After three rounds of competition in the Treloar Shield, Sydney University Athletics Club (SUAC) lead the open division by 412 points having made a strong showing at the club’s home track of ES Marks Athletics Field on Saturday afternoon.
Conditions were challenging with strong winds at times and the temperature on the track well in excess of 40 degrees.
The standout performance of the weekend came from Josie Nichol who won the triple jump in a huge leap of 12.90 metres, which is only 5cm short of the SUAC club record which is especially impressive considering Josie is only 18 years old.
Nichol also went on to finish 3rd in the 100m. Not to stop there, she ran a cracking back straight in the women’s 4×100 where she teamed up with Gen Cowie, Georgina Pembroke and Courtney Schulz for the win to cap off a very strong afternoon.
The other standout performance of the day was from Jin Su Jung who ran a personal best of 10.40 seconds in the 100 metres for the win. Jin also contested the shot, javelin, high jump and 4×100 for SUAC bringing home a swag of very valuable points for the club.
Other wins on the day came from Chrissie Grun in the javelin, Maddie Bergfield in the shot put, Nicole Fagan in the 5000 metre walk and Darien Willaims inn the 800 metres.
Special mention must go to Shelly Jenneke who competed strongly in no less than 6 events on the day scoring a huge amount of points for SUAC.
Other performances from SUAC are as follows:
Women
200m-3rd-Emily Duve, 6th Courtney Schulz, 7th Shelly Jenneke
800- 12th Georgina Pembroke
100m- 2nd Shelly Jenneke, 10th Gen Cowie, 11th Emily Duve
1500- 3rd Rosie Weber. 6th Claire Miles, 7th Georgina Pembroke
High Jump- 2nd Gen Cowie, 3rd Shelly Jenneke,
Shot put- 2nd Katrina Blackett, 3rd Shelly Jenneke, 6th Gen Cowie, 8th Em Ryan
Javelin- 3rd Katrina Blackett, 5th Maddy Bergfield, 6th Shelly Jenneke
Men
200m- 2nd Josh Tassell, 3rd Jordan Barnes
u/20 5th Sam Howard
100m- 5th Jordan Barnes u/20 5th Sam Howard, 12th Neil Song u/17 26th Desmond Cai
800m- 2nd JO Ryan, 8th Sam Colless, 9th Mark Heiss, 17th Linden Smith, 18th Jack Gilmore, 21st James Polson
4×100- 2nd Jin Su Jung, Jordan barnes, Josh Tassell, Neil Song
1500- 7th Joe Burgess, 11th David Costello, 13th Tim Spehr, 16th Johan Sunderland, 17th James Healy, 18th Linden Smith
Javelin- 8th Matt Mountford, 10th Jin Su Jung,
Triple Jump- 21st matt Mountford
High Jump- 6th Jordan Barnes
Shot Put- 2nd Matt Mountford, 7th Sam Colless, 8th Jin Su Jung
The next round of the Treloar Shield will be held this coming Saturday at SOPAC and will feature the running of the NSW 3000 metre championships