Report by Tom Gayle

Several of the clubs athletes were in action at the meeting that attracts many of the countries leading exponents, irrespective of age, in the horizontal and vertical jumps.

Star of the show from the clubs perspective was 16 year old Matthew Rollings as he continued his impressive 2007 long jump campaign. With the English Schools Championships just a fortnight away, Rollings sent out a timely reminder to his rivals as he soured out to a new personal best of 6.86, moving himself up to third on the current UK U17 rankings.  Perhaps even more impressive was that despite the terrible conditions that the athletes had to endured at the Alexandra Stadium due to the unseasonable wet weather of late the John Crotty coached athlete record 4 jumps past the 6.80 mark.

Stoke AC Results

Long Jump
Pool C
1. Matt Rollings (U17) 6.86 p.b
8. Josh Barard (U17) 5.87

Triple Jump
Pool B
4. Ben Williams (U17) 13.79 (+1.8)
6. James Gardner (U17) 12.63 (+0.4)

Women

Long Jump
Pool A
4. Alice Lennox (U17) 5.46

Full results can be found at  http://www.athletics-uk.info/fest2007.asp