December 2003

Message Board Launched! Friday, December 19 2003
The latest phase of the website has now been completed! Members and none members alike can now register and use our forum to discuss anything they want. You can launch the message board by going to the message board link in the drop down menu. We strongly encourage you to use this facility, it has the potential to be very useful and lively. Theres nothing worse than a dead message board, and it won't last for long if it isn't used. So register now, and encourage anyone you know with an athletic interest to register.
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Rotary Club - HELP NEEDED Sunday, December 14 2003
The Tamworth Rotary Club needs your help! This year they are raising funds for the new indoor track and training centre at Tamworth AC. They are looking for volunteers to help out with Santa's sleigh during its visits around Tamworth. As it is the club they are raising funds for, we feel it would be appropriate for members of the club to help them. If you think you can help, please e-mail Chris Graves on the contact us page for more details. Or for those of you who can read Word documents find full details here: Click to download (Deleted)
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Coaching & Athlete of the month Wednesday, December 10 2003
The information page for members interested in becoming coaches has now got details of how to do so, and a downloadable application form. We are also pleased to introduce the first Athlete of the month to be announced on the web page.
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New Site Features Coming Soon Monday, December 8 2003
We have had a tremendous amount of visitors to the new Tamworth Athletic club website since we launched it a few weeks back. We thank those who gave us feedback on the site, and we encourage more of you to do so by using the webmasters address on the contact page. We are looking at ways to make the site more appealable to you, and are looking at introducing new features in the coming weeks, these being a message board/forum and a classified ads section. If anyone can think of a feature that no self respecting athletic club site can be without, drop us an e-mail.
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Young Athletes Cross Country Tuesday, December 2 2003
West Midlands Young Athletes Cross Country
Tamworth Athletic Club took 25 young athletes to the West Midlands Cross Country a held at Redditch. For many of the athletes this is their first season of cross country and they are making small but steady improvements each race.
In the Under 11 Boys race, both Nathan Christian and Bradley Smith were competing for the first time and they both completed the course. Nathan finished in 39th with Bradley in 59th. Leanne Lewis and Becky Evans competed in the Under 11 Girls section with Leanne finishing in 64th place and Becky in 81st. All of our Under 11's are only 9 years old and are making excellent progress.
Tamworth had 3 girls in the Under 13 race. Leanne Lewis completed the course in 59th, an improvement of 15 places, Rebecca Edwards in 88th and Becky Evans in 101st. 5 Tamworth Boys took part in the Under 13 section with Alex Elson making the greatest improvement of the weekend finishing in 41st place. He was supported by Matt Prentice in 48th, Tom Challis in 52nd, Ben prentice in 61st and Matthew Jarvis in 83rd. The Boys team climbed to 8th place in the West Midlands League, our highest position for many years in the under 13's.
Our Under 15 Boys are currently lying in 4th position which is also our best position for this age group. Tom Adams completed the 3000 metre course in 15th, Nathan Woodward 22nd, Daniel Grogan 39th, Philip McClintock 62nd and Stuart King in 70th.
Our Under 15 Girls are all at the youngest end of the age group and Danielle Webb in 59th, Katie Barker in 61st and Georgi Parker 70th all performed exceptionally well in the most competitive age group.
There were three Under 17 Ladies taking part, Rebecca Hallam finished in 27th, Katherine Snowden in 32nd and Sarah Williams in 35th. The Under 17 Men's team was depleted by injuries but both Adam Bache in 33rd and Michael Pierpoint in 45th ran strong races and kept Tamworth in 6th place at the end of two races.
The next race in the series is on the 7th December in Northampton.

European Cross Country Trials, Liverpool.
Paul Moores narrowly missed selection to represent Great Britain at the European Cross Country Championships when he came 7th in the selection race last weekend with the first 6 chosen to race at the championships to be held in Edinburgh. However, as a result of his efforts he has been selected to run for England in the Belgium cross country championships this weekend and also to represent the Mizuno racing team in a road relay race in Dubai at the beginning of December

Midland 4km cross country championships.
Tamworth Athletic Club athlete, Phil Clamp showed a welcome return to form when he won the Midland 4k cross country championships held last weekend at Cheltenham.
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