howden’s bid for a second victory this season after five thirds and an
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Rupanyup gardener Meggy Boan led an all girl charge through the twists and turns of the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday, defying the odds to record her second win with the club in three weeks. After an astonishing 88-second win in the eight kilometre Horsham Little Aths race at Haven earlier this month, Meggy copped a
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Rookie member Meggy Boan “blew” what would have been her maiden win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club when she stopped about 200 metres short of the finish line in the 6.5 kilometres Advanced Bricks Handicap and watched in confusion as three more seasoned runners sailed past her. Horsham couple Sharon and Gary Howden landed
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Horsham mother-of-three Brydie Scollary etched her name into Stawell Amateur Athletic Club history when she, Meggy Boan, and Gaynor Radovic, completed the club’s first ever all-girl trifecta in the five kilometer Barham Insurance Handicap, held near Stawell last Saturday. Clocking two minutes faster than her previous best for the distance, Brydie ran the race of
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The rebirth of former Horsham 100 kilogram couch-potato Tim Harris rolled on at full force last Saturday when he skipped away with the opening event of the Stawell Athletic Club season despite a near catastrophe during the running. The big-boned Tim was looking like a winner with just a kilometre to travel in the five
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Horsham runners squared the ledger with their Stawell counterparts when Daryl Scollary converted three straight seconds into a maiden win in the five kilometre Run For Ray in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. It was a clean sweep for Horsham with four of Dayl’s “neighbours” – Col Barnett (the unofficial 2011 club champion), Selina Heard-Price,
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Club stalwart Charlie Jones reverted to an “oldtimer’s” training strategy which enabled him to score an unexpected win in the Stan and Karen Watson sponsored five kilometre handicap last Saturday. Charlie, 57, who has trained up to 60 kilometres a week for most of his adult life, decided to add an extra training run to
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