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Golden Lily
University of WA Little athlete Lily Pratt has won triple GOLD at the WA 2024 athletics championships
The U9 speedster has taken victory in the 70m, 100m and long jump events. She also won the bronze medal in the 60m hurdles.
She has had an amazing season with incredible progressions in her training that has lead to great results. "Lily works very hard and has a lot of fun at training. There is no surprise that she has done so well this season" says coach Paul Edmiston.
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
70m - 12.00 📉 10.71
100m - 15.97 📉 15.12
200m - 35.40 📉 32.72
60mh - 12.31 📉 10.51
Plyometric exercises - 17.40m 📈 19.20m
Long Jump - 3.30m 📈 4.10m
WA Championships - 🥇🥇🥇🥉
Ruby turns into GOLD
U16 athlete Ruby MANOV has won two gold medals at the 2024 WA Athletics Championships in the 100m & 300m hurdles.
She also won the silver medal in the long jump
Related post: https://sprintingfast.com/manov-steel-sizzles/
Back to Back Silver for SIM
Sprinting Fast and Perth Track and Field Athlete Alana Sim has won back to back U20 silver medals in the 400m sprint at the WA Athletics Stadium
Related post: https://sprintingfast.com/alana-sim-wins-state-400m-silver-medal/
2024 WA Athletics Championships
WE ARE SO PROUD OF ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING 👏
U9G 100m 🥇 Lily PRATT
U9G Long Jump 🥇 Lily PRATT
U9G 70m 🥇 Lily PRATT
U10G 60mh 🥇 Willow SLOSS
U10G 200m 🥇 Willow SLOSS
U12G 100m 🥇 Mina CHO (state record)
U17G 100mh 🥇 Ruby MANOV
U17G 300m 🥇 Ruby MANOV
Open Discus Para 🥇 Sarah EDMISTON
U10G 100m 🥈 Willow SLOSS
U10G 70m 🥈 Willow SLOSS (state record)
U13G 100m 🥈 Lydia DEACON
U13G 200m 🥈 Lydia DEACON
U13G Long Jump 🥈 Lydia DEACON
U14G 100m 🥈 Mina CHO
U14G 200m 🥈 Mina CHO
U12G 200m 🥈 Mina CHO
U12G 80mh 🥈 Lola VOGL
U15B 200mh 🥈 Campbell BANNISTER
U16B Javelin 🥈 Toby WOOD
U16B Shot Put 🥈 Toby WOOD
U17G Long Jump 🥈 Ruby MANOV
U20G 400m 🥈 Alana SIM
U9G 60mh 🥉 Lily PRATT
U9G Long Jump 🥉 Billy GREATBANKS
U14G 90mh 🥉 Ruby ZUCHETTI
U15B 100m 🥉 Campbell BANNISTER
U15B 200m 🥉 Campbell BANNISTER
U15B 100mh 🥉 Campbell BANNISTER
Open 100mh 🥉 Talia PISANO
Well done also to our non medalists who had a fantastic season and made it through to the 2024 WA State Championships.
Manov Steel Sizzles
U16 athlete Ruby MANOV has broken two records at the Kingsway Little Athletics Centre in the 100m & 300m hurdles.
On January 13th she broke the 300m hurdles record at KLAC with a time of 47.83. Almost a whole second faster than the previous record of 48.69sec. Then two weeks later on January 27th she broke the 100m hurdles record with a personal best performance of 15.78 (the previous record was 16.48 set on 18/02/2023).
One week after that she set another personal best of 14.83 at the WA Athletics Stadium beating the Sprinting Fast record (which was 14.97 set on 17/12/2015 by Sarah Sunquist). That effort currently ranks her 6th in Australia for her age group. Later that evening she recorded her fastest ever 100m clocking a wind-aided 12.56 (+2.3).
Ruby only joined Sprinting Fast halfway through the 2023/24 season and has made some impressive improvements since.
Bella’s speed at new levels
U12/13 Perth Saints soccer player Isabella Di Prinzio has taken her speed to the next level with 11 weeks of sprint training.
"When Bella arrived she was doing some things incorrect with her sprinting. We had to change a few things to make her more economical and increase her speed" Says coach Edmiston. "Now she is moving much better and you can visually see the difference. She has improved more than half a second over 30m and more than one second over 60m. That's a lot and it will make a huge difference to her soccer games in many ways".
Isabella continues to work hard and do sprint training in her lead up to the coming 2024 soccer season.
30m / 60m
Week 1
5.58 / 11.02
5.51 / 10.93
5.48 / 10.89
5.39 / 10.64
5.21 / 10.43
5.13 / 10.33
5.11 / 10.19
5.15 / 10.25
5.13 / 10.20
5.08 / 9.97
4.98 / 10.16
Week 11
Bannister breaks centre records
U14 Baldivis Little Athletics athlete Campbell Bannister has broken 8 centre records in one season.
The first was the 200m sprint recording a time of 25.63 then it was the 90m hurdles record that fell in a performance of 14.18 seconds. The 200m hurdles record was next broken in 28.55 seconds and the javelin followed throwing a 25.95m PB. He also broke the 200m hurdles record again in a time of 27.75 seconds which was a PB and a sprintingfast.com/records. Campbell also holds Sprinting Fast records in the 60m 7.82 (+1.2) and 200m 24.66 (+0.8).
He then broke the 200m and 90m hurdles again on the 10/02/2024. He wants to also break the 100m centre record in the near future.
Campbell is the 2023 WA state championship U13 bronze medalist in the 200m and joined Sprinting Fast in January 2023. He has recorded personal bests in all his athletics events since. At his 2024 centre championships in Baldivis he won 6 gold medals, 2 PB's, Runner up U14 champion boy & won senior athletes champion boy!
Holiday Clinic hits the road
Australia's number one holiday athletics crew travel to Northam Little Athletics Centre to inspire the countries youth.
The visit was made possible through the Shire of Northam's generous grant towards helping their youth develop further through expert coaching. Athletes were treated to Private Training sessions, morning tea, lunch, refreshments and capped off with an inspirational message followed by group coaching sessions.
The Sprinting Fast coaching team was made up of Paralympic bronze medalist Sarah Edmiston, multiple award winner Paul Edmiston and coach/athletes Alana Sim, Poppy Vogl & Mackenzie Liddelow.
Sarah grew up in a country town and had the most success as an athlete after the age of 40. An water skiing accident at 19yo left her with 'foot drop' which enabled her to become a Para athlete later in life. Her message was clear to the kids "Achieving success has nothing to do with having the best facilities, fancy shoes or lots of money. It's about having an unstoppable determination, making no excuses and working hard every day!" - @sarahedmistonau
The team plans regular visits including preparation for the state championships in February 2024 and before the 2024/25 season start.
Humphries drafted to Geelong Cats
Swan Districts Football Club wingman Lawson Humphries has been drafted to the AFL by the Geelong Cats.
👏🏼 Lawson HUMPHRIES
🏈 Swan Districts Football Club
📉 Off-season sprint training
Jan 27, 2023
30m
Wk 1: 4.25
Wk 2: 4.10
Wk 3: 4.06
Wk 4: 4.01
Wk 5: 3.80
60m
Wk 1: 7.80
Wk 2: 7.73
Wk 3: 7.62
Wk 4: 7.53
Wk 5: 7.23
📖"My first ever Pro race win was the 1989 Port Hedland Gift. I won $2500 & a gold coin (worth $500). 2nd & 3rd place were two indigenous boys trained by Ross Humphries (Lawson's Dad). He must have been dark with me for all these years. Today, I'm glad I had the privilege of training his son" - Coach Paul Edmiston.
Oct 6, 2023
📖Hey Paul, I just thought I'd flick a message saying cheers for those sessions early this year. I had a really good year of footy, and a lot of that was the newfound confidence in my running and, in particular, my sprinting. There are a few boys from swans (3-5) who are keen, and I'd be keen to do some sessions again. Was wondering how your availability is over the next couple of months. Hope you're well and will hear from you soon - Lawson Humphries.
Lolo VOGL breaks Hamersley Athletics record
2023 State Champion athlete Lolo VOGL has broken the U12 girls 80m hurdles record twice in two weeks.
Running into a headwind the Hamersley athlete beat the record that was held previously by her Sprinting Fast stablemate Rubi Zuchetti, who set the record of 14.19sec back on the 5th November 2021 at Charles Riley Reserve in North Beach. Lolo then equaled her own record with a time of 13.88sec on Tuesday the 14th of November 2023 at a twilight meeting on the Charles Riley long grass.