The Yorkshire & Humberside Squad had a very fabulous weekend at the Junior Inter-regional Competition and came away clutching a host of trophies!

The individual was held at Mallard’s Pike in the Forest of Dean. Competitors reported on a lovely runnable forest but it was very easy to get caught out in the myriad of ditches! All our athletes performed superbly but particular congratulations to our team scorers:

M14 – Maxwell Groom 6^th, Nathan Peel 17^th

M16 – Oscar Peel 1^st, Lawrence Hodgson 6^th

M18 – Ewen Wilkinson (AIRE) 21^st, Evan Jenkinson 23^rd

W14 – Bethan Buckley (AIRE) 1^st, Lucy 3^rd

W16 – Ella Baxter 1^st, Anna Todd 4^th

W18 – Lotte Sykes 7^th, Alice Pieters 8^th (running up)

These results were enough to retain the Individual Runners Up trophy! Bethan also won the outstanding performance award for her 5 minute win on W14!

After the individual competition, we all transferred to the Mendip Activity Centre for overnight camping! Despite the cold, the juniors enjoyed a great night of socialising.

The relays were held in the grounds of the activity centre, which was very convenient and enabled a very early start. YHJS are pretty good at relays and we didn’t disappoint on this occasion, scooping up 3 podium positions. Congratulations to:

Girls – 2^nd Katie Buckley (AIRE), Bethan Buckley (AIRE) & Ella Baxter

            3^rd Anna Todd, Hannah Chapman, Lotte Sykes

Boys – 2^nd Lawrence Hodgson, Maxwell Groom, Oscar Peel

            8^th Robbie Lightfoot, Nathan Peel, James Bryant

A special mention to Will Preston who returned 1^st in the ad-hoc and to Lotte Sykes and Ewen Wilkinson (AIRE) who recorded the fastest times on their legs.

These results meant we picked up the Runners Up trophy in the girls overall competition, the Runners Up trophy in the relay competition and the Runners Up overall trophy! We are very good at being Runners Up! Here’s hoping we can beat the Scots in one of these categories in the Lakes next year……