2025-26 Junior Athletics Prizewinners

Well done to all of our junior athletes, and to those who have supported and coached them over the summer.

It's been a big season. We've grown our squads, offered coaching in more events than ever before, enjoyed running on a new track, and seen our athletes succeed at local, regional and national championship events.

The following awards were presented at our junior prizegiving, held on Wednesday 27 March in the clubrooms. Congratulations to you all!

More photos - Thanks Terence!

Special Awards

These awards are jointly selected by our coaching team, and reflect outstanding performances and commitment over the season.

Most improved

Winner: Benjamin Lui

Finalists: Harrison Skewes, Logan Steer, Isabella Brown, Grace Parkinson, Blake Spalding, Grace Vashi

Merit

Winner: Grace Parkinson

Finalist: Joshua Parkinson

Participation

Winners: Luther and Owen Papali'i Finalists: Revanth Kishore, Carys Douglas-Jones

Volunteer

Timo Macdonald

Senior Lydiard

Gemma Kivell & Timo Macdonald

Age group winners - 7-9 years

Age group winners are those athletes who earned the most points in their age group at our club champs event, held at the Lovelock Track on Sunday 15 March.

Our 7-9 year olds competed in four events - 100m, 400m, long jump and shot put. They were awarded points based on placings in these events to determine overall champs. The winners were:

7 year olds

Sabine Ramos Gilbert

Leo Currie

8 year olds

Maia Kerrigan

Theodore Ng

9 year olds

Jessy Fantază

Full results

Age group winners - 10+

Our 10+ athletes competed in five events - 100m, 800m, long jump, high jump and shot put. Their points are calculated using IAAF scoring tables for combined events. For each event there is a formula that gives a result in points. They made the formulas such that 1000 points is equal to the Olympic Record (of 1912!!!) and 0 points is what an untrained schoolkid would make of it.

This system can be used for beginners, juniors and top athletes. This is great because you can use the same points system throughout your athletics career and see how far you've come!

We've been using this system for the past three years - so if you compete in club champs every year, you can track your progress 📈

This year's winners (and total scores) were:

10 year olds

Kira Parag (1282)

11 year olds

Jessebelle Ng (1187)

Oscar Kivell (1168)

12 year olds

Evelyn-Rose Findlay (1902) Carlo Jobsz (851)

13 year olds

Benjamin Lui (1865)

14+ athletes

Grace Parkinson (1963)

Christiaan Findlay (2139)

Full results

If you want to compare your results to last year, the details are here.